Duane K.

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Principal Software Development Engineer @ Kirkland, WA, US
Kirkland, WA, US
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About Duane K.

As a Principal Software Engineer with many years of experience at top-tier tech companies (FANG) as well as startups, I lead challenging projects that involve reverse engineering, debugging, and optimizing legacy systems, as well as developing innovative solutions from scratch/zero.My expertise spans full-stack development, architecture, and leadership across diverse technologies including C#, GoLang, Python, Java, C, NodeJS, Ruby, Rust, C++/COM+, SQL, and cloud-native design on AWS and Azure, both platforms I have helped design or maintain at their respective companies.My mission is to drive innovation and contribute to humanity’s advancement while empowering my team through effective mentorship and engineering excellence. I specialize in big data, distributed systems, security, and CI/CD, delivering projects with success, thanks to a long career that includes experience at both FANG companies and startups. I'm interested in AI.I hold certifications in servant leadership and effective teamwork, which reflect my commitment to service, transparency, inclusion, and compassion as an engineering manager who can code in the trenches with his team to better mentor and lead them to success.Key Achievements:Enhanced Security for Critical Infrastructure: Implemented comprehensive security protocols for a nationally critical infrastructure project, achieving a 90% reduction in vulnerabilities surface, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations.Improved Telecommunications Infrastructure: Lead development of REST APIs for phone number management & messaging systems, enhancing reliability and supporting significant business growth, leading to a successful company buyout.Innovative Cloud Solutions: Led a team to develop a cloud-based automated server DFIR platform, increasing data processing efficiency by 85% and enabling real-time analytics.Mentorship Impact: Mentored over 200 engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation, resulting in improved team performance and career growth.Implemented Comprehensive Automated Testing: Introduced automated testing processes across multiple projects, increasing test coverage from 0% to 85%, significantly reducing manual testing efforts and improving overall software quality and lowering ongoing maintenance costs significantly.Availability:Based in Seattle, WA (PST), I am available for fully remote roles only due to family commitments. I seek long-term opportunities to build meaningful connections and drive sustained growthPlease reach out for remote opportunities only.

Duane K.'s Current Company Details
Self-employed

Self-Employed

Principal Software Development Engineer
Kirkland, WA, US
Duane K. Work Experience Details
  • Self-Employed
    Principal Software Development Engineer
    Self-Employed
    Kirkland, Wa, Us
  • - Undisclosed For Now -
    Lead Senior Software Engineer
    - Undisclosed For Now - Oct 2024 - Present
    ⭐ Fully remote, I integrated into a distributed team, utilizing Slack and Email to effectively communicate, align, and contribute to strategic and technical goals from day one.⭐ Onboarding into this new role, I have began an in-depth review of the C++ codebase and current workflows to lay the foundation for future CI/CD implementation and build optimizations for a very complex and intensive chromium build process.⭐ To align engineering with business strategy, I have engaged in mentorship sessions with leadership, gaining insights to guide future technical priorities.⭐ Recognizing the importance of proactive security, I initiated a review of current security practices and infrastructure to support informed future planning.
  • Self-Employed
    Principal Software Development Engineer
    Self-Employed Jul 1999 - Present
    Full-stack software developer, handling everything from design and coding to testing, DevOps, Product Design, and maintenance and management of teams and projects.I collaborate closely with clients, including startups or enterprise clients, to understand their needs and deliver custom solutions to business problems. Work is primary consulting and contracting doing software development over the full software development lifecycle.My responsibilities have included included building cybersecurity efforts, building scalable applications, building mobile applications, building out or maintaining infrastructure, managing or building CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring top-notch code quality through software quality validation efforts through manual and automated testing such as continuous integration and continuous delivery.More recently, working with or building out generative AI has been popular.I also provide ongoing support and improvements, quickly adapting to changing requirements and new technologies to help clients achieve their goals, and have typically worked on a contract or time-scoped FTE role basis based on a statement of work agreed on in advance, leveraging disparate entities as required.
  • Tailorwell Holdings, Inc.
