About

Mark McQuillen is a passionate Software Engineer with over 15 years of experience in creating unique and beautiful user experiences. He has exceptional interpersonal skills and a friendly professional demeanor. Mark is quick to learn, dedicated, and ambitious, with an ability to adapt and excel in new situations and environments. Currently, Mark works at Sallie Mae as a Software Engineer, where he manages Azure DevOps to build, validate, and release the Customer Loan Servicing application. He has also built the Personal Loan application with Clojure, Clojurescript, Reagent, JavaScript, HTML & CSS. Mark has documented processes in Wiki, including local install and build of the Loan Servicing application. He was a winner in the Innovation Contest, making a proposal and presentation for future online applications. Mark monitors loan applications and debugs production issues with Kibana, Tealeaf, and Qualtrics. He utilizes Git and Sourcetree for version control, managing branch merges, and merge conflicts. Mark tracks work in Azure DevOps and participates in daily standups in alignment with SAFe Agile. He collaborates with Business, Marketing, and other Dev teams using Slack and Microsoft Teams. Mark optimizes user experience with complex live validations of input fields and ensures cross-browser behavior and performance using BrowserStack. He parses and sanitizes data from database services before passing to the front end. In the past, Mark has worked as a Software Engineer at River Studios, where he optimized daily developer workflow processes by ~15% through implementing Smart Commits in the QA pipeline with GitHub and JIRA integrations. He tested 14 Unity virtual reality builds with C# and JIRA, providing detailed documentation for bug reproduction. Mark reduced the VR setup time on Android devices by over 50% by engineering automation tools using Python to download and install APKs from Artifact Server. He also wrote comprehensive test plans for Unity VR C# systems to provide the offshore development team with structure to test 100% of build functionality. Mark constructed immersive, interactive, and intuitive VR experiences (MLK “I have a dream” and IceQuest) utilizing Unity and C# to experiment with best locomotion mechanics to eliminate motion sickness. Mark has also worked as a Database Project Admin at Cornerstone Research, where he assisted in client growth of 100% over a 5-year period through querying InterAction marketing DB to generate list reports of potential client attorneys and their fields of expertise for firm advertising campaigns. He queried Filesurf