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Senior Software Engineer
BNSF Railway•  June 2013 - Present
Recruited out of college into the Management Trainee program in Technology Services. Supported many legacy applications for corporate and field users and transitioned to new software development. Leading a team of summer interns, inception to first release of RailPASS was less than 4 months and has reduced driver dwell times by 25% and gate transaction times by 75%. In 2017, RailPASS became the backbone to comply with the California Air Resource Board (CARB) Drayage Truck Registry (DTR) program. CARB provided a multi-million-dollar grant for new locomotives. Architected a new messaging platform which reduced our Mainframe CPU usage footprint by 25%. Designed and implemented a Terminal Operating System (TOS) to integrate with Automated Straddle Carriers to perform the first fully-automated container move for a North American Class I Railroad. Developed public-facing APIs to improve data exchange with other industry partners including the first completely touchless gate transactions.
Education
Texas Christian University
Computer Science, BS•  August 2009 - May 2013
Graduated in May 2013 with a 3.49 GPA and a B.S. in Computer Science with a Mathematics Minor. For our Senior Design project, we partnered with the UNT Health Science Center to develop a mobile application promoting healthy living options in Fort Worth.