About Me
Hi, my name is Aaron and I am looking for new opportunities! (to be continued)
Projects
Economic Calendar Web Scraper and Google Calendar Updater
https://github.com/cowboychicken/Economic-Google-CalendarJava, Maven, Google Calendar and OAuth APIs
Created a simple web scraper that fetches high-impact financial news events and adds them to a Google Calendar that users can subscribe to. Maven was used to handle dependencies such as Htmlunit (headless browser) and the Google Cloud APIs. Several Economic Calendar APIs exist but require a monthly fee. Thus the web scraping route was chosen. This project served a personal need that appeared to have no similar solutions available. Day traders should always check for economic news events as they can create higher than usual volatility. By leveraging Google Calendar, which I already use quite frequently, the seamless integration into my day has proven to be quite beneficial. I also have the ability to easily share this with other traders.
Experience
FlightSafety International
Business Intelligence Analyst Business Analyst Application Administrator
March 2017 - November 2021
flightsafety.com
Started as an administrator for Operations. Became the primary developer and point of contact for a SAAS product. Eventually joined the corporate BI team as an analyst to focus more on data analytics and developing reports to help Operations make more data driven decisions. Primarily using PowerBI and Azure database products.
Collaborate with stakeholders from various business units to draft requirements for reports/dashboards built with Power BI and applications that needed to be built with the aforementioned SAAS product. Participate in regular meetings with engineers, developers and other analysts to groom and promote new features for various enterprise analytics products. Work directly with senior leadership to support long-term strategic initiatives as well as urgent ad hoc requests. Developed new applications and maintained existing ones that were built using the aforementioned SAAS product. Entails basic scripting with JScript and HMTL/CSS. Built applications that streamlined several business processes in Operations that were previously handled manually and not standardized. Significantly reducing administration time and increasing the ability to track and analyze.
Part of the R&D team that supported various stages of product development and manufacturing for an industrial coatings company. Focused on developing new and existing resin polymers that were used throughout their formulations.
Education
University of Texas at Dallas
BS Software Engineering
Graduated 2019
University of Texas at San Antonio
BS Chemistry
Graduated 2014
A Little More About Me
Some of my other interests and hobbies are:
- Working on my cars and taking them to the track
- Trading futures
- Playing the drums