Software Engineer Information Technology

ERIC TAUER

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Decades of experience working in Information Technology in a variety of roles including Enterprise Systems Architect, Data Architect, Software Engineer, and System Administrator. A proven track record of delivering robust IT systems solutions. Strong operational business, analytical, design, development, and architectural skills. Ability to thrive in dynamic environment. Team player with outstanding interpersonal skills. Excellent communication skills particularly when describing a required roadmap and the benefits of leveraging data to enable change within the enterprise.

EXPERIENCE

appLab, Ltd. Salida, CO

appLab, Ltd. is my wholly owned LLC that provides Full Stack development and architecture expertise for customers in a broad range of verticals wishing to build or refactor cloud native applications. Senior Engineer / Owner June 2014 – Present

Worked with business and technical stakeholders to gather requirements and project success criteria. Designed systems, developed code, tested systems, deployed systems, and continuously improved systems per specifications.

SKILLS

Applied agile, waterfall, and iterative software development lifecycles as appropriate to project type. Employed the use of MVC framework, Git, SVC, Objective C, JavaScript, JQuery, PHP, Python, AJAX, HTML, and CSS. Classically trained in the Kimball Method of Data Warehouse database/ETL process design (dimensional star schema). Executed sales, marketing, A/R, and A/P for internal business operations. NOTABLE CLIENT ENGAGEMENTS

USAePay

Integrated EMV compliant payment engine with cloud-based ERP system utilizing a combination of JavaScript, JQuery, and AJAX for secure POS payment via asynchronous RESTful API interactions to reduce cardholder data theft risk, reduce client transaction fees/rates, and create ERP system revenue stream via merchant account partner activity.

Holland America Lines

Refactored database model that underpins consumer facing web property, and created data archive to sunset MySQL on Rackspace migrating to Oracle on AWS to reduce operating costs. Modeled Lead Generation database to consolidate disparate systems from multiple business units and ensure GDPR compliance. Developed/documented migration scripts and procedures and directed execution with off-shore DBA team. Created data model to support an integrated onboard passenger virtual-wallet bridging multiple architectures

(POLAR AS/400, Oracle UNIX) and data stores allowing passengers to seamlessly access their payment credentials voyage wide. Assisted in evaluation of Data Lake/DW solution to solve poor performance and access issues in legacy DW. Refactored Passenger Onboard preferences data model to address denormalized and non-functioning data issues.

Lincoln Park Zoo

Created version 2 of iOS “Observe to Learn” App. Instantiated custom mime-type to support a proprietary document definition allowing users to design and share ethograms (data collection docs) and enabling collaborative data collection. Built batch email, and flexible observation response time features. Improved and expanded multi-language translation features.

Springbig

Integrated cloud-based multi-platform loyalty points/CRM system with POS platform accessing/writing RESTful API endpoints to enable dynamic sales/rewards interchange for real-time redemption/offers. Euflora

Built responsive in-store customer scanning shopper app to off-load labor costs and enable a packaged payment ready pick-up at the POS.

Adilas

Developed client based POS shopping cart algorithms which applied pricing/discounts based on complex product attribute combinations of type/uofm/quantity/weight/timePeriod across multiple line items to support marketing programs designed to differentiate customer preference among dispensaries in the cannabis industry. Created stored procedures/triggers/tables for a selectable/configurable view into current Sales Tax Liability

(hybrid live/aggregated) with drill-down details to enable A/P trouble-shooting and calculated tax payments. Built on-line UI to store configuration settings (JSON) and shopping cart integration for cannabis dispensaries’ internal sales (wholesale cost/pricing) to ensure state package tracking compliance and excise tax compliance. Designed and built enterprise object model that enables locally configurable subscriptions to enterprise level data changes initiated by enterprise level administration to eliminate redundant data maintenance at the local level.

Built on-line UI to store configuration settings (JSON) for POS auto-print label functionality. PERSONAL

I am an avid cyclist, and have organized and led bike tours across much of Europe including: 2000 Netherlands/ Germany/Czechia, 2003 Spain/Portugal/France, 2005 Colorado/Wyoming, 2005 Belgium/Netherlands/Germany/ Switzerland, and 2013 Spain.

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