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Helping software engineers upgrade their .NET skills

Redmond, Washington, Us

Building game streaming tech to empower the next billion gamers. https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/10/08/project-xcloud-gaming-with-you-at-the-centerUsing Docker, Azure, Kubernetes, C#, Git, Visual Studio Code

Redmond, Washington, Us

Building modern services on the PlayFab platform. https://playfab.comUsing Docker, Azure, Kubernetes, C#, Git, Visual Studio Code

Redmond, Washington, Us

The Azure Container Registry (ACR) is a service to manage private Docker registries to store and manage private Docker container images. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/container-registryResponsibilitiesBuild the system that enables Microsoft teams to publish container images to the Microsoft Container Registry (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-syndicates-container-catalog). Make ACR available in national/sovereign clouds (China, US Government, etc). Build reference samples on how to integrate Kubernetes clusters with Azure internal diagnostics systems.Tools and TechnologiesDocker, Azure, PowerShell, Kubernetes, Linux, Git, Visual Studio Code, MSBuild

Redmond, Washington, Us

Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) is the most powerful, integrated and collaborative DevOps solution out there. https://www.visualstudio.com/team-servicesResponsibilitiesImprove the continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipelines used within the VSTS team to allow for reliably shipping new product versions in very short cycles. Improve the engineers development workflow to allow them to build and test their code quickly and with minimal disruption. Contribute improvements back to the VSTS product based on the actual usage of the product within the team.Tools and TechnologiesVSTS, PowerShell, Azure, C#, Git, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, MSBuild, TypeScript, Docker

Redmond, Washington, Us

PowerApps is a revolutionary offering that allows business people to create mobile apps without coding knowledge and share them with others in multiple platforms. More about PowerApps here: https://powerapps.microsoft.comResponsibilitiesModernize the overall build process to ensure builds are fast and reliable. Design and implement the CI pipeline to allow for shipping the product very frequently and increase developer productivity. Customize VSTS to adapt to the needs of the team.Tools and TechnologiesVSTS, Azure, C#, MSBuild, PowerShell, Node.js, TypeScript, Visual Studio

Redmond, Washington, Us

Member of the team that provides the SDK to develop extensions for the Microsoft Azure Portal (http://portal.azure.com). The portal provides an extensibility model that allows multiple external teams to add functionality to manage new cloud based services, which can be done via the Portal SDK.ResponsibilitiesBuilding portal extension samples that serve as reference implementations and best practices, building the test framework used to validate new portal extensions, collaborating in improvements and maintenance of the CI infrastructure that validates the Portal and that allows for validating and publishing the SDK.Tools and TechnologiesTypescript, C#, Azure, Selenium, Node.js, Git, Visual Studio and VS Online, Jenkins, PowerShell, ASP.NET Web API, TFS, Knockout.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Tester on the user experience team for the Microsoft Azure Portal, which enables the administration and configuration of hosted services, storage accounts, SQL Azure databases among several other cloud based services.ResponsibilitiesReport product bugs, write automated test cases, perform end to end validation, diagnose customer issues, create tools to simplify testing and diagnostic tasks, prepare test agent machines.Tools and TechnologiesVisual Studio, Windows Azure, SQL Azure, C#, ASP.NET, HTML, JavaScript, Git, Web Matrix, VS Unit Testing, IIS, TFS, internal tools.

Austin, Texas, Us

Connector/Net.Net Senior developer in the MySQL Connector/Net Team. MySQL Connector/Net is the main interface library used to connect .NET applications with MySQL Server databases.ResponsibilitiesDesign and code new features, implement bug fixes, unit testing, interview new developer candidates.Tools and technologiesVisual Studio 2008/2010, .Net Framework 2.0/3.5/4.0, MySQL Server 5.x, Bazaar, NUnit, Test Driven.Net, Hudson, WiX, Sandcastle, Putty.

San Diego, California, Us

Auda Enterprise GoldDevelopment leader in the customization of Auda Enterprise Gold. Auda Enterprise Gold is a United Kingdom distributed service oriented application for vehicle claims management. Audatex is a worldwide industry leader in claims management solutions and the overall purpose of this project is to introduce the application to the Latin American market. The application is the new generation of the current applications developed by Audatex in the past currently being used in Mexico, Central and South America. The application is built on top of the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0/3.5 with Oracle and VistaDB as backend. The project dynamics involve constant interaction with a development team in the UK.Responsibilities:Requirements gathering, development, testing, deployment.Tools and Technologies:Visual Studio 2008, ASP.NET 2.0/3.5, ASMX Web Services, Oracle 10g, Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server, Internet Information Services 6.0, VistaDB.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Grupo Bursátil Mexicano (GBM) Distributed EnvironmentParticipation in the design and development of GBM’s Distributed Environment. This is the set of services and components that represent the core building blocks for all future applications of this customer. The distributed environment includes services for Data Access, Message Brokering, Error Handling, Instrumentation, Configuration Management and WCF Web Services Management. I was responsible for the design and development of the Message Brokering services, which are WCF implementations that allow any application to interact with message brokers like SonicMQ and SQL Server Service Broker. Client applications communicate with the message broker through the WCF service without knowing which particular implementation is actually running on server side. The message brokering infrastructure represents the core of GBM strengths.Responsibilities:Requirements gathering, architecture, design, development, testing, deployment.Tools and Technologies:Visual Studio 2008, WCF, SonicMQ, SQL Server 2008 Service Broker, Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server, Internet Information Services 7.0, Windows Activation Services (WAS).

