Zachariah William Holker

letters@zachariah.works

Education

Certificate in Project Management

South Puget Sound Community College;

Studied with PMP-certified instructors through Washington state's professional development program.

Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics

St. Cloud State University;

Focused on music, computer science, teaching ESL, and foreign languages. Studied in Ukraine. Produced an educational web application for the ESL department as a capstone project.

Experience

Smoothie Producer

Lucky's Market, Columbus, OH; –Present
Summary

Making in-house beverages and maintaining VA container inventory. Increased beverage production efficiency by 40% and sales by up to 80%.

Tools
  • Blender
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  • Industrial Cleaners
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  • Juicer

Software Developer

Soby Software, Remote; –
Summary

Added features to a human resources application in the talent management industry.

Tools
  • Elixir
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  • Elm
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  • GraphQL
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  • Phoenix

Software Developer

CCAP, Madison, WI; –
Summary

Rewriting features for the Court's LTS stack.

Tools
  • Linux
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  • PureScript
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  • Scala

Software Developer

ActiveState, Remote; –
Summary

Full stack software developer at a DevSecOps business, operating on a microservice architecture.

Projects
  • CVE Notifications Service,
  • OAuth Integration,
  • SBOM Generator
Tools
  • CSS
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  • Elm
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  • Go
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  • GraphQL
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  • Haskell
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  • Kafka
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  • Kubernetes
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  • nginx
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  • PostgreSQL
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  • Python

Software Developer

Washington Student Achievement Council, Olympia, WA; –
Summary

Building full stack education finance applications for the state of Washington, servicing over 9000 lendees and increasing teaching grant applications by 10%.

Projects
  • Accounts Receivables
Tools
  • .NET
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  • Angular.js
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  • C#
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  • MS SQL
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  • Vue.js

Outreach Coordinator

Native Plant Salvage Foundation, Olympia, WA; –
Summary

Marketing, education, landscaping and application design. Built a database to manage over 5000 nursery specimens. Increased newsletter subscription by 20% through weekly features.

Projects
  • Menagerie
Tools
  • Adobe Creative Suite
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  • PostgreSQL
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  • Vue.js

Senior Technical Support Specialist

Stearns County, St. Cloud, MN; –
Summary

Built internal administrative applications and managed content on the public site. Reduced default benefit fallback rate by 75% with new open enrollment application.

Projects
  • Open Enrollment
Tools
  • Angular
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  • JavaScript
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  • React
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  • SharePoint

Database Administrator

Seattle University, Seattle, WA; –
Summary

Led a team of employees to reduce tens of thousands of revenue loss in transportation benefits programs.

Tools
  • ColdFusion
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  • JavaScript
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  • MS Access
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  • XSLT

Event Manager

Afton, Seattle, WA; –
Summary

Managed lineups and finances for concerts at SoDo venue increasing event frequncy by 3x.

Tools
  • Microsoft Office

Vice President of Public Relations

St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN; –
Summary

Planned and executed recruitment campaigns, doubling recruitment pool over prior year.

Tools
  • Adobe Creative Suite
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  • ColdFusion
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  • Microsoft Office
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  • MySQL

Husky Night Life Coordinator

St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN; –
Summary

Planned and ran monthly festivals of 1500-3000 attendees, managing as many as 200 volunteers per event.

Tools
  • Adobe Creative Suite
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  • ColdFusion
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  • Microsoft Office