    Principal Software Engineer
    Tailorwell Holdings, Inc. Feb 2023 - Jul 2023
    Seattle, Washington, Us
    Maintained and Managed software development, system upgrades, and DevOps across Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows environments. Reduced costs by minimizing Mac usage.Key Responsibilities:- Software Engineering Development and Software Engineering Management- Handled unsupported codebase in GoLang, C#, T-SQL, Ruby, Python, PostgresDB, and C (for gems/modules).- Provided guidance on new test automation efforts for millions of lines of code that lacked tests.- Lead other Developer in daily progression of tasks to get systems upgraded to maintain business continuity when old versions were out of support or no longer exist. - System Upgrades: Led upgrades from Ruby on Rails 3 (Intel Mac) to Rails 7 (M2 hardware).- DevOps: Built CI/CD pipelines in Azure for .NET and Ruby projects.- Sales/Support: Managed sales/support teams in addition to engineering duties.Achievements:- Standardized systems, reducing costs.- Improved code quality with tests.- Ensured business continuity through upgrades/fixes.- Increased development efficiency with CI/CD pipelines.- Provided support to sales/support teams, confirming preference for technical roles.Metrics:- Reduce costs of primary website hosting by 100% by moving it to local hosting that was already being paid for by the company.
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  • Stealth Mode Startup Under Nda That No Longer Exists.
    Principal Software Development Consultant
    Stealth Mode Startup Under Nda That No Longer Exists. May 2022 - Oct 2022
    • Provide engineering leadership to support all possible elements of the engineering organization. Manage/Lead engineers as appropriate based on business priorities. Coded in the trenches with team • Tech Stack: GoLang (GIN), Python (Django), Continuous Integration (GitHub Actions, AWS CDK), AWS (CDK, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, RDS PostgreSQL), Serverless Architecture• Company no longer exists after buyout from a VC.
  • Career Break
    Caregiving
    Career Break Mar 2022 - May 2022
    Took Time Off to deal with c19 related obligations.
  • The Company Name Is Confidential And Will Not Be Disclosed.
    Principal Software Engineer
    The Company Name Is Confidential And Will Not Be Disclosed. Dec 2021 - Jan 2022
    * Hired originally to report to the Director of Engineering, but reported to the CTO role.* Deep Dove Companies Technical Stack and highlighted tasks to best serve company continuity.* Lead Engineering Guild Efforts to upskill and mentor the engineering organization by breaking historical silos and supporting more effective communication between members of a multinational team.* Leveraged prior experience in antifraud and security to assist with licensing security model to mitigate compliance risks.* Was given a lot of startup swag - like socks - I do not use.
  • Riviera Partners
    Staff Engineer
    Riviera Partners Aug 2021 - Oct 2021
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Hired as a fully remote sr. backend developer, and given a promotion within the same month to Staff Engineer after refusing a Principal Developer Role that was offered, because I wanted to add Staff Engineer to my resume first. Project based role.Augmented prior experience in recruiting by accepting formal training as a technical recruiter, taking training as needed to better understand and support the business and its back end systems.Language Polyglot; Hired as a C# dev, they had no C#. Instead dove into NodeJS/JavaScript, Rust, and Ruby as needed to support the business on AWS with some docker/Kubernetes.Dove into CQRS and Event Based systems, Applicant Tracking Systems, Recruiting sales pipelines as a primarily backend engineer. Exposed to Svelte.
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  • Air Everywhere
    Sr. Software Engineer
    Air Everywhere Feb 2021 - Jun 2021
    Kent, Ohio, Us
    * Wrote C# that I deployed as the only backend developer to AWS via a BitBucklet Powered CI/CD pipeline I created, managed, and maintained myself to deploy a serverless and Lambda powered ASP.Net Core 3.1 API via the AWS CDK and dotnetcore tooling to ultimately host on standard Linux powered AWS Lambda AMI's.* A small, minimal about of python3 scripting as needed for ad hock tasks such as file uploads to s3, validation, infrastructure as code, etc.* Wrote multiple proof of concepts for REST API’s and subprojects with goals driven by investor goals, in an effort to as resourceful as possible given it was a startup.
