Education
M.B.A. with a focus on Supply Chain and Data Analytics
Texas A&M University, 2021
B.A. Computer Science
Experience
All I See Is Beans Webcomics - Co-founder and content creator
August 2021 - Present
- Created the business plan, partnership agreement and production schedule for funny web comics.
- Produced at least 2 web comics per week.
- Finetuned the creative process for idea generation, sketch and writing feedback, final illustration, and marketing strategy for every web comic.
Kirkpatrick Foundation - Summer Intern
May 2021 - August 2021
- Lobbied in Washington D.C. on behalf of upcoming animal rights legislation in Oklahoma.
- Wrote propositions to over twenty Oklahoma state legislators to bring awareness to an upcoming animal welfare bill.
- Supported the annual Green Box Arts Festival in Green Mountain Falls, Colorado.
- Built and launched a Python application that automatically lists geological formations for corresponding mineral types, saving employees over 100 hours each year at the Kirkpatrick Oil Company.
Walmart - Software Developer III
November 2017 - July 2020
- Implemented much-needed unit testing frameworks using Jasmine and Karma which led to more robust and predictable applications.
- Successfully lead several companywide SonarQube upgrades and hotfixes that affected over fifteen thousand Walmart projects, including knowledge transfer sessions with multiple support teams and fellow Software Engineers.
- Contributed to the Hygieia open-source project (owned by Capital One) by adding interactive displays, increasing UI performance through more efficient REST methods, and adding a new collector that fetched “Technical Debt” data via a configurable Elastic Search query.
- Spearheaded the effort to design and implement a new Executive Dashboard React application allowing users to see deployment metrics for all Direct Reports under a selected Executive or Vice President.
- Independently implemented best practices PostgreSQL write-ahead-log backups, automated point-in-time backups written to external object storage and contributed to a Walmart Ansible playbook that creates a self-propagating, HA proxy driven, PostgreSQL cluster.
- Received and led numerous code review, debugging and architectural planning sessions via video call or in-person with one or more developers, occasionally including management and other stakeholders.
Anderson Merchandisers - Software Developer Intern
August 2017 - September 2017
- Created an application that allows the user to upload excel or csv files and automatically send templated messages to thousands of Anderson employees
- Utilized Atlassian products Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket and Jenkins to collaborate with other team members, create necessary documentation, and aid in code review sessions.
Skills
Note: I think these sections are silly, but everyone seems to have one. Here is a *mostly* honest overview of my skills.
