Experience
Leidos
Software Engineer
Kansas City, MO
April 2023 - Present
- Designed, developed, and maintained mission-critical software solutions for the United States Air Force (USAF), supporting base defense and Counter small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-sUAS) initiatives.
- Contributed as a core member of an Agile Scrum team, participating in system design, feature implementation, unit testing, integration testing, and defect resolution.
- Collaborated closely with the Software Architect and Government stakeholders to ensure alignment with technical and operational requirements throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Traveled to the Moore Army Test Range (MATR) to work directly with USAF personnel on resolving critical software issues ahead of Field Qualification Testing (FQT).
- Successfully led debugging and issue resolution efforts that enabled the software to pass FQT and proceed to field deployment.
- Received formal recognition from Leidos for outstanding contributions and commitment to mission success through direct customer collaboration and problem resolution during FQT preparation.
- Utilized tools to stay organized with team members such as JIRA, BitBucket GitLab, Confluence, and Microsoft Teams.
- Leveraged Knowledge in JavaScript, TypeScript, Svelte, SvelteKit, React, Next.js, Node.js, Express, Fastify, TypeORM, Jest, Vitest, Cypress, Playwright, HTML, CSS, SQL, Postgres, and debugging using Visual Studio Code and browser Developer Tools.
- Maintained a Department of Defense SECRET Security Clearance.
AFSEO
Software Engineer
Eglin Air Force Base, FL
September 2019 - March 2023
November 2022 - March 2023
September 2019 - October 2022
- Provided support to the Air Force SEEK EAGLE Office (AFSEO) by participating as part of a disciplined software development team to generate software tools, user interfaces, utilities, and applications.
- Worked as a software engineer on the AFSEO Compatibility Enterprise System (ACES) team to support the organization’s goal of providing evaluation of compatibility between aircraft and stores as well as technical advisory to other organizations.
- Acted as the SEEK EAGLE Request (SER) and Mass and Physical Properties (MaPP) project lead to work directly with stakeholders to gather requirements and utilize agile principles to quickly meet the needs of the customer.
- Worked as the lead developer to design, architect, and implement the Mass and Physical Properties (MaPP) module in ACES.
- Charged with leading tasking meetings to ensure that all team members had planned out their user stories for the new sprint or iteration.
- Navigated around challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure that MaPP was released to production on time.
- Awarded the ERC Superior Performance Award in August 2020 for my work on the Mass and Physical Properties (MaPP) module in ACES.
- Developed a service that allows ACES to integrate with Microsoft Project Server to improve the end users workflow from initial SEEK EAGLE Requests to planning out engineering work for a compatibility package.
- Collaborated with other developers to analyze, estimate, design and implement features and user stories.
- Communicated with end users, customers, and other team members to implement, modify, or correct code.
- Developed code to meet established requirements as an individual and as part of a team.
- Peer reviewed fellow developer’s code and documentation to ensure it met the team’s quality standards and best practices.
- Participated in iteration planning meetings, daily stand ups, and technical coordination meetings for reporting issues, planning, designing, and providing status.
- Utilized tools to stay organized with team members such as Azure DevOps, MatterMost, and Microsoft Teams.
- Leveraged Knowledge in ASP.NET (MVC, Web API), Entity Framework, C#, JavaScript, Vue.js, AJAX, HTML, CSS, SQL, MSTest, Azure DevOps, and debugging using Visual Studio and browser Developer Tools.
- Obtained a Department of Defense SECRET Security Clearance.
ACT Innovations
Software Developer
Gulf Breeze, FL
May 2016 - September 2019
- Spearheaded the development, testing, documentation, and code implementation of new and existing web applications.
- Worked as the Lead Developer for the company’s Drug Court Case Management (DCCM) web application, used by Drug Courts across the United States to track client progress through drug court.
- Communicated with clients to define business requirements for enhancement requests and reported issues.
- Created a REST API and Integration module to securely import data to and from 3rd party systems.
- Optimized the development and deployment process by unifying the DCCM codebase across all states.
- Redesigned the web application for functionality across all modern browsers, instead of only Internet Explorer.
- Utilized tools to stay organized with team members such as GitHub, Raygun, Zendesk, and Slack.
- Leveraged Knowledge in ASP.NET (WebForms, MVC, Web API, Core), C#, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL, GitHub, and debugging using Visual Studio and browser Developer Tools.
- Collaborated in the development and maintenance of the company’s Drug Court Analysis System (DCAS), Best Practices Self-Assessment Tool (BEST), and Families In Need Of Services (FINS) applications.
- Created the company’s new corporate website using ASP.NET Core.
- Assisted in creating an improved Standard Operating Procedure for the company’s Ticket Management System as well as enhanced documentation procedures for our software.
- Complied with the Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) guidelines to secure and protect Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Protected Health Information (PHI).
Pearl River Technologies, LLC
IT Support - Developer
Stennis Space Center, MS
June 2015 - August 2015
- Performed maintenance on various NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC) applications by working NASA Service Requests (NSRs) and Incident Tickets.
- Collaborated closely with team members and customers to develop solutions that satisfied customer needs and NASA standards.
- Created and modified application documentation such as System Overviews, Change Request Forms, and Security Test and Evaluation (STE) forms.
Fort Sill Apache Industries, LLC
IT Support - Quality Assurance
Stennis Space Center, MS
October 2013 - May 2015
- Tested new software releases for various NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC) applications.
- Designed Test Cases and executed Test Runs to verify that new software performed accurately and reliably according to documented requirements as well as established standards under both normal and abnormal conditions.
- Created clear and concise bug reports.
- Coordinated with the Development & Engineering Team by reporting bug incidents and verifying bug fixes.
- Worked independently and in a group setting.
- Administrator for the TestTrack Testing Suite.
Education
University of Southern Mississippi
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Grade Point Average: 3.8
Graduated in May 2015
Relevant Coursework: Software Engineering I/II, Relational Database Management Systems, Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis, Operating Systems and Computer Architecture, Object Oriented Programming, Organization of Programming Languages