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Casey also has full\-stack experience with C\#/\.NET, Entity Framework Core, and the Salesforce ecosystem, alongside mathematical and scientific computing with MATLAB, R, and Python\. Casey has contributed to NATO AWACS and E\-3 AWACS avionics work involving sensors, parameter simulation, message parsing and serialization, traffic routing, sensor correlation, redundancy, and user\-feedback features\. At the United States Air Force, Casey helped establish a configuration\-management framework as Scrum Master and supported an Agile Scrum transition intended to shorten engineering cycles and reduce lag\. Casey has also modernized back\-end applications at Paycom, built Salesforce automation at Nextep, supported financial\-platform workflows at MSCI, and worked on FAA\-connected aerospace navigation systems at ASRC Federal\. Before and alongside software work, Casey built a substantial record in mathematics, physics, and engineering instruction, including an Outstanding Engineering Physics Graduate Teaching Assistant Award and an OSU\-OKC Teaching Excellence Award nomination\. ## Services - QEMU - Artificial Intelligence \(AI\) - Docker Products - LaTeX - Computer Science - Software Development - Application Programming Interfaces \(API\) - Problem Solving - DevOps - Git - HTML - Bash - SQL - Computational Linguistics - Kotlin - Swift \(Programming Language\) - Mobile Application Development - JavaScript - Numerical Analysis - Rust \(Programming Language\) - Application Development - Distributed Systems - Object\-oriented Languages ## Highlights - Serves as Senior Software Engineer at Vertex Solutions\. - Develops back\-end software and simulation solutions and supports infrastructure, process improvement, and new\-team formation\. - Works with C, C\+\+, Rust, Java, Assembly, Python, SQL, NoSQL technologies, C\#/\.NET, Entity Framework Core, and the Salesforce stack\. - Uses Ubuntu, CentOS, and Manjaro Linux environments and Bash scripting\. - Applies Scrum and SAFe Agile practices, including process improvement and team support\. - Performs technical writing and documentation, including procedures, plans, and instructions\. - Uses MATLAB, R, and Python for mathematical and scientific computation\. - Worked onsite at Boeing’s Oklahoma City facility on NATO AWACS avionics features centered on sensors and immediate user feedback\. - Developed NATO AWACS features and limited\-simulation automated tests in C\+\+, Ada, and Bash, while supporting demonstrations, reviews, and documentation\. - Served as a backup Scrum Master on the Boeing/Beacon Hill development team and used SAFe Agile practices hybridized with a continuous development lifecycle\. - Worked on E\-3 AWACS avionics software affecting parameter simulation, message parsing and serialization, traffic routing, sensor correlation, redundancy, and simple UI/UX\. - Served as Scrum Master for a United States Air Force configuration\-management standup team that established a new CM framework and infrastructure\. - Helped support a squadron\-wide Agile Scrum transition, formalize measurable standards, consolidate workloads, shorten engineering cycles, and reduce lag at the United States Air Force\. - Helped create a versatile CM system that standardized independent configuration\-management efforts and aided mutual code cooperation\. - Improved United States Air Force hardware production and maintenance activities using Lean methods and supported radar, wiring, cable, PCB, and avionics investigations\. - Supported FAA work through ASRC Federal on a satellite\-driven, multipoint aerospace navigational system\. - Modernized key back\-end applications at Paycom and created on\-demand Entity Framework ORM\-component generation tools\. - Helped deliver Paycom back\-end performance increases and stability improvements the overhaul’s initial framework was successful\. - Built Salesforce\-stack solutions at Nextep using Apex, Flows, Lightning Web Components, MuleSoft, and Anypoint\. - Developed Nextep automation implementations with directly measurable efficiency gains in work hours\. - Developed and maintained an MSCI financial platform using Perl, Python, and SQL for securities loading and evaluation\. - Designed and refined an MSCI version\-control workflow integrating Git, Bitbucket, and Jira, and maintained AutoSys testing and production workflows\. - Tested, enhanced, and demonstrated power\-cost optimization software at Power Costs, Inc\. a spreadsheet\-integrated system demonstration helped secure further business\. - Held software\-engineering roles at Ticketmaster and as Principal Software Engineer at Northrop Grumman Corporation\. - Tutored up to 100 students simultaneously at Oklahoma City Community