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  • Amazon
    Sysdev / Architect
    Amazon May 2020 - Sep 2020
    Seattle, Wa, Us
    Information Security Focused Systems Software Development and Software Architecture role in the Amazon Tax Organization as the only Developer on the team (I was a unicorn; A single dev at Amazon is normally a principle FTE role, not a contractor; I wore all dev hats (Architect, Developer, TPM scoping work and order, coder, etc), working to build the tech required for financial and legal audits and to keep security standards for regulatory compliance. Successfully completed task list using CI/CD.Java 8, Maven/Gradle, Jackson for JSON., AWS, AWS Java SDK (Including but not limited to AWS IAM, AWS S3, AWS Simple Directory, etc), Python, ZSH, Internal Tools for CI/CD on Linux and Windows 10
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  • Dfk International, Llc
    Freelance Solutions Engineer - Company Confidential
    Dfk International, Llc Oct 2019 - May 2020
    • Personal Dashboard Development using Grafana, AWS, Python, C# .Net / ASP.NET And Server-less design philosophies leveraging Continuous Delivery and Continuous Test-Driven Development (CTDD).• Some programming language design for a small Domain Specific Programming language designed to take advantage of some custom hardware.• Multiple roles at different companies under stealth mode NDA's.• Done to heal after getting hit by a car. I'm better now.
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  • Microsoft
    Senior Software Development Engineer (V- Kalles Group)
    Microsoft Mar 2019 - Oct 2019
    Redmond, Washington, Us
    Member of the Microsoft Security Risk Detection team that used C#, F#, T-SQL, Power-shell / Batch (Windows), Python, Bash Scripting (Linux) and minimal Rust on the job using Azure to build Rest API's and Micro-services providing white-box and black-box security fuzzing as a service, with integrations meant to be used as part of Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery. The first on-call duty I was a part of included both daily BVT's and Customer Incident Response.More Info: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security-risk-detection/
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  • Self-Employed
    Principal Engineer - Company Confidential
    Self-Employed Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
    Freelance work using AWS Lambda, AWS Cognito, Python 3, AWS Chalice, Stripe, AWS API Gateway, AWS S3, and other AWS services to help a startup design and build a minimal viable product leveraging the "Serverless" design philosophy. Integrated Stripe as a billing system.
  • Microsoft
    Sr. Software Engineer (V- Contract)
    Microsoft Jul 2018 - Dec 2018
    Work in C# and C++ and Perl as required while working in the engineering team for the Microsoft Hacking STEM team, a hybrid team affiliated with Microsoft Garage (Research) and EDU Spaces as well as Office.Mentoring of more jr company team members as required with the focus on improving children education through more interactive lesson plans in STEM using microcontrollers and our own lesson plan workbooks.Office, Excel Extensions, Office Build (ohome), tdbuild, oreview, osubmit, Azure for Builds.Arduino / Raspberry Pi work for firmware programming and work with micro-controllers as the base of our lesson plans code.
  • Flowroute Inc.
    Sr. Software Developer
    Flowroute Inc. Apr 2017 - Jan 2018
    New York, Ny, Us
    Sr. Level Software Development in Python 2.7-3.4/GoLang/PostgreSQL/AWS Cloud/Git with Continuous Delivery in mind for critical telecommunication infrastructure over REST API's used by anybody who wants to make a phone call or send a SMS (Text Message) or MMS (Picture/Video/Media Message) using a cell phone.Worked on Numbering REST API’s to allow people to buy phone numbers and maintain call routing for phone numbers both used for Direct Inbound Dialing via SIP Trunking as well as Messaging (SMS and MMS).Helped build the Messaging stack that allows both SMS and MMS Messaging to fully support Mobile Termination and Origination through multiple providers and hubs and enabled an increase in business by significant metrics. Company was bought out.
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  • Decisive Data
    Senior Software Development Engineer (Contract V-)
    Decisive Data Jul 2016 - Mar 2017
    Redmond, Wa, Us
    Sr. Level Software Development in .NET/C#/T-SQL/Azure with TDD and Continuous Delivery in mind for business critical systems used by Executive Leadership, HR, and Sales daily as a member of the Application Development team.Both Teacher and Student of Diverse team members in Tech, Management, Sales, etc as needed.If from my efforts there is less pain in the world, and people are more productive because of my efforts, then I have succeeded that day.Experienced C#/WebAPI/Azure Development.. Was exposed to Angular2, Electron, React and other NodeJS JavaScript based development.
