Hi, I’m
Christopher Browning
Minneapolis,MN
Summary
Experienced software engineer with a successful track record developing enterprise systems. Can contribute to every phase of the SDLC with strong technical, planning, and critical thinking skills.
Overview
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Full-stack Software Engineer
09.2020 - Current
Job overview
- Implemented feature flagging tooling to allow iterative development without impacts to product customers
- Developed robust, scalable, modular and API-centric internal infrastructures in order to coordinate cross-engineering organizational efforts
- Spearheaded replacement of legacy system to more maintainable platform.
- Built rigorous testing around data intake procedures.
- Achieved requirements to enforce industry standards for Question and Test Interoperability specifications.
- Oversaw deployment of massive overhaul of identity service from .Net 2.0 to 6.0, including standardized library interface replacements and team integration.
- Mentored junior developer during onboarding and during their project timeline.
- Successfully provided solution to production level migration blocker, and provided safeguards to ensure it did not occur again.
- Gathered and defined customer requirements to develop clear specifications for project plans.
- Delivered unit-tested systems with required characteristics and within customer-prescribed timeframes.
- Assisted with transition from previous PHP platform to in house C# based replacement.
- Worked to maintain contracts with both upstream content providers and downstream consumers.
- Implemented feature to preview PDF tests before creation process to ensure correct formatting for various state client requirements.
- NWEA (acquired by HMH) During these repeated transitions I was retained as an engineer and continued to deliver continuous updates and features to our platform such that it was used alongside NWEA's existing solutions.
- Returned to Questar (Acquired by NWEA) when an opening presented itself for my new skill set with C#. I utilized my new skillset to help sunset a legacy interfacing product and lead the development on its temporary replacement, that was eventually rolled into our current system.
Aimia
Full-stack Software Engineer
09.2019 - 09.2020
Job overview
- Participated in requirements gathering and design development meetings.
- Worked with both on shore and off shore resources to transition product to state-side development and modernize legacy enterprise codebase.
- Performed unit testing, system testing and integration testing to increase code coverage from completely untested to 60%.
- Collaborated in team-based, Agile environment to accomplish objectives by deadlines.
- Diagnosed and corrected errors within Java, HTML and JavaScript codes to allow for integration and utilization of proprietary applications.
- Wrote, modified and maintained software documentation and specifications.
- Worked with quality assurance team to set up scripts, test case and automation protocols.
- Modified API endpoints to add new specifications without breaking existing data contracts
- Conducted regression testing, analyzed results and submitted observations to development team.
Questar Assessments Inc.
Associate Software Engineer
12.2017 - 09.2019
Job overview
- Engineer on a team with on-shore and off-shore staff working to deliver and maintain a core enterprise level system for creating standardized tests and test items for the K-12 educational system for multiple state client contracts with conflicting requirements.
- Assisted lead developer in implementing on the fly transformations of content to downstream systems without impacting core functionality in order to meet conflicting requirements while still keeping content to QTI standards.
- Led development of multi-stage adaptive standardized testing by gathering specifications from stakeholders, documenting architecture, and implementing the code to satisfy requirements of large incoming clients to support multi-million dollar contracts obligations.
- Decreased time required to generate a test PDF from ten minutes to under three.
Education
Pierpont Community And Technical College , Fairmont, WV
Associate's from Computer And Information Sciences
2012
Skills
- Experienced with SDLC frameworks including: Scrum methodology, Kanban, and Waterfall
- Always willing to listen to and incorporate criticisms of work
- Experience in leveraging AWS resources to further development process
- Proven track record of picking up new languages, frameworks, and technologies quickly and efficiently
- Capability to adapt to rapidly changing situations such as working remotely full time
- Highly functional in high pressure situations and crunches
- Always willing to ask for assistance if task is beyond skills or means
- Ability to transfer from task to task quickly and effectively
- Project Coordination between multiple teams and clients
Technical Experience
- C# - .Net, OOP, Dependency injection, Feature Flagging, Entity Framework (MVC)
- Java - OOP, Client-server networking, Maven, Spring, Unit and integration testing, Modification of existing APIs
- MVC Frameworks and ORM concepts
- C++ - OOP, Algorithmic analysis, Machine learning
- PHP - OOP, MVC, XDebug, Zend Debugger, API creation, Frameworks
- SQL - Performance, Schema design, Migration
- PostgreSQL - Performance, Schema design
- JavaScript - Jquery, UI, AJAX
- HTML - HTML 5, Responsive design
- CSS - Cross-browser compatibility with Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, and Internet Explorer
- Deployment and build pipeline tooling such as Jenkins and Octopus
Timeline
Full-stack Software Engineer
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
09.2020 - Current
Full-stack Software Engineer
Aimia
09.2019 - 09.2020
Associate Software Engineer
Questar Assessments Inc.
12.2017 - 09.2019
Pierpont Community And Technical College
Associate's from Computer And Information Sciences
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