Fullstack Engineer (Generation Esports)

I worked over a year and a half (May 2021 - December 2022) as a full stack engineer at Generation Esports, building and maintaining an Angular front-end and a NestJS microservice back-end, supported by a PHP monolith. For much of that time, I was also the Scrum Master of three teams within the organization.

I was responsible for the creation and maintenance of several new features on the platform, including quests, challenges, hero banners, tournament divisions, and League of Legends statistics. This involved everything from creation of the microservice in NestJS, configuring them for deployment in Kubernetes, creation of relevant MySQL tables/MongoDB collections, and implementation of their front-end components in Angular. When appropriate, I also implemented queues using RabbitMQ and service communication using GRPC (alongside REST). I also performed code reviews. Based on shifts of rotating weeks, I handled on-call duties for any extra technical support teams needed.

As a Scrum Master, I conducted the daily morning standups, retrospectives, and sprint planning. I know first-hand that great morale plays a key part in the quality (and happiness!) of everyone's work, so I kept this at the forefront of my mind as I led meetings. In this role, I also managed everyone's assigned stories and their statuses in Azure DevOps, shuffling items in cases where priorities shifted. I was also heavily involved in story refinement, working to help make sure the designs and acceptance criteria were ready for any engineer.

Manager (Alameda Theatre)

I've spent several years working as a movie theatre manager, taking on responsibilities everywhere between the floor and the projection booth. My experience of working as part of the general floor staff prior to becoming a manager informs how I work every day- feeling good about the job is the first step to doing great work. I take great pride in having created and continuing to contribute to a productive, exciting, and fun work environment.

Some of my responsibilities include the creating and budgeting for the staff schedule, graphic design, handling of cash, and inventory management. I also handle the IT end of things, like provisioning POS stations and running FTP servers.

A large part of my work includes using VEGAS Pro to create content for digital postercases, Photoshop for signage, and Excel for lots of computational work.

Technician (TECS)

One of my original aspirations in the theatre was to operate in the projection booth. Along with managing the theatre floor, I've also been the lead projectionist for several years. My skill in the booth and ability to pass on this knowledge to others made me a successful technician for other theatres in the area, working under Theatre Equipment and Construction Services.

Some of my responsibilities include remote troubleshooting and on-site work at a customer's request: problems are identified, solutions are created, and customers have this knowledge passed on to them. I was also responsible for setting up booths and auditoriums, which involved running cables and standing up server racks.

I serviced a lot of Barco projectors, Dolby and GDC servers, and set up a lot of ladders. While not in my regular wheelhouse, I do also work with Christie and NEC projectors, as well as Series 1 servers.