Engineering & Software Systems (Visual)

SEAN G. BROWN Software & Electrical Systems Engineer sean.george.brown@gmail.com | (916) 616-0102 | https://seangb.com/ | https://github.com/seabAu | https://linkedin.com/in/sean-brown-116b4b79 Sanford, NC

SUMMARY Software & electrical systems engineer with more than a decade of professional technical work across full-stack development, industrial and utility engineering, cloud, automation, and security. Known for learning unfamiliar systems quickly, synthesizing multiple disciplines into one workflow, and building practical tools that close capability gaps, remove recurring friction, and improve reliability.

CORE STRENGTHS - Cross-disciplinary systems synthesis - Rapid systems learning - Internal tools & capability-gap closure - Full-stack product ownership - Diagnostics, validation & fault isolation - Technical communication & documentation

EDUCATION B.S. Electrical Engineering, Washington State University - 2015 Engineer-in-Training (EIT) A.S. Sciences (Physics & Engineering), Bellevue College - 2012 A.S. Arts & Sciences, Bellevue College - 2012

SELECTED IMPACT - Reduced estimated AWS spend by about 79%. - Supported modernization of a 120 MW hydropower facility. - Built tools spanning production software, operations, and engineering data.

EXPERIENCE

Web Developer - Full-Stack Applications & Internal Systems Apex Waves, Ltd. | Raleigh, NC | Nov 2025 - May 2026 Provider of procurement, repair, calibration, customization, and resale services for legacy electronic test-and-measurement hardware, primarily National Instruments / NI equipment. - Modernized production e-commerce and internal operations systems supporting inventory, quote requests, RMA intake, order fulfillment, customer checkout, procurement, databases, integrations, and AWS infrastructure. - Reworked front-end, back-end, and database workflows across inventory, quote-management, RMA, fulfillment, and checkout while preserving business continuity in aging systems used every day. - Built high-speed internal micro-applications that removed repetitive bottlenecks and gave staff faster access to inventory, procurement, order, and fulfillment data. - Developed procurement intelligence and integration utilities to surface stock availability and pricing data from eBay and other secondary-market sources. - Designed diagnostic and data-visibility tools that made workflow failures easier to identify, reproduce, troubleshoot, and resolve. - Built regression coverage for internal applications to reduce risk while changing interconnected production systems. - Worked directly with nontechnical staff to understand recurring operational problems, validate proposed changes, and refine software around actual use. - Redesigned checkout workflows to reduce customer friction while strengthening fraud-resistant order and payment handling. - Audited AWS resources, removed unused EC2 capacity, and streamlined server use, reducing estimated monthly spend from approximately $12,000 to $2,500 (about 79%). - Rebuilt six subsidiary websites and redesigned the public free-tools suite as an extensible PHP/vanilla-JavaScript micro-SPA configurable without major code changes.

Full-Stack Software & Systems Engineer (Technical Developer) Sibylline, Ltd. | London, UK (Remote) | Jun 2020 - Nov 2025 - Built and maintained responsive public and employee-facing applications, supporting company branding, analyst workflows, and internal access to key information. - Developed a full-stack MERN application that consumed, searched, visualized, mapped, and exported UK Crime Reports API data using React, Mapbox, data tables, and JSON/CSV output. - Translated nontechnical requirements into usable internal interfaces and workflows while working remotely across time zones and organizational functions. - Built Power Platform applications and automations with Power BI, Power Apps, and Power Automate for onboarding, offboarding, and recurring office processes. - Engineered Microsoft Intune MDM/MAM policy and configuration infrastructure from the ground up, strengthening endpoint security and simplifying device onboarding and administration. - Administered the broader Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 environment for approximately five years, including Entra ID, Intune, SharePoint, Teams, Exchange, identity/access, endpoint management, security, and related cloud services. - Explored AI-adjacent internal applications using Python, Django, Flask, Azure-connected services, and emerging model tooling while the organization evaluated enterprise AI use cases. - Led phishing simulations, active threat response, cybersecurity-program development, technical guidance, and company-wide security instruction covering foundational, intermediate, personal, and enterprise security. - Worked across software development, cloud administration, cybersecurity, technical support, documentation, and user enablement, following problems across system and organizational boundaries as needs evolved.

Electrical Engineering Design Associate II Industrial TurnAround Corporation (ITAC) | Raleigh, NC | Mar 2018 - May 2020 - Designed power cabling, routing, controls, and associated infrastructure for motors, pumps, conveyors, compressors, fans, heaters, VFDs, panels, junction boxes, and Allen-Bradley/Rockwell MCCs. - Performed NEC-based cable, conduit, and tray sizing; completed SKM Powertools arc-flash studies; and supported grounding, lighting, and power-distribution design. - Coordinated structural arrangements and instrumentation/control signals, participated in RFIs and site visits, and resolved field and documentation issues across disciplines. - Produced one-lines, schematics, wiring diagrams, cable schedules, design specifications, and AutoCAD power, lighting, grounding, and control plans.

