Alex_Portfolio/backend/data/experience.json

[
  {
    "id": "independent",
    "company": "Independent",
    "role": "Software Developer / Freelancer",
    "location": "Remote",
    "start": "2024-06",
    "end": null,
    "summary": "I develop web and mobile applications for long-term clients, agency partners, and professional referrals—owning the path from discovery and architecture through delivery, deployment, and support.",
    "highlights": [
      "Expanded an initial WordPress engagement into a complete membership and qualification platform for the Irish Institute of Pensions Management.",
      "Built Android applications for an AI-assisted safety workflow that detects firearms and relays incident evidence to monitoring teams and first responders.",
      "Delivered a mortgage-lending platform on Cloudflare with real-time messaging, relational data, and secure document storage."
    ],
    "technologies": ["Preact", "Bun", "Cloudflare", "Android", "Kotlin", "TensorFlow Lite", "PHP", "PostgreSQL"],
    "projects": [
      {
        "name": "IIPM.ie",
        "period": "Apr 2025 – Mar 2026",
        "href": "https://iipm.ie"
      },
      {
        "name": "SafeSchoolz",
        "period": "Jun 2024 – Jun 2025",
        "href": "https://heroeyez.com"
      },
      {
        "name": "Equity Funding Source",
        "period": "Apr 2026 – Jul 2026",
        "href": "https://equityfundingsource.com"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "id": "covius",
    "company": "Covius, LLC",
    "role": "Senior Software Engineer",
    "location": "Pompano Beach, FL",
    "start": "2022-01",
    "end": "2024-04",
    "summary": "Helped transform RealtyBid.com into a modern, real-time real estate auction platform, spanning its REST backend, responsive Angular experience, legacy data, and internal administration tools.",
    "highlights": [
      "Participated in the complete redesign of a major legacy website with substantial historical data.",
      "Helped adapt a legacy database to a modern application design.",
      "Created a responsive interface that worked equally well on desktop and mobile.",
      "Refined the product with QA testers and business partners over many collaborative sprints.",
      "Used RxJS and Angular to deliver asynchronous, real-time auction feedback."
    ],
    "technologies": ["Angular", "RxJS", "REST APIs", "JavaScript", "SQL"]
  },
  {
    "id": "sead",
    "company": "SEAD Software",
    "role": "Software Engineer",
    "location": "Delray Beach, FL",
    "start": "2021-04",
    "end": "2022-07",
    "summary": "Designed web applications and business analytics for healthcare and legal teams while improving development operations through Azure DevOps and delivery pipelines.",
    "highlights": [
      "Used Google Cloud Vision to recognize and categorize physical laboratory documents.",
      "Built a Twilio-based messaging application that responded to customer interactions and generated leads for law firms.",
      "Maintained AWS infrastructure supporting multiple projects.",
      "Implemented Azure DevOps infrastructure and trained staff on the platform.",
      "Maintained a large Git repository serving multiple clients."
    ],
    "technologies": ["Python", "Google Cloud Vision", "Twilio", "AWS", "Azure DevOps"]
  },
  {
    "id": "clarity",
    "company": "Clarity Diagnostics & Lab Solutions",
    "role": "Director of IT",
    "location": "Boca Raton, FL",
    "start": "2020-09",
    "end": "2022-01",
    "summary": "Led technology decisions for a boutique medical testing laboratory and diagnostics manufacturer as it grew to serve outside entities, including local and state governments.",
    "highlights": [
      "Implemented physical keycard access security across the laboratory facility.",
      "Established email and cloud-application security standards in Google Workspace and Microsoft 365.",
      "Expanded laboratory infrastructure and assisted with quality assurance for medical testing equipment.",
      "Managed software quality, deployment, training, and the daily work of other IT staff."
    ],
    "technologies": ["IT Leadership", "Google Workspace", "Microsoft 365", "Security", "QA"]
  },
  {
    "id": "mytap",
    "company": "MyTap / Which Craft",
    "role": "Lead Developer",
    "location": "Albuquerque, NM",
    "start": "2016-01",
    "end": "2020-04",
    "summary": "Collaborated with a design team on a craft-beer recommendation engine powered by web scraping and natural language processing of online reviews.",
    "highlights": [
      "Implemented a robust web scraper with Python and Scrapy.",
      "Created a responsive browser-based phone experience.",
      "Designed NLP code that built flavor profiles from adjective frequency in review text.",
      "Maintained a Django backend backed by PostgreSQL."
    ],
    "technologies": ["Python", "Scrapy", "NLP", "Django", "PostgreSQL"]
  },
  {
    "id": "tricore",
    "company": "TriCore Reference Laboratories",
    "role": "Production Support Specialist",
    "location": "Albuquerque, NM",
    "start": "2013-04",
    "end": "2017-01",
    "summary": "Supported critical healthcare technology across regional hospitals, from urgent access issues to specialized clinical applications and patient-record transmission.",
    "highlights": [
      "Held sole overnight responsibility for a production environment normally supported by a 60-person daytime team.",
      "Monitored patient-record transmission across multiple hospital systems and specialized clinical applications.",
      "Guided medical staff through time-sensitive, patient-critical troubleshooting.",
      "Monitored infrastructure, corrected errors, trained new help-desk employees, and remained on call for emergencies."
    ],
    "technologies": ["Production Support", "Healthcare IT", "Monitoring", "Incident Response", "Training"]
  }
]