David Chesnut Email & Phone Number

Greater Seattle Area

• Created a GitHub playbook with goals, guidance, and compliance for Office developers creating repos on GitHub. Managed the Office developer https://github.com/officedev site.• Led an Android team planning, coding, and shipping samples to help Android developers learn Office 365 REST APIs. For example, https://github.com/OfficeDev/O365-Android-Connect.• Led the UA developer teams into publishing samples to GitHub by providing OSS guidance. Worked with legal, and organized brown bags with legal to disseminate information, maintained a release checklist wiki, answered 1-1 questions, and assisted with creating requests in the OSS tool as well as legal requests.• Led writer/editor teams to publish protocol documentation for Office compliance with EU and DOJ regulations. Protocol documentation educates developers on Office file formats, ODF and IS-29500 implementer notes, and network protocols, for scenarios such as man-in-the-middle application development, server replacement, and file conversion.• Created a cross-group team that included team members from Windows, SQL, Exchange, and Office to maintain and publish content on a Microsoft-wide internal site named IBox (interop in-a-box.) The IBox web site provides guidance for legal templates to make it easier for authors to write interoperability documentation. I established processes for the team to capture, track, and complete tasks and bugs within goal-driven iterative cycles.• Performed program management activities for the tools team. Wrote functional specifications for feature improvements to a new authoring tool (named GenDox) used by developers, writers, and editors. Gathered requirements from the UA team and ranked them according to priority. Assisted in triage and design change request (DCR) reviews.• Set up a custom IT managed Visual Studio Team Foundation Server for UA to provide better work item tracking and reporting on writing projects. Created new work item types for tracking documentation work.

• Led the Team Foundation client team to deliver content for major releases and for continuous publishing. Managed the projects using both Scrum and Kanban lean methodologies.• Wrote help documentation for Visual Studio Team Foundation features such as Work Item Tracking, Version Control, Build, and Office integration.• Constructed internal tools to help the teams manage their content. For example, I built a mirror to replicate content data from the internal authoring system to Team Foundation Server.• Worked closely with customers through usability labs and focus groups at events like Tech Ed to get feedback about our documentation to make improvements in the content.• Worked directly with a customer through the Technology Adoption Program to capture the customer experience with adopting Visual Studio Team System 2008. Made a showcase video for the developer division that summarized the customer experience.• Participated on the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) team and helped plan and design a new content system that enabled users to customize process guidance for their development teams. Wrote content for MSF Agile and MSF CMMI process guidance that shipped in Visual Studio Team System.• Participated in development feature crews on the product unit by helping write UI strings and error messages. Wrote content specifications for each feature and conducted content reviews to get sign-offs from each feature crew.

• Developed applications, labs, and code samples using XML Web Services, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, COM+ and .NET Enterprise Services, Message Queuing Services, and Microsoft SQL Server. • Developed customer focused solutions and content used in Microsoft Official Curriculum and the Mastering Series CDs.• Managed the development process of course product deliverables by maintaining schedule, constructing vision/scope documents and project specifications, setting milestones, and coordinating work with external vendors.

• Constructed and delivered training to Microsoft Support Engineers, including OLE Literacy, OLE COM, and OLE MFC classes.• Learned new technologies that support engineers would support on release and built training for those technologies. Specialized in OLE and C++.

• Supported customers on Visual Basic through phone calls, service requests, and CompuServe.• Supported in-house ISV’s on CompuServe to help them convert VBX controls to OLE Controls for VB4. Assisted with VB4 beta answering questions on CompuServe.

Master Of Software Engineering, Software Engineering

B.S. Computer Software Engineering, Software Engineering

Worked 1990 - 1991 as intern at Microsoft in customer support.