James Bieling

Experience

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  US Navy

  Dec 2005 - Mar 2021

  Fire Controlman First Class Petty Officer

  Defensive Systems Operator instructor and Primary Oasis operator responsible for training Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Crews on Combat Systems, qualifying watch teams, and ensuring maximum effectiveness of training and curriculum using state of the art Virtual Reality trainers.-Provided over 800 hours of instruction between classroom and Virtual Lab training and qualification scenarios.-Designed over 250 custom scripts in Oasis and V-Ship to provide hyper-realistic training across multiple warfare areas.-Trained-to-Qualify 12 LCS Crews and supported certification in preparation for operational commitments.-Created SharePoint site to facilitate communication and coordination between LCS Training Facility and crews.Leading Petty Officer for Combat Systems Guns division and Combat Systems Officer of the Watch responsible for managing daily maintenance, training, and operational requirements.-Coordinated and managed all scheduled and corrective maintenance on Combat Systems equipment.-Supervised and mentored 21 Sailors in three work centers, achieving 85% advancement and 94% retention.-Conducted over 39 drills for the Combat Systems Training Team and Force Protection Training Team, resulting in a score of 94% and 98% respectively during certification.-Led six Sailors in the Phalanx Close-In Weapon System work center, conducting over 36 live-fire gun shoots, and maintaining an overall combat readiness of 92%. Show less

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  Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

  Jan 2020 - Jun 2020

  Software Engineer at Microsoft Software and Systems Academy

  Accelerated, full-time 16-week program encompassing both academic and technical training in object-oriented programming, data structures, algorithms, and cloud computing in Microsoft Azure using Visual Studios.-Develop and implement web applications and services on the MS web technologies stack using ASP.NET and MVC-Programming in C#, T-SQL and database management using Entity Framework, and access management using Identity.-Developing Azure solutions - configure, manage, monitor, and scale ARM Virtual Machines and storage.-Developed 3-D rendering of Vector distance calculation using three.js, and demonstration of ray casting using p5.js.-Utilize Agile methodologies in a team environment. Show less

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  Forcura

  Jan 2023 - now

  Software Engineer