Adam Julian

COUNTRY Financial is a Financial Services company offering both Insurance and Financial Planning. The Senior Developer in this support systems around batch processing, systems supporting IT business functions such as forms, incident management, and change management

Accomplishments:

• Moved all code to the GitLab repository, and automated the deployment of the code to its various environments, removing human error
• Automated numerous manual processes saving cutting deployment times from 30 minutes to 5 minutes using GitLab CI/CD
• Architected, planned, and executed an enterprise upgrade of the Zena scheduling software involving the upgrades of 100+ remote servers as well as the core application software

Technologies used:

• Python
• JavaScript
• SQL
• Git
• Application Administration
• GitLab CI/CD

COUNTRY Financial is a Financial Services company offering both Insurance and Financial Planning. The Senior Developer in this role assists with incident management, and works to automate repetitive tasks. The automation results in allowing IT staff to concentrate on issues requiring more research and intervention, speeding up

Accomplishments:

• Automated the process of reinstall the enterprise software package installed on all users machines, resulting in 100% success rate and allowing IT staff to work on other issues while the install is performed
• Created a website allowing IT staff to run fixes on various systems that is housed in a central location. It will reduce errors by form validation, allowing setup of multiple kinds of technologies in spot (such as SQL, REST, SOAP, etc) rather than having to install on each user's machine, and logs everything correctly

Technologies used:

• Python
• Selenium (Python)
• JavaScript
• SQL (DB2 and MSSQL)
• Git
• GitLab CI/CD

WEB & Interactive Communications is the enterprise web development office for ISU. The senior web developer helps to create/maintain over 180 university websites including the university homepage, the enterprise student portal, and all division websites. The senior developer helps choose technologies and frameworks, and has advanced knowledge of university operations.

Accomplishments:

• Planned, Created, coded, and implemented a modern course search system for students to help plan their schedule and degree requirements
• Built an enterprise university portal from the ground up
• The portal gives students/faculty/staff with information that is pertinent to them when they log in such as today's classes, homework assignments, HR information, and benefits information. This information was brought into a central location by the use of multiple APIs in both SOAP and JSON formats
• Helped to create, and subsequently implement standards to help target what a user is (employee, current student, prospective student, etc). This in turn allowed to to target content to these audiences based on what was in their Active Directory or LDAP profiles
• Created a Budget application that allowed the fiscal employees of the university to transfer funds between units and accounts
• Implemented server and service monitoring for mission critical services giving us immediate notification of troubled services

Technologies used:

• PHP
• Vue.js
• jQuery
• HTML/SASS
• MySql
• Microsoft SQL
• Docker
• Git
• Node.js

iTransfer is a state run program out of ISU that assists students in transferring their courses from college/university to another. The organization reviews courses at universities, classifies them into different groups, and approves/denies the course to be transferrable from one institution to another.

The coordinator of web programming for iTransfer maintains the iTransfer.org website, and all systems used to support it.

Achievements

• Refactored about 50% of the C# code to use modern coding standards such as classes, ability to use an IDE (Visual Studio) to debug, and logging
• Provided new search functionality to find instance of courses that had been brought to vote over time
• Created new tools for administrators to better support people submitting courses for approval so that iTransfer can better serve institutions

Technologies used:

• C#
• .NET
• HTML/CSS
• Javascript
• Microsoft SQL
• Subversion

Enrollment management is in charge of recruiting and retaining students to the university.

The IT Support Associate assists with all technology pertaining to Enrollment Management. I supported over 200 users to assist with user's computers, printers, small devices, and all applications used by users to assist with recruitment and retention. Additionally, this role was in charge of all content changes to 3 smaller university websites.

Achievements

• Deployed over 100 computers per users to replace aging equipment
• Researched, setup, and configured file, SQL, and print servers
• Established a new process to deploy newly built/configured computers utilizing Windows Deployment Services that reduced configuration time by 60%
• Setup document imaging services for all areas of Enrollment Management to reduce business processes times by 30%

Technologies used:

• Microsoft Server
• WDS
• HTML/Javascript
• SQL