Amber Vanscoit

Atlanta, GA • amber.vanscoit@gmail.com

I am a passionate leader in Computer Science with a focus on the production of excellent quality work through the fostering of an amazing team. I facilitate environments in which people can grow themselves as individuals and shine with their own unique strengths on a project. I anticipate the challenges from technical problems and work with my team to ensure our solutions scale over time.

I often find myself involved with many different opportunities concurently, which for many seems to be overwhelming, but it personally gives me life! I enjoy a wide variety of passions that allow me to grow in many areas as an individual. I also express honesty and transparency when it comes to profesional endeavors because I believe a leader is someone to be trusted and someone to look up to. I wouldn't ask someone to do something I myself am not prepared to undertake.

Workflow
  • Future Proofing through Scalability & Continuous Integration
  • Distributed Systems & Parallel Programming
  • Agile Development & Scrum
  • Continuous Learning & Teaching Others

Skills

Technical Skills

Programming & Scripting Languages

C#, Java, Oracle SQL, NoSQL, Elixir, HTML, JavaScript, CSS

Tools and Frameworks

GIT, ASP.NET, Unity, Distributed Systems, AWS, Linux / Unix, Windows, CI / CD, AGILE, SCRUM, OOP, DRY, SOLID

Creative and Artistic Experience

Software Architecture, Web Design, Game Development, Graphic Design, Video Production, Photography, Audio Production

Soft Skills

Management and Organization

Project Management, Organization Structure, Event Planning, Logistic / Time Management, Budgeting, HIPAA Compliant, PHI Compliant, PII Compliant

Comunication and Processes

Teaching, Risk Identification / Mitigation, Presentation, Research & Design, Marketing, Quality Assurance

Experience

Senior Software Developer

Carter & Clark
  • • Mentored developers on OOP, SCRUM, and agile practices, streamlining workflows and enhancing code quality.
  • • Educated team members on GIT and CI/CD methodologies to accelerate production timelines.
  • • Developed Dynamicad, a C# .NET automated survey tool integrating Autocad via ObjectARX, boosting document production.
  • • Engineered a multi-threaded ASP.NET server to manage Dynamicad instances, ensuring seamless integration with production workflows.
  • • Collaborated in agile sprints to design and optimize test suites, improving deployment speed and software reliability.
April 2021 - Present

Software Developer

CoverMyMeds / McKesson
  • • Collaborated with cross-functional teams in a CI/CD environment to enhance test-driven production code delivery.
  • • Advised senior developers on refactoring legacy code to adhere to DRY and SOLID principles.
  • • Developed an Elixir application that bridged gaps between payers and providers while ensuring HIPAA compliance.
  • • Streamlined agile processes by refining user stories and test suites, supporting faster and more reliable software deployments.
July 2022 - June 2023

Lecturer, Information Systems Technology

Southern Illinois University
  • • Created a curriculum from the ground up to effectively cover all areas of SQL and NOSQL databases at the Junior and Senior year level of comprehension.
  • • Implemented the curriculum I created by teaching a 300-level Database Programming course covering Oracle SQL to 27 college students.
  • • Provided guidance and creative outlooks on problems to help students devise their own solution to the real world examples I provided of Database Structures.
January 2020 - May 2020

Network Administrator, Leadership Staff

Emagination Tech Camps
  • • Taught Data Structures in Java, AI, Machine Learning with Java, Virtual Reality and Game Development in Unity, Object Oriented Programming in C#, Web Design including HTML / CSS / JavaScript, Audio Engineering, and Video Production to over 100 adolescents.
  • • Maintained over 17 computer labs with over 180 computers while keeping them above 95% uptime.
  • • Managed inventory and directed shipments of inventory throughout multiple different campsites each with their own unique challenges and situations.
  • • Organized staff work schedules, classroom schedules, curriculum assignments, Production Assistant schedules, and hundreds of kids’ schedules as they changed every two weeks.
May 2018 - August 2019

Graduate Research Assistant

Southern Illinois University
  • • Organized and led several events for thousands of students to drive marketing campaigns and increase awareness for the College of Liberal Arts.
  • • Created several promotional campaign material such as graphics and videos to increase outreach on social media and across the university campus.
  • • Created and/or managed over 4 different registered student organizations with 150+ members using an organization structure that was modeled for sport clubs for neighboring universities.
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019

