Rebecca Eckstein Powell
Charlotte,NC
Summary
Hardworking, discerning, and insightful historian with a broad range of additional relevant experience including technical, writing and editing, legal, and communications. Eager to secure a job as a historian that offers professional challenges, daily engagement with historical practice, the development of professional relationships, and the opportunity to analyze, synthesize, and apply historical research. Particularly passionate about the opportunity to apply historical analysis to policy development.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Consultant
Stackleader Inc
07.2022 - Current
- Acts as an adaptable and flexible resource with the ability to learn new technologies quickly
- Specializes in Linux system administration and Java application development
- Builds microservices, develops middleware integration solutions, and works closely with clients to ensure technology solutions match their unique business problems
- Completed interviews and assessments with RedHat, Inc and was hired and successfully contributed to projects for Arizona Public Service and Promises12.
- Designs and builds APIs supporting the core business functionalities of PropertyMQ, an in-house property management software product
Middleware and DevOps Administrator
Arizona Public Service
11.2021 - 12.2022
- Designed and implemented new code and release management process for Java middleware deployed on JBoss Fuse
- migrated the build process from Jenkins to GitLab
- configured both Docker container-based and RHEL bare metal GitLab runners to execute pipeline jobs
- scripted and maintained GitLab pipeline configuration files to cover the entire development cycle
- integrated with Ansible Tower to automate code deployment
- established a new versioning system and release cadence
- Expanded UAT testing capabilities - used SoapUI, HermesJMS, and data integration to to inject test data into the integration layer
- Created custom groovy scripts to import test data to SoapUI
- Documented the new automated work cycle, a new versioning system, and the new UAT testing system in order to provide department-wide official guidance after the completion of the project.
- Created and gave project-wide presentations in order to demo the new automation, versioning, and testing processes.
- Performed research on technology solutions
Software Developer
Promises12
07.2021 - 11.2021
- Led the JBoss Fuse development of microservices supporting a web application servicing the business needs of both the care providers and patients of a substance abuse care provider
- delivered APIs with complex integrations and integrated with several AWS services as well as persistence to a Postgres database
History Instructor
Columbus State University
08.2019 - 05.2021
- Taught two World History I courses each semester to sections of approximately 40 students
- content covered human origins to early colonial Latin America.
- Independently generated content, selected textbooks and readings, and wrote lectures.
- Created and directed discussion sections designed to encourage and empower student's critical thinking, interests, and confidence.
- Encouraged student communication and worked to foster a kind and motivating environment in the classroom, during office hours, and responses to student emails.
- Pivoted to virtual class sessions due during the Spring of 2020 and adapted content as needed.
Graduate History Instructor
Auburn University
08.2015 - 05.2019
- Taught courses each semester, including summer semesters.
- Courses included a 400 level course on Civil War History, World History I, and World History II
- Taught sections of World History for Auburn Global
- Independently generated content, selected textbooks and readings, and wrote lectures.
- Created and directed discussion sections designed to encourage and empower student's critical thinking, interests, and confidence.
- Encouraged student communication and worked to foster a kind and motivating environment in the classroom, during office hours, and responses to student emails.
Graduate Teaching Assistant-History Department
Auburn University
08.2011 - 05.2015
- Assisted in 11 World History I and II sections ranging in size from 200-300 students
- Duties included grading, communication with students, holding office hours, test creation, tracking and maintaining attendance records, note taking, and coordination of and support for students with accomadations
- Led a discussion section as a part a new initiative for the History Department
Paralegal
Harris & Harris, LLP
08.2008 - 08.2010
- Drafted and filed pleadings and discovery
- Accompanied attorneys to hearings
- Managed client correspondence
- Performed document review and editing
- Responsible for familiarity with both the Alabama and Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
- Assisted in cataloging, analyzing, and documenting discovery materials
Temporary Legal Clerk
ROGERS, TOWNSEND AND THOMAS
01.2008 - 08.2008
- ·Mailed, received, and filed orders of reference
- Updated firm database with filing dates and other information as needed
- Assisted in file opening
Senior Project Assistant
The American Dental Association
01.2007 - 12.2007
- Aided in maintaining the relationship between the ADA and its state and constituent societies within a tripartite structure in order to increase the market share of member dentists.
- Responsible for maintaining department budget and presenting quarterly department projections.
- Aided in the preparation, printing and distribution of ADA membership materials.
Legal Assistant
LAW OFFICE OF TERRENCE M. JOHNSON, ESQ
08.2006 - 12.2006
- Helped maintain client relationships
- Created and maintained client files and databases
- In charge of correspondence with clients and other professionals, contracts of representation. and correspondence with case witnesses
- Worked extra hours in the office of a river boat tour company that the firm owned. Sold tickets tours, planned charter events, and answered phones
- Handled travel arrangements for Mr. Johnson.
Student Assistant
University Of Notre Dame
01.2004 - 08.2006
- worked as a student assistant in two offices: the University Relations Office and the Dean's Office of the College of Business
- Assisted the calendar editor and maintained and contributed entries to the University events calendar
- Monitored calendar activity and entries made by other departments
- Assisted with alumni relations
- Editing tasks related to college publications, especially the Mendoza Business Magazine
Education
Ph.D. - History
Auburn University
Auburn, AL08.2022
Bachelor of Arts - History, Spanish
University of Notre Dame
South Bend, IN08.2006
Skills
- Written and oral communication
- Archival research
- Synthesizing and analyzing information from historical sources
- Knowledge of historical archives
- Understanding of and engagement with the historiography of several topics
- Fast learner and reader
Technical:
- System debugging
- Workflow Implementation
- Project management
- Computer hardware knowledge
- Familiar with several technologies and have experience quickly learning new technologies
- Linux System administration
- Database administration
Language:
- Spanish
Timeline
Software Consultant
Stackleader Inc
07.2022 - Current
Middleware and DevOps Administrator
Arizona Public Service
11.2021 - 12.2022
Software Developer
Promises12
07.2021 - 11.2021
History Instructor
Columbus State University
08.2019 - 05.2021
Graduate History Instructor
Auburn University
08.2015 - 05.2019
Graduate Teaching Assistant-History Department
Auburn University
08.2011 - 05.2015
Paralegal
Harris & Harris, LLP
08.2008 - 08.2010
Temporary Legal Clerk
ROGERS, TOWNSEND AND THOMAS
01.2008 - 08.2008
Senior Project Assistant
The American Dental Association
01.2007 - 12.2007
Legal Assistant
LAW OFFICE OF TERRENCE M. JOHNSON, ESQ
08.2006 - 12.2006
Student Assistant
University Of Notre Dame
01.2004 - 08.2006
Ph.D. - History
Auburn University
Bachelor of Arts - History, Spanish
University of Notre Dame
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