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Providing bespoke software to a diverse range of clients from small business to the enterprise, using modern web technologies and CI/CD.

- Led technical design, hardware, and software implementation for an installation project that brings together gaming in the physical space, with computer-controlled lighting, audio, and video cues through the use of computer vision to produce an immersive, themed environment.- Developed full-stack, responsive, mobile-friendly websites using HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, and PHP.- Designed and developed projects using the Unreal4 engine including proof-of-concept game ideas and virtual environments for the Oculus Rift platform.- Provided contract web design services to various small and medium-sized local businesses.

- Excelled in a customer-centric and highly agile work environment with intense pressure and hard deadlines.- Performed service, repair, fabrication, and troubleshooting of race cars, high-performance street cars, and classics.- Provided exemplary customer service - spent time interfacing directly with the customers whose projects I was working on. Understanding their requirements, goals, and limitations, and helping to build a good relationship for repeat business.- Every job was a new challenge, allowing me daily opportunities to apply my technical/troubleshooting skills to a variety of interesting and quite often ambiguous problems on a wide range of vehicles and sub-systems spanning from 1960s classics to late-model performance and race cars.- Managed highly dynamic priorities and deadlines. If parts didn’t show up or a higher-priority job came in, I had to switch gears quickly to maintain productivity and meet customer expectations.- Worked with a high degree of autonomy - Responsible for generating time/cost estimates on my jobs, and managing my own time to complete jobs within a timeframe that met both manager and customer expectations.

- Implemented, executed, and debugged automated testing of low-level virtualization API's, WMI interfaces, and client/management UI scenarios during the Hyper-V V1 and V2 product cycles, using C#, C++, JavaScript, and PowerShell.- Developed test infrastructure, tools, and reporting solutions that were used both inside of the Hyper-V team and by the Windows Core organization as a whole.- Solved the problem of code-coverage collection for our team’s product from inside of a dynamically-created VM, substantially increasing our code coverage data and leading to a better understanding of our test library. - Was a key developer in building a system to automatically manage lab resources for test failure investigation, and efficient scheduling of tests with many fixed, specific hardware requirements to a lab with diverse hardware configurations.- Supported mission-critical test infrastructure, including maintenance, support, upgrades, feature requests, and root-cause analysis of test-failures division-wide.

- Implemented, executed, and debugged automated testing of complex UI scenarios for Visual Studio Team System SOA design and validation tools, using C# and VB.net, and working with the organization’s custom-developed test harness.- Wrote & revised test plans for assigned feature areas.- Utilized industry-standard SCM and defect-tracking tools including TFS and Perforce.- Participated on a team that worked under an agile development/scrum methodology.- Coordinated a virtual team tasked with unifying test pass configuration and centralizing test execution across the entire Visual Studio organization of more than 18,000 developers.

- Implemented, executed, and debugged API-level automation testing of the Microsoft Business Framework’s eventing subsystem, using C#.- Wrote test plans, and participated in test code and design reviews.- Utilized Microsoft-internal as well as industry-standard SCM and defect-tracking tools, including Perforce.- Built infrastructure to facilitate the use of idle lab hardware for extra dev machines, and to reclaim for lab use when needed.