Brian Trickovic

• Revise, modularize and update old code bases to modern development standards, reducing operating costs, and improving functionality.
• Collaborate with project managers to select ambitious, but realistic coding milestones on pre-release software project development.
• Work with developers on developing unit tests to prevent software bugs.
• Partner with team members to learn best practices in software design.

Key Achievement: Developed a search query service that can be implemented across an application for fetching records from a database, reducing development time by over 20%.

• Supervised tech lab after-school programs for K-12 schools across Northern Virginia.
• Instructed students on the Python, HTML, & JavaScript programming languages and fundamental tech skills (e.g. touch typing).
• Provided feedback for parents about class material and student dynamics in weekly status reports.

Key Achievement: Used Socratic questioning for student problem solving as a teaching strategy, resulting in a substantial increase of classroom engagement by 50%.