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Seattle

CAREER COACHINGI offer personalized one-on-one career coaching for individuals seeking to advance their careers. I help with job search strategy, networking, informational interviewing, salary negotiation. I specialize in technical positions.CONSULTINGI offer consulting for startups and non-profits. I help with technical strategy, IT infrastructure, business process engineering, and software packages selection and implementation.Phdx. | Austin, TexasA diagnostic lab specializing in precision diagnostics with an innovative wellness programResponsible for IT infrastructure and initial product launch for a 20 person startup. • Led team to deliver personalized lab report, electronic report delivery, and customized requisition.• Hired vendors for contract projects. • Implemented Office 365, set up email, file sharing and Skype communications. ninety-nine girlfriends | PortlandA women's philanthropic collective awarding several $100,000 grants yearly.• Advise on technical strategy • Implemented payment processing for membership contributions

Redmond, Wa

Responsible for designing, conducting, analyzing, and reporting on user research to inform the development of tools for 35,000+ internal software engineers at Microsoft.Major Projects:• COMPLIANCE FOR SERVICES: Conducted exploratory research on engineering teams switching from boxed product to software services on workflow complying with policies such as security, privacy. • PRIVACY COMPLIANCE: Led a rapid, iterative, data driven project to roll out new privacy policies.• CODEFLOW: Conducted usability tests on new proposed functionality for predicted risk of regression based on machine learning.• ENGINEERING RESEARCH: Oversaw EE Research studies investigating engineering best practices (such as cloud services, big data) both internally and at competitors.

Accra, Ghana

Responsible for developing curriculum to teach entrepreneurship and software development in a start-up NGO based in Ghana, Africa and for managing 17 students and 5 instructors in product development projects in a two year program.Trained students in agile software development, wireframe design, OOP using J2EE, MySQL, PHP, J2ME, Drupal. Managed 3 project teams to prototype solutions including audio streaming, iPhone development, wireless device data backup. Instructed students on generating and evaluating business ideas, writing business plans, and preparing investor pitches. Recruited and managed instructors from Germany, US, Singapore, India, and Ghana.

Responsible for technical strategy, product roadmap and project definition for back office and customer facing applications, 10 technical staff, and an annual budget of $1.7 million. Reported to a succession of 3 CEO’s within one year under new investors. Successfully delivered: • IN CAR TECHNOLOGY: Led team to deliver in 6 months new in-car technology (embedded system, with wireless) and to convert existing fleet of 550 vehicles across 5 cities; built messaging queue to transmit reservations via SMS to vehicles and application to send remote unlocks to vehicles and locate vehicles via GPS.• WEB SITE: Re-architected public site structure, rolled out new content management system (DotNetNuke), deployed new member services and join application (.NET and Sequel Server).• PRICING: Architected new pricing model for variable and promotional pricing.• RESERVATION SYSTEM: Designed new search capabilities for availability, price, location.

Responsible for new product development projects for clinical applications in Carecast and for managing 4 program managers, 30 SE’s and 10 analysts in a matrix environment. Major projects: • NOTES: Managed joint development project with Mayo Clinic to provide physicians an xml-based Clinical Documentation tool and knowledge base utilizing CDA (Clinical Document Architecture). • CONTROLLED MEDICAL VOCABULARY: Managed infrastructure project implementing a controlled medical vocabulary utilizing SNOMED-CT. • DISCHARGE SUMMARIES: Managed project to create discharge summaries utilizing XML and XSLT. • e-MEDICINE and LANVISION: Managed projects to integrate third party content and tools into the Carecast architecture.• NHS: Managed clinical application development projects to support (UK) NHS national electronic medical records.

Taught in a senior level software engineering program. Courses include Object Oriented Analysis and Design with UML, Project Management, and Information Architecture and senior seminar on Design Patterns. Mentored teams of students in developing software for external clients in year-long projects. Provided narrative evaluations.

Responsible for program management of major projects and for managing teams of 6 - 25 technical staff. Major projects:• iCOPYRIGHT INSTANT CLEARANCE: Led team through entire SDLC of initial product launch of web based service for acquiring copyright licenses and content.• CONTENT ENGINE: Led team to develop content engine for producing professional reprints of web content with publisher branding. (LA Times)• PUBLISHER IMPLEMENTATIONS: Led team to develop utilities for integrating iCopyright service into publishing systems.

Consulted with existing and potential clients about web applications. Defined requirements, built prototypes, conducted design and analysis, and created specifications. Led developers in implementing projects. Coordinated project activities with third parties such as hosting companies, payment processors, banks, software suppliers.

Directed activities of engineers, web developers, UI architects, graphic designers, test lead, and contractors on a variety of projects including payment processing, search, member services, keyword translation and image download. Managed project schedule and plan; change management, business and technical issues. Worked with business units as internal consultant to define and/or improve business processes.

Developed a complex, mission-critical Lab Information System under intense schedule pressure to handle the receiving, workflow, reporting and billing of specimens for pharmaceutical clinical trials. Analyzed requirements, modeled data, designed system, and wrote code. Managed testing, conversion and implementation. Supervised sw engineers and contractors. Application still in production.