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New Hampshire, United States

Led a team through lifting 18,000 lines of client legacy code into a reusable service architecture, directly enabling a series of enhanced features for their flagship product.Wrote the initial handbook that helped introduce and guide our client into adopting an improved service architecture. Directly mentored dozens of team members to help support adoption.Working closely with Architects, Project Management and senior leadership to advise on standards adoption, system designs, and process improvements, while working simultaneously with "boots on the ground" to deliver product increments and maintain accurate insight into opportunities for improvement.

Concord, New Hampshire, United States

Designed, developed, documented, and delivered several new products, sold to financial industry clients, including:• TMS – web-based, multi-user, extremely reliable Transaction Monitoring System which helps financial institutions comply with federal AML/CTF regulations (Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing).• Informer – tool for automated monitoring of log file output from nightly processes, with wizard-based UI to design file format interpretations via a rules engine and rapidly test for accuracy.• EDI Translator – expands automated financial service capabilities, by monitoring directories, converting file formats, extracting and combining information, and emailing subscribers.Designed and led development of the Holistic Screening Engine – a flexible REST API service that executes fast fuzzy searches over large lists of XML data (4 million+ records). Performed 140 times faster than prior implementations.Led and managed the team that developed Insuro - the ambitious, 3-tier framework that delivers increased server-side and client-side performance, robust extensibility via plugins, visual dataflow programming, and drag-and-drop WYSIWYG customization in the browser, for the latest versions of the company's MVC/JavaScript-based web products with C# and SQL backend, including Surety 4 and RegTech One.Helped accelerate development company-wide by delivering well-tested, widely reused code libraries and internal tools.Performed in many other technical capacities as needed, helping to review code, set standards and improve processes, and serving as a mentor to new employees, including:• Deploying products to customers.• Investigating and resolving technical issues at customer sites.• Upgrading customer deploys to new versions.• Integrating products with legacy systems.• Customizing products according to client need.Awarded the “Employee’s Choice of Excellence Award” for “Outstanding Leadership and Mentoring” in June 2019.

New Hampshire, United States

Designed and developed prototypes as candidates for initial business offerings, including:• KYM – Know Your Money – an interactive system to help families better manage their finances and improve their spending practices through a rivers-based approach.• Hourglass – a platform and library for turn-based online multiplayer games with optional AI players.• Silk – A visual node editor designed to serve as the foundation for a visual dataflow language.

Redmond, Washington, United States

Contracting for Microsoft, developed the following:• A standalone force feedback effect authoring application.• A custom UI library and default implementation for the first version of Direct X 8.0’s Action Mapper API.

Redmond, Washington, United States

Designed and developed the following:• An MFC application for playing sound files synchronized across multiple.• The graphics and state-machine engine for the Freestyle Pro in-store display.

Redmond, Washington, United States

Contracting as an on-site Vendor in the Microsoft Hardware Division, developed the following:• "Player" application for quick playback of force feedback effects, including graphic display of component forces, and automated testing, which assisted validating API and file format changes throughout development of the Sidewinder device.• Four applets used by the Marketing team to demonstrate the Sidewinder device capabilities. This involved the invention of new algorithms to solve unique force-feedback problems. Added automation to simulate random user interaction, to further assist testing of the device.

Riverside, California, United States

Developed three Visual Basic applications that allowed company salesmen to useportable versions of their mainframe-based product databases. Created supportingtools to convert data from their legacy system and remediate data entry errors.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Designed and developed many applications in Pascal, 80x86 Assembly, Visual Basic, C, and C++, including:• A simulation of multiple CPU's processing multiple streams of data.• An application for testing sound algorithms, including live graphical spectrum analysis of incoming sound.• An object-oriented 3D graphics library, object editor, and game.