Arizona State University
Brigham Young University
My first job in high school. It payed better than a lot of starter jobs, but it was a lot harder work. I worked the summers and saved enough to cover my college semesters. I learned a lot of professional skills, but also learned that I didn't want to work construction for a living.
I interned at Altamira the summer before my Senior year of college. They offered me a full time position after graduation. I received a Top-Secret Security Clearance (TS/SCI) and worked on projects for the USAF at NASIC. It was here that I began developing experience as a Full-Stack Software Engineer. I lead the UI development of a Radar/Satellite Analysis Tool our team was building using a MEAN stack.
When my wife became pregnant, I began looking for opportunities for remote work. I was hired by Rural Sourcing (now Sparq) to work on a team developing micro front-end applications using Angular. We were able to quickly build UI components for customers by building them with micro front-end blocks. While I was there, I was a software engineering consultant for a Fortune 500 company, and two start-up companies.
A recruiter I had met at Zachary Piper contacted me with an opportunity to lead an application modernization project for the EPA. I didn't want to pass the opportunity up, since it was a chance to lead development, and improve my software architecture skills. It was a contract-to-hire position with GDIT.
After a year with Zachary Piper, I was hired full-time by GDIT to continue work on modernizing the EPA's Compendium of Environmental Testing Laboratories.