Résumé

Taylor Balch

taylor@tbalch.com
Senior Design and Development Software Engineer


Qualification
Highlights

  • Over 6 years experience developing software.
  • Skilled a design techniques and applying those techniques in .NET (C#), AMQP (RabbitMQ), and JSON
  • Current development with C#, ASP.NET, and SQL.
  • Daily work across product teams, technical/non-technical disciplines, and teams in many geographic locations
  • Closely coordinate with UX, visual design, and internationalization.
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    Work Experience

Lutron Electronics (Coopersburg, PA)
Design and Development Software Engineer (2016-Present)

  • Technical lead working with project and product management to determine the road map for Quantum; commercial lighting control and energy management system.
  • Lead designer and architect of Enterprise Vue, single web application that composes data across multiple Quantum and Vive Vue lighting control systems running on multiple versions, servers, and across geographic campuses/locations.
  • Lead designer and architect of Vive Vue, a single web page application to provide a single access point for up to 100 Vive hub systems. Vive Vue also provides historical energy and space utilization reports, along with global scheduled events across hub systems.
    Senior Project Software Engineer (2014-2016)
  • Lead designer and architect for myRoom Vue, Lutron’s hospitality solution for managing and monitoring guest rooms
  • Lead designer and architect of Lutron’s commercial RESTful based Q-Gateway server.
  • Lead member of governance committee defining Lutron’s RESTful based protocol (LEAP)
    Project Software Engineer (June 2013-2014)
  • Designed and implemented JSON structures for Lutron’s commercial RESTful based server Q-Gateway
  • Added UI features to Quantum Vue, Lutron’s first responsive web application (Q-Admin replacement)
  • Troubleshooting customer issues and supporting existing software
    Software Development Intern
    (May 2011-July 2011/May 2012-August 2012)
  • Ported support for HomeWorks Illumination system to the Lutron Home Control + Android application.
  • Added active directory login support to Q-Admin facility management software.
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    Education

The Pennsylvania State University / B.S. Computer Science
Mathematics Minor/Statistics Minor
GPA 3.58 (Dean’s List)
August 2009 – May 2013, University Park, PA
Relevant Courses: Operating Systems, Algorithms and Data Structures, Theory of Computation
Activities: THON (Dancer 2012), Irish Club (President 2012), Ski Club (member)