About Me
I have over ten years experience working in an agile software engineering environment.
Currently, I work as a Lead Application Development Engineer supporting HR systems for Centene Corporation. I graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science, minor in Mathematics from Southern Illinois University of Edwardsville in May 2016.
Experience
Centene Corporation | Saint Louis, MO
Lead Application Development Engineer | November 2021 - Present
- Leading architecture and development of a Workday Extend application for upper leadership talent development and succession planning.
- Took ownership of a Workday Extend performance management application originally built by an external vendor, resolving a backlog of stability issues.
- Built a Workday Prism data source with fi eld-level change detection, streamlining RaaS report setup for teams accessing data across the business.
- Developed a boomerang integration that automatically detects and formats section headers, bullet points, and paragraphs in plain-text job descriptions, automating a process previously done manually by recruiters for hundreds of job postings.
- Created the enterprise-wide talent card report in BIRT, including custom image assets for visual formatting.
Senior Application Development Engineer | September 2019 - November 2021
- Led payroll integration between Workday and Ceridian, architecting Workday Studio integrations on PECI capable of processing 100,000+ transactions within hours during peak merit cycles, including logic to run integrations in parallel to work around Ceridian's API throughput limits.
- Built a suite of M&A data conversion tools, including a validating spreadsheet and a C# application for automated EIB generation, cutting data validation time for a 10,000-employee acquisition from 8+ hours to under 1 hour.
Application Development Engineer II | September 2017 - September 2019
- Led integration development for a benefi ts transition from Workday to WTW, building Workday Studio integrations with transaction logging for precise demographic record tracking.
- Overhauled Workday-to-Taleo integrations, replacing flat-file transfers with web service calls, which surfaced errors through Workday integration notifi cations instead of leaving them buried in Taleo server logs.
- Built integrations supporting contingent workforce processing through Beeline, a managed service provider platform, handling hires, terminations, and related changes.
Application Development Engineer I | June 2016 - September 2017
- Automated benefit deduction audits between ADP and Workday, reconciling data between the two systems to catch discrepancies without manual review.
- Streamlined the integration with identity access management, eliminating redundant processing and automating how rescinded hires were handled.
Intern | May 2015 - August 2015
- Developed Workday custom reports for worker data validation and integration error triaging.
- Assisted with filling inbound EIB spreadsheet templates for mass worker data updates.
Certifications
Workday Pro Workday Extend Developer I Certification | Issued October 2026
- Validated expertise in building secure, custom Workday Extend apps using widgets, model components, Orchestration Builder, and PMD scripting.
Workday Pro Workday Orchestrate Developer Certification | Issued September 2026
- Validated expertise in building and securing Workday integrations with external systems using Workday Orchestrate.