Richard Cook Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Principal software engineer and now senior manager and technical leader in the area of performance engineering and content management at Tableau: we help customers move their data from one place to another and to find it once it's been moved there

We do data management and analytics for non-profits and other good causes.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Technical lead on EC2 Security Infrastructure team

Seattle, Wa, Us

Staff software engineer on Tableau Runtime and then Hyper team

Englewood, Colorado, Us

Sunnyvale, California, Us

I was principal engineer on Coverity's C# front end team leading the development of the compiler used to drive our C# code analysis tools. My primary responsibilities included maintaining and supporting our existing C# compiler artifacts - involving a significant amount of interaction with our customers as well as sales and support engineers - delegating front-line support efforts to junior members of the front end team as well as the design and implementation of our next-generation C# front end. To this end, I reported directly to the director of compiler development and the vice-president of research and development. Concurrently with my work on Coverity's C# products, I also contributed to our C/C++ compiler products.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Lead software development engineer managing team developing internal tools for quality and compliance tracking within Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing/Engineering Excellence organizationTechnical achievements: designing and implementing security and permissions model for complex client-server platform; implementation and automation of deployment of platform including client, server and database; close involvement in moving project to continuous integration model; built Windows desktop and web application user experiences. Leadership achievements: led client development team consisting of eight developers; led effort to update user experience, develop user experience standards with UX and design team; led development of web application; coordinated requirements gathering and project management with main customers; led efforts to bring platform into compliance with various requirements related to security, accessibility and usability; coordinated client feature crews and acted as ScrumMaster; coordinated development activities between client and server teams with other dev leads; mentored my engineers; actively promoted improvements to engineering process in my team, encouraged culture of engineering excellence; worked closely with other disciplines including test and program management

Redmond, Washington, Us

Senior software development engineer developing internal tools for quality and compliance tracking within Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing/Engineering Excellence organization

Seattle, Washington, Us

Skytap provides comprehensive cloud-based virtual machine, virtual storage and virtual network infrastructure accessible through a user-friendly web user interface. I am a senior software engineer working primarily on Skytap's web front-end application with responsibility for the architecture, design and implementation of intuitive and dynamic web user interfaces both on the client side employing browser technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript and on the server side employing Ruby on Rails, web services and other technologies. I have led major web UI projects including extensions to our virtualization platform to support complex networking configurations within virtual lab environments as well as sophisticated user and group management functionality. Managing projects includes scheduling, planning and design including functional and design specification and implementation.

Redmond, Washington, Us

I worked on the Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) product team in Microsoft's Server and Tools Division. VSTO consists of a managed runtime environment, an application framework and a family of graphical design tools for enterprise-grade Office development targeting the Common Language Runtime and .NET Framework. Development work in the team covered all aspects of the product's functionality as well as the entire product lifecycle including design, implementation and release through to servicing and versioning. Implementation combined advanced Windows API, .NET, Office and Component Object Model programming involving a great deal of close cross-team collaboration with the CLR, .NET Framework and .NET managed language compiler teams at Microsoft. As the team's most senior developer I was heavily involved in long-term planning, design and architecture of the product as well as day-to-day feature implementation and advanced debugging and diagnostics. I provided technical leadership to the other engineers in the team and acted as an effective mentor to my peers.

Redmond, Washington, Us

As a software engineer working on a team developing a web application server combining speech recognition and integrating telephony, Voice-Over-IP and unified communications systems I gained a great deal of experience in high-availability, computationally-intensive server-grade .NET and COM development both at the infrastructure and application framework level.

Redmond, Washington, Us

I worked as a software design engineer developing a platform for high-quality mixed-initiative speech recognition. This was a long-term development cycle which involved porting a large speech recognition platform from its original Unix-based implementation to the Windows Server platform.

Cambridge, England, Gb

As a graduate student at the University of Cambridge I had the opportunity to gain experience as a teaching assistant and laboratory demonstrator in the Department of Engineering while pursuing my doctoral research. I gained experience teaching and assisting undergraduate students in the electrical and information engineering laboratories.

Education record

M.S., Computer Science And Engineering

Graduate Studies, Statistical Signal Processing

B.A. (Hons), M.A. (Hons), M.Eng. (Hons), Engineering/Electrical And Information Sciences