Mandy Brown

Experience

Software Engineer at Confluence Technologies, Inc
July 2010 to Present

Achievements

  • Automated predictable builds.
  • Built a new product.
  • Saved clients money by leveraging product features instead of writing custom code.

Projects

Expense Team Built software for Expense Management on top of a new Platform being developed by Confluence with a CQRS/ES architecture, contributing to development on both the server side and front end of the project. Also coordinated efforts with a remote team. Built with JavaScript (jQuery, KnockoutJS, RequireJs), C#, and Microsoft MVC.

Build Team Automated the inclusion of new and updated libraries so our build machines could reliably compile our products with the right libraries using MSBuild, InstallShield, and TFS.

Production Support Team Supported Client Services and enhanced existing software with custom projects using Visual Basic 6, C#, XSLT, SQL Server, Oracle, and others.

Senior Software Engineer at Software Management, Inc
Senior Software Engineer from July 2009 to July 2010
Software Engineer from June 2006 to July 2009

Achievements

  • Designed, implemented, and delivered projects sold to clients.
  • Presented one of my projects at the users conference.

Projects

Destination 3000 Customized and enhanced Destination 3000, a business management solution for the destination marketing industry. Constructed reusable COM components with VB.NET to integrate third-party web services.

Analyzed data from clients and outside systems and built systems for large data conversions to help customers replace complicated, previously implemented systems with our product.

Modified Open Source Software to create internal workflow solutions, and integrated them. Streamlined our internal processes by modifying the product to support our timekeeping, invoicing, billing, and reporting needs.

Senior Data Analyst at Uniscribe Professional Services, Inc
Senior Data Analyst from January 2004 to March 2005
Data Analyst from June 2003 to January 2004

Achievements

  • Developed utilities to automate data collection and conversion.

Projects

Database Creation and Management Developed and used tools to integrate coded document data, OCR, and image files to create databases for clients. Generalized existing data output to handle multiple projects. Organized code for easy re-use. Designed and implemented data entry forms and databases using DBText, VB, and SQL.

Led weekly coordination meetings, managed schedules, trained new personel, and worked with clients to solve problems.

Community

Rails Girls Pittsburgh Principal Organizer January 2013

Principal organizer for a one-day programming workshop that taught 50 women with little or no programming experience to write web applications using Ruby on Rails. Managed a team of four organizers and 20 volunteers and coaches.

Ongoing Education

Steel City Ruby Conf August 2012

Rails Girls DC November 2012

Coursera 2012 to Present

Machine Learning; Algorithms I; Algorithms II

Formal Education

Community College of Allegneny County Graduated Spring 2009

AS in Computer and Information Technology (CIT): Application Software Development

GPA: 3.884 (4.0 in Major); Dean's List

Contact Me

amanda.cf.brown@gmail.com

+1 (412) 254-3817

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