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Skills & Proficiencies

Programming Languages

• Proficient: C, C# (.NET, ASP.NET, Entity Framework, LINQ), JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Erlang
• Familiar: Assembly (ARM, x86_64), Bash scripts, C++, Clojure, Go, Java, Lua, Rust, SQL (Microsoft SQL Server)

Web: Basic frontend (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), ASP.NET Core (Razor Pages, MVC, APIs), Postman, Cloudflare, WordPress/Wix editing and management

Other programming software: Git (command line), GitHub, Azure DevOps (Boards, Repos), Jira, Monday, Jupyter Notebook (Google Colab, Kaggle), Linux & Windows command lines (Bash, PowerShell), Vim, GDB

• IDEs used: Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio Professional (the purple one), JetBrains (Rider, IntelliJ IDEA, etc.), STM32CubeIDE (fork of Eclipse), Arduino IDE

Programming Projects

• Visual JSON Editor: VS Code extension providing a custom GUI (webview) for editing & visualizing JSON files
  • TypeScript frontend and backend
  • College senior project
• matrixOS: CLI for displaying images & animated GIFs on RGB LED matrix panels
  • Powered by a Teensy 4.0 with C code and the SmartMatrix library
  • Final group project for Embedded Systems class
• Bad MSP432!!: Bad Apple!! compressed to under 256K and playing on a Texas Instruments ARM dev board
  • Python script to convert video frames, C code to play the video on a small LCD
  • Final project for Microprocessor-based System Design class
• Bullet Heck!: My high school senior project, a horizontal scrolling space shooter game
  • Python 3 with Pygame library

Education

B.S. in Computer Science at Brigham Young University-Idaho

• GPA: 4.0
• Embedded Systems & Quality Assurance Certificates
• January 2019 - December 2024 (deferred enrollment 2020-2022 for church service mission)

Work Experience

IT Intern (Customer Pillar) at Melaleuca - May-Aug 2024

• Rewrote a few legacy Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) codebases as more modern ASP.NET Core microservices
  • Primarily CRUD tasks - translated SQL stored procedures to LINQ queries
• Took on other, smaller bug fixes & tech debt tasks as assigned

Teaching Assistant at BYU-Idaho - April 2023-April 2024

• Offered help & graded assignments for Microprocessor-based System Design (C and assembly programming for an STM32 ARM microcontroller)
• Professor especially appreciated my assistance in a semester where 45 students were enrolled

Volunteering & Less Relevant

CSE Drop-In Lab Volunteer Tutor at BYU-Idaho - Sep-Dec 2024

• Helped students with their programming assignments (when I could find the time)

Social Media & Marketing Coordinator at Palouse Habitat for Humanity - June 2020-Aug 2022

• Volunteered as an LDS service missionary June 2020-May 2022; hired part-time May-Aug 2022
• Wrote, and designed graphics for, Facebook and Instagram posts with guidance from the Development & Communications Specialist
• Staffed the Habitat Surplus Sale (now ReStore) nonprofit thrift store; taught volunteers how to use the POS system; gave support for MS Office, POS backend, and security cameras; researched/determined fair prices for items

Full-time Service Missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - May 2020-May 2022

• SM/M, store staff, and occasional construction work for Palouse Habitat for Humanity - see above
• Filled curbside food orders at the Spokane, WA Bishop’s Storehouse (effectively a food bank)
• Digitized photos for the Latah County Historical Society
• Assisted with social media, events, Wix website, PC management for Family Promise of the Palouse

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