Andrew Spofford
Director Of Outward Bound Professional at Hurricane Island Outward Bound School
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Spofford is a leadership development professional and former enterprise technology sales leader with over a decade of experience helping organizations build resilient, collaborative teams. As Director of Outward Bound Professional at Hurricane Island, he designs and facilitates experiential programs that translate outdoor challenges into measurable workplace improvements in goal-setting, conflict resolution, and emotional intelligence. His earlier career driving business development and client solutions at EMC, Perficient, and Synchronoss gives him deep empathy for corporate cultures and practical expertise in translating organizational needs into learning outcomes. Unexpectedly technical, Andrew also contributes Java and Kotlin backend work to the SpongePowered open-source Minecraft API, demonstrating a hands-on affinity for software and systems thinking. Based in Greater Boston, he pairs a BA in English and Secondary Education with a rare blend of sales acumen, instructional design, and developer-level problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of Massachusetts AmherstGould Academy
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
minecraft10
javas10
api10
event-handling10
apidoc10
java10
gradle8
gradlew8
broadcast-receiver6
android6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
SpongePowered/SpongeAPI
May 2016 - Jul 2019
A Minecraft plugin API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 19 PRs, 110 comments in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the SpongeAPI, a Minecraft plugin API. Their work included adding new arguments to the command system, specifically the `userOrSource` and `entityOrTarget` arguments. The commits also demonstrate contributions to event handling, including fixes and enhancements to the event factory and the addition of getter and setter methods for potion effects within the `ChangeEntityPotionEffectEvent`. Further work involved adding text replacement methods to the API.
minecraftspongeapijavagradlesponge
pie-flavor/Pieconomy
Jun 2017 - May 2020
Contributions:39 pushes, 2 branches, 25 comments in 2 years 11 months
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