Resume

Professional summary

Software professional with 11 years of experience delivering full-stack applications and technology solutions in local government, including progression to Lead Software Engineer. Built much of that experience in a small-team environment where developers independently owned applications end to end, requiring strong self-directed learning, resourcefulness, requirements analysis, troubleshooting, and delivery. After a planned career break, returned to hands-on development through AI-assisted projects in C#, Pine Script, APIs, automation, and modern web development. Now intentionally seeking a hands-on Software Engineer I / junior developer role on an established, collaborative team, contributing broad professional experience while deepening a foundation in modern software engineering practices and .NET development.

Core competencies

C# / .NET · REST APIs · SQL · JavaScript · HTML/CSS · Pine Script · Azure DevOps · Git/GitHub · AI-assisted development (Claude Code, Codex) · Testing and debugging · Full-stack application ownership · Requirements analysis · API integration · Production support

Work experience

Independent Software Development Projects, Thornton, CO

• Use AI coding tools as development partners for implementation, debugging, code review, research, and learning while personally validating behavior, testing results, and making technical decisions.
• Built custom Pine Script indicators used live in personal futures trading, translating trading rules into executable logic and iterating through testing and refinement.
• Built a C# integration bridge connecting TradingView webhook alerts with NinjaTrader 8 for personal automated trade execution, working with REST endpoints, asynchronous processing, error handling, and platform integration.
• Developing additional full-stack and local AI projects to rebuild hands-on development depth and expand experience with current tools and practices.

City of Westminster, Westminster, CO

July 2013 to September 2024

• Led a team of four developers delivering applications and technology solutions for City departments and the public while remaining responsible for technical direction and delivery.
• Helped modernize the team's development environment by implementing Azure DevOps and moving from primarily individual application ownership toward collaborative team development practices.
• Directed a technology-stack transition toward a .NET Web API backend and Vue.js frontend, establishing a more current foundation for future application development.
• Managed hiring, mentoring, workload priorities, code quality expectations, and stakeholder communication during periods of significant staffing constraints.

• Worked as a full-stack developer in an environment where individual engineers generally owned applications end to end, from requirements and design through development, troubleshooting, deployment, and ongoing support.
• Built and maintained department-specific web applications and backend systems, learning unfamiliar technologies independently as project needs required and delivering reliable solutions with limited formal training time.
• Rewrote the City's online sales tax filing and payment application for local businesses, replacing a legacy VBScript app with ASP.NET Web Forms and building an API that connected it to the City's Rocket UniVerse (MultiValue) database through a vendor REST interface.
• Strengthened the flat-file data exchange with the City's bank, which had no API, closing gaps when file delivery failed or file data was bad, and supported the application in production.
• During COVID, after the sales tax system's original developer had left the City, worked through 40 years of Pick code to piece together sales tax data the CFO urgently requested.
• Rewrote the public sign-up app for the City's Santa visit program and, after studying how the program was run, proposed and built a full admin back end for the firefighters who ran it, replacing spreadsheets and manual reminder calls with random lottery selection, sign-up and selection-status notifications, and automated first and second reminders; later reworked the whole app when the program moved from a lottery to time-slot sign-ups.
• Wrote test plans and ran user acceptance testing with department staff before releases where warranted.
• Maintained systems supporting the City's public website and intranet, including its DotNetNuke (DNN) content management system, and served as technical liaison among departments, vendors, and IT.
• Evaluated technologies and practical solutions for business needs while balancing development with production support, requirements gathering, and other technical responsibilities.

Earlier career

• Technical Support, Amadeus Petroleum, Inc. (2011 to 2013)
• Training Coordinator / DST Liaison, IDEX Mutual Funds (1994 to 1997). Covered both roles until the liaison work became its own position.
• Account Services Manager, American Century Investments (1991 to 1994)

Education

• Master of Science, Software Engineering, Regis University, Denver, CO (graduated with honors)
• Bachelor of Arts, Education, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO

Skills

Development

C# / .NET, ASP.NET Web Forms, REST APIs, API development, SQL (Microsoft SQL Server), Rocket UniVerse (MultiValue), JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Pine Script, DotNetNuke (DNN)

Tools and practices

Azure DevOps, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Git/GitHub, version control, VS Code, ngrok, AI-assisted development (Claude Code, Codex), testing and debugging, test planning, user acceptance testing (UAT)

Delivery

Full-stack application ownership, requirements analysis, API integration, data integration, legacy system modernization, workflow automation, production support

Professional

Independent problem solving, self-directed learning, stakeholder communication, technical leadership