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  • Starbucks
    Lead Software Development Engineer (Contract)
    Starbucks Sep 2015 - Jul 2016
    Seattle, Wa, Us
    Worked in Digital Ventures / Digital Platform on Back-end and Middle Tier Web API Software Development in C#/.NET with a focus on stability, performance, security, and scale of use while attempting mitigation of severe technical debt.. Millions of people use this API without knowing it via the mobile apps for Android and iOS to get coffee every morning in addition to the Point Of Sale usage.Promoted Software Craftsmanship, Dependency Injection, Unit Tests, Code Coverage by Developers, Continuous Integration, Virtualized Environments, and was the only developer to use TDD. Mentored others as needed. Lead cross team collaboration around the build systems and developer process. Efforts mitigated millions of dollars in potential risk to the business.
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  • Ebay Inc
    Sr. Data Analyst & Sr. Automation Tools Engineer, Ebay Trust And Safety Risk Analytics (Contract)
    Ebay Inc Apr 2015 - Aug 2015
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    Data classification and quality with a focus on zero touch anti-fraud automation and auditing of data used for Machine Learning Models and its associated quality metrics. Architect and builder of full v1 MVP of a software systems to track big data event arrivals with the goal of making the bad guys cry. Single full stack architect/developer for entire project. Includes back-end storage, Web API's, Web API Clients, Dashboard (Including jquery, GoogleCharts.js, HTML, some CSS, etc). Tech Stack is Java 7, Enterprise Github / GIT, Tomcat, Jersey, Apache CTX, Eclipse, Maven, Jenkins, PostgreSQL, Apache Hadoop, Map-Reduce, Teradata, Ubuntu Linux, Centos Linux, Data Mining, Predictive Analytis, Customer Analytics, Behavioral Analytics, Anti-Fraud and Security.
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  • Cinemassive
    Sr. Software Architect (Remote Contract)
    Cinemassive Dec 2014 - Feb 2015
    Atlanta, Ga, Us
    Provided Full Stack Technical Leadership using primarily C++ and C# for various Flagship Video Rendering products for use in TV Broadcasting, Education, Tourism, Real Time Business Intelligence.Emphasis on providing business solutions for both the short term and the long term, as well as adding a backlog of things to worry about for the future.Revenue stream optimization and Technical Development, Mentoring and growth of Team.Github for Source Control, C#, Visual Studio 2013, OpenGL (OpenTk), Specflow, Nunit, Resharper, DotTrace, DotMemory, DotCover, TDD, EDA, Unit Tests, Continuous Integration with TeamCity, WCF, WPF, .Net.
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  • Azaleos
    Sr. Development Engineer (Contract)
    Azaleos May 2014 - Sep 2014
    * Back-end Software Development Role Building Secure Systems using RSA Cryptography, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), X509 Certificates (PE, PKFX, etc), Windows Certificate Store, and various other security technologies.* Created a white-label Private Certificate Authority as a Windows Service from scratch to support the issuing of custom public/private key pairs used for authentication and digital signature signing, all with a mind of needing to mitigate/deal with both ITAR and FIPS compliance issues.* Creation of Windows Services, reading and translating C++ into C#, some ESENT (Jet Blue DB) work. Use of OWIN, C# /.Net Web API 5.1/5.2, ESENT, X509 Certificates, RSA, LDAP to be deployed on customer’s internal network part of hybrid clouds.* Built an entire white-label Certificate Authority from scratch that successfully generated and issued public/private certificate pairs, tracked certificate serial numbers, and allowed full customization of the generated keys. Full password rotation and integration with LDAP.* Offered team brown bags on TDD, Why Unit Testing, Continuous Integration and the value of building code to modular interfaces are all "Good Things". Used these skills on the job. Mentored team members as needed. Worked with both aggressive "Type A" personalities, and passive "Type B" personalities.
  • Cookbrite
    Sr Software Engineer - Startup
    Cookbrite Dec 2013 - Apr 2014
    • Cookbrite was a Stealth Mode Startup. Reported directly to the CEO and CTO as the first engineer in the door and was primarily the software architect who planned out the system they used.• Worked with Python 2.7, Amazon Web Services, EB, ELB, AWS AIM, SqlAlchemy, Pyramid Framework, Nose (Unit testing tool), Colander, Cornice, Deform, Protocol Buffers, Virtualenv, PIP/EasyInstall, Pycharm to write PEP8 compliant code.
