Owen Hester (she/her) | Software Engineer

Montgomery, IL | owen@radsectors.com

Nov 2017 - present | QT9 Software Aurora, IL Senior Developer
- Maintain and update the company's flagship product, a SAAS quality management system.
- Developed a library to genereate human-readable reports based on data sets/objects and formatting metadata.
- C#, ASP.net, VB.net, MSSQL, IIS.
Aug 2009 - Sep 2017 | Tyndale House Publishers Carol Stream, IL Web Developer
- Designed a query API that dramatically simplified the process of querying product information.
- Built a simple and flexible caching system for objects, datasets, and rendered HTML.
- Constructed dozens of WordPress templates based on layered Photoshop designs.
- Developed a small suite of plugins to streamline the construction of new WordPress sites.
- PHP, HTML, CSS, Composer, Git, Slim Framework, WordPress, MySQL, MSSQL, Apache, IIS
Aug 2006 - May 2009 | ICS, Inc. (now known as QT9 Software) Aurora, IL Programmer/Analyst
- Maintained and updated the company's flagship product, a desktop application for management of quality certifications.
- Developed several utilities and libraries used (to this day) in many of our in-house and end-user apps.
- VBA, VB.net, C#, Access SQL, Access Reports, MSSQL

Aurora University, Aurora, IL
- Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science, May 2006.
- Coursework in object-oriented programming, data structures, database systems, discrete mathematics, and Java... lots of Java.
Waubonsee Community College Sugar Grove, IL
- Associate of Arts in Graphic Design, June 2002.
- Coursework in Java/C++.