content: update about and resume

Author: fuzzzerd

components/global/BlogDetails.vue

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     <p class="article-meta">
       {{ formatDate(article.date) }}
-      by <NuxtLink to="/resume">{{ article.author.name }}</NuxtLink>
+      by <NuxtLink to="/about">{{ article.author.name }}</NuxtLink>
     </p>
 
     <ContentRenderer :value="article" />

content/about.md

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+---
+title: About Nate
+alt: About Nate
+date: 2025-05-14
+author:
+  name: Nate Bross
+tags:
+  - about me
+---
+
+## My Background and Start
+
+I started programming with my father in qBASIC in the early 1990's and progressed to Visual Basic 4 on Windows 3.1 (yes, the 16-bit version.) I started using Microsoft Access and Classic ASP to build websites. I built a stats tracking databases to track gaming progress of my friends and myself by extracting the data from the game servers log files. This set me on the path to programming, and I've never looked back. Through high school and college I studied programming, graduating from Northeastern Illinois University with a degree in Computer Science.
+
+In order to facilitate my hobby of gaming, I spent a lot of time learning how to run a game server in my basement. I spent some time throughout my career as a sys-admin as well. I use the skills and knowledge gained through those experiences to develop and design robust, scalable, and resilient software systems.
+
+When .NET 1.0 was released, I jumped on the band wagon, but I stuck with VB. With the release of .NET 2.0 I switched to C#. I started looking at Open Source software, reading more code, reading blogs, and listening to podcasts. I started honing my craft based on these new inputs, and I continue to improve my skills and learn new things at every opportunity.
+
+## About Me
+
+I enjoy classic cars, swing music, and all sorts of Americana. In my teenage years, I was really into yo-yos. I was pretty good and even participated in some competitions. I enjoy road trips and I love trains, Amtrak is great and I'm an avid rider. Old time steam engines are so powerful and awesome and they are my true train passion.
+
+Read more about my experience on [my resume.](resume.md)

content/resume.md

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 ---
 title: Nate's Resume
 alt: Nate's Resume
-date: 2022-03-02
+date: 2025-05-14
 author: 
   name: Nate Bross
 tags: 
   - resume
   - about me
 ---
-Experienced Technical Architect and Team Leader with over fifteen years of experience working in consulting, custom software development, and product development organizations.
 
-## Experience
+Experienced Technical Architect, Developer, and Team Leader with over eighteen years of experience working in product development, consulting, and custom software development organizations.
 
-##### 2018 - present
+## Experience
 
-### Senior Application Developer / Wizard Software, Chicago
+### Principal Software Architect / Wizard Software, Chicago | 2018 - present
 
 #### Achievements
 
-- Champion use of agile work flows on the core development team.
-- Lead design and development of a public API for our products.
-- Integrate web technologies into non-web based products to meet functionality requirements.
+- Modernized legacy thick client applications by transitioning from FileMaker to C# and ASP.NET Core, resulting in compliance with Section 508/WCAG accessibility requirements.
+- Pioneered Cloud Computing and PaaS (Azure Web App Services) usage as a deployment target for mission critical applications, improving reliability and horizontal scaling.
+- Improved release reliability by documenting and standardizing CI/CD processes across teams, reducing deployment failures and inconsistencies.
+- Enhanced application authentication for multiple applications by implementing a federation gateway to centralize customer configuration, reducing customer SSO setup time from days to hours.
+- Simplified user sign-in process by implementing OIDC flows across multiple applications, improving user experience and reducing support requests.
 
 #### Responsibilities
 
-- Build new modules for our products.
-- Extend existing module functionality.
-
-##### 2013 - 2018
+- Lead and manage development team.
+- Set strategic and technical product direction.
+- Coordinate work and manage workloads.
+- Track and measure team progress to company goals.
+- Mentor and guide team members.
 
