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    "name": "Terrence Mahnken",
    "age": ,
    "hometown": "Punta Gorda, FL",
    "residence": "Mount Juliet, TN",
            "institution": "Johnson University",
            "degree": "Bachelor of Science",
            "programOfStudy": "Music",
            "majors": ["Bible", "Church Music", "Worship Ministry"],
            "minor": ["Media Production"],
            "distinction": "Magna Cum Laude",
            "yearAwarded": 2010
            "institution": "Polk State College",
            "certificates": ["CompTIA A+", "Cisco CCNA", "Microsoft MCP"],
            "programOfStudy": "Network Systems Engineering Technology",
            "yearCompleted": 2016
            "institution": "Vanderbilt University",
            "certificate": "Certificate of Completion",
            "programOfStudy": "Full-Stack Web Development",
            "yearAwarded": 2019
            "name": "Helene",
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            "role": "son",
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            "role": "dog",
            "type": "Golden-Doodle,
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            "type": "Border Collie Mix",
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    "image" : 
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    "linkedInUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/terrencemahnken/",
    "gitHubUrl": "https://github.com/TerrenceMM2",
    "email": "terrencemm2@gmail.com"

Publications

Portfolio

Group Projects

PinPoint Application Screenshot

Interfaith Dental

A patient intake form for Interfaith Dental.

Terra Mater Application Screenshot

Dewey

A personal library book tracker.

PinPoint Application Screenshot

Five Point Play

A fantasy basketball reference and calculator app.

Terra Mater Application Screenshot

Terra Mater

Crowd-sourced database for plant information and care.

Individual Projects

Crystal Quest Screenshot

Crystal Quest

Countdown memory game.

Mario Memory Screenshot

Mario Memory

Memory game featuring Nintendo's all-star cast.

Technical Skills

Front-End

Back-End

Tools

Concepts

Certifications

Resume

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Terrence Mahnken

Mount Juliet, TN 37122

Phone: 865.789.7867 | Email: terrencemm2@gmail.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/terrencemahnken | Portfolio: terrence.codes

Summary

Dedicated and passionate software engineer with over a decade of experience in the technology sector across various industries. Driven by a mission to help people and solve problems. A strong advocate of teamwork, empathy, education, and quality. Recognized by colleagues for excellent organizational and communication skills and taking personal ownership of projects.

Relevant Experience

Senior Software Engineer

CoStar Group

2023 - Current

Nashville, TN

  • Enhanced, maintained, and refactored several client-facing micro-frontend web applications built with React, Typescript, and GraphQL within a monorepo codebase.
  • Optimized development speed by reducing compilation and build times by 50% by migrating build tools from Lerna to Turbo.
  • Optimized front-end performance by reducing data loading times by 66% using GraphQL schema reduction technique, fragments, and caching.
  • Built and enhanced .NET 6 web APIs and services using LINQ, writing dedicated SQL functions in PostgreSQL, and documenting using Swagger.
  • Evangelized unit testing by setting up Jest for front-end testing and writing back-end tests using NUnit.

Front End Software Engineer

Data Skrive

2021 - 2023

Seattle, WA (Remote)

  • Enhanced, maintained, and refactored internal front-end "portal" built with React, Material UI, Mobx, React Table, and Webpack using code construction best practices.
  • Established front-end code construction standards and test-driven development (TDD) using Jest, Testing Library, GitLab CI, ESlint, Prettier, Husky, and VS Code tools and extensions.
  • Collaborated with end-users and designers to develop custom React components using Storybook using the Component Driven Design (CDD) methodology.
  • Led front-end engineering team of yearly tech debt planning and strategy, training, and code reviews.
  • Wrote regression tests in Java using Selenium, Cucumber, and Gherkin.
  • Dockerized and deployed the front end to AWS Fargate using Terraform.
  • Implemented and tuned Datadog Real User Monitoring & Logging to provide usage statistics.
  • Improved internal "portal" front-end using Lighthouse, Nginx, and refactoring practices to speed up build and deployments by 50%.

Senior Application Engineer

HCA Healthcare

2021 - 2021

Nashville, TN

  • Maintained and improved Vue 2/Vuex application deployed to Microsoft IIS and used by 50k+ nurses and nurse leaders at 180+ facilities. Integrations with Tableau and ServiceNow.
  • Migrated on-premise Vue/Node application to Microsoft Azure (Azure Functions, App Insights, CosmosDB)
  • Maintained and improved React/Redux nursing application deployed to Azure and used at 56 facilities.
  • Maintained, improved, and troubleshot Node services and scripts for data ingestion and Swagger APIs.
  • Implemented and supported JavaScript TV application used on 12k+ LG TVs in patient rooms at 67 facilities to display patient data from Meditech and Compnutrition.

    • Coding for Caregivers (HCA Internal Hack-A-Thon)

    • Worked with a team of 20 to develop a proof-of-concept, Angular/.NET-based web application using AWS Comprehend and Transcribe Medical allowing medical staff to quickly dictate patient vitals, comments, and notes.

Senior Consultant

Ellucian

2016 - 2021

Nashville, TN

  • Implemented, administered, and built-out front-end, internal user portal and identity and access management system used by all 50k+ faculty, staff, and students within the Tennessee Board of Regents system office and the 26 Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology campuses.
  • Supported and trained the Tennessee Board of Regents affiliated 13 community college and 6 university technical staff on proprietary portal and identity and access management products used by 177k+ students.
  • Manage Java applications, SSL certificates, and Java KeyStores in Linux RedHat environments running on Tomcat and Weblogic.

    • Development Responsibilities
    • Developed custom Microsoft Office 365 Mail and Calendar components for proprietary React-based web portal using provided SDK, MSAL (Microsoft Authentication Library), & Microsoft Graph APIs.
    • Developed custom themes for proprietary Liferay-based web portal using Eclipse, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, and jQuery.
    • Developed custom pages for proprietary Angular-based ERP tool using Oracle SQL, CSS, and Angular.
    • Developed custom JSR-286 portlets for Liferay-based web portal using Java, Spring, Ant, Maven, JSP Views, Oracle SQL, Eclipse, and MVC design paradigm.
Additional Experience

Full-Stack Teaching Assistant

Vanderbilt University

2019 - 2021

Nashville, TN

  • Engaging, empowering, and encouraging students in their journey to becoming full-stack web developers. The course focuses on the MERN stack (MongoDB, ExpressJS, ReactJS, and NodeJS) and computer science fundamentals. Primary responsibilities include grading submitted homework/projects, providing one-on-one assistance with class material, and using data-driven analytics to enhance student learning.

Full-Stack Centralized Grader & Senior Tutor

2U

2020 - 2022

Nashville, TN

  • Met with students one-on-one to discuss any issues, topics, or concepts as they work through the Full Stack Web Development boot camp. This included troubleshooting and debugging projects and discussing higher-level topics like the DOM, Object-Oriented Programming, DevOps, or career-related matters.

Network Manager

Polk County School Board

2013 - 2015

Lakeland, FL

Education

Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN | 2019

Vanderbilt University Boot Camp - Full-Stack Web Development (Certificate of Completion)

A 24-week intensive program focused on gaining technical programming skills in HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, JQuery, Bootstrap, Firebase, Node.js, MySQL, MongoDB, Express, Handelbars.js & ReactJS.

Polk State College | Lakeland, FL | 2016

Network Systems Engineering Technology - Non-Degree Seeking

Obtained CompTIA A+, Cisco CCNA, and Microsoft MCP certifications

Johnson University | Knoxville, TN | 2010

Bachelor of Science in Bible, Church Music, & Worship Ministry

Graduated Magna Cum Laude

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