Rick Colgan
Nebraska City
Summary
Highly skilled software development professional bringing enormous talents for software design, development and integration. Offering advanced knowledge of in-demand programming languages. Background writing code and developing systems for the electric industry, non-profits, and high school athletics. Complex problem-solver with analytical and driven mindset. Dedicated to achieving demanding development objectives while producing impeccable code.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Software Developer
Nebraska School Activities Association
03.2019 - Current
- Refactored, modularized and updated legacy code bases to modern development standards.
- Discussed issues with team members to provide resolution and apply best practices.
- Planned and developed interfaces that simplified overall management and offered ease of use.
- Rewrote officials registration process increasing officials' participation rates by 168 new officials last year.
Owner
RT Printing
05.2005 - Current
- Managed day-to-day business operations
- Grew business to over $1M in annual sales and six employees with video, web development, and marketing outlets
- Developed proprietary web scraping algorithms to reduce time and costs associated with data gathering taking typical operations from 60 hours per week down to four
Adjunct Instructor
Midland University
08.2016 - 05.2018
- Developed Introduction to Microsoft Office program for use in curriculum for entry-level students
- Aided in migration of course to become general education requirement for incoming freshmen.
Adjunct Instructor
Metropolitan Community College
08.2009 - 05.2018
- Engaged students with insightful and compelling classroom discussion of topics relevant to coursework to boost student learning and retention
- Created and implemented course agendas, lesson plans and activities to successfully meet course objectives
Chief Executive Officer
Wayne-White Counties Electric Cooperative
08.2002 - 04.2005
- Managed partnerships and strategic business relationships by negotiating contract terms and handling conflicts with labor and wholesale power supplier increasing margins from $80K / year to $2M+.
- Wrote paper to be published in Management Quarterly outlining strategy to manage rates using equity instead of TIER and DSC
- Maintained effective staff and resource utilization rates to balance financial and operational obligations
- Brought financially struggling cooperative into compliance with its mortgage obligations.
Education
Master of Science - Software Development
Maryville University of St. Louis
St. Louis, MO05.2019
Bachelor of Science - Management Information Systems
Bellevue University
Bellevue, NE06.2008
Skills
- Problem solver
- Self Starter
- SQL Expertise
- HTML, CSS, PHP, Python, Bootstrap
- MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL
- User Interface/User Experience Design (UI/UX)
- Web Scraping
- Microsoft Office Master Certification
Certification
Microsoft Office Master
FBI NCG
Timeline
Software Developer
Nebraska School Activities Association
03.2019 - Current
Adjunct Instructor
Midland University
08.2016 - 05.2018
Adjunct Instructor
Metropolitan Community College
08.2009 - 05.2018
Owner
RT Printing
05.2005 - Current
Chief Executive Officer
Wayne-White Counties Electric Cooperative
08.2002 - 04.2005
Master of Science - Software Development
Maryville University of St. Louis
Bachelor of Science - Management Information Systems
Bellevue University
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