Welcome to my Wheelhouse!

I am a Software Engineer that brings ideas to digital fruition. I create applications from start to finish, and front to back. Working and communicating well with others, as well as independently, leads me to asking the right questions to develop user stories and turn them into sprints within an agile software development lifecycle. I enjoy learning new tech and refining my skills with tech I already know by using AlgoExpert and Codewars.

About Me

Veteran, Programmer, and life-long learner.

I was a 68W (Health Care Specialist) in the United States Army. I joined the military one year after graduating high school. I wasn't sure what it was that I wanted to do, so I invested in myself and took the patriotic leap to serve my country. During my time of service, I met many exceptional Soldiers. I was fortunate enough to have crossed paths with great mentors and it was through them that I was introduced to programming. I am extremely proud of my military service and how it has shaped me as a person, professional, and everything between.

After my 5 years of service, I went to school. Through my years of school, I found software development to be what I wanted to do. I enrolled in Full Stack Academy to reinforce what I had learned and pave the way for improvements. I was able to transfer my soft skills from the military to the software engineering field, and I have found them to be a perfect match. Communicating well, working in a team, and discipline have been the forefront of my soft skills that I continue to use on a daily basis. These skills propel my abilities to build a full stack application on my own and within a team.

Experience

My most recent and pertinent experience to software engineering rests within my projects.

Currently, I am a Customer Support Engineer. I spend my day interfacing with customers over the phone and email. I document support requests and tracks issues from the point of induction through resolution. I identify patterns in which a new product, feature, and new or additional hardware may improve the system. I analyze the current system's performance and make recommendations where necessary.

Prior to college, I spent 5 years in the United States Army as a Medic. I spent 2 years attached to an infantry platoon, suppporting their missions and training. The last 3 years were spent as an Administrative Clerk where I composed reports utilizing Microsoft Office for the Command Team.

Skills

My front-end skills reside within HTML5, CSS3, React.js, Redux.js, React-Native.js, Bootstrap, and Javascript. On the back-end, I work with Node.js, Express, Sequelize, and MySQL, PostgreSql. Git and Github are my choices for version control. I have used AWS but prefer Azure as I have more experience with it. I have utilized all of this tech in an agile environment.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Lewis University, 2019-2021
Western Illinois University, 2017-2018

Certificates:
FullStack Academy

Projects

Projects:

HiitCoin
Front-End Mobile-Development | 05/22
This is a mobile fitness tracker. I spent my time utilizing React Native and Native Base to build the front-end components. Check out the README in the repository to demo. It can be demoed on any platform.
HiitCoin's Repository

Contact Me

Cell: 309-333-9926
Email: lebegue92@yahoo.com

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