Experience

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  Dixie state college

  Jan 2003 - May 2007

  Head lab tech and teachers aid

  Maintained the computers in the computer labs by making sure all necessary software was installed, and fixed software problems with the computers when they arose. Also I was a teachers aid, and this included helping students with assignments and grading assignments when they were completed. I worked very closely with the Professors of the CIT department.

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  Db group inc

  May 2007 - Feb 2008

  Web developer and it technician

  Back end web development and design using PHP and MySQL.Front end web site layout and design using HTML and CSS.Web server administrationDatabase administration

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  Pandasar software solutions

  Feb 2008 - now

  Owner / founder

  Projects:- JourneyTrack: An enterprise level web application built and used internally by The Journey in Provo, Utah. Maintained v1.0 with bug fixes and minor feature enhancements. Part of the team that designed, architected, and developed v2.0 of the software utilizing the Codeigniter PHP framework.- B's Carpet Cleaning Website: Worked exclusively with the owner in designing, architecting, and developing this business website. - Envision The World: Enhanced the back-end functionality of the photography website to give it more functionality and better maintainability. Show less

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  Omni business solutions

  Apr 2008 - Jun 2008

  Web developer

  Back end web development and design using PHP and MySQL.Front end web site layout and design using HTML and CSS.

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  Dhi computing service, inc. (dhi-provo)

  Sept 2008 - Jan 2013

  Web developer

  Languages Used: ASP Classic, VB Script, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJax, json, jQuery, ASP.NET Web Development, C#, and ASP.NET MVC 3.Web Development using Visual Studio, FireBug, and the Firefox Web developer toolkit.; Prepare, and manage quarterly release day updates for online banking websiteOn-call pager monitoring: debug server problems, and coordinate with other on-call personnel within their departments to solve problems.Participate in disaster recovery exercises

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  Broadview university

  Jul 2010 - Oct 2010

  Adjunct professor

  Teaching CS111 Computer Information Systems.

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  Broadview university

  Apr 2011 - Jun 2011

  Adjunct professor

  Teaching SD114 Introduction to Software Development

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  Infuse medical | a comprehensive digital agency

  Jan 2013 - Jul 2016

  Software enginer

  Lanuages Used: JavaScript, jQuery, HTML (4/5), CSS (2/3), AngularJS, CodeIgniter, Laravel, Knockout.js, WordPress, Bootstrap, PHP, JSON, ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, VB Script, PHPStorm, Browser Web Dev Tools, Visual Studio, PhoneGap, Photoshop, Illustrator, OAuth, SAML1.2, SAML2.0, Eloqua, MasterControl• Web Development using PHPStorm, Browser Web Dev Tools, and Visual Studio.• Front end and back end programming for custom websites for clients and internal Web server management. • Local, Amazon AWS, and Rackspace servers running Windows Server, Ubuntu, and SUSE Linux. Show less

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  Software technology group

  Jul 2016 - Jun 2020

  Consultant to the clients of STG. When working with clients I helped fill a need to help move projects along faster, and enhance the project needs of each client. I proved architecting and development expertise in working with STG client stakeholders.Younique Products(July 2017 – September 2017)• Assisted in writing activation scripts to activate new or retiring products on launch days• Updated the activation script process tools to create the scripts in a simplified format, and to separate new scripts into separate files.Alpha Transport (April 2017 – June 2017)• Analyzed the viability of fixing their current LMS using moodle 2.x• Analyzed other LMS options to find the best fit• Helped in the transition from their current LMS to TalentLMS.FranklinCovey (February 2017 – September 2017)• Provided architeture and development expertise in building a plugin to the Brightcove video player. This plugin utilizes the Brightcove set of API's that include the player, playlist, and playback modules.• Provided consultation for required changes needed for to their current Magento setup.AAPC/Healthicity, AuditManager: July 2016 - January 2017• Consulted and help enhance the Audit Manager product by enabling the ability to do audits of medical coders mainly for educational/training purposes. Responsible for developing to feature that gave the ability to create coders and their organizations to be added to the system. Assisted with work on integrating coders and organizations into the managing audits feature. Show less

  • Part Time Senior Software Consultant - Web Development

    Oct 2017 - Jun 2020

  • Senior Software Consultant - Web Development

    Jul 2016 - Sept 2017
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  Younique products

  Oct 2017 - Feb 2020

  Senior developer iv

  Fluent in this agile development environment utilizing CI/CD principles within Amazon Web Services. I'm a software engineer that architects and develops microservices utilizing NodeJS, AWS, and Docker containers that load, manipulate, and offload data from an event driven data stream (event bus).

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  Western governors university

  Feb 2020 - now

  A Team lead role where I help guide the team with engineering and architectural decisions for the new features, and products that the team makes available to the Product teams. These products are used by product teams to deploy and maintain their products in the various deployment environments through a CI/CD pipeline.In this role:- Team lead for the Platform Services team.- Team lead for the Platform Innovations team, and consultant team lead for the Platform Pipelines team- Part of the group to architect the new deployment platform which included, Principal Engineers, SEM's, Directors, and members of Products teams.- Lead the Security Group Automation initiative.- Lead multiple pipeline feature enhancements.- Lead the Pipeline Metrics initiative.- Subject matter expert for multiple team products.- Collaborated with multiple teams and organizations within WGU for various initiatives that include EDA, Release Process, and multiple architectural meetings regarding the current and future use of products.- Mentored and trained engineers from across the organization.- Presented on Kafka at the Ed Tech Summit 2021 Show less An engineering lead role where I led team projects, mentored engineers, and engineer/architect new features and products.In this role:- Major contributor to many pipeline initiatives included adding new features and pipelines to the teams’ catalog of products.- Lead the work on several pipeline initiatives.- Part of the team that researched and presented findings which included costs, and POC’s of multiple products to be the backbone of the upcoming EDA platform.- Lead the work on implementing an ESB where Kafka is the EDA platform.- Worked with the initial steps of the Costing effort where resources needed to be tagged appropriately in AWS.- Collaborated with multiple teams and leadership across the organization to build and update the teams' products new and old.- Mentored and trained engineers from across the organization. Show less

  • Senior Manager Software Engineering

    May 2024 - now

  • Manager Software Engineering

    Aug 2022 - May 2024

  • Staff Software Engineer

    Oct 2021 - Aug 2022

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Feb 2020 - Oct 2021