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A dedicated professional with **almost 2 decades** in technology and software engineering. I love art and form and various creative developments of humanity and how we perceive and express the world around of us. In another life i would pursued architecture, classical music, fashion, modeling, dance, acting, or something in the arts. Unfortunately those talents were so far removed my natural abilities that they exist only in my mind and the rare moments i find myself truely alone. I began my journey in technology as an outlet for artistic creativity to round out my overly analytical mind. My career has been driven by a deep-seated passion for leveraging tech to enhance the way we create, live, learn, work, play, and connect. I aspire for my solutions to approach artistry with elegance and simiplicity with a respect for efficiency and maintainability.

I have a strong admiration for the technology we already stand upon, and a forward-thinking attitude towards making existing things better and turning new ideas into new realities. I have gained a wide and deep set of skills developing applications, from my entry co-developed chat program coded in FoxPro in 1996 to full-scale enterprise line-of-business applications. In the process, I have gained a lot of knowledge in many business sectors, including retail, banking, online platforms (food ordering), dealership management, and others along the way. Covering a broad set of areas from general ledger, accounts payable, human resources, taxes, credit card processing, security, and many more. The beauty of technology is that it has a place almost anywhere you can imagine it. In the process, you will find yourself not just learning technology and business but also the diverse impact you can have on people’s lives.

I’m always experimenting with new technology stacks to see how they can improve lives and to entertain my mind. As a neurodivergent person, I struggle to stay focused on any one thing, and you’ll find my hand in every cookie jar. The first half of my career was spent developing and enhancing large-scale z/OS applications in tandem with sideline .Net and, occasionally, Java (WebSphere) augmenting applications. In the last decade, .Net has become my daily industry driver, with an interest in Node.js and various web development stacks as businesses look to modernize and improve access to their existing stacks. I’m not a believer in one-size-fits-all solutions in any aspect of life, and as such, I believe a software engineer should always be learning and growing their crafts. I consider myself a lifelong learner in technology and many other areas that intersect with my life.

• QBasic: 1996 (sprits and experiments in programming contructs)
• FoxPro: 1996 (co-developed personal use chat program/observation of medium scale title business software development)
• Objective-C/SmallTalk: 1998 (largely reading material for self taught programming)
• PASCAL: 1999 (self taught experiments in procedures and looping contructs)
• A++ Certification: 2000 (never ended up taking the exam was actually bored i learned most this in 96-97)
  • Full machine tear down and rebuilds
  • Windows 2000 installation
  • Redhat 6.0 installation
  • 10/100 Base-T networks
  • Windows driver diagnostics
  • Legacy hardware (pre plug-play)
• PageMaker: 2000 (Yearbook layouts)
• FrontPage: 2000 (HTML/MySpace)
• Java: 2001, 2006, 2016 (Early experiments in enhanced web beyond HTML and various support roles)
  • Applets
  • Swing Classes
  • JSP
  • Websphere
  • JAVA 7 Protech Class P1 && P2 (knowledge refresh)
• Macromedia Studio: 2002 (Web Development Immersion)
  • Dreamweaver
  • Flash
  • Fireworks
  • CSS3
• C++: 2002 - present (Mostly legacy application enhancement and build architecture improvments)
  • MFC
  • GDI++
  • C++/CLI
  • RAII Classes
  • boost
  • tools
    • cmake
    • conan
    • jfrog
    • vpck
    • msbuild
• AS/400 - RPG IV: 2004 (university only)
• Z/OS: 2006 - 2017 (Enterprise scale application development and integrations)
  • JCL
  • REXX
  • DFSORT
  • DB2
  • TERADATA
  • COBOL
  • CICS
  • More ...
• VB6: 2006 (Early experiments and eventually LOB application upgrades .Net)
• C#/VB: 2004 - present (.Net Framework/.Net Core [Daily industry driver] passion for modernizing both application and build architectures)
  • Winforms
  • ASP
  • WCF
  • WPF
  • API
  • COM Interop
  • GRPC
  • tools
    • msbuild
    • nuget
    • tfs
    • hudson
    • subversion
• Javascript/Typescript: 2016 - present (Intermittent industry experience - modernizing and integrating legacy applications)
  • NodeJs
  • Express
  • AngularJs
  • JQuery
  • Angular 2x/4x
  • Styled Components
  • Electron
  • CSS3
  • redux

I believe that technology is most powerful when it helps us live in the moment and connect more meaningfully with the world around us. When technology isn’t the thing in the way but out of the way, I’m an increasingly avid supporter of finding a happy medium with screen usage. I don’t believe in the ‘put away for the day’ attitude, but I do think that technology should augment us, not absorb our every minute. We have to learn to co-exist with technology to empower us to connect with each other in the living world, not behind the screen. When I step away from the screen, you’ll find me first and foremost having fun with my toddler (dancing and reading children’s books). I’m an aspiring neurodivergent mom to a non-verbal, neurodivergent toddler with superpowers in patience and compassion. You’ve been warned: we are a force to be reckoned with and won’t be stopped. When time allows, you’ll find me dabbling in various interests.

• Roller Derby
• Mixed Martial Arts
  • Kick boxing
  • Jitsu
  • Karva Maga (not technically mixed martial art)
• Nature Walks
• Fashion Shopping (online and in person)
• Make-up Tutorials
• Puzzles
• Reading (my favorite past-time nothing like cuddling up in piece of fiction)
• Watching Various TV
  • Food Competitions
  • Fashion Entertainment
  • SyFy (StarTrek, Stargate, .... )
  • History
  • Occasional Comedy or Romance Drama

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