David Giard Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Washington, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Code with customers to help resolve difficult technical problems and migrate to Microsoft Azure.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Assist developers, students, and startups building software applications.Working with Top Computer Science universities to help professors teach cloud computing to their students.International technical speaker.

In charge of Community Champion program and INETA Live. Treasurer, 2012-2013.

Helped new groups get started; Answered questions for group leaders; Facilitated communication between INETA and user group leaders.

Paris, Paris - Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Fr

* Analyzed a steel company’s custom ERP system for performance bottlenecks. Improved performance of some subsystems by over 100%.* Refactored data access code for a health care application, increasing performance by over 50%* Implemented Federated Identity for applications, using ADFS and Windows Identity Foundation.* Created an Application to prove out a variety of pieces of Windows Azure for a manufacturing company.* Served as Application Development Lead for Michigan district, promoting self-development among consultants.* Built a prototype for an automotive supplier to manage long-running workflow processes for approving expenses and purchases. Used Workflow Foundation, WCF, ASP.Net MVC and Entity Framework: Mentored customer’s developers and proved that these technologies would be suitable for their business problems.* Built integration system to export new promotion data and coupon redemption data to clearing houses and record acknowledgements from clearing houses.* Wrote application to integrate with secure coupon printing API via Javascript, jQuery and Ajax.* Rewrote a data import application, increasing performance by more than 1000%.* Designed, developed, deployed and tested customizations to a SharePoint implementation for a money manager.* Worked with senior management and account executives to drive marketing initiatives.* Developed bonus calculation system for shopping mall manager* Developed integration system between SharePoint profiles and LDAP for large auto manufacturer

During my tenure as president, meeting attendance more than tripled and funding increased by more than tenfold.We have brought in some of the top technical speakers in the world to our user group.

Westerville, Oh, Us

* Received Outstanding Contributor award from Quick Solutions.* Developed training materials and labs for Microsoft Technology Preview products – Distributed Cache and Managed Extensibility Framework.* Designed and developed web application for large university to maintain users, security and announcements for web reporting portal. Technologies included C#, ASP.Net, SQL Server and VS Team Suite testing tools.* Mentored customer on Agile development practices.* Implemented Visual Studio Database Edition and integrated it into the build and deployment process.* Delivered presentations to multiple teams at university. Topics included: Securing Web Applications; Using Visual Studio Database Edition; and Writing Effective Database Unit Tests.* Delivered presentations at a Microsoft DevCares® event: Secure Development Best Practices; and Visual Studio 2008 and Office Business Applications.

Seattle, Washington, Us

* Managed groups of developers through planning, design, development, and deployment phases.* Designed and developed custom application in C#, Visual Basic, ASP.Net, SQL Server and other Microsoft and non-Microsoft tools* Designed and developed custom integration solutions for multiple clients using BizTalk Server 2006, web services and other technologies* Frequent speaker at conferences and user groups. Topics included BizTalk Server 2006, Workflow, and Service Oriented Architecture.* Worked in a variety of industries, including retail, banking, law, insurance, manufacturing, and book publishing* Mentored junior developers within company* Involved in every phase of the software development life cycle

* Custom application Development in Visual Basic, XML, SQL Server, COM+, BizTalk Server 2002, DTS, MTS, HTML, Active Server Pages, VBScript, JavaScript, DHTML, and Oracle PL/SQL* Used BizTalk Server 2002 and SQL Server 2000 DTS to integrate Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, and EDI on Windows, UNIX, and IBM mainframe platforms.* Worked on DNA application tracking energy deregulation project. Tracked customer enrollment with suppliers and relationships between types of suppliers. Designed and implemented reporting system. Implemented application-to-application and business-to-business Interfaces with other systems within and outside energy company.* Taught classes in Web Application Development, Visual Basic and XML* Regular speaker at Cincinnati Visual Basic Users Group

* Custom application Development in Visual Basic, XML, Visual FoxPro, SQL Server, MTS, HTML, Active Server Pages, VBScript, JavaScript, DHTML, Crystal Reports and Front Page* Certified Instructor in Microsoft courses, including Internet Application Development, XML, Visual Basic, and Visual FoxPro.* Webmaster of corporate Internet and Intranet.

* Responsible for management of all Information Systems for a marketing and distribution company.* Managed staff of Programmers, Customer Service Representatives, and Keypunch Operators.* Developed and implemented Integrated Inventory and Production Planning System. Implemented checks and controls for system accuracy.* Developed and implemented Customer and Order Entry system.* Network Administrator of Windows NT network.* Responsible for developing training materials and training employees in software and systems.* Defined and developed standard operating procedures for Data Processing and Production departments.* Implemented shop floor automation processes.* Responsible for management of customer lists for our clients.* Primary decision maker for computer hardware and software purchases.

* Financial Analysis and Accounting for manufacturer of computer peripherals

Bachelor Of Science, Biochemistry

Masters Of Business Administration, Finance

High School Diploma, College Prep