- Joined Microsoft For Startups (Founder's Hub) in July of 2024- Shipped Ask Learn, which supports Microsoft Copilot for Azure (public preview at Ignite 2023 in Nov)- Shipped AI Powered Q&A Assist (public preview at Build 2023 in June, and GA in Oct 2023)- Led team in implementing a new green-field version of Microsoft Q&A (https://learn.microsoft.com/answers). Shipped in January 2023, shipped with zero outage incidents.

Joined via Xamarin acquisition ... worked with the Microsoft documentation team to migrate all managed API documentation from MSDN to the new https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/ browser, after customizing and integrating MDOC into the reference publishing pipeline.Later, became a tech lead in the Developer Relations engineering group, focused on improving the reference pipeline, and responsible for the docs search system. Partnered with the Azure Search team on the largest pre-launch pilot of their new cognitive search and answers feature with the documentation index.

As the sole engineer for the documentation team, designed and created a custom content management system for Xamarin's developer portal that was integrated with github as the content store. Also responsible for maintaining and extending mono's documentation tools for API (monodoc, mdoc).

Worked on the http://caloriecount.com mobile applications (Android, iOS), both directly contributing, and acting as technical lead for other iOS and Android engineers. I worked with the team to launch a major new feature in the form of "Calorie Camp"; a social network to encourage community accountability and support for users going through their weight loss journey. It was a resounding success; having increased user engagement, connections, and number of pounds lost over time.

Using C#, along with the XNA framework to develop games, leading a team comprised of artists and engineers.Games shipped:Udder Chaos - XBox Live Indie Games - April 2011Udder Chaos - Windows Phone - July 2011SteamBirds - Windows Phone - August 2011

Same role as SetClear, relocated.

-Senior Developer from 2007 to 2009, and promoted to Development Manager in Jan 2010. -One of the first developers brought on board when the company started in ‘07-Systems developed meet high throughput requirements, hundreds of thousands of trades per day.-Developed systems include end user website, trade aggregation and calculation services, and confirmations engine which generates PDFs and delivers them to clients via email, fax, or to a physical printer for manual mailing by operations team.-Technical: Front end websites developed with ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, Script#. Shared backend uses WCF hosted in Windows Services. Integration with partner systems is done via WCF Services, BizTalk, and MQ Series queues

SiTEL contracted me to help them integrate video into their XNA-based training application. They wanted to use the Scurvy.Media library (I had previously developed as an open source project) to play video on the Xbox using XNA.

G-Trade is an established financial services company which handles stock trade settlements and clearing. Projects included: development process improvement (TFS, Unit Testing), design and implementation of a new version of their client management application (C#/WinForms), maintenance/troubleshooting of existing systems, and was involved in a major data center move.

Developed two prototype implementations using Managed DirectX and XNA for rendering Video onto a texture and displaying it on arbitrary geometry. This work later led to the publishing of the Scurvy.Media open source project

Regularly wrote articles on web technologies for this subscription service. Also developed the content management system (Coldfusion, SQL Server) and payment processing system (Paypal)

Started on the IS team at Tiburon and helped develop software for many of the internal business processes such as; a purchase request system for the studio CFO, asset tracking system for NCAA, NASCAR, and Madden teams, and a new intranet for the studio using Sharepoint Portal Server including all content from previous custom intranet, and a new interactive facility map which shows every person’s badge photo overlaid over their office/cube.I was asked to join the Tools Group in late ’05 to work on content pipelines for Superman Returns: The Game. Particularly, I helped write an audio pipeline GUI for the Audio team that allowed them to mix the game in real time while the game was running on the console (C#, WinForms, Remoting, XBox 360). The audio was one of the highest rated aspects of the game by critics.

I started the user group as a way to meet other developers interested in Microsoft’s upcoming .NET framework. The first meetings were small gatherings of like-minded individuals, but it quickly grew and is now one of the largest developer groups in the central florida area. The Orlando CodeCamp, which is organized by ONETUG board members in conjunction with other nearby user group leaders is a yearly gathering of several hundred professionals.

As a contractor for several of the firm’s clients, I learned to quickly come up to speed on a project’s status, and provide expert guidance for the client’s software team. The experience also brought me to a wide array of different industries such as insurance, health services, and education. I used ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, WinForms, and the .NET Compact Framework in my various assignments.

Paypal wanted to have an idea about how many people were using paypal functionality on the web. I was contracted to write a custom web crawler for paypal. The crawler was written in C# and used an index of websites obtained from dmoz.org as a seed.

WSI is a third party insurance administrator which manages clients on behalf of insurance companies and agencies. The company provides billing services, in addition to online enrollment. Started this company as a junior asp/vbscript developer, and was soon promoted to a VB6 developer working on core business logic for the payment/billing processor.

Supported Windows 98, ME, and 2000