Andrew Milton Email & Phone Number

My clients, some of the largest cellular, cable and satellite-radio companies in the USA, sought me out for my technical expertise and business acumen. Together we tackled fascinating challenges such as optimizing promotional campaigns, scrutinizing product revenue contributions, and segmenting customers in the activation stream.I engaged with major RDBMS platforms: Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Teradata EDW, and PostgreSQL. I brought my clients a blend of custom solution architecture… Show more My clients, some of the largest cellular, cable and satellite-radio companies in the USA, sought me out for my technical expertise and business acumen. Together we tackled fascinating challenges such as optimizing promotional campaigns, scrutinizing product revenue contributions, and segmenting customers in the activation stream.I engaged with major RDBMS platforms: Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Teradata EDW, and PostgreSQL. I brought my clients a blend of custom solution architecture, leadership, and consultative finesse.• I oversaw projects starting from client needs analysis through to delivery and beyond.• I collaborated smoothly with corporate stakeholders, SMEs, and end users.• I led database architecture and delved into code construction.• I integrated seamlessly into client methodologies, be it Agile or Scrum.Scorecard had internal projects as well, to create and improve their products. As a Product Architect, I spearheaded our next-generation analysis features with the vision of empowering decision-makers by converting custom metrics into actionable business knowledge.Working for Scorecard meant working closely with other consultants in a symbiotic way, switching hats as required, to help each other and our clients. I often directed coworkers, off-loading tasks from my own projects. At other times, our roles were reversed. I would jump on calls or VPN to lend my expertise for data engineering, coding ad hoc stored procedures, or creating comprehensive ETL modules.The result is reliable BI systems that not only meet clients' analytical needs but accomplish Scorecard's core mission: to give clients a single source of truth. Show less

Redmond, Washington, United States

This is an aggregate entry for the various product groups that I participated in at Microsoft Corporation. My role across all was as a Software Design Engineer responsible for specification, design and implementation of features in shrink-wrapped application products on a Windows platform using C/C++.As a Senior, my responsibilities also encompassed passing on my experience to Junior team members as a mentor.Details regarding my contributions to features in my three most… Show more This is an aggregate entry for the various product groups that I participated in at Microsoft Corporation. My role across all was as a Software Design Engineer responsible for specification, design and implementation of features in shrink-wrapped application products on a Windows platform using C/C++.As a Senior, my responsibilities also encompassed passing on my experience to Junior team members as a mentor.Details regarding my contributions to features in my three most recent shipped products follow Show less

Redmond, Washington, United States

I played a strong role in guiding the product vision to take Web Excel from our initial release in Office 2000 to its next version.• I developed Web Excel's XML persistence model.• I contributed to the XML Spreadsheet Spec (2002) for Excel.• I made HTML persistence a subset of the new XML code.• I worked with the Excel team to ensure Excel and Web Excel would understand each other's XML and HTML output.

Redmond, Washington, United States

Web Excel was a completely new implementation of Microsoft Excel created to run in a web browser. Originally conceived as a Java applet, the team jumped to ActiveX technology when the Java VM proved insufficient for our needs. I created the core calculation engine in an all-new C++ code base.• I coded this engine to parse, evaluate, and manage dependencies for formulas; and it accommodated reference adjustments on cut/copy/paste operations.• I defined the parser's… Show more Web Excel was a completely new implementation of Microsoft Excel created to run in a web browser. Originally conceived as a Java applet, the team jumped to ActiveX technology when the Java VM proved insufficient for our needs. I created the core calculation engine in an all-new C++ code base.• I coded this engine to parse, evaluate, and manage dependencies for formulas; and it accommodated reference adjustments on cut/copy/paste operations.• I defined the parser's context-free grammar.• I implemented the top 120 formula functions.• I supervised a remote team that implemented Excel Add-In functions and I mentored an intern.Furthermore, I maintained formula compatibility with main Office Excel product. I enabled the calculation engine to work with any COM object that exports values and sends change notifications. Thus, WebXL formulas can reference controls on the same page & put those controls into the formula dependency graph. I earned US Patent 6,701,485 for this innovation. Show less

Redmond, Washington, United States

I created a print engine that produced hardcopy representations of each UX view. The engine works consistently & reliably across four different Windows OS (Win31, Win95, WinNT351 and WinNT40) on dozens of combinations of different print devices, print technologies, and printer drivers. It was a marathon of matrix testing, perseverance, and clever polymorphism to deliver accurate output for all use cases.I merged rich text format dialogues between the Team Manager Task Client & the Team… Show more I created a print engine that produced hardcopy representations of each UX view. The engine works consistently & reliably across four different Windows OS (Win31, Win95, WinNT351 and WinNT40) on dozens of combinations of different print devices, print technologies, and printer drivers. It was a marathon of matrix testing, perseverance, and clever polymorphism to deliver accurate output for all use cases.I merged rich text format dialogues between the Team Manager Task Client & the Team Manager Server.I collaborated on coding the UX for the Workload Graph views. Show less

Redmond, Washington, United States

I interned at Microsoft in 3 University of Waterloo Co-Op work terms. Once in Visual C++ 2.0 and twice in Windows NT 3.1.Visual C++: SDE on the text editor• Using the text handler code as a document, I ported part of the UX code from C to C++ as a view (using the new MFC 2.0 doc/view classes)• I added new features: keystroke macros, safe save, autosave, advanced syntax coloring.WinNT: Program Manager on Setup• I added details to the nascent idea of a "computer… Show more I interned at Microsoft in 3 University of Waterloo Co-Op work terms. Once in Visual C++ 2.0 and twice in Windows NT 3.1.Visual C++: SDE on the text editor• Using the text handler code as a document, I ported part of the UX code from C to C++ as a view (using the new MFC 2.0 doc/view classes)• I added new features: keystroke macros, safe save, autosave, advanced syntax coloring.WinNT: Program Manager on Setup• I added details to the nascent idea of a "computer profile setup" - to store a WinNT installation with apps on a server & clone it on-demand for a job role "profile."• I learned DoD C2 security and its implementation in WinNT so that I could overcome the hurdle of cloning a WinNT security hive.• I made a hive clone process & authored a paper outlining my challenges.WinNT: SDE on GDI• I wrote C++ for the Win32 GDI API to expand RLE compressed bitmaps onto device-independent bitmaps.• I created Windows 3.1 test programs in C to exercise my C++ routines.• I wrote and hand-tuned x86 Assembly for the VGA device driver to render solid & styled lines from a DDA algorithm. Show less

Bachelor Of Mathematics, Joint Honours In Pure Mathematics & Computer Science (Co-Op)

Activities and Societies: Federation of Students' Council - Representative for Co-Op Math Advanced Honours in Calculus, Algebra.

Professional Certificate In Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning - Computational Linguistics, Graph Ml