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Senior Software Engineer

Location:
Cedar Rapids, IA
Posted:
February 23, 2023

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Johnny Scott

adviwz@r.postjobfree.com

319-***-****

Highlights

● 16 years of experience building world class enterprise apps from machine learning to native mobile app

● Some of my favorite tools include TypeScript, JavaScript, Google-Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft App Center, React Native, React.js, lua, Python, shell scripting, HTML5, CSS3, MySQL, GoDot, SQL, noSQL, PostgreSQL

● Leadership says “great engineer”, “brilliant”, and “nimble” Experience

Lead Mobile App Engineer, Pizza Hut (Full Time), Cedar Rapids, IA 2021 - 2023

● Increased sales by over $1.7 million dollars daily in first 6 months of hire by beasting through a massive ~400 item 3 year old buglist to zero and leading the vision for the next generation of Pizza Hut’s mobile app the “North Star” project rolling out in mid 2023

● Lead design and construction of Google Cloud pipeline for CI/CD publishing of the app from QA to Production making the QA to Production staging easier for Managers to grok and more effective for QA to sign off on

● Lead implementation of Code Push tech reducing bugfix turn around time from 1 week to 30 minutes - a change that saved additional millions of dollars for high impact bugs

● Created new ui components and custom gesture handlers for unique and engaging user interactions

AI IoT Engineer, Kaila (remote contract), Cedar Rapids, IA 2020

● Built python graph runner and IoT AI - an event driven architecture that can capture data from IoT devices and perform machine learning tasks like object detection (e.g. PeopleLogger graph logs all occurrences of specific people passing in front of a camera throughout the day)

Lead Game Dev, Neatlife (Part Time Contracts), Cedar Rapids IA 2015 - 2023

● Lead efforts to adopt Rust, Golang, and modern TypeScript 4 to 5.0

● Completed 2.5D physics game Bucket Blast and rewarded video monetization system for iOS (Objective C, C#, Xcode, Unity)

● Built 3D city simulator for driving simulation Synthwagon for iOS which procedurally generated city streets, cars, and buildings over thousands of square miles while maintaining a 60Hz frame rate (Objective C, C#, Xcode, Unity, JSX)

Native App Lead & AI Engineer, Modern Piping, Cedar Rapids, Iowa (contract and full-time) - 2017-2019

● Lead architect and developer of MSuite Fab 3D CAD iOS app that provides pipe layout design and part selection, pipe plasma cutter scheduling, and fabrication productivity tracking (C++, Objective-C, React Native, Xcode)

● Built the app from conception to 1.0 release and in-field testing

● Also built CAD drawing annotation tool Annotator from ground up to production that allows multi user annotation of CAD drawings to track changes and updates that allows historical rollbacks to previous states of CAD drawings with an audit trail describing which user at what time made which changes (including reversions) (Canvas2D, Javascript, PDF construction tech)

Lead Mobile Dev, Ovation Networks Inc. Cedar Rapids, Iowa (full time) ~ 2015

- 2017

● Built an nginx / apache replacement webserver - Chu-Chu - to run on embedded devices. Chu-Chu is an application server reminiscent of npm’s express architecture - to date, Chu-Chu has served over 300 million live customer requests (LUA, RESTful, JavaScript)

● Designed and built customer dashboard web application Munin - supports over 1500 hotels and metropolitan public wifi hotspots across the country (Facebook React, node.js, JavaScript 2018, babel transpiler, HTML5, CSS3)

● Designed Architecture and built APIs for SOMA customer relationship management system (node.js, React, RESTful API, JavaScript)

● Designed and built API architecture for authserver which serves paid ads and web content to over 60,000 clients daily

Lead Developer, NewWave ~ Des Moines, Iowa (remote contract) ~ 2012 - 2015

● Wrote Sharity software suite and Dwolla integration API for anonymous and public charitable contribution from distributed clients (PHP, JavaScript, CSS, HTML5)

● Designed new systems architecture from the ground up

● Guided new product development and prototyping

MS Surface Engineer, Microsoft + Pearson Ed (on-site contract) ~ Iowa City, Iowa ~ 2014

● Worked with Microsoft Windows 10 team to expand the Windows APIs to include support for guided-access-like features in the next windows release

● Refactored much of the client codebase to work with MS proprietary tablet, Surface Pro (node.js, html/css/JavaScript, requirejs, JQuery, Response UI/UX)

Lead Developer TestNav 7, 8, Pearson Ed (on-site contract) ~ Iowa City, Iowa

~ 2014

● Wrote student assessment information systems applications for more than half US state Departments of Education

● Wrote real time analytics engine capable of capturing millions of events in distributed clients with low latency and high concurrency

(node.js, mongodb)

● Mentored Junior devs on proper use of node.js and JavaScript/HTML/CSS Lead Developer, HangIt123.com (remote contract) ~ Fairfax, Iowa ~ 2013 - 2014

● Responsive web design & development of online store. The store user interface adapts to tablet & phone form factors, with custom layout/UI optimized for each (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, responsive design)

