Nickolas Patino

• Build and maintain Kniraven.com using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Bootstrap, Apache, AWS EC2, Route 53, and a LAMPP production environment.
• Implement session-based accounts, OAuth login, password reset workflows, Microsoft Graph API email automation, and Stripe API checkout functionality.
• Maintain a private GitHub-based deployment workflow using local XAMPP development, domain-specific repositories, and Windows batch scripts to push approved production updates.

• Built a browser-based 5e stat block generator using PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Bootstrap 5 for both internal Aether Studios production and audience-created third-party content.
• Developed validation, formatting, and quick-start documentation to standardize 5e stat block creation and reduce manual review/rework.
• Produced 5e monster stat blocks, subclasses, vehicle systems, and Kickstarter-linked TTRPG content for Aether Studios projects.
• Contributed to Space Bug Prairie, which raised $7,204 on a $2,000 goal, funding at 360% of target.
• Contributed to Mimic Village, which raised $10,306 on a $1,500 goal, funding at 687% of target.

• Lead a small contractor team creating an original three-part adventure module and campaign setting supplement for Guldan Stories LLC’s in-development game, Lucid: The Dreaming.
• Manage scope, milestones, documentation, publisher reviews, versioning, and monthly client progress updates.
• Build project materials for web delivery using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and Bootstrap 5.

• Supported FP&A consolidations, reporting, KPI loading, cross-system financial data movement, reconciliations, hierarchy/mapping maintenance, and variance investigation.
• Reconciled financial values across Oracle Fusion, Hyperion, Power BI, and SAS-derived reporting outputs.
• Produced recurring KPI reports and ad-hoc reporting for senior stakeholders using Excel, Smart View, think-cell, pivot tables, cube member formulas, and advanced formulas.
• Built a Microsoft Forms / Power Automate / SharePoint workflow for Management Unit hierarchy update requests.
• Refactored a quarterly external-reporting workbook with VBA, reducing preparation time from 30+ minutes to about 30 seconds.

• Managed process improvement intake, documentation, workflow support, automation, KPI tracking, stakeholder coordination, and change support across multiple operations teams.
• Built web forms, Excel tools, VBA automations, and local HTML/CSS/JavaScript tools to reduce manual work and improve process efficiency.
• Managed a SharePoint-based Process Optimization and Change Management Portal used across billing, collections, claims administration, accounts payable, property, operations, and procurement teams.
• Automated more than 60% of manual billing processes, contributing to average annual savings of 3.7 FTE and approximately $150,000 yearly.
• Supported offshore transition efforts that reduced costs by at least 20% without impacting service quality.

• Supported claims payment administration, invoice reconciliation, payment issuance and voids, returned and uncashed check follow-up, queue management, and claims-related system support.
• Built a bulk payment reconciliation tool and configured a secure SharePoint-based platform for financial information sharing with an external contractor.
• Achieved 100% SLA compliance for the first time in two years despite a 10% staff cut; cut bulk payment reconciliation processing time by 60% and saved 80+ hours monthly.

Relevant Coursework: JavaScript, Advanced JavaScript, Website Development with HTML5, Advanced Website Development, PHP with MySQL, Advanced PHP and MySQL Web Development, SQL Database Programming, Java, Advanced Java, UI/UX for Developers, Agile Practices, IT Security Awareness, and Foundations of Software Quality.

Certification: Software Quality Fundamentals, Madison Area Technical College.