Benjamin Payne
Senior Application Developer
Grand Rapids,MI
Summary
Highly skilled Senior Developer bringing 11 years of experience designing, developing and installing software programs, systems and applications. Proven project manager with background leading distributed teams in complex development projects.
Experienced in building web applications using Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, Laravel, Vue, jQuery, and Bootstrap.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Language
Work History
Senior Developer
National Service Alliance
Salt Lake City, UT
11.2022 - Current
- Modernized legacy monolith — 10k+ lines changed, upgrading PHP 5.3 → 8.4.
- Automated On Demand servicer onboarding, streamlining several hundred data entry points.
- Developed an AI classifier to handle fuzzy customer responses to automated text messages.
- Created mission-critical call routing software handling hundreds of calls/month using geolocation mapping.
- Developed an AI-powered IVR for instant servicer and customer information retrieval.
Senior Developer
AnswerNet
Willow Grove, PA
09.2022 - 11.2022
- Delivered new 'lite' solution for Third Party Verification clients who needed custom designed systems to meet their demands.
- Evaluated and improved development work of other developers on team, working to provide training, constructive criticism and knowledge transfer.
- Designed updates to existing software to meet changing customer demands.
- Reviewed and incorporated latest technology innovations and development strategies to improve build speed, quality and end-user experience.
Senior Application Developer
Northpointe Bank
Grand Rapids, MI
01.2015 - 09.2022
- Developed digital banking onboarding platforms where customers can open new checking or savings accounts. This system annually onboards millions of dollars in retail banking applications.
- Developed Nintex RPA solutions that consume banking onboarding data and loads it into core banking systems. This automation freed up headcount and allowed business units to lower costs by several million dollars over 8 years.
- Developed Retail Lending origination platforms, that originate millions of dollars in applications each month.
- Developed B2B Correspondent Lending applications that facilitate purchases of millions of dollars in loans each month.
- Developed loan boarding applications that board millions of dollars in originated loans into loan servicing systems.
- Developed various sub systems, and backend applications that help facilitate marketing, accounting, capital markets, customer service, and loan servicing operations.
- Analyzed and developed technical solutions to meet business requirements.
- Developed standardized work processes, tools and methodologies to improve code quality and business profitability.
- Managed software development and support using formal specifications, data flow diagrams and other design techniques.
- Implemented consistent coding practices using industry standard style guides PEP8, and PSR-12.
- Deployed software using TeamCity CI/CD.
- Managed software using GitLab version control.
Squad Leader
USMC
Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, NC
01.2013 - 12.2014
- Managed squad of 13 Marines
- Conducted live fire exercises with millions of dollars in equipment
- Ensured maintenance and accountability of millions of dollars in equipment
- Deployed with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit to the Persian Gulf
Education
Nanodegree - Data Science
Udacity
Online 01.2022 - 06.2022
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Davenport University
Grand Rapids, MI 01.2019 - 05.2021
Skills
Linux
Apache
PHP
MySQL
Javascript
JQuery
Vue
HTML
CSS
Python
Numpy
Scikit-Learn
Pandas
Team Player
Communication
Timeline
Senior Developer
National Service Alliance
11.2022 - Current
Senior Developer
AnswerNet
09.2022 - 11.2022
Nanodegree - Data Science
Udacity
01.2022 - 06.2022
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Davenport University
01.2019 - 05.2021
Senior Application Developer
Northpointe Bank
01.2015 - 09.2022
Squad Leader
USMC
01.2013 - 12.2014