College across mathematics, science, and engineering topics\. - Established large\-group physics tutoring sessions at Oklahoma State University–Oklahoma City that became a cornerstone of the tutoring lab\. - Received the Outstanding Engineering Physics Graduate Teaching Assistant Award at the University of Central Oklahoma\. - Was nominated for Oklahoma State University–Oklahoma City’s Teaching Excellence Award and contributed to honors\-standard development\. - Helped deploy tested, student\-friendly developmental\-mathematics materials at OSU\-OKC that immediately improved most overall averages\. - Earned an MS in Engineering Physics/Applied Physics, a BS in Mathematics, an AS in Physics, and a Verified Certificate with Distinction in R Programming from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health\. ## Experience - **Senior Software Engineer at Vertex Solutions** (2026\-01\-01–present) - **Software Engineer at Ticketmaster** (2025\-09\-01–2025\-11\-01) - **Principal Software Engineer at Northrop Grumman Corporation** (2025\-01\-01–2025\-09\-01) - **Software Engineer at Boeing** (2023\-05\-01–2025\-01\-01) — \- Works on an avionics suite feature set centered on sensors and immediate user feedback as part of the NATO AWACS program onsite at Boeing’s OKC facility\. \- Responsible for development work in C\+\+, Ada, and Bash, which includes automated tests via limited simulation, feature improvement on the sensor systems, follow\-on with demonstrations, and team reviews, as well as documentation tracking and updating on an as\-needed basis\. \- Uses SAFe Agile approaches hybridized with a continuous development lifecycle\. \- Serves as a backup Scrum Master for the development team\. - **Software Engineer 3 at Beacon Hill Staffing Group** (2023\-01\-01–2023\-05\-01) — \- Embedded contractor working alongside the Boeing Company on an avionics suite feature set centered on sensors and immediate user feedback as part of the NATO AWACS program onsite at Boeing’s OKC facility\. \- Responsible for development work in C\+\+, Ada, and Bash, which includes automated tests via limited simulation, feature improvement on the sensor systems, follow\-on with demonstrations, and team reviews, as well as documentation tracking and updating on an as\-needed basis\. \- Uses SAFe Agile approaches hybridized with a continuous development lifecycle\. \- Serves as a backup Scrum Master for the development team\. - **Software Engineer II/Senior Software Engineer at ASRC Federal** (2022\-01\-01–2023\-01\-01) — \- Functioned as an embedded contractor working alongside the Federal Aviation Administration to develop and maintain a satellite\-driven, multipoint aerospace navigational system using prescribed methodologies and a multi\-phase development lifecycle\. \- Responsible for requirements documentation contributions, process improvement, technical re\-evaluation of hardware and software requirements, and overall maintenance of software systems as interfaced with hardware, in accordance with customer needs\. - **Software Developer at Nextep** (2020\-11\-01–2021\-10\-01) — \- Worked in the Salesforce stack of technologies \(Apex, Flows, Lightning Web Components, MuleSoft \+ Anypoint\) in maintaining, supporting, and improving a web\-based PEO platform and proprietary API for client organizations and their employees\. \- Helped maintain connected services and portals, and corresponded with necessary vendors and contacts for supporting the delivery of provided services\. \- Developed large automation implementations with directly measurable efficiency gains in work hours\. - **Senior Software Engineer/Senior Associate at MSCI Inc\.** (2019\-12\-01–2020\-09\-01) — \- Worked mainly in Perl, Python, and SQL on developing and maintaining a financial platform for loading and evaluating securities based on prescribed analysis methodologies\. \- Created processes and formal workflows for various team activities, including designing and refining a version control process built around Git, Bitbucket, and Jira integration\. \- Maintained testing and production workflows using AutoSys jobs inside multiple types of environments, and provided production support\. \- Experimented with other technologies such as MongoDB and Docker on a case\-by\-case basis\. - **Software Engineer at United States Air Force** (2019\-03\-01–2019\-12\-01) — \- Worked on avionics software deployed on the E\-3 AWACS platform with workload including changes that affect subsystem functionality in parameter simulation, message parsing and serialization, module traffic routing, sensor correlation, redundancy, and simple UI/UX work\. \- Helped write relevant documentation and support integration\. \- Operated within Scaled Agile Framework \(SAFe\) and leveraged