Software Engineer

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Objective

I seek to obtain a demanding position where creativity and altruism can be used for creating profound and accessible solutions among celebrated and stimulating company; where my passion, leadership experience and dedication may add value. Summary

A gifted and experienced Responsive Web and Applications Designer, Solutions Architect, and Engineering Team Leader specializing in creating unique and innovative solutions with inclusive and accessible user- centered interaction design and full-stack software architecture design and development.

Nielsen Norman Group UX Certified with Interaction Design Specialty Recognition. Experienced with all stages of the development cycle for dynamic projects. Cross-functional team project management. Well versed in design principles in addition to numerous programming languages.

Strong 35 year career background in marketing and sales, customer relations, and adjacent roles. A judiciously principled AI Ethicist. I seek to promote fairness and eliminate bias in the development and governance of responsible AI.

A caring mentor; I live a life of service to others. Highlights and Expertise

• Leadership experience

• Empathetic User-Centric Interaction Design

• NN/g Specialty Designation Certification

• Stalwart Software Solutions Architecture

• Design Guide & Design Systems

Development

• Agile Program Management

• Full Lifecycle Product Management

• Dynamic Engineering Management

• Staff Artisan and Engineer Mentor

• Omnichannel Journeys and Customer

Experience

Professional Experience

Software Engineer

John Deere

11/2022 to 06/2024

Urbandale, IA

Creating compassionate and accessible user-centered interface design (UIX), purposing best practices in design and Human Computer Interaction.

Engineering Team Management.

Agile product management.

Feature-rich Single Page Application website architecture design and full-stack development, implementing modern web services and APIs, application information architectures and frameworks.

.Net Core MVC Software Architecture and Software Engineering with contemporary authentication and web architecture frameworks.

Engineering, and administration of Interactive Web UI Chat bot. Web Server and Application Server Administration.

Database design and administration.

Engineering and administration of Pega Knowledge Application, and Pega Robotic Process Automation.

Data Science and Data Visualizations.

AI Prompt Engineer, AI Ethicist; Architecture and Engineering Custom AI Applications. IT Analyst 06/2018 to 11/2022

John Deere Urbandale, IA

Creating considerate and accessible user-centered interface design (UIX), purposing best practices in design and Human Computer Interaction.

Engineering Team Leadership.

Technical project management.

Feature-rich application website architecture design and full-stack development employing modern web services and APIs, application information architectures and frameworks.

.Net MVC Software Architecture and Software Engineering with authentication and web architecture frameworks.

Empathetic and inclusive human centered design (HCD), engineering, and administration of Interactive Web UI Web Chat.

Administration of Contact Center server and client software. Web Server and Application Server Administration.

Database design and administration. Data Science/Data Analysis and Data Visualizations. Engineering and administration of Pega Knowledge Application, and Pega Robotic Process Automation.

IT Analyst Consultant 10/2014 to 06/2018

TEKSystems for John Deere Urbandale, IA

Creating accessible User Interface Design (UIX), utilizing best practices in design and Human Computer Interaction.

Engineering Team Lead.

Application Website design and full stack development, employing RESTful Web Services, application architectures and frameworks.

.Net software architecture and engineering.

Engineering and administration of Interactive Web UI Web Chat; Administration of Contact Center server and client software.

Web Server and Application Server Administration.

Database design and administration.

Data Analysis and Data Visualization.

Advisement, feedback, and guidance for Style Guide and Brand Style Guide. Service Desk Analyst Consultant 07/2012 to 07/2014 TEKSystems for Nationwide Insurance Des Moines, IA Marketing and Sales Coordinator 09/2008 to 07/2012 Toys ‘R’ Us Clive, IA

Education

Associates of Applied Science: Business Information Systems 2011 Des Moines Area Community College Ankeny, IA

Two time President's list for Academic Achievement (4.0) Three time Provost Award for Academic Achievement (3.5) Certifications

Nielsen Norman Group UX Certificate 2020

Nielsen Norman Group

Specialty Recognition: Interaction Design

Certification ID: 1040626

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Design and Engineering Skills and Tools

Figma, Sketch, Adobe Dimension, Adobe XD, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Muse, Adobe Audition, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Bridge, Adobe Lightroom, Corel Photo Pro, CorelDraw, Audacity, GIMP; User Journey Mapping, User Flow Diagrams, Personas, Wireframes, Mockups, High Fidelity Prototyping; Design Dictionaries, Design Style Guides, Brand Guides.

AI Prompt Crafting, Python, C#, .Net Core MVC, LINQ, Entity Framework, VB.net, XAML, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, TypeScript, React, Bootstrap, PHP, XML, JSON, YAML, Enterprise Data Lake (EDL), PostgreSQL, PL/SQL, DB2, Netezza, SQL Server (Transact-SQL), MySQL, Databricks.

Visual Studio (2005 - 2022), ReSharper, Sublime Text, Atom editor, Adobe DreamWeaver, CodePen, Vim, phpMyAdmin, Drupal Admin Panel, SQL Server Management Studio, Oracle SQL Developer, PgAdmin, Aginity Workbench, Toad, SQuirreL SQL Client, Okta admin portal, Okta Server, Enghouse Interactive Contact Center WebUI, Enghouse Interactive TouchPoint, Pega Knowledge Application and Pega KMS Framework, Pega Robotic Process Automation, TeamSite, Postman, SoapUI, Insomnia, Git Bash, Git Terminal, Sourcetree, GitHub Desktop, Broadcom Rally, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio, Docker, Kubernetes, Virtual Machine, Citrix, IBM Equal Access accessibility-checker, GitHub Actions, GitLab, CyberDuck, FileZilla, ExtraPuTTy, OpenSSH, WinRAR. Salesforce Tableau, Microsoft Power BI.

Windows Server (2008 - 2022), Red Hat Linux, Mac OSX Server, macOS Server, IIS Server, Apache HTTP Server, Apache Tomcat, Node.js. Mac OS9, Mac OSX, macOS; Windows 3.11, Windows XP, 7, 8, 10, 11; Fedora Linux, Redhat Linux.

Chat GPT-3, Chat GPT-4, Chat GPT-4Turbo, InstructGPT, TXYZ.ai, Adobe Firefly, Midjourney.

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