  • Microsoft
    Senior Software Architect (Sde4), Xbox - Contract
    Microsoft Oct 2013 - Dec 2013
    Redmond, Washington, Us
    Worked on what is now known as Microsoft Band while in the XBOX division on as yet undisclosed back end features. Worked in XBOX Accessories before the ship of the XBOX One. * C#/.NET on Azure to create the cloud backend of the MSFT Band, Leveraging Scrum, Kanban, Daily Standups, Test Driven Development, Software Craftsmanship, and expertise in startups to “get it done” and create a minimal v1 that can support a million users that we could iterate on.* Everything we did was focused around Big Data. Used Hadoop/HDInsight and Map/Reduce for a lot of processing.* Used Team Foundation Server (TFS) for source control, MS Test for Unit Tests. Champion of Unit Tests and Continual Integration/Continual Delivery. Team was new so provided leadership as needed.For the publicly disclosed data please see http://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-band/en-us
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  • Microsoft
    Software Development Engineer 4 (Architect) - Contract
    Microsoft Mar 2013 - Oct 2013
    Redmond, Washington, Us
    Working as a Software Development Engineer and Software Architect for "big data" solutions running on every company data-center worldwide as part of the Live Service Engineering team in order to finish up work others could not get done before they left. Includes but is not limited to automated forensics and data collection.* First order of business was to provide immediate business value by finishing projects others had left behind when they left, in a manner that both fixed architectural defects but also - and more importantly - added immediate business value by being functional and deploy-able to production.in order to solve immediate business and revenue needs while also maintaining a high enough quality bar to allowed team iteration based on constantly changing business needs.* Advocated for Code Craftsmanship and would mentor anybody who would listen on the benefits of re-factoring code and adding Unit Tests to validate assumptions made about this legacy code in order to mitigate future development or company risk.* This is the role I really fell in love with the System.Linq , System.Collections.Concurrent, and System.Threading.Tasks namespaces in C#.* Minimal C++ but it was used for IIS plugins; I have no fear of it.
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  • Drugstore.Com
    Director Of Qa/Manager, Performance And Automation - Contract
    Drugstore.Com Oct 2012 - Feb 2013
    Bellevue, Washington, Us
    Provide Technical and Managerial Leadership for Teams worldwide in 2 countries (North America and India) and 3 different time zones (PST, CST, IST) using 2 different technology stacks (C#/ASP.Net and Java/JSP) leveraging both Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux technology stacks (C#/MVC/ASP.Net and Java/JSP) Advocated best Technical practices and Software Craftsmanship while starting weekly 1v1 mentorship for directs as part of an overall team/division growth goal and a focused effort to raise the quality bar in all aspects of the QA organization with a Continuous Integration focus.C#/.NET, Specflow, Selenium, Java, Cucumber, C++, HTTP Debugging Proxies, JSON, TFS, SVN, Redhat, Windows, TeamCity
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  • Buildcents International
    Cto, Founder - Startup
    Buildcents International Apr 2010 - Oct 2012
    Bootstrap Startup and role was primary as a Managing Technical Director with active daily role as Sr Software Engineer, with Leadership, Product Development. Project management, Social Graph Software Development, and chasing dollars as primary responsibilities (It was a startup).Designed initial Business Requirements Document (BRD) as the primary requirements spec for team members to use for development of product. Filling in technical skill gaps in the team through diligence, professional experience, and deep dive research. Works with GIS mapping data and data warehousing technologies.Brought on in a developer role, but worked way up to become technical Lead for entire company. Code on job used VS2k10/Notepad++ in C#, Batch Scripting, t-SQL, ASP, PHP, used remote Linux based SVN/Git servers for code visioning, some server-client components. Used C#/ XML/ MYSQL /MSSQL /ASP/PHP (MS and LAMP stacks) daily. Some Azure Exposure.
