
Aspiring Software Craftsman and Jedi Master
Provo, Utah Area

Aspiring Software Craftsman and Jedi Master
Provo, Utah Area
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(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)
• Designed and implemented a new application development framework to improve initial development speed, maintainability/debuggability and testability while maintaining compatibility with applications built on the existing framework. Used WinForms, NHibernate, nUnit, RhinoMocks.
• Maintenance on existing applications including bug fixes and refactoring existing code to improve readability and stability.
• Mentor other developers via one on one interaction as well as group training including preparing training materials and coding challenges.
• Mentored the first group of interns at Caselle. Designed the summer program and provided training and professional development. Fulfilled the role of Scrum Master for their team.
• Experience as facilitator in Scrum Sprint retrospectives using various activities to help the team discover what they need to work on.
• Refining interviewing and hiring processes and conduct interviews with candidates.
• Transitioned the team from Visual SourceSafe to Subversion for source control which included training the team on Subversion and defining a branch management policy to help stabilize releases.
• Transitioned the team’s build from a batch file to an MSBuild script running via CruiseControl.NET which executes unit tests and code coverage tools and packages a zip file for deployment.
• Manage software configuration including managing branches, the build file (MSBuild) and continuous integration server configuration (CruiseControl.NET).
MS , Computer Science , 2003 — 2007
• MS in Computer Science; Program GPA: 3.41
• Thesis: Obstacle Annotation by Demonstration (http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/ETD,934)
• Graduate Advisor: Dr. Dan Olsen
• Coursework included Advanced Interactive Software Systems, Natural Language Processing, Mixed Initiative Systems, Multi-Agent Systems; completed coursework in December 2004
BS , Computer Science , 1998 — 2003
• BS in Computer Science; Major GPA: 3.66 (Cumulative GPA: 3.68)
• BYU Heritage Scholarship, National Merit Scholarship and WordPerfect Scholarship