Ryan Maurer

(724) 550-5942 ● underarockphoto@gmail.com

SUMMARY

• Full Stack Developer and Software Engineer specializing in JavaScript, TypeScript, and React. Proven ability to develop robust user interfaces and coordinate testing strategies. Skilled in both front-end and back-end development, with a solid understanding of UI/UX design and accessibility standards. Adept at working in remote Agile environments, utilizing tools like Git, Jira, and Confluence to ensure efficient project delivery.
• Experienced professional photographer specializing in harsh natural environments and the natural sciences.
• Engineer with experience in explosive welding, manufacturing processes, small-scale solid rocket motor fabrication and testing, and electronics development.
• Entrepenuer with experience starting, building, and sustaining self-operating business.
• Past Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mid-Atlantic Karst Conservancy.

EDUCATION

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Mindera Learning US website
• Front-end developer using React, NodeJS, and Strapi content-management services.
• Quality assurance engineer writing and implementing end-to-end test suites using Playwright.
• Communicated with stakeholders as part of the software development cyclen..

• Quality assurance engineer for the Instant Group Worka Marketplace.
• Developed and coordinated test plan, test strategy, and tracking for this team.
• Develop and conduct manual test cases using BrowserStack and Playwright for automation.

• UI/UX designer for a full stack application that collected and tracked team progress and status updates.
• Full stack developer using a React front end, ExpressJS back end, and AWS cloud services as a CI/CD pipeline.
• Figma, AWS Cloud Services, Terraform, React

• Software developer on the Qubit team producing front-end experimental experiences for FanDuel Daily Fantasy, FanDuel Racing, and FanDuel Sportbook.
• JavaScript, React, Preact, TypeScript

• Coordinate and manage activities and execution of actions by the Mid-Atlantic Karst Conservancy
• Maintain and support communication between Board members and preserve managers, state agencies, outside interest groups, and Conservancy members.
• Facilitate and support the Mid-Atlantic Karst Conservancy in achieving its goals and sustaining it’s founding mission.

• Facilitate and support the Mid-Atlantic Karst Conservancy in achieving its goals and sustaining it’s founding mission.

• Provide instruction, tutoring, and mentoring in mathematical literacy and topics.
• Grades K through 12 and college.
• Counting, basic math skills, algebra, trigonometry, geometry, pre-calculus, and calculus.

• Assignment work writing articles and providing accompanying photographs for magazines and books.
• Contract photographic services for the National Park Service, commercial caves, and the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreration.
• Contract services for film development, scanning, and restoration.

• Prepare and serve coffee and coffee-based drinks.
• Monitor and adjust coffee creweing parameters to maintain body and flavor profiles.
• Respond to and monitor customer requests.

• Worked on projects and processes related to explosion welding fabrication.
• Development and distribution of work orders from customer specifications.
• Schedule team conferences to assess and respond to customer technical queries and production anomalies.
• Production of the US Navy RAST systems.
• Underground survey work of production facilities located in limestone mines
• Respond to production anomalies to allow workflow to continue uninterrupted.

• Lead cave trips for the general public, groups, and children.
• Conducted daily trips into the cave to educate the public in a wild caving environment. This position entailed extensive group management experience in balancing the needs and abilities of individuals in a unique and stressful environment while also educating and providing an advertised adventure experience.
• Managed and conducted rappelling programs for the general public and tour groups.
• Conducted a resurvey of the cave to modern cartographic standards including a complete plan and profile survey, air flow measurements, geologic profile, structure, and stratigraphy surveys conducted in the field.
• Final map produced Winter 2021. Copies available upon request.

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

• Primary cartographer for 50.5 mile long cave system in southern West Virginia.
• Completed maps: Laurel Caverns (PA), Elevator Shaft (WV), Floyd Waggys Cave (WV), Whitings Neck Cave (WV), and Shreve-Howell Pit (WV). Several smaller caves.
• In progress maps: Cedar Ridge Crystal Cave (TN), Friars Hole Cave System (WV), and Sinks of the Run (WV)
• Other maps: Falling Cave (geologic profile, AL), Valhalla (geologic profile, AL), Laurel Caverns Geological Park (surface map, PA), Fantasy Cave (PA, co-cartographer)
• Co-ordinate and participate in re-survey and original exploratory survey in cave systems around the United States.

• Initiated and sustained a long-term organization to promote and enable development and study of complex and experimental solid rocket motors by and for undergraduate students.
• Experience includes the development and integration of test systems for large high power rocket motors, fabrication of propellant and hardware for integrated flight propulsion systems, include mathematical and computer-based modelling of internal motor ballistics, computer aided design, finite element analysis, composite structure fabrication, GPS tracking and wireless telemetry, technical photography, high-speed videography, and report writing.

• 3rd Place Finalist in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
• Project built an integrated test-system for solid rocket motors where thrust data was collected and sent wirelessly to a computer in real time.
• Project included: custom designed and built load cell, integrated custom amplifier circuit, custom software for data acquisition, conversion, and wireless transmission, computer software to aquire and analyze data, and a 175+ page technical report detailing the design and operation of the test system.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

AutoCAD, SolidWorks, MATLAB, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Visual Studio Code, R, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop, Inkscape, Qubit, Github. (Fluent) Visual Basic, JavaScript, R, Matlab, HTML, CSS (Experience) Java, C, C++, C#, PHP, Arduino, Mathematica (Exposure) Python, Go, Docker CNC, mills, lathes, angle grinders, bandsaws, drill presses, hammer drills, industrial mixers, soldering, printed circuit boards, composites, metallography. full frame digital single reflex lens cameras, large format film cameras, medium format film camera, 35mm film cameras, darkroom black and white printing, black and white film processing, C-41 color print film processing, E-6 color slide film processing, Kodachrome black and white processing, film scanning and digitization, photo restoration. Genres include: landscape, fine-art, high-speed, macro, geology, flora, fauna, and product.

References are available upon request.