Shane Church

About Me

I am a UX-focused senior software engineer and architect with more than 25 years of experience building web, mobile, and desktop applications. At Vermeer, I build mobile apps that control and interact with automated and autonomous machinery, mentor a team of developers, and led the company's move from on-premises source control and CI/CD to GitHub. Earlier roles at Stine Seed, Nationwide, EffectiveUI, and others spanned full-stack development, UX leadership, and offshore team management. I also serve as a Director At-Large for dsmHack, the charity hackathon that helps Des Moines-area non-profits solve technology problems, and I maintain open-source projects such as a Lego Boost MoveHub remote and the Fully Feedly browser extension.

I live in the Des Moines area with my wife, Andrea, and our three sons, Ethan, Colin, and Owen. I enjoy bicycling, baseball (Go Rockies!), watching CU Buffs athletics, and playing Lego with the boys, and I love to travel whenever the opportunity presents itself.

What I Do ?

I am a UX-focused software engineer and architect specializing in TypeScript/JavaScript, C#/.NET, and mobile applications, with a growing focus on AI-assisted development.

AI-assisted software engineering
Vue.js and Angular
JavaScript and TypeScript
C# and .NET / ASP.NET Core
HTML5 and CSS3
Node.js
Mobile applications
CI/CD and GitHub Actions
SQL (PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server)
User experience design and prototyping
Team leadership and mentoring
and much more...

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Blog

Welcome Owen James!

1 week ago today, Owen James was born at 8:11 am on August 31, 2021! 19.5 inches and 9 lbs 2 oz!

Programming Lego Boost With JavaScript - Tonight at dsmJs!

Wow! It’s been over a year since I last made a post here. Anyway, tonight I am presenting “Progra...

Reflections on dsmHack 2017

Last month I had the privilege of attending dsmHack for the first time. dsmHack is a charity hack...

Projects

Fully Feedly

Read your RSS feed at the speed of light!

FullyFeedly shows the full content articles in Feedly.com, the famous RSS feed reader, even when the feed only contains a summary.

Star Fork

What I Eat

A simple food journal for Windows Phone

Want to keep track of what you eat but don't want all of the calorie databases and granular measurements? What I Eat is the app for you! You control the granularity and timing of the entries, and you control what you see.

Export data to Excel via OneDrive for further analysis!
Color code and categorize entries by meal type.
Optional synchronization with Windows Azure Mobile Services in preparation for a Windows 8/RT companion
Full Windows Phone 8 Support
Machine translated for broad localization!

Stirling Birthday

Stirling Birthday displays your friends' upcoming birthdays on a beautiful live tile!

Call, Text, or Email birthday greetings from the app
Quickly see all birthdays upcoming in the next month, birthdays from the previous month, and all birthdays for all of your contacts
Share your birthday greetings on social networks
Full support for all Windows Phone tile sizes
Fully localized into 38 languages

Stirling Money

Stirling Money replaces your checkbook register and does all of the math for you.

Features:

Manage multiple accounts
Pin live tiles for direct access to an individual account
Plan and track budgets and financial goals
Visualize your financial health and progress with a series of charts
Search transactions to find individual transactions within an account
Tap and hold to edit accounts, transactions, categories, budgets, and goals
Backup to and restore from OneDrive
Synchronize your data between family members so you can always know what your financial status is
Machine translated into 37 languages

