resume.json

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          "content": "Coordinated with mobile development teams to build a bridge between the web authentication application and native Android applications. Teams saved months of effort by unifying the user management platform.",
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          "content": "Created a badge scanner login process for fulfillment associates. By scanning a badge instead of typing credentials, associates could log in and start their workday in a tenth of the time.",
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          "content": "Documented a process to test software changes directly on fulfillment devices. Bugs that were not identifiable in device emulators were caught and removed before changes went live.",
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            "Node.js",
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          "content": "Developed a robust tournament management web application, handling player sign ups, scheduling, and placements. Used in weekly local tournaments, and national tournaments at Gen Con.",
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          "content": "Added features to the tournament management interface, including drag-and-drop player assignments. Feedback from tournament organizers was positive, citing easier match and score assignments.",
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          "content": "Created a resume building web application, which was used to build this document! Fine-tuning a resume to match job application requirements is about 10 times faster than editing a word document by hand.",
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