Customer Portal
Sun Communities
09/2022 to Present
- Lead architect designing and developing a new customer portal in Angular with a .Net Web API.
- Tech: Angular, .NET Core, RabbitMQ, Cognito, AWS
MQ Modernization
Energy Sector - WE Energies
02/2022 to 08/2022
- Act as mentor and acceleration for a .Net Web API streaming development converting tangled inter-API calls to events with hub and spoke.
- Tech: .NET Framework, IBM MQ, GIT, Angular
Solution Architecture
Financial Sector - Landmark Credit Union
06/2018 to 12/2021
- Acted as solution architect for enterprise developing maturity model and introducing technologies.
- Provided guidance for cloud transition, containerization and transition to Kubernetes.
- Tech: Azure, .NET Core, Angular, React, RabbitMQ, Seq, SQL Server, Mongo, Docker, Kubernetes, ADO
Incentive Manager
Financial Sector - Landmark Credit Union
03/2021 to 12/2021
- Provided software architecture and lead development for incentive rewards management software.
- Lead a team of four replacing legacy incentive management software with modern
solution utilizing Event Sourcing, integrating to multiple remote systems including HR for automatic employee enrollment and termination, banking core for automatic transaction credits, and various loan, insurance, and other sales points.
- Tech: React, .NET Core, Kubernetes, Sql Server, Azure Dev-Ops, Docker.
Member Preferences
Financial Sector - Landmark Credit Union
03/2021 to 12/2021
- Provided software architecture and lead development for new member preferences software.
- Lead team of four to create customer facing software to enter communication preferences and sync across all vendors and banking core. Reacts to changes to any vendor or core by creating a combined event stream.
- Tech: React, .NET Core, Sql Server, Azure Dev-Ops, Docker, Rabbit MQ.
BSA Audit Tool
Financial Sector - Landmark Credit Union
12/2019 to 06/2020
- Provided software architecture and lead development for BSA Audit Tool software.
- Lead team of five to automatic transaction review software populating a custom ticketing system based on activity categorization out of banking core.
- Tech: React, .NET Core, Kubernetes, Sql Server, Azure Dev-Ops, Docker.
Repo Manager
Financial Sector - Landmark Credit Union
05/2019 to 11/2019, 01/2020 to 02/2021
- Provided software architecture and lead development for new Repo Management software.
- Lead team of four to create software for managing vehicle repossession and processing. Handled all aspects from late payments to completing the auction including automatic pricing.
- Tech: React, .NET Core, Sql Server, Azure Dev-Ops
Loan Application Wizard
Financial Sector - Landmark Credit Union
06/2018 to 05/2019
- Provided software architecture and lead development for consumer facing Loan Application software.
- Lead team of five to build Landmark's new public facing and fully responsive loan application software. We were able to roll out a new COVID loan type in four hours.
- Tech: Angular, .NET Core, Mongo, CRIF, Sql Server, Azure Dev-Ops, Rabbit MQ.
Comic Strip Creator
Education Sector - Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
05/2018 (One Month)
- Rewrite of a complicated educational game where children can create their own comics and print them. Converted from Shockwave flash to PhaserJS.
- No CI/CD as Moodle did not support any automation.
- Tech: Javascript, PhaserJS, JQuery, Grunt, Moodle CMS
Storms Management
Energy Sector - We Energies
02/2018 to 05/2018
- Developer on application to manage outages and communicate status.
- Tech: C#, .NET Framework, Angular 2+
Educational Game System
Education Sector - Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
06/2017 to 01/2018
- Architect and lead developer of varying teams to develop a series of educational games for an Anti-Drug Use campaign in PhaserJS.
- Created a “Scene Engine 2” improved engine, to allow scripting of choose your own adventure games with advanced features like drag-n-drop within scenes and scripting of variables for tracking in-game goal progress.
- Created multiple education games where children answer a question between turns.
- Tech: Javascript, PhaserJS, JQuery, Grunt, Moodle CMS
Mobile Business Travel Companion
Travel Sector - Adelman Travel
02/2018 to 05/2018
- Lead UX design and lead developer for building a new client application to modernize client’s offerings to their clients. Mobile application showed trips, flights, car rentals, weather and facilitated in handling corporate billing.
