Sean Murdock

About Sean Murdock

Most people who meet me are surprised at how outgoing and friendly I am. I love people. Meetings that have real goals interest me, but a lot of meetings don\'t have them. People who have goals interest me. When someone has a goal, and they need help, I want to help them.

Experience

1. Computer Science Program Chair

   Ensign College

   Sep 2023 — Present · Salt Lake City, UT, US

   Created a Scrum Development team from the ground up, and mentored and trained them day-to-day Wrote Vitest and Jest unit tests for React Frontend application Built GitHub Actions for automated integration testing of React Frontend application Created React components for an enterprise transportation application Developed Node JS Express API endpoints and logic for a transportation application Designed data model, and Redis schema and indexes, and developed Redis ORM Wrote automated JUnit tests and Integration tests for a Full stack Java application Used GitHub Copilot to streamline development throughput by roughly 80% Wrote Pytest automated unit tests for Python applications Maintained Playwright automated headless Chromium browser based tests for React apps Designed new program to identify and message underperforming students using Canvas APIs Co-Designed application to import grading from GitHub Classroom to Canvas using Canvas APIs Created a product vision for our degrees, and redeveloped core programming classes to use industry trends in technology specifically for API and UI trends Designed a new UI/UX Program collaborating between Computer Science and Communications Departments Design and implement the use of GitHub Codespaces, GitHub Classroom and GitHub Actions to auto-submit and auto-grade programming challenges across the Bachelors, Associates, and Certificate programs. Champion the adoption of generative AI by creating new policies within courses and programs for student use of tools like Blackbox, Copilot, Codium, and Chat GPT Hiring, mentoring, and coaching a highly collaborative team of 10 adjunct faculty for Computer Science/Software Engineering degrees. Mentor, and teach students in Associates and Bachelors programs.

Education

• Western Governors University

  Bachelors, Science Computer Information Systems

  2005 — 2006

• Brigham Young University - Idaho

  Associate of Arts, General Studies

  1998 — 2004

• Western Governors University

  Master of Business Administration - MBA, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services

  2020 — 2021

Skills

• Software Development
• Call Centers
• Management
• Business Intelligence
• Visual Basic
• Integration
• Call Center
• Computer Hardware
• Business Requirements
• Solution Design
• Sql
• Databases
• Business Analysis
• Software Documentation
• Solution Architecture
• Process Improvement
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Enterprise Software
• Requirements Analysis
• Web Applications
• IT Operations
• Java
• Testing