Benjamin Weiler

Client: Marsh McLennan Agency (2024-Present)

• Collaborative Web Solutions Development: Engineered Blazor C# Application: Developed a comprehensive web application and backend database to manage EPIC policies and documents, enabling seamless collaboration for clients and colleagues with role-based permissions.
• Team-Oriented Full Stack Development: Partnered with front-end and back-end developers, leveraging C#, Entity Framework, SQL, and Python to deliver scalable and robust solutions, while providing support and guidance to team members as needed.
• Business Analysis & Team Process Improvement: Conducted In-Depth Analysis: Utilized SQL to identify and resolve data inconsistencies, collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance data accuracy and operational efficiency.
• Product Leadership & Feedback Integration: Organized and conducted product demos for stakeholders, actively seeking and incorporating feedback from team members and clients to refine solutions.
• Client Collaboration: Bridged communication between clients and technical teams, ensuring that complex technical requirements were clearly understood and translated into actionable strategies that aligned with business objectives.
  Fostered Strong Professional Relationships: Built and maintained positive relationships with clients and colleagues by consistently delivering high-quality solutions and providing ongoing support and assistance.
• Positive Client and Team Feedback: Received Commendations: Garnered positive feedback from both clients and team members for delivering effective solutions, demonstrating reliability, and contributing to a supportive and collaborative team environment.
• Mentored Team Members: Assisted colleagues with technical challenges and provided mentorship, enhancing overall team performance and fostering a collaborative workplace culture.
  

Client: Connect for Health Colorado (2023-2024)

• Automated Data Validation Processes: Developed a Java Service: Created a robust Java-based service that compares EDI filestreams against 200+ database fields, automating the validation process.
  Error Reduction: Replaced manual data verification, significantly reducing potential errors and ensuring high data accuracy.
• Data Visualization Tool Development: Designed & Developed Client Portal: Built an intuitive, multi-page data visualization application using Angular to monitor EDI file processing.
  UI/UX Excellence: Crafted user-friendly interfaces and front-end components, enhancing usability and effectiveness.
  Positive Feedback: Received commendations for the tool’s usability, effectiveness, and its critical role in meeting organizational needs.
• Regression Testing Implementation: Developed Cucumber/Java Tests: Created comprehensive regression tests for the Colorado Connect for Health Insurance Portal to ensure data integrity and UI functionality.
  Quality Assurance: Enhanced the reliability of the application through meticulous testing and validation procedures.
• SQL & Business Analysis: Data Validation & Analysis: Performed thorough data validation and analysis across multiple development environments using SQL.
  Issue Identification: Proactively identified and tracked data inconsistencies and errors, facilitating timely resolutions.
  Collaborative Problem-Solving: Led collaborative meetings with development teams to address and assign tasks for identified bugs.
• Leadership & Strategic Initiatives: Generated Development Stories: Initiated numerous development stories based on data issues, driving several key projects focused on automating data validation processes.
  Process Optimization: Streamlined business processes through strategic analysis and automation, contributing to overall operational efficiency.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Product Demos & Meetings: Led meetings and delivered product demonstrations to stakeholders, ensuring alignment with business objectives and fostering strong client relationships.
  Client Satisfaction: Achieved high levels of client satisfaction through effective communication, reliable solutions, and proactive problem-solving.
  

• Leadership & Strategic Decision-Making: Head of Engineering: Lead all aspects of product and project development, making final decisions to ensure alignment with company vision and user needs.
  Team Coordination: Conduct regular scrum meetings to align team objectives, foster collaboration, and facilitate effective communication among cross-functional teams.
• Full Stack Development: App Development: Independently built a relationship management application using Draftbit, React Native, and Bubble.io, ensuring a seamless and user-friendly experience.
• Machine Learning Integration: LLM Training: Trained a large language model (LLM) to recognize and interpret users' relationship goals, enhancing the app's ability to provide personalized and intelligent suggestions.
• User-Centric Design & Research: User Testing & Studies: Conducted comprehensive user testing and studies to identify user needs, preferences, and pain points, informing feature development and UI/UX improvements.
  Needs Identification: Analyzed user feedback to prioritize features that build stronger networks through smart, simple suggestions, ensuring the app effectively clarifies and nurtures meaningful relationships.
• Product Vision & Execution: Vision Alignment: Ensured that development efforts are aligned with the mission to help users build stronger networks, providing smart and simple suggestions tailored to their relationship goals.
  Feature Implementation: Led the implementation of key features that enhance user engagement and satisfaction, driving the app's success in fostering meaningful connections.
• Collaborative Problem-Solving: Cross-Functional Collaboration: Worked closely with designers, product managers, and other stakeholders to develop features that meet user needs and business objectives.
  

React and Node.js. Builds small cloud-based websites and applications for startups.

• Spotify Tastemaker: A Spotify playlist recommendation and visualizer created with Spotify API, React JS, Node.js, Azure, and Flask(python). Scraped 500,000 songs with Spotify API and developed websites front and backend.
• Poodle: A task and calendar integration app developed in React Native, Node.js and Azure.
• Adapted SkinCare: Independently developed a React/NodeJS skincare recommendation website that generates a custom skincare from weather data and custom inputs.
• Fangaurd: A ticket Service for an early start up - react/node tech stack that helps local concerts sponsor, promote and market events. Designed and developed admin permission selection page and implemented security measures depending on users permissions.
• Daily Question Founder: To encourage modern open-minded conversations regarding contemporary one sided opinions. This website enables a user to have a conversation with another user use disagrees with their opinion of the daily question.

• Data Streams Team
• Cloud Guru AWS Certified Partitioner.
• Automated Amazon Web Services: S3 Buckets, Lambda functions, and DynamoDB database functionality with C#.
• Modified AWS Lambda functions to gather metric data with C# on a .NET framework.
• Object-Oriented Programming and Architecture.
• Displayed metric data with DOMO from a batch pipeline.
• Agile/Scrum.

• Systems Implementation Team:
• Designed SSP Innovations employee, customer, and project information website.
• Developed in Angular 12 on a .NET framework.
• Created HTTP Requests and REST APIs with TypeScript and C#.
• OOP methodology and principles.

• Connected collegiate leaders.
• Data Analysis and Trend following to optimize EG's social platforms.
• Live Twitch/YouTube questions writer and interviewer.
• Designed and managed Bots for EG's collegiate Discord.

• Highland Park, Illinois, United States