I’ve been a software engineer since I was in middle school when I began programming video games in Visual Basic. I’m obsessed with the junction between technical potential and human experience. Another way to say this: the junction where art meets science, or research meets application. This is the essence of engineering. The[…]

Case Management Tool for Product Support In addition to my normal responsibilities at Lexmark Enterprise Software as a Development Sup Professional, I’ve volunteered to help with an internal tool widely used by the department for managing Cases. This tool is programmed in PHP, and uses SQL to interface with our ticketing[…]

The Philosopher’s Stone is a database tool I created while working in Advanced Support at Perceptive Software. I began the project after discovering a lack of in-depth knowledge and documentation regarding the database of the software we were supporting (Perceptive Content, a.k.a. ImageNow), and how this was negatively affecting the department’s overall time to resolution[…]

While working in Advanced Support at Perceptive Software, two of my colleagues and I came up with the idea to “gamify” the activities performed by employees in support roles. This involved parsing data from our ticketing system and other places, and providing motivation to “players”(employees) for certain behaviors by creating objectives, experience points, achievements, visible progress,[…]

Environment Validator is a troubleshooting application that I created for Lexmark Enterprise Software’s Support Department. It is programmed entirely in C#, and analyzes numerous elements of the installed Enterprise Content Management system, and also makes sure that other systems, such as the SQL Database Server and LDAP Authentication Server, are integrated correctly.[…]

Videobook: Why Evolution is True I came up with the idea for the “Videobook” after reading the book Why Evolution is True by Jerry Coyne, and realizing that for much of the book I found myself struggling to visualize the concepts and animals that the author was talking about. Simply reading about shape-shifting[…]

Happy Flutter Friends (2010) In a universe where deadly plasma, black holes, and giant cyclops monsters permeate all of space, there exists a species of spherical creatures who have but two objectives in life: survive and get as many gems as possible. Play with up to 3 players on a single[…]

How Hard can it be to get a job at a rocket company? This blog will cover the steps I take to getting my portfolio ready for applying at SpaceX.