Nick Ballenger

Full-Stack Developer


πŸ“§ nicholas.ray.ballenger@gmail.com ☎️ 1-(806)-518-8727 πŸ“ Roswell, NM


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Work Experience

Full-Stack Developer

New Mexico Military Institute

πŸ“… March 2020-Current πŸ“ Roswell, New Mexico

  • Spearheaded Initiative to modernize Front-End Workflows by bringing utilizing React and frontend testing frameworks, which improved overall feature/application delivery rate by an average of 18 work hours per project.

  • Designed, developed, and modified 30+ Web Applications/reports.

  • Ensured proper care was taken to ensure FERPA policies were followed when developing applications.

  • Designed database schemas, tables, views, and stored procedures to performantly deliver data at scale.

  • Utilized webRTC to allow students and faculty to record (and later store) their spoken names, mostly eliminating all pronunciation errors in classrooms/assemblies.

  • Led initiatives to fully digitize the student matriculation process reducing student in-processing errors by over 70%.

  • Worked in tandem with the institutional research team to aggregate academic assessment datapoints/trends before creating numerous web based data-visualization components.

  • Analyzed , refactored, and improved 40+ legacy SQL stored procedures, with an average performance time improvement of 70%.

  • Provided support and custom integrations for 3rd party educational products (Canvas, PowerCampus, Ellucian Self-Service).

  • Implemented numerous server and code changes to increase the public marketing site's performance from an average score of 2-15 up to 75-85 (Measured using google lighthouse site scores)

  • Led initiatives to increase site accessibility scores (e.g. using semantic HTML, automating alt-tag insertion for images when none are provided, etc.)

Skills


  • Javascript -React, Jquery, Node, vanilla

  • HTML5

  • CSS

  • CSS preprocessors- SCSS, LESS

  • Python - Vanilla, Flask, Django

  • SQL - MSSQL, MYSQL, PostGreSQL

  • IIS

  • Apache

  • NGINX

  • WPGraphQL

  • WordPress

  • Root Cause Analysis

  • Data Visualization

  • .asp

  • PerlScript

  • Version Control (git)

Work Experience

Project Manager/Team Lead

Lambda School

πŸ“… May 2019-March2020 πŸ“ Distributed (Remote)

  • Led a team of ten students that emulated a real-world work environment using the agile methodology.

  • Held daily standup meetings to ensure proper workflow was maintained.

  • Held weekly tutorial/mentor sessions for over 200 junior developers.

  • Performed code reviews for over 360 project submissions.

  • Assisted in debugging/troubleshooting student applications.

Work Experience

Field Engineer

Limitless Technology

πŸ“… Feb 2015-March2020 πŸ“ Lubbock, TX

  • Used VDI clients to actively troubleshoot and resolve software issues for a variety of end-users.

  • Created and maintained customer Databases (MySql, SqlLite)

  • Worked with distributed teams (on and offsite technicians) for NCR and Essential as Lead field engineer and contact liaison for a major multisite installation (Multiple desktops, hard drives, cash registers, servers, and Windows upgrades.)

  • Launched client facing web portal using on-prem linux server (ubuntu, NGINX)

Education


  • Eastern New Mexico Universtiy, 2024 - BA English

  • Lambda School (Bloom Tech), Complete - Full-Stack Web Dev and Computer Science Courses