  • Dendreon Through Maxsam Partner
    Sr. Sdet/Software Developer - Contract
    Dendreon Through Maxsam Partner Aug 2011 - Aug 2012
    Strategic Consulting Work as part of a "Turn around Team" to help provide core business value to Dendreon while maintaining Full FDA regulatory compliance using Agile Scrum and Kanban.Work is both SDET and DEV in nature; Title of Sr. SDET used for paperwork but I did everything I can to provide business value even if it is non-technical in nature due to being very entrepreneurial. My code shipped in multiple sprints as part of the product like any other developers would.Provided leadership to more Jr. Member of Team as needed. Listened when more Sr. members spoke. Helped hire and interview core members of the team.Code on job using VS2k10/Notepad++ for C#, Code base has C++ but it’s mostly out of scope. Brownfield development. Batch Scripting, Oracle OAM, NHibernate, Web Services in ASP.Net, Use of TFS and GIT servers for code versioning. Client-Server Architecture based around flex client and C#/oracle backend web services. Used C#/LINQ/ XML/ ORACLE /TOAD /ASP (MS/Oracle on Linux stacks: OAM, LDAP) daily.Created build system to provide continues integration, automated builds; automated running of BVT/Unit Tests on check-in with Integration Tests automated and running at team specified times using Cruise Control and MSTest daily. Used Skytap for virtualized environments. Used RallyDev for some sprint planning.Very Limited but positive experience with Jenkins, Java, Maven, Python (2.6 not 3.X due to Dependencies)
  • Microsoft
    Sde, Eip Core Platform Team - Contract
    Microsoft Apr 2010 - Aug 2010
    Redmond, Washington, Us
    "Big company Startup" atmosphere and role was primary as a Developer, with Leadership and training of the Test and Dev Team members as needed. Helped to build the team. Solved WCF Performance issues and gave an accurate forecast of future performance problem scenarios and bottlenecks. Trained others on the team on WCF's built in default DDOS Protection limits.Accurately designed and built web services for the XBOX team to consume using only a Business Requirements Document (BRD) as the primary requirements spec. Filled in the gaps in the team opened by loss of tribal knowledge, through diligence and deep dive research. Some work with Install Shield and MSI installers. Worked with Operational Data Stores and other data warehousing technologies.The only platform developer on the team that showed up to the meeting that spec'ed out production, BVT, and the continuous integration and daily build requirements. Lead – was technically our Architect at the time as the “Sr lead dev “ was hired later - was happy it “just got done”.Helped PM as needed in small PM role tasks. The Org was PM heavy due to cross team interface contracts.Code on job was using VS2k10 in C#, WCF, Batch Scripting, t-SQL, and a little Power shell for deployment.
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  • Centralert
    Qa Division Head (Temp)
    Centralert Feb 2010 - Apr 2010
    Startup atmosphere and role was multiple large hats. This included being Test Division Head (Under the CTO), part Customer Support Lead (Customer Facing) working to support Production Customers, part Software Development Engineer in Test, part Build Engineer. Created the company Test Network/Lab from parts to create a test network that had an immediate positive impact on customer and developer satisfaction because it helped them debug and validate core functionality.Build Master, Built from scratch the companies build infrastructure. Built the source code versionng, tracking, notification system from scratch since they had none. Filled in the gaps in the build process opened by loss of tribal knowledge, through diligence and deep dive research.Some work with Install Shield and MSI installers.Lead the entire companies QA division and testing effort. Also remotely Managed International QA teams located in Taiwan. Created and Validated the teams Test Cases.Position was customer facing and reactive to customer needs and response.Code on job was using VS2k8 in C#, WCF, Batch Scripting, t-SQL, and a little Power shell.My Direct Manager and Co-workers willing to give “two thumbs up” references for high quality work done. Manager fought the CEO to keep me.
  • Microsoft
    Software Development Engineer In Test 4 - Contract
    Microsoft Apr 2009 - Feb 2010
    Redmond, Washington, Us
    * Worked at Microsoft as member of multiple Agile teams on multiple projects within the PQO/BIFF/CSS Team through multiple Re-Orgs with a primary focus on improving use of test automation and best practices for teams that originally did everything manually with black box testing.* Worked across teams for auditing of process and architecture to assess test environments and create the strategy to move them to test automation and then implemented these plans. This included but was not limited to Unit tests in the builds, the addition of automated BVTs, The creation of both Pre and Post deployment validation with automation, and daily automation tracking regressions.* Was given control of direct reports when original lead was found to have too many (20+) people under him. Managed and Provided Leadership and training for the other members of the team as required. Worked to “Put out fires” while leads were OOF or otherwise busy. Implemented processes that mitigated risk and allowed lead to have lunch in peace.* Worked with the deployment and testing of massively distributed search systems, clustered HTTP servers, TF-IDF, MS SQL Data Stores/sprocs, Browser Automation, Internal Tools, ASP.net web applications in C#, Web Services in WCF and C++, KAF for Web Page, KAF for Silverlight testing and automation. Some SSIS exposure (Mostly ETL).