innovation periods for infrastructure, process, or toolchain improvement projects\. - **Software Developer at Paycom** (2018\-10\-01–2019\-03\-01) — \- Worked with a development team to refresh existing software features by rewriting and modernizing key back end applications\. \- Created tools for generating ORM components on\-demand using Entity Framework, aided in developing modules designed to paths and database access behavior as part of a team API design effort, and cooperated with other teams to refit database components as a larger overhaul\. Achievements: Several of these items had dramatic effects for production, leading to measurable performance increases and stability improvements of the back end software being worked\. The initial framework for the overhaul was successful\. - **Production Engineer at United States Air Force** (2018\-08\-01–2018\-10\-01) — \- Performed process improvement in hardware production and maintenance activities using Lean methods\. \- Acted as one of several engineer points of contact between management and production personnel\. \- Responsible for technical support and advanced subject matter investigation for electronic hardware systems under maintenance, including radar subsystems and hardware commodities such as wires, cables, and PCBs, and other miscellaneous avionics equipment testing\. - **Software Engineer at United States Air Force** (2017\-08\-01–2018\-08\-01) — \- Served as Scrum Master for a configuration management standup team focused on establishing CM framework, which successfully framed new CM infrastructure\. \- Prepared for, and assisted with, the successful transition to Agile Scrum squadron\-wide in order to drive organic readiness\. Helped to formalize measurable standards and consolidate workloads where possible as part of dedicated process improvement, allowing for shorter cycles of internal and production engineering work, reducing lag time considerably\. \- Developed small items for miscellaneous projects, and modified toolchain for overall workflow improvement\. Achievements: A new, more specific CM framework was generated while I served as Scrum Master to our CM standup team, leading to a highly versatile CM system being used and configured successfully\. This standardized several independent CM efforts being conducted throughout the organization, and aided greatly in mutual code cooperation\. - **Initial College Studies Mathematics \- Professor, Tenure Track at Oklahoma State University\-Oklahoma City** (2016\-08\-01–2017\-07\-01) — \- Taught, planned, and helped coordinate developmental mathematics courses designed to prepare students for advanced college math coursework\. \- Assisted in developing and implementing departmental learning platforms, curricula, and standards oriented toward adult education concerns, and regularly helped pilot new courses and layouts\. \- Served as an auxiliary to lead instructors in round table discussions and supervisory decisions\. Achievements: My fellow professors and I deployed new, more student\-friendly, tested\-and\-proven materials, improving most overall averages immediately \(thanks in large part to the quality of instruction paired with it\)\. Additionally, I was nominated for OSU\-OKC's Teaching Excellence Award, and served briefly on an honors committee in creating and modifying honors standards\. - **GenTrader Analyst \- Intern at Power Costs, Inc\. \(PCI\)** (2016\-05\-01–2016\-07\-01) — \- Worked on a team intended to support company flagship software designed to optimize a large, multivariate calculation model of power costs, distribution, scheduling, and other factors at several different scales\. \- Performed multiple support functions, including testing new features, implementing fixes and enhancements for internal and external customer usage, and verifying software engine output by hand or custom script\. \- Demonstrated new systems and features for customers\. Achievements: After I had helped to test a new program, I demonstrated modeling a new system using that program with spreadsheet integration and presented this product feature to users\. They were interested, and this helped to secure further business\. - **Physics Lab Instructor/Teaching Assistant/Graduate Assistant at University of Central Oklahoma** (2014\-08\-01–2016\-05\-01) — \- Taught, graded, and administered labs for engineering physics \(PSE\) I and II, general physics \(GP\) I and II, and basic \(UPS\) physics\. \- Lectured and guided laboratory exercises in a self\-contained laboratory environment, and administered practical and theoretical quizzes, exams, and review\. \- Held and helped with tutoring sessions and extracurricular practice where necessary, and graded for other courses in the department's required