Work

BYU Administrative Solutions Group 🏫

Starting in the fall of 2019, I have worked for in the Administrative Department at BYU as an application developer.

My current project is creating a service for full-time employees to request cash or gift cards for various purposes across campus. The project is written in Angular 9 on the front end with a Node.JS backend server written in TypeScript. The project also uses a Postgres database. This is my first time working with Node, which has been very useful to learn. I'm still in awe when my API calls work 😁

Some of my past projects include writing a website for full-time employees to nominate co-workers for various awards and updating a website that all full-time employees (~3,000 people) at the university use for performance review at the end of each year. Both of these projects were written in PHP using the Zend Framework. We are in the process of updating these sites to the MEAN stack, which I work on from time to time.

We also host our projects on RHEL servers, and I have been able to learn the ins and outs of server maintenance and hosting.

I also help provide IT support for about 70 full-time and student employees when needed. That aspect of the job has been surprisingly fun. I enjoy solving problems and getting out from behind the desk to talk with people.

FedEx 📦

For 10 weeks in the summer of 2019, I interned with FedEx in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I was able to be involved with full stack development on two agile scrum teams. We improved and maintained several applications dealing with international clearance for shipments.

Over the internship I was able to learn about and use Java (Spring Framework), Angular, PCF, Jenkins, AppD, and Splunk. I had no experience with these tools beforehand, and diving into some real code and pairing with other employees helped me learn more than I could at school or on my own.

Our teams were able to improve performance of applications by tracking message counts in Splunk. We reduced pending message counts from around 20,000 down to an average less than 300.

I was able to assist in implementation of Blue-Green deployment on PCF to eliminate application downtime and reduce risks. This project facilitated pushing applications for FedEx shipping centers, which run almost around the clock and rely on our software.

I was also able to learn some basics of the Spring framework and Angular by creating a reference for FedEx employees. I made this project to help myself learn these frameworks and learn the company lingo.

BYU IS 💻

During the school year, I worked part time in the Independent Study office of Brigham Young University. In the Computer Operations department, I was a QA tester, providing support and maintenance to an online registration service. I manually tested Jira tickets for new features and customer issues, providing feedback to developers. I also used Selenium to write and run automated tests that check hundreds of functions weekly.

Lizard Skins 🦎

For a year and a half, I worked at Lizard Skins, a sporting goods manufacturer based in American Fork, Utah. I worked in the warehouse, shipping products around the globe, packaging goods, and invoicing customers using Oracle NetSuite and ShipStation. One of my favorite parts of the job was using an Adobe Illustrator and an Epilog laser engraver to create custom metal lock-rings for mountain bike grips. I mean, who doesn’t love lasers?!

Missionary Service 🍁

Over two years, I left school and work behind to serve as a volunteer missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Quebec, Canada. I lived in several towns across the province, both urban and rural. I was able to serve people from a variety of backgrounds (over 70 different countries of origin), learn French, and support local church congregations. These two years taught me about the importance of learning from others and so much more.