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Chester Zara

Full Stack Developer

Chicago, IL

About Me

I am a full stack developer with a background in healthcare software implementation and support. I love the high-pressure situations, the need for teamwork, and the interesting technical problems that I encountered in healthcare IT.

When I'm not writing code or squashing bugs I enjoy cooking, reading history or watching/playing basketball.


Skills

Languages

Runtime/Framework

Database

Portfolio


All
Javascript
Typescript
Vue.js
AngularJS
React
Node.js
ASP.NET Core
Ruby on Rails
GraphQL
MongoDB
SQL
Greenstead Landing page

Greenstead

Homepage

Greenstead is a business to business marketplace that connects local farmers and restaurants to streamline cumbersome ordering and invoicing processes. This single-page app is built on a Vue.js frontend with Stripe and Plaid integration to provide seamless transactions for users who were previously faxing or mailing paper checks. The backend runs on ASP.NET Core and serves a GraphQL API.

Typescript
Vue.js
Node.js
ASP.NET Core
GraphQL
SQL
Homepage of Friendly Reviews site

Friendly Reviews

Live Site GitHub Repo

A review website for tracking your favorite restuarants, bars, or places in general and those of your friends. It will provide provide suggestions based off of reviews your friends have submitted, hopefully solving the struggle of choosing. This project utilizes the Google Maps API integrated with a React frontend to review places and add friends, while storing the information via a Express-Node.js backend in a Postgres database.

Javascript
React
Node.js
SQL
World Map display from the World Map Travel Tracker

World Map Travel Tracker

Live Site GitHub Repo

A tracking application to log your past and future world travels to a user account. This was built with a Ruby on Rails API backend and a React frontend where users can use an interactive map to chronicle their journeys.

Javascript
React
Ruby on Rails
SQL
Sample image of Forum Template app

Forum Template

Live Site GitHub Repo

A basic web forum built with an AngularJS frontend, Node.js backend and MongoDB via RESTful APIs (MEAN).

Javascript
AngularJS
Node.js
MongoDB
Habit Tracker app dashboard

Habit Tracker

Live Site GitHub Repo

A web app to enter and track your daily habits to promote changes in your behavior. Built with HTML/Javascript frontend, Bootstrap styling, Node.js backend and MongoDB.

Javascript
Node.js
MongoDB
Image of my NBA Team Guessing game

NBA Stats Games

Live Site GitHub Repo

A pair of guessing games for basketball geeks powered by Javascript, jQuery and an NBA statistics JSON API (Credit BallDontLie).

Javascript

Resume

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Experience

Epic Systems

Software Implementation and Support Consultant

09/2017 - Current

  • Contracted with healthcare systems as an analyst and project leader working on site and remotely.
  • Wrote SQL queries to create reports that helped inform clinical decision-making.
  • Developed customized pharmacy clinical decision support tools, cutting costs by replacing legacy systems and maintaining high standards of patient care.

Epic Systems

Technical Account Manager

07/2015 - 09/2017

  • Led technical support and project management of the Epic software for the pharmacy IT teams of multiple pediatric and academic health system customers simultaneously.
  • Wrote scripts to optimize maintenance, test new configuration, update documentation, and troubleshoot problems.
  • Acted as a conduit between customer needs and development resources to communicate time-sensitive, clinical application problems as solvable, technical problems.
  • Delivering design and development of new features to meet unique client requests.
  • Demonstrated learning capacity by mastering and successfully supporting an esoteric programming language (M and Cache) underpinning a 40 year-old code base.

Education

General Assembly

Software Engineering Immersive

03/2019 - 06/2019

  • Completed full-time immersive course to update my knowledge on modern web languages and frameworks.

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Bachelor of Sciences

  • Majored in biochemistry with a certificate in computer science.