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Seattle, Washington, United States

Olympia, US

Worked on Forever Winter, a co-op tactical survival horror shooter released in September 2024.Designed the save and progression storage systems for safe, secure and reliable onlineand offline gameplay, using an encrypted SQLite database as a data encoding format forspeedy changes, easy debugging, and high reliability.Built systems and UI for.

Bellevue, WA, US

Led online services development (player accounts, progression, statistics, item entitlement, anti-cheat services, matchmaking, server management) for a cross-platform game in Unreal Engine 4 using PlayFab, Epic Online Services (EOS) and Steam. Worked closely with the Game Design and UI teams to facilitate development of new features and tools.Implemented.

Bellevue, Washington, US

Led development of a multi-region, event-driven, high performance player matchmaking and game server management backend for an unreleased third person battle royal game set in an Old West inspired world, using.NET Core, Microsoft Orleans, Agones and Kubernetes.Designed and implemented a realtime API in C++/Blueprint for Unreal Engine 4 to allow the game.

Seattle, WA, US

Built tools for CI/CD of infrastructure and software to Microsoft Azure using Azure Pipelines and Terraform.

Redmond, WA, US

PlayFab, Inc prior to acquisition by Microsoft in 2/2018.Designed and built a group (aka guild, clan) system as one of PlayFab's core social features. This system integrates robust permissions, arbitrary data storage and event-based notifications from PlayFab's core data services, and adds the concepts of membership and roles as well as a way for users to.

Redmond, WA, US

As the first DevOps hire at PlayFab, designed and built a CI/CD and monitoring/management stack for all of PlayFab’s services, saving the company $500,000 in cloud costs and allowing them to build, test, and safely deploy new versions of PlayFab services in 15 minutes. Ported the Consul API from Go to C# and open-sourced the library as Consul.NET. This.

Seattle, WA, US

Developed a series of SCOM management packs to create a development pattern based on PowerShell and Orchestrator to support automatic resolution of 36% of monitoring-generated incidents.Maintained System Center Orchestrator and System Center Operations Manager infrastructure to support automation and monitoring for over 5000 servers.

Seattle, Washington, US

Trained and managed a six member global Tier II team spanning the U.S.A., India, Argentina, and the Philippines to provide technical, product, and development support for SharePoint platforms.Improved project development teams’ deployment practices and operational sustainability by integrating feedback from the operational team with examples, which reduced.

Seattle, Washington, US

Worked as a member of Avanande's consulting wing at multiple companies:Microsoft, MSCIS:Managed a globally distributed five-member development team to gather information about, model and monitor 39 complex multi-tier applications.Supervised the creation of SCOM distributed application management packs for each application, while meeting an aggressive.

Bellevue, Washington, US

Operated Avanade's SharePoint farms, working with software development teams to deploy new features with teammates to keep business-critical SharePoint sites accessible in a 24/7 company.

Fort Mill, SC, US

Developed test code coverage reports for the Windows team during the release cycle of Windows 7, supported the internal team SharePoint sites.

Redmond, WA, US

Supported Microsoft customers as part of the Premier Support Services for SharePoint team.