Experience

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Software Developer @ Consortium Software

I worked as a Software Dev for Consortium Software, a local business-facing app developer in my hometown of Battle Ground, WA, from May of 2021 to August 2022.

My primary job responsibilities included:

  • Designing and building webapps from scratch for Consortium's ASP.Net app suite
  • Working with my Senior to publish the webapps to the live suite from our production server
  • Analyzing and improving performance of older apps in the suite
  • Providing design advice for refreshes of older apps

Here's what I got done while working with Consortium:

  • Designed, built, and published a weather app from scratch, featuring customizable email alerts to warn users of inclement weather in their area
  • Worked on Superior Note, Consortium's note-taking app, in order to improve load speeds, add a real-time collaboration feature, and fix some long withstanding bugs
  • Gave creative app designs for a future plan to revisit a scrapped app idea. This app was a task-tracking app, which I was consulted on due to my interest in task-tracking apps at the time due to a rough patch with my focus.

All in all, I really enjoyed my time with Consortium, but unfortunately had to terminate my employment with them due to becoming a full-time University student. They gave me some amazing experience learning some common standards in the software field, from Agile, to daily stand-up meetings with one of my Senior developers, to making sure that I don't underestimate how much time a project might take :)