Zack Burtsche

Served as a Full-Stack Angular developer on a small team, building web applications for the USDA. Successfully built new applications and upgraded older apps from JSP and Angular.js to modern Angular SPAs using Angular Material UI components. Collaborated with the backend developer on the Java Spring Boot API, building new endpoints and updating existing ones.

Tested iCat's catalog publishing software and proprietary scripting language. Ran and expanded iCat's automated testing software. Developed performance tests and maintained iCat's bug tracking system.

Developed a software tool for generating customizable template-based websites. Built a VB application to teach mnemonic devices. Collaborated with a development manager in Europe and worked on localization projects.

Developed UIs mass mailed on CDs to sign up for MSN Internet Access. The code ran as a JavaScript powered HTA, transitioning to signup servers in a frame once a connection was established.

Helped build an online accounting package, including transaction lists, payment and invoicing forms, account management pages, and calendar tools. Collaborated with the design team on UI layout and usability. Owned large sections of the core functionality for the entire lifetime of the company, built in ASP Classic.

Updated, expanded, and maintained an ASP Classic based corporate website/catalog, integrating a stream of promotional offers. Built customer support FAQ administration tools and automated promotional email notification tools.

Assisted merchants in integrating web catalogs with Bing Cashback, specializing in helping partner companies with JavaScript pixel tracking and displaying customer cashback data. Also contributed to documentation, uploading product/transaction data, and managing ad link parameters.

Contributed to the Microsoft Pinpoint website team, adding new JavaScript/jQuery features including a client-side image gallery. Collaborated with the content team to update/add pages in accessible XHTML. Worked with the design team to develop new layouts and CSS from comps.

Worked in the content team of the Web Development department, building new promotional landing pages and homepage content blocks for T-Mobile.com. Translated designs from Web Producers into cross-browser, client-side UIs within the existing .NET site framework. Provided on-hand support during deployments.

Served as a Web Developer on the UI Design Team, integrating the DataSphere hyper-local news and events widget into news corporation websites. Set up and administrated widget results pages hosted by DataSphere, skinned to appear seamless with partner websites. Built a PHP-based auto-scraping tool to continuously update navigation links autonomously.

Worked on a large team building a new user signup and account management system unified across multiple sites. Developed a responsive UI with HTML5, custom CSS3, and heavy jQuery. Utilized a framework-less vanilla JavaScript architecture using the revealing module pattern, communicating through AJAX to a vast PHP API.

Contributed to a mobile-first rebuild of their merchant interface for tracking online payments and managing payment processing services. The interface was built with AngularJS and Bootstrap as a Single Page Application (SPA), driven by an existing JSON API.

Worked on the AppDev team building the Open Court Reading program using AngularJS, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and Bootstrap, communicating with a JSON REST API. Utilized Grunt modules and Bower components extensively. Projects were managed with Agile methodologies using Confluence and GitLab.

Helped build a new version of Banfield's Petware pet hospital management application, developed with AngularJS written in TypeScript. Routed and framed out new pages with basic views, controllers, view-models, and main API calls to expedite progress. Owned major dynamic UI features and made necessary changes to the C#.NET web service.

Contributed to rebuilding an older section of their website, which was written in a custom PHP MVC framework with PHP templating languages and a PHP based API. Also assisted with their internal Drupal based CMS, which the content team relied on.

Maintained and added features to a FINRA securities exam preparatory web service, working on all aspects including PHP MVC (CodeIgniter and Laravel), Frontend (JavaScript, jQuery, Angular2), Database (MySQL), Server/Cloud/DevOps (AWS), and Git. Created development servers for iterative collaboration and served in a general IT capacity, upgrading the intranet with pfSense as a firewall and DHCP ser

Served as an Angular developer on a large team, building an enterprise logistics management application powered by a Java REST API. Made heavy use of reactive forms and observables, and helped create a custom UI component library. Mentored junior developers and assisted with deployments.

Worked as a Full-Stack Angular developer, building features for a hospital services website powered by a Drupal REST API. Collaborated with the development team to re-architect the headless CMS implementation for full decoupling. Re-skinned the entire site with animated dynamic UX enhancements, using Git for version control and Jira for management.

Functioned as a Full-Stack Angular developer, contributing to the development of enterprise business web applications utilizing C# ASP.NET Core web APIs. Successfully owned several high-priority features from the prototype phase through to production deployment. Managed projects with Azure DevOps and maintained legacy .NET projects using TFS.

Studied Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. Completed the program in Spring 1997.