● Setup LAMP Stack & SEO urls via mod_rewrite (PHP & Apache config, MySQL Server config)

● Utilized & customized OSCommerce cart including UPS shipping API & cc payment gateway integrations (PHP)

Developer in collaboration with David Oreilly, an Adventure Time animator/director (collaboration) ~ 2013

● Wrote real-time twitter-based Bitcoin parody game CyberBeanBank for filmmaker David Oreilly. It generated thousands of tweets in its first hours of operation & attracted a lot of big twitter users. The game listens to twitter for tweets using special hashtags to generate transactions of tweet currency (Node.js server-side JavaScript, Heroku app, apache config, Twitter Streaming API, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript) Lead Mobile Developer, VGM INC ( full time) ~ Waterloo, Iowa ~ 2011 - 2013

● Designed & wrote BankWeb CMS in use by 20 banks, including responsive web so desktop & mobile content was unified, eliminating the need to maintain two sites as the company previously did for mobile & desktop.

● CMS content auditor I designed & built allowed wiki-like editing of content with a record of all changes.

● The CMS allowed drag-and-drop youtube/facebook integration widgets. The FormBuilder portion of the CMS allowed drag-and-drop creation of online form elements taking a huge burden off of developers from authoring new forms for banks (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL)

● Wrote iOS & Android Mobile Apps (Android & Apple, Java, Objective C, Node.js)

● Maintenance on 200+ sites (PHP, C#, Twitter, Facebook, UPS, FedEx, Expedia APIs)

Web Developer, Pro Video ~ Cedar Rapids, Iowa (remote contract) ~ 2010-2011

● Extended Pro Video online video store (PHP)

● Maintenance & extensions to various web sites & online stores (VB.NET, Apache config, PHP, MySQL, CSS, JavaScript, ASP)

● Performed email blasts & provided customer support (Apache config, DNS management)

Web Developer, OverCoffee Productions ~ Cedar Rapids, Iowa (on-site full-time and remote contract) ~ 2007 – 2010

● Performed maintenance & extensions to hundreds of ecommerce sites

(PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript)

● Payment gateway integrations

● Performed FedEx & UPS shipping integrations & auditing system for Juniors Cheesecake which does thousands of orders of refrigerated products monthly

● Wrote PDF viewer app that allowed clients to upload PDFs of their print catalogs & add hyperlink annotations on the pages to purchase items

(ActionScript, JavaScript, CSS, PHP)

Lead Developer, DraftSite.com (remote contract) ~ 2008-2009

● Maintenance & extensions to draftsite.com sports draft site (Apache config, SEO URLs via mod_rewrite, PHP, CSS, HTML, MySQL, JavaScript) Web Developer, Web Point Communications (remote contract) ~ Marion, Iowa ~ 2007 - 2008

● Wrote VOIP apps for 30,000 customer calling features including online Fax & voicemail/call forwarding apps (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, Photoshop)

● Designed API for 3rd-Party developers to plug into our VOIP network to extend their services (designed RESTful architecture)

● Wrote Facebook/MySpace social apps that allowed voicemails to be left on feeds/walls (ActionScript, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, MySQL) Human Factors Engineer, Pearson Ed ~ Iowa City, Iowa (on-site contract) ~ 2005 - 2007

● Student information systems UI/UX design & implementation (PHP, Java, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Photoshop, PostgreSQL, Oracle)

● Cross team support on JavaScript/CSS for Java Developers

● Over a dozen state depts of education purchased the new system Lead Developer, UIHC Department of Epidemiology ~ Iowa City, Iowa (on-site and remote contracts) ~ 2004 - 2007

● Designed & developed lipid clinic information system (SQL Server, ASP, VB.NET, Photoshop, CSS, HTML, JavaScript)

● Wrote CVD risk assessor for patients, created flash animations & graphs that demonstrate how lifestyle affects cardiovascular disease risk over time (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ActionScript, Flash)

● Did animation for plant genetics presentation (3dsmax) Developer, Mark Weiger, Oboe Chair of University of Iowa School of Music

(remote contract) ~ Iowa City, Iowa ~ 2004 - 2005

● Designed & developed online music store (PHP, MySQL, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, ActionScript, apache config)

● Produced animated cartoon to sync with concert (3dsmax) 3D Animator & Web Developer, JW Morton, Cedar Rapids, IA (remote contract) ~ 2002-2004

● Designed animation for Ski-doo commercial for Victor Plastics

● Developed javascript snippets for use by designer Kris Sullens at JW Morton

Education

● University of Iowa Bachelor of Science CS ~ Computer Science & Art ( Drawing ) Major ( 3.8 GPA ) ~ 2003 - 2006

● Kirkwood Community College ( Cedar Rapids, Iowa ) ~ Mainframe Programming & Graphic Design ( 4.1 GPA ) ~ 2001 - 2003

● Coe College for Kids ( Art Major Cedar Rapids, Iowa ) - ( 4.0 gpa ) 1998 - 2000

● Prairie High School ~ Cedar Rapids, Iowa ~ 1996 - 2000



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