Gave multiple talks on Microsoft technologies to evangelize the use of them on the local developer community.

Fondo de Fondos SIIFF Participation in the design and development of the Sistema Integral de Informacion del Fondo de Fondos, a SharePoint Server 2007 intranet/extranet solution that allows Fondo de Fondos, the biggest investment funds institution in México City, to control all their business process. This solution involves the use of InfoPath forms, as well as ASP.NET pages, statistical charts, reports and workflows.Responsibilities:Requirements gathering, architecture, design, development, testing, deployment.Tools and Technologies:Office SharePoint Server 2007, InfoPath 2007, Visual Studio 2008, Workflow Foundation, Web Services.Next WebPresented the Silverlight technology to local customers, as a partnership between Ascenzo Consulting and Microsoft México to promote the use of Silverlight in the country. This then conducted to starting small Silverlight projects with those customers. Designed and developed the OEM Image Strip, that shows newspaper logos and previews of the main page of each newspaper (http://oem.com.mx). Also, designed and developed the El Universal News Reader Widget, which is used to show latest news taken from El Universal website RSS Feeds, and then visitors can copy the widget to their sites.Responsibilities:Requirements gathering, solution design, development, testing, deployment.Tools and Technologies:Visual Studio 2008, Silverlight 2.0.Semarnat Numeralia Intranet/Extranet PortalDesigned and build the Numeralia Portal for Semarnat, a government institution in Mexico City. This is a SharePoint Server 2007 portal used to store InfoPath 2007 forms that track the Numeralia business process of the institution.Responsibilities:Solution design, development, testing, deployment.Tools and Technologies:Office SharePoint Server 2007, Infopath 2007, Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2005.

Austin, Tx, Us

Advanced Application InstallersCreate advanced customized installers for several of the company´s applications, which allow an easy deployment of them into customer´s servers and workstations. Responsibilities:Deploy .NET assemblies, register COM+ components, obfuscate assemblies, create/upgrade customer´s database, register SQL Server CLR Objects, set configuration values to Windows Registry and .NET configuration files, create installers remotely on a dedicated build machine.Tools and Technologies:InstallShield 12, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server, Dotfuscator, SQL Server 2005.Rough Cut Capacity Planning 2.0Design and development of Rough Cut 2.0, a desktop application that allows the scheduling of company resources, like inventory, to meet the market´s demand on time. Features hierarchy grids, attractive UI, tabbed navigation and interactive column charts.More info: http://www.atlasplanningsuite.com/rough_cut_capacity_planning.shtmlResponsibilities:Architecture, development process selection, development, task scheduling, deployment.Tools and Technologies:Visual Studio 2005, Infragistics NetAdvantage, SQL Server 2005, InstallShield 12, Team Foundation Server 2005, Dotfuscator, Microsoft Project, Enterprise Library, Smart Client Software Factory.Planning Portal 3.6Development of Planning Portal 3.6, a web application used to share forecasts of company´s resources (like sales, inventory, human resources) with all interested parties inside or outside the company, via intranet or internet. Features hierarchical grids and several charts to easily modify forecasts, which is very useful for sales people and customers. More info: http://www.atlasplanningsuite.com/planning_portal.shtmlResponsibilities:Development, task scheduling, deployment, support.Tools and Technologies:Visual Studio 2005, Infragistics NetAdvantage, SQL Server 2000/2005, Farpoint Spread, Intersoft Webcombo, Project.

MSGuayaquil WebsiteDesign and development of www.msguayaquil.com, a website created to share the best .NET related resources for the Latin American and Spanish developer community. The site offers PowerPoint presentations, tutorials, white papers, demos, code examples, forums, blogger articles, a job board, screencasts and event announcements.Responsibilities:Customize Telligent Community Server 2007 to fit our specific needs, create a Silverlight based video library to show screencasts, add a job board, improve performance for mass email sending, constantly monitor and fix any possible trouble, update the front page for any announcement to de community, create contests to motivate the community participation in the site.Tools and Technologies:Visual Studio 2005/2008, SQL Server 2005, Telligent Community Server, Microsoft Expression Encoder.

Human Resources SystemDesign and Development of a Human Resources system, a desktop application used to control entry/exit times of employees to office. The application receives entry/exit times from biometric machines, using files as interface, stores them in a database and then allows to calculate the amount of hours worked by each employee. The application also records reference data from employees and manages the company´s department hierarchy.Responsibilities:Architecture, design, development, lead and coach a support developer, task scheduling, customer support.Tools and Technologies:Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Project Server, Enterprise Library.

Enterprise Resource PlanningDevelopment of several modules of a managerial information system, which includes modules of Accounting, Purchases, Invoicing, Receivables, Payables, Banks, etc. Very similar to an ERP, but with less features and integration.Responsibilities:Design, development, task scheduling.Tools and Technologies:Visual Studio 2003, SQL Server 2000, Project, Enterprise Library, Component One Studio.