# Alec Knutsen

> Senior Software Engineer at Garmin International (Aviation Displays UI)

Location: Lenexa, Kansas, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alecknutsen

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer - Aviation Displays UI @ Garmin International
Jan 2019 – Present
Developer for next generation Garmin Flight Planning and Garmin Phase of Flight applications resulting in acquisition of new customer flight decks

Improved resuability of Garmin Flight Planning applications using the Adapter Pattern allowing Garmin Flight Planning applications to be used across multiple different products

Mentored multiple interns along with Romanian team in next generation Flight Plan application development 

Improved automated test coverage and lowered defect counts for phone and text services using Python

### Software Engineer for Patient Accounting, Revenue Cycle @ Cerner Corporation
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Kansas City, Missouri Area
Pioneered a new skip rebilling feature using C# to improve health plan changes

Awarded Revenue Cycle All Star for improving customer experience involving non-recurring health plans

Reduced error rates for encounter modification process using SQL

### Student Research Assistant @ Information & Telecommunication Technology Center
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Lawrence, KS
Summer 2015:

Independent study which included implementing Autoregressive Moving Average Models and Monte-Carlo Simulation algorithms for generating random variables

R source code: https://github.com/aqknutsen/Random_Variable_Simulation and https://github.com/aqknutsen/Stocks_ARIMA

American Control Conference, Chicago, IL (July 5, 2016) - Presented and introduced R and Matlab to middle school and high school students

Workshop Program: http://www.math.ku.edu/ksacg/workshops/ACC_2015/acc2015workshop_program.pdf

Spring 2016:

Along with another student, wrote and presented the paper "The Discrete-Time Kalman Filter and Its Applications" at the 2016 University of Kansas Undergraduate Research Symposium

Paper: https://github.com/aqknutsen/Kalman_Filter_Research/blob/master/Symposium_Paper.pdf

Symposium Program: https://ugresearch.ku.edu/sites/ugresearch.ku.edu/files/docs/Full%20Program%20with%20Abstracts.pdf (see pg. 85)

Maintain and update the web-page for the Association for Women in Mathematics, University of Kansas Chapter, as well as numerous web-pages for a University of Kansas math professor 

Website Links: https://www.math.ku.edu/~awm and http://www.math.ku.edu/ksacg/Bozenna.html

### Software Intern @ Cerner Corporation
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Kansas City, Missouri Area
Implemented a script in Java facilitating fast configuration of Java Virtual Machine parameters on servers

Developed monitoring solution for connection counts on SonicMQ messaging brokers to improve internal monitoring metrics

### Software Engineer Intern @ Garmin International
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Lawrence, Kansas Area
Improved and maintained product code bases for maintenance software releases using C++

### Software Quality Analyst Intern @ Hudl
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
In this position, I was responsible for testing and deploying new features to production. Other duties included writing test plans and automated tests. More specifically, I:

   1. Tested and deployed over forty features to production using Hudl’s deployment process, contributing to the first iteration of a new roster web-page
   2. Increased web-page automated test coverage by implementing multiple automated tests using Python with Selenium
   3. Implemented a performance tracking metric by writing an SQL query that will be used to analyze the impact of a new roster page on group creation


## Education
### Mathematics and Computer Science
The University of Kansas
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018

### None in None
Johnson County Community College
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alec-knutsen
- GitHub: https://github.com/aqknutsen

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Last updated: 2026-03-22