Education

Master's of Science

Computer Science - Software Development
January 2019 - May 2020

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Bachelor's of Arts

Computer Science - Software Architecture
January 2016 - December 2018

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Bachelor's of Science

Business Management - Organizational Structure
August 2013 - December 2018

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Leadership and Impact

College Student Organizations

SIU Esports - President
When I joined the SIU Esports club I originally was the secretary because the talks of Club Rhythm merging with the existing Esports club because of Club Rhythms proven track record of attendance and events across campus. I quickly started reorganizing SIU Esports with the structures I had put in place for Club Rhythm. Eventually I was made the club president and that led me to work with the university to create a permanent space for the club in the Student Center. My biggest accomplishment while being the president of SIU Esports was starting a yearly local tournament for anyone to participate in called "Super Smash Revolution" which was a single day event focused on 4 key games within the Esports club. The very first event that I organized and managed from start to finish had over 300 attendees from neighboring states such as Kentucky and Tennessee.
August 2017 - May 2020
Ping Pong Club - Founder & President
As a Graduate Research Assistant for the College of Liberal Arts I was asked to perform a wide variety of tasks from the dean of the college. One of which was to organize a Ping Pong tournament amongst faculty and students for the College of Liberal Arts because the dean loves the sport. This tournament eventually evolved into a Registered Student Organization for the club. There was a previous Ping Pong club that died out because they only focused on the competitive nature behind the sport and disallowed casual play in their space. Our club focused on both and encouraged everyone to be as inclusive as possible. I left the club with several tables and club equipment as well as over 20 regular members.
September 2019 - January 2020
SIU Aikido - President
I have practiced martial arts for most of my life and found the aikido club as a unique art I hadn't tried yet. Eventually it led to me being the president where I organized fundrasing events to allow the club to travel to St. Pete Beach, Florida for the "Winter Intensive 2019" event hosted by Aikido Schools of Ueshiba and everyone in the club could learn from the top black belts from all around the country. This trip was an amazing experience that wouldn't have been possible without fundrasing.
August 2018 - August 2019
Club Rhythm - Founder & President
I am a passionate Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) player and I wanted to share that passion with as many friends as I could. This passion drove me to purchase metal DDR pads and create a Registered Student Organization (RSO) to meet in the student recreation center. This RSO was called Club Rhythm which was a rhythm game focused club where friends could gather and play their favorite rhythm games. The RSO grew to support many different games as I eventually had regular members that would show up and bring their chosen rhythm game to which I organized fundrasing to acquire more equipment for the game if more folks grew intrest.
March 2016 - December 2018

Projects

Sacred Haven, Technical Project Manager

Game Development Project • Atlanta Game Devs
Unity, C#, AGILE, Kanban, Team Management
A 2.5D cozy resource management and building game set in a sanctuary for mythical creatures, spirits, and forgotten gods. Players take on the role of a fairy tasked with managing and expanding the sanctuary to fulfill the elemental needs of its inhabitants and piece together the story through interactions with NPCs.
November 2024 - Present

Dynamicad & Dynamicad Webserver, Software Architect

Professional Project • Carter & Clark
Autocad Extension, Webserver, C#, ASP.NET, ObjectARX, Distributed Systems, GIT, CI/CD
A fully automated surveying document software that would build a document given any set of constraints. This program is an extension of Autocad using the ObjectARX API. I developed a multi-threaded webserver in C# .NET from the ground up for the company's order system to communicate and launch instances of autocad to run specific Dynamicad jobs.
July 2021 - Present

Vocal Spectrogram, Frontend Web Developer

Personal Project
Web Application, HTML5, CSS, Javascript, MongoDB, Flask, Python, Mapbox
Using the Mapbox API for creating a visual heat map of the corona virus (COVID-19) epidemic. This map works at the county level, and also allows for users to share google map location data to our server for creating a heatmap layer showing the contact map portion of the project. This project has been featured on the news and uses restful api's, prediction models of future events, and even contains detailed information on virus strains.
June 2022 - March 2023

See it live!

Virus Contact Map, Frontend Web Developer

Master's Final Project • Southern Illinois University
Web Application, HTML5, CSS, Javascript, MongoDB, Flask, Python, Mapbox
Using the Mapbox API for creating a visual heat map of the corona virus (COVID-19) epidemic. This map works at the county level, and also allows for users to share google map location data to our server for creating a heatmap layer showing the contact map portion of the project. This project has been featured on the news and uses restful api's, prediction models of future events, and even contains detailed information on virus strains.
April 2020 - July 2020

See the news article!

Economic Frequency Predictor, Fullstack Developer

Personal Project
Desktop Application, Webapplication, Java, JavaScript, Data Visualization, Processing3, P5JS, Cryptocurrency
Created a program that monitors simulated economic data, such as crypto currency buying trends or stock buying trends in the market, and determines an efficient point to buy and sell in the market based on those buying trends. In simulation has generated over 100% of its original investment within six months of time using an update period every second.
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019

See it live!

Fluid Vehicle platooning Simulation

Graduate Level Project • Southern Illinois University
Desktop Application, Java, Data Visualization, Processing3
Proved that vehicle platoons are efficient by creating a physics simulation that calculates thousands of particle collisions against objects that represent vehicles platooning on an open road. This simulation software allows the user to easily toggle different data views to truly understand how efficient autonomous vehicle platooning can be on fuel consumption alone.
Mar 2019 - May 2019

Project PLATO

Undergraduate Level Project • Southern Illinois University
Desktop Application, Web Extension, JavaScript, Java, HTML5, CSS
Created a stand-alone web browser in Java with embedded SQL injection tools to rigorously test form inputs. Also created a Google Chrome extension that allows for the same functionality as the stand-alone web browser, with additional features of web-scrapping multiple sites at a time.
Jan 2019 - May 2019

See the repo!