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Work Experience

• Stock Clerk, Shop 'n Save

  Aug, 2016 - Present

  Perform customer service and ensure shelves are stocked.

• Software Engineer, Turning Technologies

  Jun, 2013 - Apr, 20162 years 11 months

  Full scope of responsibility included order management, cloud-based software development and design analysis for an educational technology company specializing in audience response, assessment delivery and data collection solutions and systems.

  • Instrumental in using cutting-edge development tools, Java/Grails technologies and open source frameworks to analyze, develop and maintain web-based applications for diverse clients.

  • Established reputation for driving all phases of SDLC including requirements gathering, system design, development, testing, deployment and maintenance support of enterprise web applications.

  • Played a pivotal role in creating functional specifications, end user documentation and responsive webpages via jQuery and Bootstrap.

  • Worked closely with a team of developers and Quality Assurance to resolve product discrepancies prior to software release.

  • Kept efficiency levels high through the acquisition/integration of API’s, custom configurations, process improvements and project completion in a deadline-driven environment.

  • Earned recognition for spearheading proprietary coding on the Examview Cloud Content Server to enable users to create, edit, store assessments and upload QTI files for Turning Technology products.

  • Took on additional roles to improve user interfaces via HTML 5, CSS, jQuery and Bootstrap.

Projects Experience

• TCG ONE, Open Source

  - Present

  TCG ONE is an Online Automated Pokémon Trading Card Game Simulator where players can gather online and play with their favorite cards in their respective formats. Its software is completely fan-made and is in no way affiliated with TPCI or its official game. Some of its features are: Automated Game Mechanics, Online 1-1 play, Deck Editor, Lobby & Chat, Real Card Images, Multiple Game Formats (including Standard, Expanded and Classic Old School formats), Spectation, Game scoring system and Scoreboards, Career and Quickplay game modes, Personal Inventory, Assemble/Dissolve cards with ink, Leveling, Booster Pack simulator, Daily Quests and Achievements.

  • Implementing new cards and expansions once they are revealed so that they are ready to be added to the simulator on or near their release date.

  • Adding features to the front web page and card database.

  • Improving workflow resulting in cards being implemented up to a month and a half earlier before they release in English expansions and greatly increasing the amount of time available for testing them.

  • Driving a campaign to get regular users of the website to get involved in testing the implementations before they are released to the live server, greatly reducing the number of bugs pushed to the live server.

  • Discussion with community members and players to determine bugs that need fixed, features that need added, and communication on things that are done the way they are intentionally.

  • Various bug fixes in all aspects of the website and simulator.

• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Randomizer, Open Source

  - May, 2020

  This randomizer takes The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and randomizes the locations of the items for a more dynamic play experience. Proper logic is used to ensure every seed is possible to complete without the use of glitches and will be safe from the possibility of softlocks with any possible usage of keys in dungeons.

  • Documentation in the project's wiki.

  • Improved user experience for a much desired feature that was massively neglected after it's initial implementation.

  • Discovered information via ROM-hacking and provided it to people who could use it to help improve or fix various features and bugs.

• ExamView Cloud Content Server, Turning Technologies

  Mar, 2015 - Apr, 20161 year 2 months

  Provides creation and storage of content used by the ExamView assessment generator.

  • Worked with a distributed team around the world

  • Used the methodology

  • Implement features that improved importing data from the QTI format into the server, and allowing to export content stoed on the server to QTI files to be used by other applications.

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