Drew Dulgar :: Application Developer and Architect

About

I am a enthusiastic lead software engineer with a focus on automation, reports, and analytics. Delivering high quality applications is what I strive for. With the use of industry standards and methodologies a project, regardless of size, can become a reality. Bringing that reality to fruition is where my passion humbly sits.

Experience

• Consultations and Freelance

  Consultant ongoing

  • Developed a Investment Analytics Application that consumed a public API for stock pricing data. The application itself would provide current investments, dividend earnings, and dividend projections. Each of these metrics were filtered on daily, monthly, quarterly, and yearly aggregations.
  • Developed a Ruby on Rails application that consumed Amazon’s Product Advertising API that allowed the client to create a dynamic web stores on the fly simply by pointing a new domain at their server. Through URL matching, the correct site/store would be loaded. This application featured store management, product management and a basic CMS.
• 2021

  Discover Financial Services

  Lead Software EngineerOctober 2014 - present

  • Developed a tool that helped facilitate the disputing of incorrectly answered surveys that go out to customers. If survey comments were great, yet a bad score is given, a dispute can be raised through the tool. The survey and call in question would then be reviewed and reprocessed through an administrative interface.
  • Developed a business insights and analytics tool that collected events across applications. The tool has been hugely beneficial in determing use out of particular application functions (and deprecated seldom used features), as well as projecting possible attrition on customer facing users.
  • Developed a set of common components with React that could be utilized in a consistent and repeatable manner across our organizations applications. Profiles, Datatables, Avatars, Profile Searching, and Form Elements are examples. This saved on developer time as it eliminated the need to write near similiar code across multiple applications. The components were opt in, and could be included in an application via listing it as a dependent library in package.json.
  • Worked within a collaborative team to deliver web based applications that support organizational hierarchies and financial dialer operations.
  • Developed reports and a scheduling tool that assisted the business with workforce management. The tool handled intraday and weekly scheduling of agents, leave of absence and other related schedulable items.
  • Developed an organizational hierarchy tool that allows a highly dynamic combination of tiers within the organization, as well as management associated with those tiers.
  • Developed a user management system that allows for the dynamic addition of fields on the fly. The system resembled something more akin to attributes. Each attribute is broken down by a start and end date that allows for a vast combination of items and fields.
  • Extensive jQuery plugin authoring to manage forms and the asynchronous nature of the hierarchy and user management application.
• 2014

  The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Health Sciences Library

  Systems Analyst / Application Developer February 2009 - July 2014

  • Worked as part of a highly flexible and dynamic team to develop and implement customer needs spread amongst many custom applications. The languages included Cold Fusion, Ruby on Rails, and PHP.
  • Lead programmer in the development of a case management and student case completion system on the Ruby on Rails platform. This application was dynamic enough as to let the administrator author a case based scenario and control the workflow of each screen that would then be presented to the student during the taking of the case.
  • Developed a continuing education system utilizing ColdFusion and SQL Server that allowed administrators to author online courses which delivered content over many different mediums. Videos on demand, documents and audio clips are examples. If the administrator chose, they could even charge for the online course. After completion of a course, an individual would receive the appropriate amount of continuing education credits.
  • Developed a room scheduling system as a Drupal module that utilized PHP and MySQL that would allow students to schedule and reserve study rooms.
  • Developed a lab equipment management system that would allow administrators to setup all of the available equipment in a lab. Customers of the lab would then reserve equipment as needed to complete their research as part of the self-serve system. This system utilized ColdFusion and SQL Server.
  • Developed an application that integrated with Event Management Systems (EMS) using ColdFusion and SQL Server. EMS’s core function is to schedule rooms and manage events. The integration provided by development allowed equipment to follow a check in / check out workflow on a per room and event basis. The custom development strictly managed equipment, while EMS managed room/event data. All this information was then presented to the client on a daily schedule dashboard where information could be viewed and manipulated.
  • Developed web based APIs in Ruby for iOS applications to consume/push data.
  • Developed code that consumed API information using ColdFusion.
  • Implemented multiple Drupal instances.
• 2009

  McGraw Hill Education

  Business Analyst November 2007 - February 2009

  • Met customer needs by analyzing requirements and delivering successful implementations to the oracle ERP system.
  • Implemented pilot for Oracle iStore.
  • Maintained and promoted standard methods for Oracle ERP configurations and configuration management.
• 2007

  Nationwide Children's Hospital

  Systems Analyst (Intern) May 2007 - November 2007

  • Redesigned internal intranet page using XHTML and CSS.
  • Developed a standard methodology and theme for implementing intranet applications for ColdFusion based applications.

Education

• 2007

  DeVRY University

  Columbus, Ohio June 2007

  • Bachleor of Science in Computer Information Systems
  • Minor in Database Administration

Technical Skills and Competencies