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Redmond, Washington, Us

Work as a principal software engineer in the Xbox Game Studios developer services team to help bring expertise to help enable Xbox Games Studios projects worldwide.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Work as a principal software engineer and Identity/Access Management (IAM) subject-matter expert in Industry Solutions Engineering (previously CSE) to help bring my team's expertise to help our colleagues and top customers in technical envisioning, architecture, proof of concept and/or implementation for solutions utilizing Azure.

Collaborate with Wintellect's Chief Learning Officer to lead technical strategy and execution across learning platforms. Assist in determining subject areas for content and platforms for delivery. Includes responsibility for creation and curation of content, consulting guidance and participation when needed, and providing leadership in a new line of business.

Instructor & Content Author with Wintellect. Present the Azure for Developers content to teach fundamentals of Azure and Azure software development to commercial-cloud and government-cloud developers in the US and Europe. Create, maintain, and edit presentation and lab content related primarily to Azure development topics including:* Azure fundamentals* Azure Government fundamentals* Azure App Services / Web Apps* Azure Storage* Azure Active Directory Authentication Services* Azure Active Directory B2C* Azure SQL Database* Azure Cosmos DB* Azure Functions* Azure API Management* Azure IaaS for Developers* Azure Cognitive Services* Azure HDInsight* PowerBI

Principal Consultant & Instructor with Wintellect. Consulting projects range across the Microsoft technology stack, with an emphasis on Azure-based cloud architecture and solutions.

Instructor & Content Author with Wintellect. Present the Azure for Research content to teach Azure fundamentals & Data Science components at Universities & Research events throughout the US and South America. Create, maintain, and edit presentation and lab content related primarily to Azure development & data science topics.

Senior Consultant with Wintellect. Projects range across the entire Microsoft technology stack, including Windows Phone, Windows 8.x, Microsoft Azure, ASP.NET MVC, and Silverlight. Project accolades included Wintellect being awarded Microsoft Slate Partner of the Year (2011) and on-stage demonstration of Windows 8 LOB application during TechEd NA 2012 Keynote.

Toronto, On, Ca

Senior Consultant with Burntsand in Waltham, MA. Burntsand is a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner and a leader in business consulting and technology services. Role focused on custom application development and ALM competencies.

Johnston, Rhode Island, Us

Work as Senior Developer with responsibility for enhancing a Prism-based WPF application. Assist with integration of third party grid controls. Provide guidance to the team for WPF development and general architecture best practices. Assess memory and performance issues and make recommendations based on findings.

Marlborough, Ma, Us

Senior Development Consultant in a support role working to complete an ASP.Net / AJAX web-based order fulfillment logistics system, including defect repair and implementation of required functionality.

Framingham, Ma, Us

Work as Senior Developer with primary responsibility for the client portion of a WPF-based internal reporting application. Researched SSRS options for allowing interactivity with generated reports, enhanced existing Excel integration. Designed and implemented features as identified in Business Requirements. Also responsible for development of all tiers for administrative applications, including WPF client, WCF service layer, and LINQ-to-SQL data layer, as well as integration with AzMan (file-based as well as AD-based stores.) Also provided research and presentation of feasibility of client application deployment with ClickOnce technology.

Framingham, Ma, Us

Attached to an engagement with Microsoft Consulting Services as a Technical Lead, helping to coordinate the development of re-implementation of the customer’s distributed purchasing systems. Focused on the refactoring of the client application from .Net 1.1 to current .Net technologies (3.5 SP1), with primary development responsibilities for updating the underlying object models. Additional responsibilities include providing guidance to the team for development best practices and coordinating with the other Microsoft Technical Leads. Developed, presented, and introduced guidelines for Branch Management with TFS. Augmented MSBuild automated build process to account for branched development.

Wilmington, Ma, Us

Leader & individual contributor role involving the coordination of development resources for delivery of a 1.0 new-generation Football Editing Platform product. Included some Marketing interaction and scheduling as well as provision of assistance / mentoring for other developers with other application components. Technical responsibilities included transition of primary user interface from WinForms to WPF, developing of application administration framework technologies (including .Net based MMC integration into Windows Computer Administration tools), and redesign of a handler for external remote-control devices using C# and C++/CLI. Also had primary responsibility for design and maintenance of an XML schema and XSD for interchange of personnel information between this system and external customer systems. Championed and implemented transition to Microsoft Team Foundation Server for Source Code management and project tracking. Implemented migration from Visual Studio 2005 to Visual Studio 2008, including resolution of build issues and project conversion.

