For the first year, I helped maintain a webapp and systems behind it (Python Pyramid, Oracle DB, hosted on CentOS via AWS) to store and process student test information into lesson plans for teachers with students struggling with literacy. In 2017, I was moved to a team to develop infrastructure for supporting multiple educational web games.
Graduated with my B.S. in software engineering.
Here I worked and developed an internal dashboard drawing and aggregating data from various services. Backend used Flask for Python. Got experience with frontend development using jQuery and Bootstrap. Was a great experience with great people.
This time around, I ended up working on their internal web tools used for tracking equipment. Frontend was using vanilla JavaScript (no jQuery, and it was originally written in 2006) and HTML. The backend was made with PHP that the original author seemed to use a random number generator to determine how many tabs each line should use. It was a test in patience and a good experience in dealing with legacy code from Hell.
There I studied data mining and German. Much German beer was drunk. Good times were had. Nicht genug deutsch war gesprochen.
I returned to Work with the automated QA engineer to develop a testing framework for the company's gift card management API using CUnit for C#/.NET.
Broke down with a busted chain in Baton Rouge. It was cold.
I developed software for various military aircraft. Much of this used embedded C. I helped develop a test touch-screen MCDU. Worked on bug fixes for [CLASSIFIED]'s MCDU. The only project I was given much freedom on was developing Perl scripts that ended up cutting overall build time down by ~4 hours, which was done every week. This was where I learned that I don't want to work in a huge cubicle farm in a giant bureaucracy.
Here I worked as an QA tester. Mostly worked as a black box tester. It was a very good experience to see how start-ups operate. It underwent acquisition by Incomm while I was there, so their name was changed to Incomm Digital Solutions, which can make my resume confusing at times.
SSMO Ministries runs the K-12 school that I went to. I returned to work for their IT department for certain breaks in schooling. Work included setting up and moving computers in labs, imaging computers, and helping various SSMO employees with computer issues.
Began studying for my B.S. in software engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
It was way too hot of a day to be wearing a full suit under my gown.
I really don't remember much about this one.