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Redmond, WA

Redmond, WA

Developed startup membership based website in an agile way. Migrated seamlessly from Wordpress to VueJS/Vueitfy SPA to have a more responsive and lightweight solution that works anywhere where are users are.Integrated 3rd party services such as content management (Curriki) into our home grown LMS as well as AI (OpenAI/ChatGPT) into our home-grown.

Redmond, Washington, United States

Cofounding board member of non-profit helping youth find their strengths, weaknesses, preferences, and find mentors in their career path/journey.Assist in classrooms with resume writing, informational interviews, career interests, financial literacy, and how to live a more balanced life.

Redmond, Washington, United States

Redmond, Washington, United States

Redmond, WA

• Visual Studio 2013Tested Memory Profiler for Windows 8 (Modern) Apps, Product Telemetry, and improved XAML Designer reliability.
• Gathered diverse set of sample programs and validated performance and memory usage.
• Created, tested, gathered, and reported on product telemetry.
• Defined and drove our increasingly aggressive goal of addressing product crashes early.
• Wrote tools to efficiently validate run analysis, drive excel to gather data and graph, retrieve and flexibly execute telemetry queries quickly.
• Wrote increasingly complex SQL queries to normalize results across databases as well as get more detailed answers for telemetry questions.

Redmond, WA

VB 4, 5, VJ6,.NET, Visual Studio, Win Forms Designer, WPF DesignerSoftware Developer in Test, Performance, Stress, Crash Analysis, Product Instrumentation

Redmond, WA

• Visual Studio 2012Tested XAML Designer focusing on reliability (memory usage and crashes) and combining Blend technologies with Cider.
• Ensured high product quality through team leadership while moving to a combined product code base.
• Trained and managed vendor team to handle servicing runs as well as coordinate and prioritized tasks as they came up from the rest of the team.
• Extended memory profiling tools to monitor and graph out multiple processes at the same time.

Redmond, WA

• Visual Studio 2010Tested XAML Designer focusing on reliability (memory usage and crashes)
• Helped develop new memory monitoring framework used effectively. Spearheaded reliability improvements that led the way to being an important release criteria for the product.
• Drove my feature crew’s schedule, held post mortem analysis of major milestones to identify changes to be made.
• Led and worked with test team to clean up the test bed, triaged test and product bugs, and set standards for team to follow.

Redmond, WA

• Visual Studio, Visual J++, Visual Basic
• Drove automation library consistency, reviewed changes, and improved testing ecosystem.
• Independently wrote an innovative and useful view on automation run results to visually display in graph form to provide new views for seeing patterns.
• Independently wrote a code minimizer in VB to parse VB Automation libraries to what were the most common functions, able to generate the minimum set of code to run, etc.
• Independently wrote code to port test cases written in VB to C# and used parsing tools to determine what the critical paths were.

Bs In Computer Science

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Master Of Science (Ms); Coursework Completion

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