Timeline
Education & work history.
March 2026

Judge Advisor, FIRST Robotics Competition
FIRST, Michigan District
Promoted to Judge Advisor, coordinating and leading the judging panel at district competitions and the Michigan State Championship.
September 2024

Promoted to Application Architect
Midwest Fastener Corp., Portage, MI
April 2024

Promoted to Application Developer II
Midwest Fastener Corp., Portage, MI
March 2024

Judge, FIRST Robotics Competition
FIRST, Michigan District
Evaluate and report on technical robot design, team culture, and individual excellence at 2–3 district competitions and the Michigan State Championship each season.
February 2023

Application Developer
Midwest Fastener Corp., Portage, MI
Architected and maintained the backend BFF API for a sales rep-facing order placement mobile app on iOS and Android, while contributing Flutter UI development. Built a webservice that reduced EDI customer setup time from two weeks to one hour. Optimized processing speed by 40% in a VB.NET WinForms logistics application. Created an Android app using .NET MAUI for warehouse inventory management, a core component of the company's WMS. Implemented CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions for IIS-hosted websites, APIs, and NuGet packages. Introduced automated test databases using Docker containers seeded with daily production backups.
April 2023
B.S. Computer Science
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
Graduated with a 3.4 major GPA. Dean's List: Fall 2021, Spring 2022.
August 2022

Project Developer (Capstone)
Consumers Credit Union, Kalamazoo, MI
Built a web service to automatically categorize incoming support tickets, routing them to the correct department within 15 minutes. Developed an ML.NET model for ticket classification and designed a normalized database schema optimized for fast lookup speeds.
May 2020
Switched Major to Computer Science
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
August 2017
Enrolled at Western Michigan University
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
Began studying Aerospace Engineering.
May 2017
High School Diploma
Armada High School, Armada, MI
Graduated with a 4.21 GPA. Attended the Macomb Academy of Arts and Sciences. Competed in FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC), where the team won the Michigan State Championship in 2016 and the State Chairman's/Impact Award in 2017.

