Senior Software Engineer @ Alaska Airlines
From June 2022 to present, Austin, TXFull-stack software engineer working with scrum team on our e-commerce web platform (https://alaskaair.com). Working closesly with product team and UX team to reduce cost and generate revenue while also being compliant to aviation industry requirements.Responsible for maintain a high quality code-base, mentoring junior employees, QA testing. Vice chair of the Women in Technology business resource group. Collaborating with cyber team and privacy team to ensure information security and data privacy best practices. Member of the machine learning guild.
Software Engineer @ Keller Williams Realty Inc.
From July 2021 to June 2022, Austin, TXFull-stack software engineer working on our consumer mobile (https://kw.com) and web app (KW mobile app). Working with international offshore team for the KW Worldwide department. Responsibilities include maintaing code-bases, on-boarding new team members, discovery & demos with potential vendors, working with 3rd-party vendors for localization/translations of content. I was also Vice Chair of the Black Employee Resource group where I assisted in the creation of the organization charter and negotiated terms with our HR department.
Lead Software Engineer @ Deloitte
From Jan 2020 to June 2021, Austin, TXFull-stack software engineer working in our government and public sector division focused on serving federal clients. Responsbile for building e-discovery solutions that integrated with 3rd party vendors.
Software Engineer @ Usio
From Aug 2019 to Jan 2020, Austin, TXFull-stack software engineer working with small team on our mobile and web platforms for the prepaid card solution (https://www.akimbocard.com/usio/).
Front-end Software Engineer @ Unum
From Aug 2019 to Jan 2020, Chattanooga, TNFront-end software engineer working with team on our mobile and web platform for customer onboarding app. Also, did POC work with Salesforce platform and chatbots.
Application Developer @ BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
From Aug 2017 to Dec 2018, Chattanooga, TNServed as team product owner, business analyst, and project manager (projects < 500 hours). Maintained multiple product backlogs, kickstarted UX design process with engineers, onboarded and mentored junior employees and peformed database queries for entity research. In addition, I lead scrum ceremonies and stakeholder priority meetings.
Intern @ BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
From Mar 2017 to Aug 2017, Chattannooga, TNWorked with team product owner to create user stories, elicit business requirements, and lead scrum ceremonies. Also, fixed bugs in .NET MVC application.
Intern @ Codescience
From Jan 2016 to Oct 2016, Chattanooga, TNCreated a marketing research report from Google Analytics and Hubspot data, trained on Salesforce trailheads, and organized and served as as the UX designer for a small scrum team to build a Force.com app.
Harvard Extension School - International Security Graduate Certificate
2023 to presentThe study of the different diciplines of intelligence and how it is used in the policy process. Also, they study of cyberspace and how it impacts our security nationally and internationally.
University of Tennessee - Chattanooga - M.S. Computer Science
2015-2018Course work included cloud computing, digital forensics, AI and machine learning, cybersecurity, application development, and data science
University of Tennessee - Knoxville - B.S. Animal Science
2010-2014Pre-veterinarian track included science-heavy courses such as organic chemistry, biochemistry, animal anatomy and physiology, reproductive health, genetics. Also, studied agricultural economics, statistics, calculus, poultry science, and sheep science.