curriculum\. Achievements: While I worked at UCO, I received the Outstanding Engineering Physics Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for recognition of my teaching achievements\. - **Student Success and Opportunity Center \- Tutor at Oklahoma State University\-Oklahoma City** (2013\-08\-01–2015\-01\-01) — \- Tutored students in areas of chemistry, physics, engineering, math, and other technical or scientific courses utilizing several training and educational techniques\. \- Served as a tutor in the classroom for professors upon request, managed individual tutoring appointments and drop\-ins, and regularly handled multiple group sessions of students\. \- Drafted handouts for the center's use and the school's ownership with some still in circulated use\. Achievements: I was consistently booked to full capacity as a tutor, and started to hold large group tutoring sessions for physics\. This chain of physics sessions became somewhat of a cornerstone of the tutoring lab I worked in\. This brought several more students into the lab for assistance, exposing them to other tutors who could help with unrelated, or related, questions\. - **Initial College Studies Mathematics \- Adjunct Professor at Oklahoma State University\-Oklahoma City** (2013\-08\-01–2016\-07\-01) — \- Taught developmental math courses across several levels of preparatory need and student demographic, with material ranging across a wide spectrum of mathematical understanding, from basic arithmetic to advanced algebra, pointed directly toward preparing students for higher\-level courses\. \- Developed coursework by implementing departmental standards, especially by working in conjunction with full\-time faculty to pilot novel classroom strategies and giving feedback\. - **Math and Science Tutor at Private Tutoring** (2011\-01\-01–2019\-03\-01) — \- Tutored clients in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics \(STEM\) fields, ranging across all levels\. Applied knowledge in basic chemistry, many levels of physics, computer competency and programming, electrical engineering, and many levels of math\. \- Provided services in individual, multiple\-participant, or large session classroom\-like tutoring appointments on a case\-by\-case basis or with recurring times, depending on client needs\. - **Math Lab \- Tutor \(TAP\) at Oklahoma City Community College** (2010\-09\-01–2013\-10\-01) — \- Tutored students in areas of algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, differential equations, and statistics, with additional tutoring granted in areas of chemistry, physics, engineering \(basic electrical and mechanical\), and other math and sciences when time permitted\. \- Operated in a highly timeboxed model of tutoring as our staff served up to one hundred students simultaneously, and prioritized effective time management, requiring rote expertise of much of the material\. \- Helped maintain the lab by performing various administrative tasks\. - **Principal Software Engineer at Northrop Grumman** (2025–2025) ## Education - Master of Science \(MS\), Engineering Physics/Applied Physics — University of Central Oklahoma (2014\-01\-01–2017\-01\-01) - Bachelor of Science \(BS\), Mathematics — University of Central Oklahoma (2010\-01\-01–2012\-01\-01) - Associate of Science \(AS\), Physics — Oklahoma City Community College (2009\-01\-01–2010\-01\-01) ## FAQ ### What does Casey do? Casey is a Senior Software Engineer at Vertex Solutions\. Casey focuses primarily on back\-end software and simulation work, contributes to infrastructure and support activities, works across overlapping web or front\-end needs when necessary, and assists with process improvement and standing up new teams\. ### What technologies and practices does Casey use? Casey’s technical strengths include back\-end development with C, C\+\+, Rust, Java, and some Assembly data work with Python, SQL, and NoSQL technologies full\-stack development with C\#/\.NET, Entity Framework Core, and Salesforce technologies Linux and Bash Scrum and SAFe implementation technical writing and mathematical and scientific computation using MATLAB, R, and Python\. Casey also describes themself as an AI experimenter, learner, and growing expert\. ### What other tools and technical areas does Casey work with? Casey works with Linux distributions including Ubuntu, CentOS, and Manjaro, and uses Bash scripting\. Casey’s listed skills also include QEMU, Docker products, LaTeX, APIs, DevOps, Git, HTML, JavaScript, Kotlin, Swift, mobile application development, numerical analysis, computational linguistics, distributed systems, object\-oriented languages, computer science, software development, application development, problem solving, and artificial intelligence\. ### What did Casey do