Andrew Woodruff

Product Owner

thenewbadger.crypto
Smart Contract Dev

$thenewbadger

About Me

I am a self-taught programmer and a blockchain enthusiast. I bought my first bitcoin in the 2017 craze, but really dove in deep in 2020 amidst the pandemic. I got my start as a smart contract dev with Upstate Interactive and then worked as a Product Owner for Foundry Digital.

  • Age 29
  • Residence USA
  • Hobbies Cycling & Strategy Games
  • Favorite Food Pizza
  • Fav Beer Rhinegeist Truth IPA

What I Do

Project Management

I am a certified project manager by PMI. I have also been scrum trained and worked on an agile team for several years. I have used JIRA and Notion to lead scrum ceremonies to deliver code to production.

Marlowe Smart Contracts

Marlowe is a Domain Specific Language for financial smart contracts on Cardano. Not only do I have significant experience writing Marlowe Contracts, I built and maintain the VSCode extension.

Product Owner

At Foundry Digital, I grew my skills by stepping up to be a Product Owner of two different products. As a PO, I developed competitve and market analysis reports. I also launched our ASIC marketplace.

Blockchian Infrastructure

The hotest scaling technology in the Cardano ecosystem is Hydra. I have made this technology my specialty. Check out the blog section for some examples of my work.

Resume

Experience

2023 - Present
Alliant Energy

Strategic Project Manager 2

May 2022 - Oct 2022
Foundry Digital

Product Owner

I lead a team of developers building out a brokerage style marketplace. Lead scrum ceremonies and delivered monthly road map presentations. To do this, I used productivity tools such as JIRA, GitLab, Confluence, and Miro. I alsolLead a new project initiative focused on mining pool profitability.

2022
Upstate Interactive

Product Owner

Lead multiple software development projects simultaneously. Ensured the team was on schedule, budget and scope. • Helped develope a new wave of innovation by prioritizing the UI / UX, something that the blockchain space needs to gain mass adoption. We were acquired after 2 months.

2021 - 2022
Upstate Interactive

Smart Contract Developer

Worked with client to build a smart contract back end that met there needs in a timely fashion. Developed extensive tests to ensure smart contracts functioned properly.

2018 - 2021
Regal Beloit

Application Engineer

Applied critical thinking to find the best solutions to complex multi-department problems • Compiled, evaluated, and presented test data to internal and external stakeholders • Used statistical modeling to prove viability of reducing SKU count by 50%

Education

2021
Dapp University

Solidity Developer

2021
IOHK

Plutus Pioneer Program

2020
Codecademy

Web Design

Business Skills

Leadership

Communication

Project Management

Critical Thinking

Team Work

Coding Skills

Marlowe

JavaScript

HTML/CSS

Rust (comming soon)

Chat GPT

Knowledges

  • Communication
  • Critical Thinking
  • Data Analysis
  • Marlowe
  • Project Management
  • Blockchain Infrastructure
  • Problem-Solving
  • Self Motivated

Certificates

CAPM

Membership ID: 3022226
27 June 2021

Agile trained

April 2017

Dapp University Bootcamp

Serial No. cert_t9bcjckf
06 Oct, 2021

Atala Prism 101

Serial No. 8f9e6a...
01 May, 2023

Portfolio

Solidity Capstone 1

Solidity Capstone

Detailed
Solidity Capstone 2

Randomized NFT

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Contact

Madison, Wi

The.New.Badger#7235

TheNewBadger6@gmail

Freelance Available