BAM Technologies (2024 - )

Senior Software Engineer

I work with a great group of people to build software that facilitates getting financing to service members and their families.

Here, I mostly work with Angular, .Net, and SQL Server.

There is a lot of work to do, but it has been a nice change to work with people who can communicate what needs to be done, so I can worry about building.

I work in a mature Agile team that knows how to communicate and work together.

I Love BAM!

Central Square Technologies (2021 - 2024)

Software Developer

I worked on a few different projects during my time here, which exposed me to a lot of new (to me) technologies.

I worked on:

• Virtual Partner 2 (Creates traffic citations, reads license plate / registration returns)
• Virtual Partner Classic (Parses license plate and registration returns, can create citations)
• QuickTicket (Creates citations)
• ONESolution CAD (Computer-Aided Dispatch suite), also worked on migrating this to AWS
• Some other product, I can barely remember it, but I learned some cool GIS stuff

Was involved with an "Agile Transformation", went to a training where we passed ping pong balls around.

Survived 3 layoffs, that has to mean something.

Brunswick County Government (2019 - 2021)

Programmer Analyst

This was my first programming job that I got after college. I know better now, but at the time I fully believed I had no business working as a programmer. I didn't do any internships in college, I thought I had "extensive" Ruby on Rails experience (absolutely not lol), and I was working as a fiberglass laminator, making pipes for paper mills (also a great job). Now I know that a junior developer isn't expected to know how to breathe on their own, much less build anything from scratch, but at the time I thought I was going to get fired for not knowing anything.

This job was great and I still miss it a bit. I was given a lot of autonomy and freedom and responsibility and was able to work with a small team of amazing people. I was able to meet with stakeholders, head meetings with customers, and run trainings for the people using our software. I worked with some very smart people that took me from a dingbat who knew nothing to a fairly competent developer.

In my time here, I mostly worked with Angular, .Net Core, and SQL Server. I was also tasked with converting our web API to use GraphQL, which was a fun challenge.