-### Solutions Architect / Netrix LLC, Chicago
+### Solutions Architect / Netrix LLC, Chicago | 2013 - 2018
 
 #### Achievements
 
-- Lead a DevOps team to identify areas of overlap between developers and operations and implement improved software deployment solutions.
-- Modernized a large legacy Real Estate website using modern development practices.
-  - Produced detailed design and architectural documentation and lead the team through implementation.
-  - Participated in on-premises to AWS migration.
-- Successfully orchestrated migration of software development processes from multiple disjointed procedures to a single streamlined course of action.
-  - Reduced project overhead and startup time by using common procedures.
-  - Reduced on-going costs by consolidating technologies and optimizing processes.
-- Advocated for, and assisted in increasing cloud adoption within practice area.
-- Reduced inefficiency in the processes of supporting existing infrastructure.
+- Improved standardization and efficiency by implementing unified DevOps workflows, resulting in faster deployments and fewer errors.
+- Delivered multiple successful projects by leading teams with balanced hands-on work and delegation, achieving all business objectives.
+- Modernized legacy Real Estate website using current development practices, improving performance and user engagement.
+- Supported successful on-premises to AWS migration by managing critical application transitions, enhancing scalability and reliability.
+- Expanded cloud adoption in the practice area by advocating for and supporting cloud-based solutions, creating more agile operations.
 
 #### Responsibilities
 
 - Design, architect, and implement solutions to meet client needs.
-- Lead project teams to meet release dates and produce client deliverables.
 - Organize and lead requirements gathering and business analysis meetings.
 - Mentor and guide team members.
-- Report to Creative and Digital Solutions National Practice Manager.
-
-##### 2007 - 2013
 
-### IT Specialist and Software Developer / Wizard Software, Chicago
+### IT Specialist and Software Developer / Wizard Software, Chicago | 2007 - 2013
 
 #### Achievements
 
-- Architected, designed, and participated in the implementation of a large-scale infrastructure upgrade to a managed hosting environment. Including: network, storage, and compute resources.
-  - Increased hosting capacity at reduced cost per unit.
-  - Increased reliability and redundancy of critical systems.
-- Was a key contributor to a successful migration of all hosting infrastructure from on-premises to managed colocation facility.
-- Pioneered new product development in the web space, while assisting with existing thick client development.
+- Improved hosting capabilities by architecting and implementing a large-scale infrastructure upgrade, resulting in enhanced network, storage, and compute resources.
+- Enabled successful relocation by contributing key technical expertise to migration from on-premises to managed colocation facility, resulting in improved operational efficiency.
+- Accelerated company growth by pioneering web-based product development while supporting existing thick client applications, resulting in expanded market reach.
 
 #### Responsibilities
 
 - Responsible for design, maintenance, and support of hosting infrastructure.
 - Lead software development of internal systems.
-  - Inventory tracking and system up time monitoring
-  - Management instrumentation and KPI reports to support hosting infrastructure.
-- Participated in product development.
+
+## Skills
+
+I have deep knowledge of the following technologies:
+
+- C#, Typescript, and Javascript.
+- ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET WebApi, ASP.NET MVC.
+- Entity Framework, Linq, and SQL.
+- Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Azure, and SQLite.
+- Vue, Pinia, NodeJS, and Vite.
+- HTML and CSS/SCSS.
+
+I have worked with these technologies:
+
+- Avalonia, UWP, WPF, Windows Forms.
+- XNA, Monogame, and PhaserJS.
+- Angular, React, Aurelia, KnockoutJS, jQuery.
+- Visual Basic, starting with v4, the 16 bit version.
+- Java, Go, Php, ColdFusion, C++, Assembler, Python, R, FileMaker Pro.
+
+## Open Source Work
+
+I maintain several open source projects and have made contributions to many others. All can be viewed here: <https://github.com/fuzzzerd>.
+
+### FMData
+
+A simple and flexible FileMaker Data API Client for .NET. Use FMData to integrate your FileMaker data into .NET websites and applications.
+
+<https://github.com/fuzzzerd/fmdata>
+
+### Time2Temp
+
+A simple Barbecue or Smoking Time and Temperature Cheat Sheet.
+
+<https://github.com/fuzzzerd/time2temp>
+
+### SharpFM
+
+SharpFM is a cross-platform app for copying FileMaker clipboard objects to XML snippets and converting XML snippets back to FileMaker clipboard objects. It aims to offer a FileMaker developers an additional tool for storing, sharing, changing, and replicating FileMaker Scripts, Database Schema, and Layout objects.
+
+<https://github.com/fuzzzerd/SharpFM>
+
+### QuickText.app
+
+Quick text parts for your sharing needs.
+
+<https://github.com/fuzzzerd/quicktext>