- Deployment: Jenkins for CI and build of Android and iPhone artifacts.
- Tech: Ionic, Javascript, TypeScript
New Insurance Roll On Application
Health Care Sector
09/2015 to 01/2017
- Lead front end architecture and ux design of web application to on-board new internal insurance clients.
- Tech: Angular 2, Java, Spring, Hibernate
Educational Game System
Education Sector - Pediatric Hospital
06/2015 to 10/2015
- Leader architect and developer for a series of children’s educational games for Anti-Bullying and Healthy Eating campaigns written PhaserJS.
- Created a “Scene Engine” to allow scripting choose your own adventure games with audio dialog, in game cell phone, and in-engine embedded activities.
- Created a “Test Engine” to allow scripting of multiple choice tests.
- Created multiple education games like Tic Tac Toe, but children answer a question between turns. Games could be embedded in Scenes for the Scene Engine.
- Tech: Javascript, PhaserJS, JQuery, Grunt, Moodle CMS for progress tracking.
Java/JBoss Conversion
Manufacturing Sector - Harley Davidson Motorcycles
01/2015 to 06/2015
- Member of development team converting more than forty J2EE applications to run on JBoss instead of Websphere.
- Deployment: Websphere, JBoss, no CI/CD, home-brew release system.
- Rewrote some of the smaller applications in AngularJS.
- Tech: Java/J2EE, JMS, SQL Server.
Move Order Wizard
Energy Sector - WE Energies
01/2014 to 01/2015
- Lead front end architect and developer creating application to allow call center employees to automatically generate orders for customers on the phone when changing their address.
- Tech: Javascript, JQuery, Backbone.js, Grunt, Jasmine, Java/J2EE, Spring, Hibernate
Integrated Call Center Tool
Energy Sector - WE Energies
04/2013 to 10/2013
- Deployment: JBoss, CI/CD with Jenkins; Manual deploys.
- Lead front end architect and developer creating a web application allowing call center employees to work in a tabbed client environment to look up all aspects of account, account history, pole locations, etc.
- Supports events between tabs, automatically opening a new tab for the customer on the phone, and reopening of historic tabs.
- Tech: Javascript, JQuery, Backbone.js, Grunt, Jasmine, Java/J2EE, Spring, Hibernate
Payment Plan Wizard
Energy Sector - WE Energies
10/2012 to 04/2013
- Lead front end architect and developer creating a web application allowing call center employees to automatically generate payment plan options for customers on the phone. Customer automatically looked up, billing history processed and acceptable payment plans presented. Customer can select plan and operator can add plan to account.
- Tech: Javascript, JQuery, Backbone.js, Grunt, Jasmine, Java/J2EE, Spring, Hibernate
Dealer Parts Order
Manufacturing Sector - Harley Davidson
9/2012 to 10/2012
- Single developer building web application to allow dealers to order parts for warranties through a web interface.
- Tech: Java/J2EE, Javascript, JQuery, Handlebars, Websphere, DB2
Remote Deposit Check Capture
Financial Sector - iStream Financial
9/2010 to 09/2012
- Lead architect and developer creating a Windows desktop software to work with high speed check scanners to enable check scanning and deposits along with automatic processing of matching ticker slip.
- Deployment: MSI installer with updates, CI/CD through Atlassian Bamboo.
- Tech: Java, C, Netbeans, Hibernate.
Employee Assistance Program
Healthcare Sector - Aurora Health Care
9/2008 to 09/2010
- Lead architect and developer for creating a web application to manage patient scheduling, provider availability, locations, and billing; a complete business solution for the EAP offering of Aurora.
- Tech: Java/J2EE, JSP, Struts 1.2, Spring, Hibernate, Javascript, JQuery, Websphere, DB2
Materials Management
Healthcare Sector - Aurora Health Care
8/2006 to 08/2008
- Developer role maintaining and improving a web application for ordering hospital materials for specific hospital locations such as linen closets and nurse stations.
- Tech: Java/J2EE, Struts 1.1, Javascript, Websphere, DB2