at Boeing? At Boeing, Casey works onsite at Boeing’s Oklahoma City facility on a NATO AWACS avionics\-suite feature set focused on sensors and immediate user feedback\. Casey develops in C\+\+, Ada, and Bash creates automated tests through limited simulation improves sensor\-system features supports demonstrations and team reviews maintains documentation as needed uses SAFe Agile approaches hybridized with a continuous development lifecycle and serves as a backup Scrum Master\. ### What did Casey do at Beacon Hill Staffing Group? As a Software Engineer 3 at Beacon Hill Staffing Group, Casey was embedded alongside Boeing on the same NATO AWACS avionics\-suite work at Boeing’s Oklahoma City facility\. The role included C\+\+, Ada, and Bash development, limited\-simulation automated testing, sensor\-system improvements, demonstrations, reviews, documentation updates, SAFe Agile practices combined with a continuous development lifecycle, and backup Scrum Master responsibilities\. ### What did Casey do as a Software Engineer at the United States Air Force? In a United States Air Force software\-engineering role, Casey worked on avionics software deployed on the E\-3 AWACS platform\. The work included changes affecting parameter simulation, message parsing and serialization, module traffic routing, sensor correlation, redundancy, and simple UI/UX documentation and integration support SAFe delivery and innovation\-period projects for infrastructure, process, and toolchain improvements\. ### What did Casey accomplish in configuration management at the United States Air Force? In another United States Air Force software\-engineering role, Casey served as Scrum Master for a configuration\-management standup team that established a new CM framework and infrastructure\. Casey helped prepare for and support a squadron\-wide Agile Scrum transition, formalized measurable standards, consolidated workloads where possible, contributed to shorter internal and production engineering cycles with considerably reduced lag, developed small items for miscellaneous projects, and modified the toolchain to improve workflow\. The resulting CM framework standardized independent CM efforts, supported mutual code cooperation, and became a versatile system used and configured successfully\. ### What did Casey do as a Production Engineer at the United States Air Force? As a Production Engineer at the United States Air Force, Casey improved hardware production and maintenance processes using Lean methods\. Casey was one of the engineering points of contact between management and production personnel and provided technical support and advanced subject\-matter investigation for maintained electronic hardware systems, including radar subsystems, wires, cables, PCBs, and other avionics equipment testing\. ### What did Casey do at ASRC Federal? At ASRC Federal, Casey functioned as an embedded contractor alongside the Federal Aviation Administration to develop and maintain a satellite\-driven, multipoint aerospace navigational system\. Casey contributed to requirements documentation, process improvement, technical reevaluation of hardware and software requirements, and maintenance of software systems interfaced with hardware under customer needs and a multi\-phase development lifecycle\. ### What did Casey accomplish at Paycom? At Paycom, Casey worked with a development team to refresh software features by rewriting and modernizing key back\-end applications\. Casey created on\-demand Entity Framework ORM\-component generation tools, helped develop modules related to paths and database\-access behavior for a team API\-design effort, and partnered with other teams to refit database components during a broader overhaul\. These efforts produced measurable performance increases and stability improvements in the back\-end software, and the overhaul’s initial framework succeeded\. ### What did Casey do at Nextep? At Nextep, Casey worked in the Salesforce technology stack, including Apex, Flows, Lightning Web Components, MuleSoft, and Anypoint\. Casey maintained, supported, and improved a web\-based PEO platform and proprietary API for client organizations and employees helped maintain connected services and portals coordinated with vendors and contacts and developed large automation implementations with directly measurable work\-hour efficiency gains\. ### What did Casey do at MSCI Inc\.? At MSCI Inc\., Casey worked mainly with Perl, Python, and SQL to develop and maintain a financial platform for loading and evaluating securities under prescribed analysis methodologies\. Casey created processes and formal workflows, including a version\-control process based on Git, Bitbucket, and Jira integration maintained testing and production workflows through