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Redmond, Washington, Us

• From Learning to Delivery - Developed Swift, SwiftUI, and UIKit skills to deliver a native mobile app from prototyping to multi-tenant external release for enhancing space utilization & employee collaboration in hybrid work environments.• Leadership - Served as leader of “experiences” crew of 6 developers to drive requirement clarity, prepare work items, and proactively identify feature & technical opportunities to empower the team to be self-driven & maintain velocity.• Mentorship - Fostered team growth & culture by engaging participants in design sessions & code reviews, nurturing junior developers’ skills & voices in groups & individually, and assisting their success in their careers at Microsoft.• Architecture - Invested in high code quality standards by discovering areas of improvement, deliberating best practices with the team, and enhancing developer tools, thereby increasing app performance and reducing technical debt.• Infrastructure - Owned several key app framework pieces such as app-wide theming (any/all colors), snapshot testing, and UX component library; personally built most components to drive UX consistency, alignment, and flexibility.• Accessibility - Championed accessibility to drive Places mobile to be the first MS app to meet Microsoft Accessibility Standards prior to public preview, including support for VoiceOver, Voice Control, and Full Keyboard Access.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• End-to-end delivery - Established a mobile app from prototype phase to public app-store release with 60,000+ monthly active users, cooperating with multiple partner teams to combine internal tools into a single employee productivity app.• Collaboration - Directed feature teams as ScrumMaster by communicating with multiple disciplines of various technical levels to drive core features, solve technical challenges, and create & review estimates/timelines with partners.• Mentorship - Provided development mentoring & onboarding support for members & partners, including vendor management in different geographies; frequented code reviews to drive high coding standards & developer learnings.• Architecture - Served as primary co-development contact with multiple internal & partner teams; Identified technical risk & performance optimizations; performed heavy refactoring & foundational changes for React Native upgrades.• Infrastructure - Owned the app’s UX component library to drive alignment & usage across partner team consumers.• User Support - Supplied live support in rotational “on-call” capacity, troubleshooting user-reported and critical bugs.• Accessibility - Worked directly with experts to make MyHub become accessible users’ most loved Microsoft app.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Utilized React Native to create a mobile app & cloud framework to rapidly develop features for employee productivity.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Developed AngularJS/C# website & Xamarin-based mobile app towards reducing employee single-occupancy ridership.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Created & supported an AngularJS UWP kiosk to enhance the facilitation of Microsoft campus visitors and employees.• Provided real-time development and operations support for active users in collaboration with supporting teams and upstream API data sources.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Iterated features on a C# Office Interop Excel-based plug-in financial tool for Microsoft fiscal planning and forecasting.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Performed four 6-month roles to iterate/improve employee productivity tools and facilitate team meetings/processes.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Prototyped gameplay in large-scale Unity project to test experimental controls and mechanics for future titles.• Assisted Age of Empires 2: The Forgotten DLC release by debugging pathfinding issues in ~20 year old C++ codebase.• Experimented with web forum technologies for production launch during Age of Empires 2: The Forgotten DLC release.

• Design and program games at a start-up game company developing multi-platform games for PC, Mac, iPhone and iPad.• Assist development of a game engine with a code base of dozens of classes, hundreds of files and thousands of lines of code.

Audubon, Pa, Us

• Redesigned a several thousand line data-collection application to C# .NET, improving its efficiency and speed significantly.• Produced data analysis tools that collected data from hundreds of files, performed calculations and compiled valid information.• Worked heavily with regular expressions to create applications that updated reporting data of hundreds of files simultaneously.• Performed intermittent fixing and updating of SAS scripts, SQL triggers and procedures, and Excel VBA reporting tools.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

• Developed JavaScript projects to auto-generate site navigation and validate web form input, both on a company-wide levels.• Worked with SQL databases tables, views, and dependent web applications to further improve web-applications.• Constructed SharePoint websites and pages for hospital-wide use, including setup, training, and support of SharePoint users.• Served as general webmaster for many intranet and internet sites, including help train and aid new webmasters.

New York, Ny, Us

• Worked with Apple Corporate in Cupertino to host table events, run workshops, and increase Apple’s presence on campus.

• Built intranet framework in MS SharePoint MOSS 2007 for a medium sized company of about 5,000 employees.• Delivered project summary presentations to several levels of management, including a one-on-one presentation for an AVP.• Performed modifications and redesigns to a web-based application used for training courses.• Analyzed existing reporting processes and created an automated solution, reducing work time significantly.• Served as Training Department Webmaster.