Resume

Experience

June 2019
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Present
Senior Software Engineer - Intelligent Systems
Vermeer - Pella, IA
- Played a key role in the development of mobile applications to control and interact with automated and autonomous machinery.
- Guided and mentored junior developers on topics including AI debugging and best practices.
- Supervised and mentored a team of 4 developers.
- Lead a migration from on-premises source control and CI/CD to GitHub including building documentation and reusable workflows to facilitate the transition for other teams.
- Served as the go-to resource for any multi-system debugging issue.
- Worked as a full-stack developer designing and developing applications supporting business operations at Vermeer manufacturing using technologies including Vue.js, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C#, .NET Core, Oracle, and PostgreSQL.
Jan 2025
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Present
Director At-Large
dsmHack - Des Moines, IA
- Director at-large for dsmHack helping in organizing the annual charity hackathon helping Des Moines-area non-profits solve their technology problems because technology should never be a barrier to doing good.
February 2017
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March 2019
Senior Software Engineer
Stine Seed - Dallas Center, IA
- Worked as a full-stack developer on a small team designing and developing applications in support of the research and sales operations at Stine Seed using technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Angular 6, D3.js, Webpack, Node.js, C#, ASP.NET, .NET Core and SQL Server.
- Served as the lead UX expert, designing and implementing UI in consultation with end users.
April 2016
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Dec 2016
Creative Technologist
Nationwide Insurance - Des Moines, IA
- Worked as a contractor on the user experience (UX) team at Nationwide Insurance designing and developing high fidelity UI prototypes for multiple business units using technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Bootstrap, Node.js, Angular.js.
- Served as the UX Lead on additional projects, managing project scope, timelines, and deliverables for the UX team in addition to being responsible for development related deliverables.
July 2015
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Feb 2016
Development Supervisor
Two Rivers Marketing - Des Moines, IA
- Managed team of 2 developers and a project manager providing technical guidance and mentoring.
- Served as the primary technical point of contact for clients and internal account teams for all phases of development from sales through implementation.
- Managed the technical communications and relationship with the agency’s development outsourcing partners.
- Developed numerous engaging animations and applications for clients using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SVG, ReactJS, and Node.js.
- Established standardized development processes and workflows using Git, Node.js, and Grunt.js.
Aug 2014
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June 2015
Senior Software Engineer
ShopAtHome.com - Greenwood Village, CO
- Developed browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, IE, and Safari using HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Backbone.js, Handlebars, RequireJS, Lodash, and jQuery.
- Developed back end services to support the browser extensions in C#, ASP.NET MVC, and ASP.NET WebAPI.
Jan 2003
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Present
Owner/Developer
s-church.net - Lakewood, CO/Pleasant Hill, IA
- Designed and implemented a series of free and commercial Windows Phone applications using C# and XAML. All apps are localized into 38 languages supported in the Windows Phone Store and have more than 200,000 combined downloads.
- https://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/store/publishers?publisherId=Shane%2BChurch
- Two of the above apps, Stirling Birthday and What I Eat, are featured 2-4 times weekly in at least one worldwide market in the Windows Phone Store beginning in September 2013 through the present.
- Weather Info 2005 for Windows Mobile named “Program of the Day” by Telefonica.net on January 12, 2006
- Weather Info 2.4 for Pocket PC named “Freeware of the Day” by PocketPCTools.com on August 11, 2004
Sep 2010
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July 2014
Technical Lead
EffectiveUI - Denver, CO
- Lead a team of 5 developers in building and architecting a system for National Oilwell Varco to visualize and edit oil well designs in 2D and 3D in HTML5 canvas using AngularJS, Twitter Bootstrap, KineticJS, ThreeJS, ng-grid, and Bing Maps, and Node.js. Also managed development resources in Ukraine and QA resources in India for this project.
- Lead a team of 4 developers in building and architecting a system for the El Paso County (CO) Assessor’s Office to value oil and gas drilling operations for tax purposes using ASP.NET MVC 4, .NET 4.5, C#, jQuery, KnockoutJS, and Entity Framework 5.0.
- Developed a mobile technology demonstration prototype running on Android, and iOS for Cartegraph using ASP.NET MVC 3, .NET 4.0, C#, jQuery, jQuery Mobile demonstrating the integration of mobile web with native device functionality. This prototype was the source of the MSDN Magazine article in March 2012.
- Developed, architected, and assisted in the sales process on a number of projects involving HTML5, CSS3, AngularJS, jQuery, jQuery Mobile, Twitter Bootstrap, ASP.NET (MVC, WebAPI), C#, WCF, SQL Server, Node.js, and numerous other Web development tools.
- Worked with and managed offshore resources in India, Ukraine, and Ethiopia on various projects.
May 2008
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July 2010
Senior Software Engineer
CNSI - Lakewood, CO
- Proposed, designed, and developed an online tool for Mine Rescue Teams, including a custom ASP.NET Google Maps server control, to allow emergency responders to get all of the relevant information about and directions to a mine emergency. The site uses the ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit, ASP.NET 3.5, Windows Communication Foundation, Google Maps, Google Local Search, and Oracle.
- Developed and maintained .NET systems for the Mine Safety and Health Administration of the US Department of Labor, including the public facing EGov portal using Visual Studio 2008, ASP.NET 2.0 and 3.5, SOAP Web Services, C#, and Oracle.
Sep 2006
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May 2008
Systems Architect
Fujitsu Consulting - Greenwood Village, CO
- Developed the Prepaid Administration System user interface using C#, ASP.NET 2.0 and SOAP Web Services for the prepaid credit card group at Visa, Inc.
- Diagnosed and corrected production application issues for prepaid credit card services at Visa, Inc.
Aug 2005
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Aug 2006
Senior Software Engineer
TimeCentre - Westminster, CO
- Designed and implemented Time Clock Server using C#, .NET Framework 2.0, ASP.NET, and SQL Server
- Designed and implemented a Pocket PC Time Clock application using C#, .NET Compact Framework 2.0, and SOAP Web Services
Feb 1998
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Aug 2005
Sr. Systems Analyst/Programmer
Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site - Golden, CO
- Designed and implemented a number of web, desktop and mobile applications to facilitate sample tracking and environmental cleanup using ASP.NET, .NET Windows Forms, C#, Oracle, SQL Server, XAML, XML, and Palm OS.
Feb 2008
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Aug 2009
Church Councilman
Holy Shepherd Lutheran Church - Lakewood, CO
- Elected council member and chairman of the Planning and Staffing committee in charge of with managing the human resources and planning needs for a staff of five full-time and seven part-time employees with a combined payroll in excess of $300,000.
June 2005
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Feb 2008
Board of Directors
Denver Turnverein - Denver, CO
- Elected member of the Board of Directors of 501(c)7 non-profit with a budget of over $200,000 involved in decision making regarding revenue, marketing, tax status, and operation.

Education

1997
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2001
University of Colorado at Boulder
Bachelor of Science - Boulder, CO

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Shane Church

About Me

What I Do ?

Photos

Blog

Projects

Fully Feedly

What I Eat

Stirling Birthday

Stirling Money

Features:

Resume

Experience

Senior Software Engineer - Intelligent Systems

Director At-Large

Senior Software Engineer

Creative Technologist

Development Supervisor

Senior Software Engineer

Owner/Developer

Technical Lead

Senior Software Engineer

Systems Architect

Senior Software Engineer

Sr. Systems Analyst/Programmer

Church Councilman

Board of Directors

Education

University of Colorado at Boulder

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