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Redmond, Washington, Us

Integrated Microsoft systems and services into top-level Windows experiences. Integrated cloud storage technology into Windows to provide cross-machine backup and restore technologies as well as settings roaming.Lead our team to use best practices to design, build and support APIs and extensibility points to integrate Search, Teams, Skype, Microsoft Accounts and other services into Windows.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Designed and developed build and test pipelines in Azure Devops using YAML, then deployed them across the Windows organization and scaled them to thousands of OS developers.Piloted and onboarded industry-standard development technologies including NuGet, Visual Studio and Test Explorer into the Windows development process. Enabled end-to-end deployment including signing and deployment to the Windows Store.Contributed to Engineering Excellence patterns and practices adopted across the organization.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Developed numerous features throughout Windows 7, 8, and 10. Including the Windows 8 User Account Control (UAC) UX, Windows Action Center, Desktop Wallpaper Features, Bing Search integration and others.Primary engineer for Windows’s cloud storage framework used for storing user data including settings and other data in the Microsoft cloud.Provided technical leadership to the team by championing and becoming an early adopter of standards-based C++ including STL and ISOCPP coding standards now widely adopted across Windows and the industry.Worked as the first team to adopt XAML in Windows and evangelized its expanded use across the Windows OS.Directly contributed to other Windows-based devices including the Xbox One and Windows Phone.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Used C# and COM to build developer tools to permit interoperability between Win32/COM and managed/C# applications which enabled Microsoft platforms to be adopted across large enterprises including multiple Fortune 500 companies.Contributed to multiple areas of the product and Visual Studio tool chain including C# and the Common Language Runtime. Drove requirements into many other areas including CLR, VB.net C++/CLI and into the Visual Studio Core and leveraged and built a deep understanding of COM/managed interop including details of marshaling and .net remoting.

Socorro, Nm, Us

Developed Windows and Linux interop software to allow rollout of 200+ Windows PCs across a heterogeneous Linux-based backend including authentication and file sharing. Provided "lights on door open" support for multiple Linux/Unix servers.