I’m a computer person. I write code and do stuff on the internet.
I like building software and community through code and sysadmin tools. My current day job involves writing C# for desktop applications. My primary hobby project is tilde.team, a non-commercial public access unix system focused on teaching, learning, and building community.
Additional code projects can be found on my github and tildegit profiles.
Work Experience
Jul 2023
Present
Hagerty Insurance Agency
Senior Software Engineer
Maintain internal policy management system: integrate external partner platforms, improve batch throughput and policy conversion processes.
Nov 2017
Jul 2023
Hagerty Insurance Agency
Software Engineer
Long-term work to find and fix bugs across many systems and codebases. Support and fix production processes, users, and integrations.
Jun 2017
Nov 2017
Hagerty Insurance Agency
Test Engineer, IT Applications
Create and execute end-to-end billing integration tests.
May 2014
May 2017
Northern Michigan University
Student Programmer, Business Information Services
Worked under Enterprise Software Developer to create intranet applications for staff and students with PHP, Bootstrap, jQuery.
Jun 2016
Jun 2018
Iron Fish Distillery
App Developer and Webmaster
Built custom web applications to manage membership, inventory, and integrated with point-of-sale systems.
Projects
2017
Present
tilde.team Public access UNIX System
Founder, head administrator
Named for the tilde symbol (~) and inspired by systems of yesteryear. A digital community inside a single shared computer focused on teaching, learning, and making cool stuff.
2018
Present
Co-Sysadmin
Teach, learn, make things do. A similar community that I am also involved with that is more focused on security and open source.
Education
Aug 2013
May 2017
Northern Michigan University
Bachelor of Arts: Computer Science / Economics double major, Mathematics minor
Harden Presidential Scholarship: full ride including room and board. Chair of ACM chapter. Annual participant in International Collegiate Programming Competitions.
Feb 2015
Jul 2015
Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Study Abroad Semester
Continued Computer Science coursework in German.