Experience

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  Kohl's

  • Wisconsin, United States

  • Senior Software Engineering Manager

    • Oct 2022 - Present
    • Wisconsin, United States

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  VMware

  • Palo Alto, California, United States

  • Cloud Automation Engineer

    • Jul 2020 - Oct 2022
    • Palo Alto, California, United States

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  pHin (ConnectedYard Inc)

  • Bloomington/Normal, Illinois Area

  • Software Engineer

    • Jul 2017 - Jul 2020
    • Bloomington/Normal, Illinois Area

    pHin is reinventing pool and hot tub care with a WiFi-enabled smart monitor and a mobile phone app to take away the guesswork. The pHin Smart Monitor continuously monitors your pool or hot tub water chemistry and temperature, and notifies your phone when you need to balance the water quality. I'm personally a full stack engineer working on anything from quality control software for pHin monitors to building front end customer applications. I'm working remotely from Illinois most of the time and get to travel to San Jose once a month to connect and work with the pHin team.

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  State Farm Insurance

  • Systems Analyst

    • Sep 2008 - Jul 2017

    Currently I serve on the State Farm core architecture team specializing in controller and presentation tiers. I have been integral in designing their core presentation (JSP tags, Javascript, and CSS) and DAO frameworks. The insurance industry provides unique hurdles and has been a tremendous learning opportunity as I have progressed in my career. Additionally, I spearheaded the responsive web experience at State Farm which was successfully launched in several of our online applications over the past couple of months

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  J.R. Information Management Solutions

  • Owner

    • Apr 2005 - Jan 2012

    Designed and developed a data management software package that tracks employee health records for Gibson Hospital in Illinois.Worked with personnel from Gibson Hospital to help them define their requirements.Negotiated contract pricing, service support fees, and established a process for ongoing improvements.

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  Northrop Grumman Mission Systems

  • Software Engineer 2

    • May 2003 - Sep 2008

    Mentored junior programmers on software development.Project development coordinator for Northrop Grumman's newest Java GUI applications.Developed Java based utilities for Oracle data extraction, XML manipulation, encryption, archiving, and document merging that are utilized by many of Northrop Grumman's software packages.Obtained a high level security clearance

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  Sales Representative

  • Vector Marketing

    • May 2001 - Aug 2002

    Rapidly promoted as a sales-rep; receiving 7 promotions in four months.Promoted to Key Staff and Division Elite and trained new hires.