Software Developer

Anthony A. Bryson

Software Developer, PhD

Buckeye, AZ 602-***-**** *****************@*****.*** LinkedIn Github Personal website

SUMMARY

Software Developer with a strong interest in taking complex problems and breaking them down into manageable, comprehensible parts. The ability to adapt to and fit in with a variety of teams and work environments. Specializes in end-to-end development. Spent much of career taking abstract, complex ideas and finding different ways of communicating them clearly. Strong desire to develop an expertise in some area in software development rather than having a shallow, though broad, general knowledge.

SKILLS

Full-Stack Development, College Course Design, Online Course Development

Proficient in:

Programming Languages

Frontend Technologies

Backend Technologies

Libraries and Tools

Testing

Databases

Data Structures and

Algorithms

Javascript

Python

SQL

HTML

CSS

jQuery

React

DOM

Node.js

Flask

Express

JWT

RESTful JSON APIs

Axios

Ajax

SQLAlchecmy

WTForms

PG

Jinja

unittest

Jest

PostgreSQL

PROGRAMING EXPERIENCE

Springboard Software Engineering Trainee: October 2023 – November 2024

Completed 99% of the course.

Completed 800+ hours of hands-on course material.

105 assignments each requiring 6.7 hours of work on average.

Four major projects

PROJECTS

Capstone 2: Glorious Books

Objective: Create a database driven website powered by an external API.

Tools: Google Books API, React, NodeJS, OAuth2.0, Axios

Outcome: Created a website for searching the Google Books API by either title, author, or subject. Each book returned from a search was shown on a web page along with a summary of the book, book images, average rating, and links to purchase the book, preview the book, and add the book to Google bookshelves. Users could login to the Google authorization server, receive a token, access their collection of books on the website, and update those collections.

Capstone 1: The Cocktail Encyclopedia

Objective: Create a database driven website powered by an external API.

Tools: Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, Jinja, WTForms, Cocktails API, Axios

Outcomes: Created a website for searching cocktails via the Cocktails DB API. Users could search for cocktails through names or ingredients, find cocktail recipes, add drinks to their favorites, and write reviews. Information about users, their reviews and favorites were stored in a SQL database.

Section 1 Cumulative Project: Hacker News Clone

Objective: Add features to a news aggregator site so that users can create accounts, login, create articles, mark articles as favorites, etc.

Tools: Javascript, HTML, CSS, DOM, Hack or Snooze API, Axios

Outcomes: Wrote functionality for logged in users to create articles and send them to the API. Also, created a login and signup for users. Added the ability for users to mark articles as favorite, unfavorite, and delete them.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Humanities, Arizona Christian University, 2022-2023 Glendale, AZ

Developed, supervised, and taught the four Humanities courses all students must complete to graduate from the university.

The courses focused on how to think critically and acquire the virtues of thought.

Director of the CORE, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Arizona Christian University, 2016-2022 Glendale, AZ

Director of the CORE curriculum – the set of required liberal arts courses students must take to graduate from the university.

Taught complicated and complex ideas from history to students who had no prior training in how to think well.

Created the online courses for the humanities and a logic course using over 100 videos that I had recorded and edited, and developed a spate of discussion worksheets, reading guides, lecture outlines, paper topics, readings notes, for each part of a course.

Philosophy Professor, South Central College, Fall 2006 – December 2015 North Mankato, MN

Taught 4 courses a semester including Ethics in Society, Medical Ethics, Business Ethics, and Logic

Created online courses in ethics, medical ethics, and business ethics.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

2024 Springboard Software Engineering Certificate – August 2024

9-month intensive course in Software Engineering methodologies and technologies with 1:1 industry mentor oversight. Mastering skills in front-end and back-end web development, databases, data structures and algorithms.

2015 MSt. Philosophical Theology, University of Oxford

2009 Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Iowa

2005 M.A. Philosophy, University of Iowa (Concentration – Epistemology)

2002 B.A. Philosophy, Arizona State University, summa cum laude

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