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I am a full-stack developer and team lead. I spend quite a bit of time in meetings, quietly asking questions and drawing boxes and arrows while people explain the problem they are trying to solve. A lot of times those boxes and arrows turn into components of a UI, a new method in a web service, or after several more conversations, an entirely new app somewhere in the portfolio.
When I'm not in meetings with stakeholders, business analysts, or my team, I'm usually enjoying smashing keys (lets be honest, it's usually ctl + c and ctl + v), writing code to try to solve one of the problems I've spent hours trying to understand. There is no more frustrating moment in a developer's life than the 4 hours they spent trying to make one piece of logic work. But you'll be hard-pressed to find the level of joy you can get when that last compile actually succeeds, passes all the unit tests, and makes someone's job easier. That's why I have been in IT for over 15 years now. At the heart of it, there is a passion to serve others.
In my resume you'll find a lot of jobs, ranging from multimedia developer, COTS application subject-matter-expert, IT architect, and technical lead. Outside of work you'll find me volunteering for my local county health department, coaching a youth lacrosse team, walking with my dog, hiking with family and friends, or bouncing around between home maintenance projects that never seem to end.
Technical Team Lead - Labcorp
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I also work as a hands-on developer, doing project development in .net core and angular, or helping with devops setup and troubleshooting. Our pipelines use TFS build and release profiles, custom batch files, or Jenkins -> UrbanCodeDeploy to push code out to Windows servers, enterprise desktops, or packaged into tidy docker containers that float happily on top of an OpenShift framework.
Technical Lead - Labcorp
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Senior IT Architect - IQVIA
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