John Youngblood
Director of Software Engineering at SE Healthcare- Claim this Profile
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Latin Limited working proficiency
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English Native or bilingual proficiency
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Credentials
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IBM Certified Solutions Specialist - Rational Team Concert V4
IBMMar, 2017- Nov, 2024 -
Intro to Artificial Intelligence w/ Highest Distinction
UdacityApr, 2013- Nov, 2024 -
Peer Mentor
College Reading & Learning AssociationApr, 2010- Nov, 2024
Experience
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SE Healthcare
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United States
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Hospitals and Health Care
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1 - 100 Employee
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Director of Software Engineering
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Mar 2021 - Present
- Lead requirements analysis for new projects, manage kanban board for the development team, and report development progress to company stakeholders weekly. Through my experience with Software Development and familiarity with the application, newly incurred technical debt is at an all time low.- Provide technical insight during exploratory meetings with potential clients and partners, as well as became main technical contact for current companies we were partnered with. The insight provided helps clarify paths forward for major projects and improves intercompany communication.- Mentor junior developers and produce clear/concise software documentation. This decreases the time it takes to onboard new hires as well as allows us to provide paid internships to Computer Science students from the nearby College of Charleston that benefit both the interns and SE Healthcare.- Related skills: Project Management, Agile Development, Mentoring, Intercompany Communication, Software Documentation, along with skills listed in previous position Show less
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Lead Software Engineer
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Jan 2020 - Mar 2021
- Analyzed survey data using ElasticSearch, SQL, and Python in conjunction to determine causation of physician and nurse burnout and its correlation to patient satisfaction. These findings would be presented to hospital administration and company stakeholders.- Used the agency provided by this senior position to start eliminating technical debt incurred during the development of the companies applications. This included improving the overall user experience of the frontend as well as DRYing the codebase to provide more clarity for future developers.- Modularized existing applications to run within multiple docker containers instead of a single EC2 instance on AWS. This improved the software development lifecycle by providing the ability to spin up new instances for testing with ease.- Related skills: React, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, AWS, Docker, Git, Python, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch Show less
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Software Developer
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Jan 2018 - Jan 2020
- Developed a suite of healthcare applications in use by over 400 medical practices nationwide. The applications provided varying services including: patient surveys, insurance reimbursement analyzation, and physician burnout prevention.- Administrated the hosting of these applications through AWS to ensure high uptime and HIPAA compliance. AWS services I directly worked with include: EC2, ECS, RDS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, Redshift, and IAM.- Maintained platform updates for the application to avoid using outdated versions of packages that were no longer supported long-term.- Related skills: Angular v1, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, AWS, Git, Automated Testing, Unix Administration, Bash-scripting Show less
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Imagine One Technology & Management, Ltd.
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Defense & Space
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100 - 200 Employee
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Technical Analyst III
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May 2016 - Jan 2018
- Assigned to the DevOps team for the JTCW project which was responsible for deploying updates globally to over 10,000 systems across 15 hardware platforms. I was tasked with migrating the project's update distribution from physical to digital, where the main challenge stemmed from some Forward Operating Bases having low or inconsistent bandwidth. - Overcame the issue of poor internet connections by using IBM UrbanCode Deploy in a novel way. Only one laptop had to be updated through WAN and then that laptop would update the others through LAN. Due to this unique use case of UrbanCode Deploy, I was invited to give a talk on the project at IBM's InterConnect conference.- Related skills: DevOps, Network Administration, Batch-scripting, Java, .NET Show less
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Computer Scientist/Engineer 1
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May 2015 - May 2016
- Developed a web application for recording and maintaining requirements/specifications for projects. The app would in turn generate formal documentation for Department of Defense approval.- Worked on Natural Language Processing tool that used the Python library, NLTK. My main responsibility was benchmarking and improving the tool's performance. By incorporating parallel processing and restructuring when the NLTK modules would be loaded, I was able to reduce the processing time of the tool's performance by ~40%.- Related skills: Python, Angular v1, Natural Language Processing, Requirements Analysis, SharePoint Show less
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Computer Directions
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United States
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Entertainment Providers
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Junior Developer
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Jan 2015 - May 2015
- Promoted to become a full time Junior Web Developer for their latest Software products which required quality assurance as well as creation of automated tests. These automated test were developed to support troubleshooting of customer specific issues so that minimal effort from the customer was required to solve and fix the problem as well as speed up turnaround time of support tickets.- Related skills: Ruby on Rails, Javascript, Automated Testing, Customer Support
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Intern
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Oct 2014 - Dec 2014
- Worked on support for their multiple software products and communicated directly with customers to solve issues. During this time I also worked on an eCommerce web application for the company’s barcode scanners.- Related skills: Ruby on Rails, Wordpress, Customer Support, C#
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Moe's Southwest Grill
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United States
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Restaurants
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700 & Above Employee
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Line Cook
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Jun 2011 - Dec 2014
- Prepped food for the day before opening, worked the line during open hours, and cleaned up the kitchen after closing. - Maintained job while be enrolled full time at College of Charleston. - Related skills: Time Management, Teamwork, Customer Interaction - Prepped food for the day before opening, worked the line during open hours, and cleaned up the kitchen after closing. - Maintained job while be enrolled full time at College of Charleston. - Related skills: Time Management, Teamwork, Customer Interaction
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College of Charleston
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Peer Facilitator
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Apr 2010 - Apr 2011
- Worked with 2 College of Charleston professors in teaching the "Computer and Music" First Year Experience program for incoming freshmen. - Related skills: Python, Mentoring, Music Theory - Worked with 2 College of Charleston professors in teaching the "Computer and Music" First Year Experience program for incoming freshmen. - Related skills: Python, Mentoring, Music Theory
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Education
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2017 - 2021
Georgia Institute of Technology
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science: Interactive Intelligence -
2009 - 2014
College of Charleston
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science -
2005 - 2009
Wando High School
High School, Mathematics and Computer Science
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