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  • Premera Blue Cross
    Sdet - Contract
    Premera Blue Cross Feb 2009 - Apr 2009
    Mountlake Terrace, Washington, Us
    Worked in a Internal Security and Policy Auditing position while also performing in the standard SDET role in order to audit and contribute to the security of customers medial data while still providing access to HIPPA protected data securely.Test Automation was mostly programed in JavaScript (QC), HTML and C# using COM Object Automation, But some DLL's used C/C++/WIN32. Scope of work was complex and wore multiple hats.C# / .NET Windows Security, Sugar (Scripting Language)
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  • Microsoft (V- Oxford Global Resources)
    Sdet3 - Contract
    Microsoft (V- Oxford Global Resources) Feb 2008 - Jul 2008
    Redmond, Washington, Us
    Worked in Microsoft’s Embedded Mobile Devices Division as a member of the WDC Multimedia Experience Team as a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET3). Role is part SDET, Part PM as required to help plan work item schedule for feature development. Worked with ARM4i/x86 based device emulation for running of test cases for Windows Mobile feature testing. Assured quality through the creation and maintenance of automated test tools using XML, CMD.com Scripting, C++, and Dot Net Framework using C#, with internal tools for scheduling.Owned features and drove action items due to the decentralized nature of the product space, daily.Owned the file injection and security testing of the media library’s media metadata extraction component and was the sole owner for testing of feature. Owned security reviews for features owned.Trained other members of the team as required in best practices, and Metadata creation and extraction. Created own test files and tools as required.
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  • Attachmate
    Unix Security Test Engineer (Contract Consultant)
    Attachmate Jan 2007 - Jan 2008
    Seattle, Wa, Us
    Security Testing and Verification of FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) validated security software to be run on Multiple UNIX platforms and architectures. This is including but not limited to Multiple Distributions of Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX on multiple types of 32 bit and 64 bit platforms.I'm also writing test harness and reporting tools code and doing cross platform SDET work as part of my job duties, writing test code for the more involved test cases that runs on all the platforms mentioned above in addition to Win32 platforms that can use DotNet.Primary languages so far include C++, Bash Scripting,Ksh Scripting, Perl, Java, and C#.The Team is using the SCRUM agile methodology.
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  • Free Lance
    Contracted Consultant
    Free Lance Feb 2007 - Feb 2007
    LAMP based Server setup for for a small hosting company under CentOS (Redhat) Linux. Includes simple postfix MTA setup and custom scripting of automated tasks using php and MySQL.
  • Microsoft Research
    Software Design Engineer In Test (Sdet) (V- Contract)
    Microsoft Research Feb 2006 - Feb 2007
    Redmond, Washington, Us
    Worked in Microsoft Research and Development as a member of the MSR SPOT Team as a Software Design Engineer in Test.Worked with Embedded devices, Embedded Run Time Systems, Prototype Hardware, and Large Scale Distributed server-client based products that have since been brought to market ( http://www.msndirect.com )Assured quality through the creation and maintenance of automated test tools using the Dot Net Framework using C#. Worked with Electrical/RF engineers and Software Design Engineers using the Dot Net Micro Framework and embedded hardware.Informally trained other members of team as required. Contract extended multiple times due to valued membership of the team.
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  • Active Web Hosting
    Sr. Linux Administrator (Remote Contracted Consultant)
    Active Web Hosting Jun 2003 - Jan 2006
    Was responsible for administration and maintenance of every Linux based system on the corporate network. Maintained a perfect security record and did not have a single second of security related downtime while holding the position.Responsibilities include but are not limited to system maintenance and security upgrades as needed. Personally designed, programmed and maintained the system they use now. Made extensive use of server automation using Perl, SH, and PHP and LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) based systems.
  • Freelance
    Freelance Software Engineer
    Freelance Jul 1999 - Jul 2003
    Freelance Software Consulting and Programming, IT, etc. based on specific scopes of work or spec work.C / C++ / Perl / Pascal / COBOL ('95) / BASIC and clones, BATCH

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