A Team Software Development

RAY C. PRESTON Conroe, TX ***** 281-***-**** ***********@*****.***

SUMMARY

Professional developer with 7 years of professional experience designing, implementing, and leading completion of highly utilized internal and external applications and APIs for large enterprises. Enjoys gaining a thorough understanding of a team’s tools and business in order to lead himself and his team to deliver robust, resilient solutions that exceed expectations and are delivered on time. TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS

Languages: C#, Java, JavaScript, KQL, SQL, NoSQL, XSLT Skills: CI/CD, k8s, Event-Driven Architecture, API Design, OOP, Agile/Scrum, Git, Written/Verbal Communication

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Senior Developer

Hynes & Khater, Houston TX

• Lead a team of 15 developers in navigating and understanding project infrastructure, business use- cases, and implementation design. This results in more knowledgeable and confident developers who are able to consistently have smaller estimates, greater deliverable output, and more resilient, testable code.

• Create standards, patterns, and design documents for approval by Principal Architect.

• Responsible for oversight regarding implementation of standards, patterns, and design by developers through new code review standards and checkpoint meetings with developers under authority.

• Introduced new unit test standards and test-driven development practices.

• Participation in client product meetings. Responsible for translating non-technical requirements into meaningful work items for development team.

• Worked alongside Project Manager and Business Analyst to refine the backlog and verify work items are ready to be assigned.

• Help client to design new event-driven architecture solution to implementing new payment processor

• Implemented an asynchronous process using Cosmos DB, Azure Service Bus, and .Net microservices to reduce costs and complexity to execute long running operations. Systems Administrator I April 2017-August 2020

Silverbow Resources, Houston TX

● Maintain Legacy Windows applications. Used for translating raw SCADA data into Excel formatted data for use by operations team.

● Created a web app to help the Giving Committee receive recipient recommendations, costs, remaining budget, and other data required for decision-making. EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science May 2019

University of Houston-Downtown