AutoSys jobs in multiple environments provided production support and experimented with MongoDB and Docker as needed\. ### What did Casey do at Power Costs, Inc\.? As a GenTrader Analyst intern at Power Costs, Inc\. \(PCI\), Casey supported flagship software that optimized multivariate models of power costs, distribution, scheduling, and related factors at multiple scales\. Casey tested features, implemented fixes and enhancements for internal and external customers, verified software\-engine output manually or through custom scripts, and demonstrated systems and features to customers\. After helping test a new program, Casey demonstrated a new system model with spreadsheet integration user interest in that feature helped secure further business\. ### What is Casey’s experience at Ticketmaster and Northrop Grumman? Casey has held software\-engineering roles at Ticketmaster and as a Principal Software Engineer at Northrop Grumman Corporation\. The record does not provide further responsibilities or accomplishments for those positions\. ### What did Casey do at Oklahoma City Community College? Casey worked as a Math Lab Tutor \(TAP\) at Oklahoma City Community College, tutoring algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, differential equations, statistics, chemistry, physics, basic electrical and mechanical engineering, and other math and science subjects as time permitted\. The lab could serve up to 100 students simultaneously, requiring time management and broad subject\-matter command, and Casey also performed administrative lab\-maintenance tasks\. ### What did Casey accomplish as a tutor at Oklahoma State University–Oklahoma City? At Oklahoma State University–Oklahoma City’s Student Success and Opportunity Center, Casey tutored chemistry, physics, engineering, mathematics, and other technical or scientific courses worked in classrooms at professors’ request managed appointments and drop\-ins led multiple group sessions and drafted center handouts, some of which remain in circulation\. Casey was consistently booked to full capacity and began large\-group physics sessions that became a cornerstone of the tutoring lab, brought more students into the lab, and connected them with other tutors for related or unrelated questions\. ### What did Casey do as a mathematics professor at Oklahoma State University–Oklahoma City? Casey served as both an Initial College Studies Mathematics Adjunct Professor and a tenure\-track Professor at Oklahoma State University–Oklahoma City\. Casey taught developmental mathematics from basic arithmetic through advanced algebra, planned and coordinated courses that prepared students for higher\-level mathematics, implemented departmental standards, partnered with full\-time faculty to pilot classroom strategies, helped develop learning platforms, curricula, and adult\-education\-oriented standards, piloted courses and layouts, and contributed to round\-table and supervisory discussions\. Casey and fellow professors deployed student\-friendly, tested materials that immediately improved most overall averages Casey was nominated for the OSU\-OKC Teaching Excellence Award and briefly served on an honors committee creating and modifying honors standards\. ### What did Casey do at the University of Central Oklahoma? At the University of Central Oklahoma, Casey served as a Physics Lab Instructor, Teaching Assistant, and Graduate Assistant\. Casey taught, graded, and administered Engineering Physics I and II, General Physics I and II, and Basic Physics labs lectured and guided laboratory exercises administered quizzes, exams, and reviews supported tutoring and extracurricular practice and graded other required departmental courses\. Casey received the Outstanding Engineering Physics Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for teaching achievements\. ### What is Casey’s private tutoring experience? Casey has provided private math and science tutoring across STEM subjects and levels, including chemistry, physics, computer competency and programming, electrical engineering, and mathematics\. Casey delivered individual, small\-group, and large classroom\-like sessions on either case\-by\-case or recurring schedules based on client needs\. ### What education and certification does Casey have? Casey earned a Master of Science in Engineering Physics/Applied Physics from the University of Central Oklahoma in 2017, a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Central Oklahoma in 2012, and an Associate of Science in Physics from Oklahoma City Community College in 2010\. Casey also holds a Verified Certificate with Distinction in R Programming from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health\. ## Links - LinkedIn: https://www\.linkedin\.com/in/caseytp