Field Engineer (Contract) Industrial Tests, Inc. | Rocklin, CA | Jun 2017 - Aug 2017 - Performed electrical acceptance and maintenance field testing in switchyard and control-room environments following NETA/NFPA 70E practices. - Completed insulation-resistance, high-potential, continuity, termination, enclosure, and mechanical inspections; documented failures, repairs, recommendations, and field conditions.

Hydropower EIT Electrical Designer (Contract) Aerotek / HDR, Inc. | Sacramento, CA | Jan 2016 - Jun 2017 - Supported modernization and restoration of a 120 MW hydro pumping-generating plant. - Performed NEC sizing and optimization for cables, conduits, trays, breakers, motors, transformers, feeders, and branch circuits; created Excel-based tools and schedules for more than 2,000 cable, conduit, and tray records. - Produced cable and conduit schedules, revised drawings, schematics, wiring diagrams, and panel drawings; assisted with protective relaying and trained on switchgear, MCC, and PLC schematics.

PROJECTS

Mindspace - PUBLIC PRE-1.0 PREVIEW https://mindspace.seangb.com/ React/MERN life-management platform combining tasks, schedules, notes, goals, reminders, routines, workspaces, and planning; long-running ownership across architecture, state, UX, authentication, and scheduling complexity.

Splicr - PUBLISHED https://splicr.seangb.com/ Python/FastAPI and Docker document-to-audio studio with highly customizable dynamic local TTS, asynchronous jobs, provider-neutral adapters, durable SQLite state, restart-safe checkpoints, retries, editing workflows, pytest, and CI.

COMPOSR - PUBLISHED https://composr.seangb.com/ Manifest-driven TypeScript/React utility and diagnostics workbench with shared tool infrastructure, browser automation, Playwright/Lighthouse analysis, scraping, evidence artifacts, repeatable baselines, and extension-oriented platform design.

Portfolio Platform - PUBLISHED https://seangb.com/ Next.js portfolio/CMS and case-study platform with data-driven content, reusable components, admin workflows, structured project evidence, and Jest/Playwright validation.

Akashatools - NPM PUBLISHED https://npmjs.com/package/akashatools Reusable JavaScript utility library for data transformation and rendering support, including large and deeply nested object arrays, path-based access, helpers, and runtime type validation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages & Front End JavaScript (ES6+), TypeScript, Python, PHP, SQL, HTML5, CSS3; prior C#, C/C++, and Java. React, Next.js, Vue, Angular, Vite, Redux Toolkit, Zustand, React Router, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui, Sass/LESS, Bootstrap, Material UI, Ant Design, jQuery, and Mapbox.

Back End, APIs & Data Node.js, Express.js, FastAPI, Django, Flask, CodeIgniter/LAMP, REST APIs, Socket.IO, asynchronous/background jobs, and scheduled work. MongoDB/Mongoose, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Supabase, pandas, Power Query, JSON/CSV, API integration, web scraping, and RSS.

Testing, Delivery & Cloud Playwright, Jest, pytest, Lighthouse, unit/integration/E2E/regression testing, browser automation and traces, Git/GitHub, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux/Apache, AWS EC2, Microsoft Azure, DigitalOcean, Linode, and on-premises hosting.

Microsoft, Automation & Security Microsoft 365, Entra ID/Azure AD, Intune MDM/MAM, Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, identity/access, endpoint administration, phishing simulation/training, threat response, and data-loss prevention.

AI-Assisted Development Codex, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, OpenAI/Anthropic/Google APIs, Ollama, GPT4All, Vercel v0, RAG, MCP-connected tooling, memory systems, model evaluation, context/specification design, and output validation.

Electrical Power, Controls & Instrumentation Industrial/utility power distribution, motor controls, VFDs, controls and instrumentation, motors, pumps, conveyors, compressors, panels, junction boxes, Allen-Bradley/Rockwell MCCs, switchgear, PLC and protective-relay schematics, breakers, transformers, feeders, and branch circuits.

Electrical Design & Documentation NEC cable/conduit/tray sizing and routing, grounding, lighting, SKM Powertools arc-flash studies, AutoCAD, one-lines, schematics, wiring and panel diagrams, cable/conduit schedules, specifications, instrumentation/control coordination, RFIs, and construction documentation.

Field Testing & Engineering Data Electrical acceptance/maintenance testing, insulation resistance, high-potential, continuity, termination and enclosure inspections, NETA/NFPA 70E practices, field fault isolation, Excel engineering tools, and 2,000+ record cable/conduit/tray datasets.