Payton Thompson

Responsibilities - Design, develop, and test high-stakes Android applications spanning mapping, messaging, identity & access management, and voice control for mission-critical public safety devices - Lead technical architecture and feature delivery for a voice-control interface, engineering integrations between low-level radio audio hardware and cloud streaming services for low-latency public safety response - Engage in weekly crowd-testing sessions upholding a "zero-failure" quality standard across the full device environment Leadership & Mentorship Technical Lead - Coordinate technical alignment across UI/UX, Cloud, E2E Architecture, Product, and Project Management teams - Create design documentation and test plan for features - Mandatory pull request reviewer Scrum Lead - Decompose design documentation into prioritized stories for delegation - Lead Scrum Events AI Department Lead - Selected for a company-wide task force to identify and implement AI use cases driving departmental revenue savings - Create a team AI customization marketplace to encourage collaboration and enhancement of AI skills, agents, etc - Created and shared 10 AI skills - Champion adoption through presentations on best practices, trends, and personal workflow demonstrations Onboarding Lead - Relocated to Cork, Ireland, for 2 months to lead technical onboarding of a newly formed Android team — achieving independent feature delivery in under a year Talent Development - Mentored 3 interns Innovation - Architected an automated IoT Fault Tracker with file management, log analysis, and ticket creation — Jenkins-integrated, processing 1,000+ faults weekly and reducing manual labor by 60% - Competed in 4 company-sponsored hackathons, delivering innovative Android applications

- Implemented the read receipt feature for a messaging application - Used the Android Framework Content Provider and Resolver to relay message's read receipt information to our application

My department enhanced an Android application for radios to have messaging and mapping capabilities. My project was to add PDF support to the messaging functionality to enable customers to view and interact with PDF files that co-workers send to their devices. Functionality Programming - Programmed the ability to preview, view, scroll, and zoom PDF files - Explored existing code to develop a deep understanding of the product - Integrated existing code to reach the required output - Incorporated and altered open-source code to reach the required output - Studied and implemented Kotlin coding skills - Studied and implemented Java coding skills - Practiced proper branch management using Git commands Team Collaboration - Scheduled work using Scrum methodology - Collaborated with a mentor to problem-solve bugs - Communicated with a team in daily standups to give project updates and ask questions about the production process as a whole - Presented a demonstration of the program, explaining the benefits to the company and the process to the entire development team - Listened to informative presentations by company management to learn more about the company as a whole and ask career advice questions

My department developed and maintained a single location to monitor products in order to rank and pinpoint issues and outages. This streamlined client communications with accurate and timely product status. This was done by acquiring interdepartmental data to upload into multiple databases. Functionality Programming - Programmed the ability to enter multiple data entries to correctly add, modify, delete, and filter into three databases with over a hundred tables each - Explored Python's ability to interact with databases using MySQL queries - Studied and implemented MySQL coding skills - Expanded Python coding skills Database Hygiene - Maintained the cleanliness of large databases - Documented changes within the database, database management, and a program summary Team Collaboration - Scheduled work using Scrum methodology - Collaborated with fellow interns and full-time employees during meetings and coding sessions within my team - Facilitated inter-departmental communications to acquire data to upload into our team's database - Presented a demonstration of the program, explaining the benefits to the company and the process to the entire development team

- Coached players one-on-one to develop their skills in physical development, outfield, and hitting. - Provided post-game feedback to players - Developed the lineups based on leveraging skills and talent

GPA 3.65 | Dean's List