Software Engineer United States

******@****************.*** Katy, Tx, United States 832-***-****

Taylor Youngblood

S O F T W A R E D E V E L O P E R M A N A G E R

******@****************.*** Katy, Tx, United States 832-***-**** Profile

Excited and well-versed Full Stack Software Engineer and developer manager with over 13 years of professional development experience. Extremely proficient in modern front-end and back-end web development languages.

Employment History

Software Engineer, Fullbay, Inc, Phoenix, Az

November 2021 — January 2024

• Developed and refined new features for the application.

• Aided in the transition from vanilla PHP to the Laravel Framework.

• Collaborated with Quality Assurance Engineers to verify functionality and reliability of fixes and new development.

• Worked closely with the product managers to ensure developed solutions closely matched pre-determined acceptance criteria.

PHP Developer, Greater Houston Retailers Cooperative Association, Houston, Tx

July 2021 — November 2021

• Architected internal business applications for use by GHRA's IT department.

• Worked closely with marketing teams to develop bespoke software solutions for advertisement purposes.

• Aided in software development to facilitate potential growth for convienince store owners.

• Orchestrated meetings to ensure the products being developed met the criterias that were agreed upon.

PHP Developer (Contract Position), The University of Houston, Houston, Tx January 2021 — May 2021

• Contract employee responsible for extending an existing application built using the Zend framework.

• Orchestrated transition of the application to the Laravel framework.

• Extended a default installation of OpenCart to meet customer and administrative needs.

Senior Web Developer/Manager, Big Splash Web Design, Houston, Tx February 2012 — December 2020

• Oversaw and managed five developers juggling various projects at once.

• Delegated tasks and balanced workloads for developers.

• Developed and maintained mobile responsive websites using the WordPress CMS, HTML 5, MySQL, PHP, JavaScript, and SASS.

• Developed and maintained fully custom web applications using Laravel and Vue.js. Links

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Skills

PHP

jQuery

JavaScript

HTML & CSS

MySQL

Git

Bash

******@****************.*** Katy, Tx, United States 832-***-****

• Responsible for user security and authorization.

• Developed and fleshed out custom APIs.

• Integrated third-party APIs into custom applications.

• Aided in client technical support.

Education

Bachelor's of Science - Digital Media, University of Houston, Houston, Tx December 2016

Masters of Cybersecurity, The University of Houston, Houston, Tx January 2022 — Present

Consistently making the Dean’s list while balancing my work and personal lives.

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