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New York, NY, US

Design, implement and support the Bloomberg Application Service (BAS) infrastructure, a client/service middleware product.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Design and implement software, and support the Microsoft Exchange Online Protection product, a malware and content filtering product for cloud-based Microsoft Exchange Online product.
• Designed and implemented the capability of providing the archive processing and text extraction results of the Forefront Information Protection Server (C++) to the Exchange Transport to allow deep attachment and text.
• Designed, implemented and supported the cloud-based hosted spam and policy quarantine feature. Included implementing PowerShell cmdlets for the administrator and end-user UI to access the quarantine.
• Designed and implemented an improved scalability end-user spam notification feature. Utilized a.NET task based, provider-based, and highly unit testable core/extension-based architecture. (95% core code coverage)

Redmond, Washington, US

• Produce software architectural designs, review functional and design specifications and provide technical guidance for the Forefront Server Security product line, a malware and content filtering product for Microsoft.
• Lead development of the Forefront Server Security, a Microsoft version of the Sybari Antigen products, to meet the Microsoft security and UI guidelines and the globalization/localization into 12 languages.
• Wrote the well-received Forefront Coding Standards document, containing the currently accepted coding style and best coding practices for all newly developed code, and Forefront Server Security Architecture document.
• Contributed to the architectural design of the API between the “Stirling” central management agent and the protection technologies. Wrote the functional and design specification for the Forefront adapter and developed.
• Performed technical analysis of 3rd party Information Leakage Protection (ILP) and Anti-Spam components. Developed prototypes integrating one of the ILP engines and two anti-spam engines into Forefront Server Security.
• Investigated spam “backscatter” solutions and implemented prototype Exchange 2007 Transport agents that implemented 2 backscatter solutions; the Bounce Address Tag Validation (BATV) and “Boomerang” (a Microsoft.

US

• Build and lead the Software Engineering department for the Antigen product line, a malware and content filtering product for Microsoft application servers (Exchange, SharePoint, & Office Communication Server) and Lotus.
• Built a highly productive Software Engineering Department with 5 managers and 17 developers, developing and supporting a product line of 5 products. Resulting in 28% CAGR and the company being recognized as the #1.
• Lead the development of 7 major releases and numerous service releases of the Antigen for Microsoft Exchange product.
• Lead the development of 2 major releases of Antigen for Lotus Domino on 5 platforms (Windows, OS/2, AIX, Solaris, & Linux).
• Designed implementation of Antigen for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2001
• Designed the architecture modifications for the Antigen for Microsoft Windows SharePoint Service & SharePoint Portal Server 2003 product.

San Jose, California, US

• Research, architect, design & develop software for pcAnywhere32, a Windows remote control product and pcAnywhere Express, pcAnywhere Remote Clients packaged with an ActiveX control, a Netscape Plug-in and a Java.
• Development lead for pcAnywhere 9.0, involved in the feature set planning, functional & design of UI & features, scheduling and task assignments for 30 developers.
• Development Lead for pcAnywhere Express, involved with the design, implementation and bug fixing.
• Design and implemented the pcAnywhere 8.0 Conference feature upper layer protocol modification to support IP multicast.
• Designed and implemented screen bitmap transfer improvements: for palette-oriented display adapters through the use of Device Independent Bitmaps (DIBs) and an improved color scaling technique using arithmetic encoding.
• Ported pcAnywhere to DEC Alpha. Required rewriting all assembly code components into C.

• Design, develop and support software for the UniVision database product for Unix (written in CFront C++) supporting applications written the PICK database system. Provide Tier 3 engineering support.
• Designed and implemented a dynamically loaded generic external file access handler, a Micro Focus COBOL ISAM file handler and a utility that parsed the binary record specification COBOL statements and converted them to.
• Designed and implemented minimal maintenance file system (High Concurrency B+Tree) feature. For storage and performance efficiency, the design utilized advanced B tree techniques, such as, variable-length keys.
• Ported UniVision product to the Motorola 800 and 900 series running DG-UX and IBM RS/6000 running AIX.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Provide consultation, educational and research services to engineers and product management for the Mentor product line, a PICK-based database system. Manager of 4 senior engineers. As Manager of Advanced Development.
• Designed and lead the development of a symmetrical multi-processing architecture in the Mentor Operating Environment on Unix.
• Designed and lead development of the online transaction processing functionality in the Mentor O/S. This required a major redesign of the record locking mechanism and the addition of a file locking mechanism utilizing.
• Designed and implemented the fast fault recovery database update logging mechanism to provide an up-to-date log of database updates on tape or to a warm standby system in the event the primary system failed.