Jackson Davidson

Work Experience

Progressive Insurance
IT Apps Programmer
Mar 2023 - Present

  • Participating in code reviews to ensure code quality, identify areas for improvement, and share knowledge with team members.
  • Guiding the ongoing development of a dynamic Front-End Angular project from its inception, steering the entire lifecycle with a focus on innovative solutions and successful implementation.

Progressive Insurance
IT Apps Programmer Associate
Jan 2022 - Mar 2023

  • Successfully mentored and trained two new hires during their onboarding process, ensuring a smooth transition into their roles.
  • Developed a prototype angular front-end web form application to help create requests to automate policy transaction updates for business customers.
  • Worked in an SCRUM Agile environment to develop software for customers.

Progressive Insurance
IT Intern
May 2021 - Dec 2021

  • Worked with a team of interns to build tools that help monitor the Progressive API Gateways using Machine Learning to identify patterns of errors and built a real-time auto generated health report dashboard using Splunk.
  • Helped develop automation tools using AWS to automate business processes in order to perform mass policy updates for customers.
  • Developed end to end tests for the AWS automation tools built to perform mass policy updates, ensuring the quality of the application and preventing regression.

Fedex
Intern Information Technology
Jan 2021 - May 2021

  • Worked as a Full Stack Developer Intern to add new capabilities to an existing Spring/Spring Boot Application to support new Fedex Ground services.
  • Worked in an Extreme Programming Agile environment to develop software for business customers.

Pikes Peak Community College
Computer Science Tutor
Aug 2017 - May 2018

  • Provided students with academic support for computer science classes.
  • Helped students with Python, C++ and Java.

Education

Bachelors of Computer Science
University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Fall 2021
GPA: 3.9

Projects

UCCS Bus Departure Application
Built with html5, css3, javascript
Created at UCCS Hackathon where teams had 3 hours to build a project. The UCCS Bus Departure Application allows users to select their location on the UCCS campus and their destination. Once submitted the users will be given a wait time until the next bus arrives.

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Pool Chemical Doser
Built with html5, css3, javascript
Dosing calculator that quickly finds the appropriate dosage of chemicals based on a starting value for each of the five pools at the Colorado Springs Great Wolf Lodge.

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Warp Shooter
Designer - Xbox Live Indie game
Entered into the 2013 Independent Games Festival, and was given tickets to the 2013 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

Warp Shooter is the first 3-vector dual stick shooter, as one of your hands is always in control of a warp beacon that allows you to jump through space! Shoot lasers, warp, and use a vast array power ups to destroy your opponents. Customize your own game modes and master the creative new mechanics in this all out multiplayer brawl!

Platformer From Hell
Lead Designer - Xbox Live Indie Game
Received over 3,000 downloads and the 2012 Multivisions Media Showcase Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Graphics and Animation from Indiana University.

Platformer from hell combines gravity, switches, and platforming to create an experience unlike any other. Thrilling jumps, mind boggling gravity puzzles, and a pastrami sandwich in distress awaits Tie Guy in the abyss of PFH. Fulfill your primal greed by destroying Tie Guy repeatedly in his tragic quest. Take control of Tie Guy on his journey to save his sandwich in this passion inducing platformer.

Hobbies

Swimming
2016 Colorado State Games Champion in the following events:
50 Freestyle, 50 Breaststroke, 50 Backstroke, 100 Backstroke, 200 Backstroke