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Shipping software and product updates "Harder Better Faster Stronger"- Designed and implemented a plan to run build and release systems side by side with source code synced across Perforce and GitHub- Migrated a team of >100 developers from Perforce to GitHub with no impact to business processes- Supported development teams with architecture and infrastructure design to support new build systems (Yocto, CMake) for faster builds and new engineering efforts

I'm developing Kubernetes and related open-source projects supporting Windows Server Containers within the Azure cloud-native compute team. As co-chair of SIG-Windows, I work to bring contributors together from multiple companies to build a great solution for the full Windows application lifecycle. Over the last two years I have delivered training presentations at multiple Kubecon conferences to help bring new users and contributors onto the project. Through my leadership Kubernetes 1.14 was declared stable on Windows in April 2019, and the working group has added features while maintaining stability for multiple releases since then.

As part of the Windows core and Hyper-V team, I helped design, build, and launch Windows containers as part of Windows Server 2016. I worked closely with early customers, partner companies (Docker), and open-source developers to ensure key workloads worked, and delivered marketing and training materials for the Windows Server 2016 launch cycle. After the initial launch, I then worked with teams inside Microsoft and external customers for Windows container adoption and refinements. In 2018 I changed my focus to Kubernetes and took a leadership role in the open-source community to close the remaining gaps and get Kubernetes on Windows ready for production.

I worked closely with customers and multiple teams to research, design and deliver innovations in software-defined storage for Windows Server and Hyper-V. I helped design and deliver shared virtual SCSI disks to migrate clustered and high-availability applications into virtual machines. After enabling HA workloads, I focused on predictable performance through storage quality of service in hyper-converged storage solutions on Windows Server.

As part of the Hyper-V team - I led the test strategy and implementation for virtual fibre channel to enable high-performance and high-availability SQL Server deployments in VMs. I developed automation in C# and C++ to configure devices from Cisco, Brocade, NetApp, EMC, HP to meet testing needs. Some devices had published APIs, and others required implementing networking protocols or command-line based automation from scratch. I supported this feature for two releases - Windows Server 2012 and R2, then focused on broader test and integration passes covering Hyper-V, Windows Failover Clustering, Active Directory, Storage Spaces Direct, SMB and multi-site replication.

I developed test plans and automation for the user interface and marketplace experience across three generations of Zune hardware using C/C++ and Lua on Windows CE. I also developed test and measurement strategies for gapless playback of albums intended for continuous playback.

I designed test plans and wrote test automation for Windows Defender, with a focus on Windows filesystem minifilter testing, user/kernel mode interfaces, and behavior monitoring strategies. I also managed both vendor and full-time employees in my last 3 years in this position.