David LoderTechnology Professional

01 Work

  1. Current

    Business Technology Sales Advisor

    F8 ConsultingNew York City Metro (Hybrid)

    I qualify inbound and outbound leads for cloud infrastructure and managed service engagements, mostly with construction firms and nonprofits. Most of it is discovery calls: working out the operational issue behind a request, then writing it up in terms the engineering team can scope against. I sit in on those scoping sessions and carry scope, risk and timeline back to whoever signs off. I also built an internal lead qualification agent on Microsoft Copilot Agent Builder, then rebuilt it on Claude Projects after testing turned up accuracy gaps in the first version.

  2. Current

    Consumer Electronics Agent

    Best Buy — Geek SquadMays Landing, NJPromoted from Cadet, 2022

    I diagnose and resolve hardware, operating system and home networking faults across computers, displays, printers, routers and smart devices — both in a high-volume service environment and in customers' homes. A lot of it is reproducing a fault from an incomplete description, isolating the component that's failing rather than the one that looks guilty, and verifying the fix before the device goes back. On in-home calls I install and configure home theater and networking equipment and run the appointment end to end, including scheduling, follow-up and Geekmobile inventory. I document resolutions in the service system and train new agents on standard service and escalation procedure.

  3. IT Support & Deployment Intern

    Mitzvah Circle FoundationNorristown, PA

    I provisioned, imaged and deployed 32 Windows 11 laptops for staff and interns, standardizing the software build and the readiness checks that ran before each machine shipped — OS build, application install, Office activation, identity configuration. I configured Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft 365 and Google Credential Provider for Windows so sign-in and device management behaved consistently across the fleet, then wrote repeatable support runbooks and trained staff on them. That brought the repeat tickets down and shortened onboarding for new staff.

  4. Teaching Assistant

    Temple UniversityPhiladelphia, PA

    TA for Introduction to Problem Solving and Programming using Python in the College of Science and Technology. I assisted during lab sessions, held office hours, graded labs and exams, and gave students feedback on their code and programming projects.

  5. Data Entry Associate

    Lenegan PlumbingOcean City, NJ

    Maintained water meter records for municipal contract work, verifying data accuracy between field reports and internal records. I also contributed to the early development of an internal application for collecting that meter data.

02 Leadership & activities

  1. President & Workshop Coordinator

    TUDev (Temple University Developers)Philadelphia, PA

    Led Temple's developer student organization. I designed and delivered hands-on workshops on web development, Git and GitHub, SQL, AWS, Linux and AI-assisted coding, and mentored students on portfolio building, technical interviews and career direction across web, cloud and IT tracks. When winding the organization down became the right call, I filed the Articles of Dissolution to formally close its Pennsylvania nonprofit registration.

  2. STEM Leadership Fellow

    Temple College of Science & TechnologyPhiladelphia, PA

    Selected to a small cohort recognized for leadership and academic performance in STEM. I provided peer tutoring and instructional support for introductory programming coursework (CIS 1068), building learning materials and walking students through problem solving.

  3. Web Developer

    ACM Temple University ChapterPhiladelphia, PA

    Maintained the chapter's official website in React and Next.js, handling content updates and front-end improvements.

03 Education

  1. B.S., Information Science & Technology

    Temple UniversityPhiladelphia, PAGPA 3.46

    Studied information science and technology while staying deeply involved in Temple's technical community through ACM and TUDev, the university's club for hackers and makers. As TUDev's president I helped lead events built around innovation, technical skill-building and giving tech-minded students somewhere to find each other.

    Relevant coursework

    • Cloud Computing
    • Network Architecture
    • Database Management
    • Web Application Development
  2. A.A., Liberal Arts

    Camden County CollegeBlackwood, NJ

    Studied music, and learned through the experience that it wasn't the career I wanted to pursue. The useful lesson was that it's fine not to know your path immediately — as long as you have a plan, progress follows.

04 Toolkit

Languages

  • JavaScript (ES6+)
  • TypeScript
  • C#
  • Python
  • Java
  • SQL
  • Bash
  • PowerShell
  • HTML5
  • CSS3/SCSS

Frameworks & Libraries

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • Express
  • ASP.NET Core MVC
  • Entity Framework Core
  • Three.js
  • Bootstrap
  • jQuery

Cloud & DevOps

  • AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lightsail)
  • Akamai Cloud
  • Docker
  • Docker Compose
  • Linux
  • Nginx
  • Nginx Proxy Manager
  • Reverse proxies
  • Cloudflare DNS/CDN
  • SSL/TLS
  • CI/CD
  • TrueNAS

Identity & Endpoint

  • Microsoft 365 Admin
  • Microsoft Entra ID
  • Tenant migration
  • Windows 11 imaging & deployment
  • Security baselines
  • Google Workspace Admin
  • Google Credential Provider for Windows

Databases

  • SQL Server
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Query writing & result validation
  • Stored procedures

Testing & Practices

  • Unit testing (Jest, xUnit, JUnit)
  • Manual test case design
  • Defect triage
  • REST API design & testing
  • Microservice architecture
  • Code review
  • Agile/Scrum

Networking & Operations

  • DNS
  • DHCP
  • VPN
  • Network troubleshooting
  • Remote diagnostics
  • Runbook documentation
  • Ticket documentation
  • End-user training

Tools & Platforms

  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Visual Studio
  • VS Code
  • Postman
  • Figma
  • Vite
  • Directus CMS
  • Wiki.js
  • AnyDesk
  • AI-assisted development

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