About Me

After graduating from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I taught English in suburban Seoul for a year. I had a great time teaching and learning how to communicate with ESL students. When I finished my contract I traveled around Asia for several months before heading back to the US and starting a program at the University of Minnesota, where graduated with a degree in computer science. I am a devoted rock climber, news junkie, and aspiring sailboat-owner.

Contact Details

Sam Berg
Minneapolis, MN 55406 US
(612) seven zero eight-4176
stberg3@gmail.com

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Education

University of Minnesota - College of Science & Engineering

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science • December 2017

University of Wisconsin - College of Letters & Sciences

Bachelor of Arts - English • May 2012

Work

Securian Financial Group, Inc.

Associate Analyst • March 2018 - Present

Support application servers on Linux and Windows systems. Automate support processes using Windows PowerShell and Bash. Orchestrate server engineering tasks using Puppet and RedHat Satellite. Lead meetings and Agile Scrum ceremonies. Use Splunk to monitor the systems I support.

  • Wrote PowerShell script that automated certificate audits to prevent server downtime
  • Wrote PowerShell script to revoke 500 certificates in bulk, which retired a manual process that would have taken one engineer days to complete

Securian Financial Group, Inc.

Application Developer • January 2018 - March 2018

Trained to become a Java developer who would engineer Spring Batch applications that run nightly on a distributed mainframe. Wrote unit tests and in an environment that required all methods for all classes to have test coverage.

  • Offered promotion to next role level after two months in training

University of Minnesota - Office of Information Technology

Student Developer • January 2015 - Present

Work in developer operations, development, and quality assurance for the Moodle learning management system on an Agile team. Act as administrator for website. Manage development servers

  • Performed updates to the codebase using PHP, Git, Vim, SSH, Bash
  • Wrote documentation; conducted interviews; managed other student developers
  • Found and fixed bugs in the open-source codebase
  • Refactored web-based video production application written with Python CGI scripts

BI Worldwide

Java Developer Intern • May 2016 - August 2016

Developed Java a web application used to track retail sales data for a client. Applied the Spring MVC framework, Struts, and Hibernate to engineer new features to the application. Enhanced and applied Ant build scripts to compile projects

  • Created SSO subroutine for accessing a secure web application module
  • Performed SQL queries on Oracle DBMS
  • Developed API for querying Oracle database

Skills

My skills measured on a sliding scale ranging from no experience to four years of experience.

  • Java
  • Python
  • JavaScript, HTML, CSS
  • Git
  • C
  • C++