• Design and create mockups for new features and improvements to internal release management system• Identify, propose, and drive engineering and process improvements to assist in improving release velocity and qualityPrior to September 2015:• Drive monthly update releases for Office in-market products (Patch Tuesday)• Work across product teams to coordinate checkins for monthly releases for Office 2007, 2010, 2013• Coordinate with Microsoft Update, KB writers, and MSRC teams on delivery of monthly releases• Design and drive culture change across Office for improvements to the checkin standards and monthly release process• Create self-help materials to assist product teams with releasing their fixes to customers• Propose and sponsor tooling, process, and documentation improvements

Visual Studio, Sustained Engineering PM• Drive Visual Studio on premise product servicing releases and continuous improvement projects• Work with VS leadership and corporate lifecycle team to manage support lifecycles• Drive servicing readiness efforts for on premise product cycles to ensure serviceability of the product, configuration of branch and servicing tools, and quality of process and documentation• Author Microsoft Update distribution packages for Visual Studio/TFS security updates, general distribution releases, and service packs• Document processes and produce training materials

• Performed scheduled and on-demand integrations between product unit and main branches.• Reported and tracked build/test failures and drove to resolution.• Created and maintained branch integration schedules. Advised shiproom on scheduling milestones.• Maintained and developed automation scripts in Perl, CMD, JScript, and VBScript for various build tasks.• Documented processes and techniques for common build tasks.• Evaluated new tools and processes and developed documentation for team on how to use them.• Assisted in division-wide process and automation development.• Created C#, ASP.Net 2.0 and SQL Server Lab Server Management website. Went through on-line training and book study to learn these technologies. Key features included: checkout/return system to make server resources available to team members, automated patch updating, automated reimaging, inventory tracking.

• Developed and implemented product design process to include standard project documentation, meetings that included stakeholders from each department, and consistent communication and reporting between other departments and Game Design.• Designed, programmed, and implemented extensive HTML- and PHP-based web site for internal product unit searches based on numerous criteria, giving employees easy access to hundreds of units as per their specifications.• Assigned, monitored, and reported on all Game Design, sculpting, and paintmaster tasks per production schedules.

Wall Data was bought by NetManage in 2000Software Engineering Manager, CM/Build and Install Teams 12/2000-11/2002Software Quality Manager 2/2000-12/2000Software Engineering Manager, ObjectX Development Kit Team 8/1999-2/2000

Intern (Part-Time): 6/1993-6/1995Full Time: Several positions over 4 years:Product Development Lead, New Development and Maintenance 11/1998-8/1999Senior Configuration Management Specialist / Project Lead 6/1998-11/1998Configuration Manager / Quality Assurance Engineer / Project Lead 6/1995-6/1998