Wilmington, Ma, Us

Focused on the architecture, development, maintenance, and future direction of various server-side components of a distributed system. Included the design and development of a distributed Asset Management Service featuring ASP.Net Web Services backed by a background Windows Service interacting with a SQL Server 2005 database, and .Net remoting for the client job-queuing system. This was the company’s first use of Web Services for information interchange. Also responsible for a C++/ATL and .Net hybrid background encoding service which allowed legacy applications to send media to a server for transcoding and publication to the new-generation server.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Responsible for the architecture, development, maintenance, and enhancements of various client and server-side core technologies used in multiple applications. Includes a system for providing seamless advanced playback of disparate video assets to be used in a wide range of applications, including HTML, .Net Client applications, and C++ clients. The system employed COM components using C++/ATL 7.1 and the DirectShow media display framework as a basis. Currently provides +5x - -5x playback (including .1x - -.1x) for any combination of local Windows Media 9 files, local AVI-DV files, local bitmap files, proprietary streaming of DV video over TCPIP (using Windows Sockets.) Also responsible for creating control used in multiple applications to interact with a COM-port interactive remote control and a shared Windows Media encoding server architecture with queue manipulation functionality.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Development lead for a sports-analysis focused video editing application. Responsibilities have included oversight of development concerns for a team ranging from 1-4 developers through 3 complete and on-time development cycles as well as equal participation in development duties. Application is MFC/C++-based interacting with a SQL-Server database through ADO. Video interaction is through DirectShow. Also involves serialization through XML, interaction with hardware devices by way of the serial port, development and integration of a software activation scheme. For third release, application was globalized and then localized into three additional languages (English – US, English – UK, French, German.) Responsible for build plan and installer creation.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Contributor role on a scouting/recruitment database & reporting system. Responsible for web-based report development and modifications for customer-specific requests. System involved client-side VB application, server-side Cold Fusion application, and Seagate Crystal Reports. Also held responsibility for Release Engineering for the Sports Development Group.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Contributor role for a sports-analysis focused video system. Responsibilities ranged from resolution of defects to performance enhancements and new feature development. System was MFC/C++ based interacting with Oracle 8.0i database through ODBC. Also involved interaction with VB-based COM components. Also held responsibility through part of this period for Release Engineering for the Sports Development Group.

Amsterdam, Nederlands, Nl

Group leader for Internet Imaging Group testing. Responsible for coordination of all testing activities for Polaroid i-Zone web site. Includes staffing, planning, tool selection, review, and acquisition, automation, defect system establishment and maintenance, coordination of defect meetings, and publication of metrics.

Continued previous role as primary Report System Developer for second generation of reporting systems. Enhanced existing system into a COM-based component for both client and server usage. Optimized reports and report processing for large-scale performance gains on both client and server. Also had middle-tier management responsibility for coordination of product development process for Sports Statistics product line, including multiple-company development. Responsibilities also included high-level concept design of application and web site usability. Continued with Release Engineering and Code Management responsibilities featuring a web-based mechanism for detecting if updates were available that predated today’s Web Services. Also implemented new build tracking and release policies, as well as several new installation packages and providing consultation for other groups within the company using installer-technology. * Note – Avid Sports was purchased by Pinnacle Systems in July, 2001. The Statistics Group was not part of the purchase, and subsequently became XStream Sports, Inc.

Multi-faceted role in new company business division. Involved development responsibilities for the implementation of both client-based and internet-based statistics reporting solutions for both multiple distinct client bases (using Visual Basic, ASP/VBScript, and Seagate’s Crystal Reports.) Also responsible for design & implementation of user interface supporting report presentation and manipulation. Additionally tasked with design & implementation of client, server, and installer interface to include automated update functionality into the client application. Provided Quality Assurance for first implementation of n-tier Sports Statistics software, including creation and use of automated testing infrastructure to assist in initial build approval. Handled release, build, and code management, including installer development, patch construction and distribution, remote server builds, and web-based installer product installer/update distribution (InstallShield tools, including IS 5.5 & 6.0/6.1.) Provided phone-based support as necessary.

Responsible for preliminary work into development of a comprehensive automated test environment for multiple applications on multiple platforms (Macintosh & PC). Provided primary testing (manual and automated) for first release of PC based product. Researched and selected installer tools for company’s PC and Macintosh product lines (InstallShield 5.x for PC and Mindvision’s Installer-VISE for Macintosh.) Developed installer for 2 products’ 1.0 release & company’s first ever PC release. Researched and developed license protection for PC-based products. Maintained and furthered development of software build and distribution process, including daily builds, Beta-site version control, and final software distribution. Product-management related input based on previous experience with similar software in football environment. Developed and presented courseware for 1998 Users’ Group Conference. Provided training for new employees and customers on an as-needed basis.

Bs, Computer Science

Masters Of Education (Not Completed)