Azure Portal extension developer for Azure Cognitive Search using React, Typescript, and Knockout on the Ibiza SDK, and C# for controllers. Cognitive Search enables customers to create searchable indexes containing their own data enriched by Azure Cognitive Services.• Improved telemetry reporting for top 60% of our traffic. Results used to help guide design decisions for improvements to the key user experience of our service.• Authored the UX changes needed to enable our service to support Role Based Access Control, which enables one of our top customer-experience requests. • Rewrote the end-to-end test automation using Mocha and Karma, which decreased compilation and test execution time by allowing us to remove dependencies on C# test libraries.

Full-stack development using C#/C++/Java and SQLServer back-end, ASP.NET views, JavaScript on client (raw, Foundation, jQuery, JSON), and web-services via WCF.

Developed an internal MVC-based website at Microsoft for the Bing Agility UX Team using C# and MS-SQL. The site centralizes all test suites and provides a plug-in structure that allows on-demand scheduling of those suites. The site also improves team coordination by always being available to answers such business questions as "will the site be deployed today?" or "what are the test pass rates for the last 24 hours?"

I used C++, C# and JavaScript to create language- and culture-neutral tests of Windows licensing WMI objects, APIs, and UI. In addition, because I worked on the licensing team through three releases of Windows, I had the perspective to drive design improvements, simplify the customer experience, and provide the basis for communicating the licensing system to other teams. Other contributions:- Used Razor syntax with .Net to develop a web-based reporting system that allows complex performance data to be easily understood via a ranked grid.- Refactored existing code using C# consuming XML data to enhance a test harness, thereby cutting automation failures by 25% and simplifying the process of starting a test pass.- Designed and wrote a back-end service and front-end web-UI using C# to parse XML files to a MS SQL database. The application allowed a team of ten to compare test passes and reduced failure analysis times by 15-20 minutes per run.- Prevented three months of wasted development and test effort by initiating a review of the already-scheduled development plan.- Coordinated and managed a six-person vendor team located in China for two years. I provided training and conducted code reviews of the team’s output, and This allowed us to cut our personnel costs by a third while still automating over 700 test cases- Used my web development experience to write a tool that identified cases of mishandled data on a partner-team’s website, thereby preventing Microsoft from giving incorrect problem resolutions to customers.

Xtramind was a start-up that offered a server-based email-classification system to classify incoming emails. I wrote multi-threaded reporting modules in Java that processed data from the database to be consumed by the GUI, and I also assisted the test team by writing c-shell deployment scripts and support tools in Visual Basic.

Fuze Technologies was a small web-development company. I wrote stored procedures for MS-SQL and Oracle, and coded middle-tier classes for various sites using Visual Basic, .ASP, .JSP, and even some Flash. I had broad responsibilities beyond coding that included meeting clients to gather requirements, creating estimates, and designing database and business-layer models. Other contributions:- I taught myself XSL and XPath and demonstrated a solution that parsed an XML document in less than ½ second that previously required a minute. My approach solved the application’s performance problems, and introduced a new technology to the team.- Because no one else knew it, I taught myself Flash and then wrote a sample game that helped our company win a client $12k contract. - Designed and developed an asynchronous interface using Java and .JSP that satisfied the client’s requirement for manual control of credit-card processing.

Emercis offered an out-of-the-box e-commerce catalog system, later purchased by PetPlace, an e-commerce site.- I coded updates to the middle-tier classes using Visual Basic, and wrote data-migration scripts using MS-SQL Data Transformation Service objects.- My biggest contribution was as sole designer and coder for a data synchronization process between PetPlace.com and Pets.com that I completed within four weeks.

As part of the Joint Strike Fighter IT-support team, I wrote UNIX c-shell scripts to synchronize documents stored in an Oracle database and parts information stored in RDB on VMS. Also, as the resident MS Access expert, I re-designed several team’ databases schemas to fix data-integrity issues and enable multi-user access. For one team, I designed and wrote an entire Access application used to create security badges.

ASI is a third-party billing administrator of insurance policies with fewer than 40 employees, so I had a wide range of responsibilities that included user-support, server administration, software training, junior-developer mentoring, and even re-coding electronic door locks. My primary job, however, was making enhancements to the existing AREV database application, and assisting in the policy system rewrite using Visual Basic and MS SQL.

Primary position was in Product Support for Microsoft Access.