Nick Ballenger

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.)

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)