John Jenson Email & Phone Number

Richland, Washington, United States

Richland, Washington, United States

Kennewick

Sole person responsible for development and support of information infrastructure for engineering and manufacturing of portable x-ray fluorescence element analyzers.• Invented and implemented an application engine architecture for the instrument that allows functionality to be added and customized without changing the executable. This freed the software team to concentrate on critical infrastructure and core system development for a new hardware platform.• Implemented applications to support workflows in C# using high-level data structures under .Net.• Implemented a system of xml and other configuration files and x-ray spectrum data files to combine generic models with instrument-specific x-ray spectra. The result was a custom calibration generated for each instrument during production. Over 2000 files are used to define the generic models that are combined with about 2500 x-ray spectra from each instrument.The new infrastructure reduces manufacturing time and cost, and improves quality by automating error-prone manual steps and using release-controlled generic models and hardware configuration information. The system reduces errors during engineering development and quality control failures during production. Production volume was more than doubled with no increase in production calibration labor cost or engineering production support time. The system is responsible for more than 90% of the instruments now manufactured by the Kennewick division.

Sole person responsible for development of next generation information infrastructure for engineering and manufacturing of portable x-ray fluorescence analyzers.• Learned theory and practice of x-ray fluorescence element detection and analysis.• Analyzed information flow in Engineering and Manufacturing necessary to support controlled release of instrument calibrations and use them in the production processes.• Reverse engineered a tangled web of Excel spreadsheet calculations, Visual Basic macros, and VB and C++ DLL’s. Extracted portions relevant to the next generation product and re-implemented in C#.

Contracted to Health Solutions Group, MicrosoftSole person responsible for trial of Microsoft Amalga LifeScience semantic database at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Computational Proteomics Lab. Also one of several developers prototyping biomedical, genomics, and proteomics applications.Manage technical and customer relationship between the Microsoft development team and the Fred Hutchinson proteomics researchers. Quickly learned genomic and proteomic biological theory, research and bioinformatics methods to understand workflows and data processing needs. Translated workflow requirements and customer feedback into prioritized specification suggestions for the development team. Created semantic schemas for ovarian cancer research datasets and imported many megabytes into database hosted on SQL Server. Used MS PowerShell and SSIS to transform flat files and load into SQL tables. Duplicated existing manual research workflows with semantic/SPARQL and SQL queries to find prospective ovarian cancer bio-markers.Transformed schema and imported numerous online genomic and biomedical research databases into the semantic database. Enriched research results by querying across experimental data linked with imported reference databases. Currently developing prototypes in F# (a functional programming language) using a Service Oriented Architecture to be forward compatible with Azure-hosted cloud-based service.Given only high level goals from Microsoft manager, independently create project plans, set priorities and manage to successful completion.

As subject matter expert, executed internal cross-site design transfer from Engineering to Manufacturing and product lifecycle management of two regulated medical device product lines.Partnered with representatives from Marketing, Tech Support, Quality Assurance/Regulatory Affairs, Corporate IT, and Manufacturing to meet deadlines for the release and delivery of products that represented approximately 25% of the company’s revenue.Worked as sole developer with two subject-matter experts in a cross-functional team that reduced ordering and configuration errors from 5% to zero by creating an Excel and VBA tool for field order entry.Met FDA design and manufacturing change control requirements by creating ECO’s (Engineering Change Orders) and organizing and maintaining drawings, documents, parts lists, and specifications in Oracle’s Agile Product Lifecycle Management tool.

One of three technical leads in a 20-person team that developed a Windows-based application for cardiac stress testing. Application controlled external hardware, acquired and processed waveform data, and reported test results. Post-release, worked on a team of six developers that maintained the code base (currently over 1 million lines of code) and implemented new feature releases.Appointed to three-person team to architect new scalable Windows-based, three tier application to replace legacy embedded device. System met real-time constraints for data latency of less than 1 second from patient to screen on a 400 MHz Windows NT 4.0 system.Developed and unit tested multi-threaded ActiveX controls to display ECG waveforms on screen in real-time and print waveforms to laser printer, chart recorder, and PDF files.Also served as escalation engineer who promptly identified root causes and developed fixes for future releases.

This company merged with Cardiac Science and took on that name.

Technical lead in a group of three graphic artist/designers and three software engineers. Team worked directly for Craig Mundie, Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer.Gave well-received technology demonstrations to large audiences and briefings to Microsoft executives, including Bill Gates.Designed, coded, and tested interactive, multimedia demonstrations of future technologies. Each had a two-three month development cycle and was produced by a two-person team of graphic artist and developer. Several were premiered by Bill Gates and other Microsoft executives, including:A demonstration of future digital TV information and shopping services expected to exist in 5-7 years.A working prototype of an IM service using WinCE devices, both local and distributed over a TCP/IP network.Sole software engineer responsible for technology infrastructure at the Microsoft Home, an executive briefing and demonstration facility visited by over 1,000 people per year.

As the sole software engineer on a project to add features to an existing system, proposed, gathered requirements, specified, designed, implemented, and tested software for voice transmission in a satellite communications network. Wrote embedded real-time software in C/C++, running on a 68000 microprocessor. This included a custom real-time OS to support multiple low-latency, prioritized processes with interrupt driven time slicing and other system services. Also responsible for maintenance and upgrades to the PC application that provided real-time centralized monitor and control.Wrote customer proposals and operation and maintenance manuals. Successfully completed a one-month field assignment in Sichuan, China to troubleshoot the first deployed system.

Joined CadPoint at its founding and was the sole software engineer.Specified, designed, implemented in C, and tested the first CAD program for printed circuit board layout running under Microsoft Windows. System included an extensible object oriented database and two-dimensional graphics with interactive user manipulation of on-screen graphical objects.

MultiPoint was a three-year-old startup developing a satellite ground terminal for medium to high speed data transmission.As the sole developer, specified, designed, implemented, and tested code for real-time collection of monitor and control information from ground terminals in a satellite communications network.