Greater Cleveland
After many great years in the specialty chemical industry, I am pivoting to a new career in software development. For me, software and computers have always been a way to get work done. Whether it was plotting swim team race times in high school, calculating optical properties from spectra in graduate school, or mapping mining truck routes at a startup, I have written code because I needed certain results. Now that has changed. Why? Because it is clear that from product design to fulfillment, everything is becoming virtualized in code. I want to participate in that process and combine my previous and new careers in a meaningful way. In my chemical industry career, I held a variety of leadership roles in research and development. As a result, I am good at getting the most out of the organizations I lead while selling executive management on the value delivered by those organizations. Most recently, I was responsible for predictive analytics where we had considerable success modeling physical laboratory tests such that virtual tests are now used for product development. It is that analytics experience along with leadership skills that I want to combine with my new career in software development.
C#/.NET boot camp graduate from Tech Elevator. Recent projects: - Urban Garden Planner: Full stack application which assists urban gardeners in plant selection based on sun exposure for their garden plot within an urban farm. Designed/coded database, backend, and frontend. - Online Payment Service: Send and receive payments between parties. Coded client and API server-side using RESTful approach and user authentication. DAO queries of SQL database on the backend. - Warehouse System Management: Application for internet retailer with stock put and pick management via web interface. SQL database for inventory. Product reorder based on sales rates, supplier discounts, inventory space and time of year.
- Drove increase in use of predictive analytics for product development 50% year over year. - Reduced time and cost of product development up to half using tools developed by my team. - Changed corporation's approach to analytics from a narrow focus on existing applications to a broader consideration of applications with the greatest impact.
- Implemented new funding mechanism resulting in development of new breakthrough concepts. - Select breakthrough concepts commercialized as new platforms resulting in significant sales. - Implemented corporate-wide technical career ladder and the sharing of personnel between business units.