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Bellevue, Wa

Greater Seattle Area

Manager and hands-on developer for the BYNDL platform and services, including unattended retail technologies for the vending, manual food service and micro-market industry.• Built a diverse team of seven developers to successfully transition a large-scale existing platform and infrastructure from vendor development to in-house. • Managed and executed new features and improvements in all aspects of the platform, as well as organizational improvements, including an organizational transition to Scrum.• Architected and managed development of a cloud-based centralized payment system to provide secure payment processing and line-of-sight to business critical metrics.

Greater Seattle Area

Agile software engineering team leader contributor in setting high-level organizational strategy responsible for crafting custom digital advertising solutions for key Microsoft Advertising partners including Windows 8 Ads-in-Apps (AiA), sponsored Windows 8 Apps, web and on premise experiences. Created software architecture and cloud infrastructure to support these efforts.• Worked with several Windows 8 App publishers and Microsoft advertisers to create the first custom Windows 8 AiA experiences, earning the team Webby Official Honoree for the Delta “Up” execution integrated in the NBC News app.• Engineered Microsoft’s custom Windows 8 AiA offering from the ground up, including supporting Azure infrastructure, developer tooling and HTML5/JavaScript user experiences using a blended MS employee and vendor model to deliver more than 20 custom Windows 8 ads-in-apps executions over two years.• Architected and developed Merrill Lynch Inside the Ticker, a sponsored Windows 8 app. Worked across organizations to integrate content and stock market data to produce an editorial experience and real-time stock trading simulation built on node.js and Azure.• Lead engineering for Microsoft co-branded advertising websites, including CMS integration and customization, user experience and backend, generating more than $4.2 million in advertising revenue.• Drove adoption of agile management practices, including Kanban, which yielded better transparency and predictability across the organization.

Greater Seattle Area

Built a team of MS employees and vendors to measure quality and drive improvements. Defined quality goals and practices. Designed and implemented test tools and infrastructure.• Created and executed an organizational strategy to leverage the Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 toolset for automated builds, deployments and testing on virtual machines.• Managed testing efforts for a Microsoft social analytics platform, Looking Glass, including all areas of testing across presentation, application, and data tiers.• Improved team efficiency by driving project backlog definition. Served as Scrum master.

Greater Seattle Area

Managed a cross-discipline team of performance experts to identify and prototype improvements, develop tools, and drive process and code changes into MSN global home pages, resulting in page load time improvements, better engineering practices, increased understanding of performance and improved customer experience.• Developed strategies for setting performance goals, measurement and improvements, performed monthly reviews with MSN executives on performance issues and improvements.• Designed and built automatic measurement and competitive benchmarking of global homepages performance, comprised of custom tooling and third-party measurement technologies such as Gomez.

Greater Seattle Area

Performance Advocate for the MSN Portal team. Created performance goals and test methodologies. Reported on site performance and issues. Drove resolution of issues and product enhancements to improve performance.

Greater Seattle Area

Lead a team to measure and drive software quality improvements in MSDN end-to-end web publishing systems.• Designed and implemented test tools. Wrote test plans and oversaw test execution. Coordinated with stakeholders and represented test in project triage.

Greater Seattle Area

Lead a team testing of business-critical services and projects with emphasis on reliability and performance. Areas included RADIUS Authentication and Accounting systems and the MSN Dialup Acceleration system.• Coordinated engineering excellence training for the overall test organization.• Contributed to a division-wide working group on test automation to improve efficiency and reuse.

Greater Seattle Area

Program manager for Passport Domain Authority Migration, integrating existing accounts with Passport.• Liaison between MSNIA and the Passport team for RADIUS discussions and issues.• Developed share shared timelines and deliverables. Coordinated MSNIA development and test activities.

Greater Seattle Area

Lead a team testing MSN broadband, including account provisioning, customer equipment and self-install.• Leveraged customer support feedback to improve quality in problem areas.

Greater Seattle Area

Software tester for MSN Internet Access product, including customer setup software and backend services.

Greater Seattle Area

Tested the Advanced Set-Top Box Software Development Kit for AT&T as part of Windows CE. Created and executed MSN 5.1 client CD installation and upgrade test scenarios for MSNIA.