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Redmond, Washington, United States

Seattle, Wa, Us

Front-end engineer at Project Kuiper. React, GIS, data visualization

Seattle, Wa, Us

Full-stack development on the Software Assurance Services UX team. Java, Javascript, and React.

Honolulu, Hawaii, Us

Responsible for Web-based Enterprise Architecture across IT at Hawaiian Airlines. Working with a team of Enterprise Architects to provide the next-generation application and services architecture for product teams creating software for the airline. Defining the next web platform for use by Hawaiian Airlines, for both internal and external tools. Leveraging NodeJS, Angular 9, NGINX, Express, and Mulesoft. Also part-time development on the Hawaiian Airlines mobile app team, utilizing Xamarin to develop for both Android and iOS platforms.

Honolulu, Hawaii, Us

Managed a team of full-time employees and onsite, near-shore and overseas vendors, for the website booking and reservations system of Hawaiian Airlines, and other internal tools and external applications. Grew a small FTE team to medium-sized, with a diversified pool of talents and experience. Mostly organizational/process management and technology guidance; also financial and budget oversight. Established routine release cadences, code reviews, standards and other software engineering processes that greatly improved the quality of the website used by our guests. Worked with the business and product owners to drive new features into the applications. Liaised with other groups, such as Information Protection and the Networking teams. Reviewed billing and weekly reports from vendor partners. Continuously recruited new team members.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Focused on client performance and JavaScript infrastructure for global and cross-vertical MSN sites. Worked closely with Performance Team to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks for all browsers in site support matrix. Implemented JavaScript infrastructure improvements for better runtime minification performance, cross-browser tokenization improvements, and build-time support. Implemented lazy image loading algorithms for network framework. Touched and reviewed code from across the network and various multiple teams. Drove improvements to publicly-available AjaxMin application. Primarily in C#, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5 and CSS3.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Led the development of a cross-browser ASP.NET MVC MSN Travel website based on an MSN SDK and leveraging content and services from Windows 8, iOS and Android app. Led small team (6) of developers. Organized development effort; created TFS work items; assigned priorities, estimates, and owners. Worked with Program Management and Test counterparts to come up with sprint schedules. Wrote code for airline-related features like flight search, flight status, and airport reader board. Primarily in C#, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5 and CSS3.

Redmond, Washington, Us

MSN TMX SDK Team. In an effort to streamline global site development, MSN has created a base-product type of experience upon which other more topic-specific products can be built. Base product (TMX SDK) is robust, high-performance, cross-browser, MVC application that works in multiple modes across multiple desktop and mobile devices (iPhone/iOS, Android, WP8) using responsive design principles. Recruited and hired several new developers for my team and others across the org. As one of the senior developers, I designed and wrote code across the product, but specifically for features such as performance-related functionality, the photo galleries, multi-line text truncation, streamlining build processes, high-DPI image spriting, and more. Primarily in C#, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, MSBuild, and CSS3.

Redmond, Washington, Us

MSN Global Entry Points team, worked on MSN Homepages around the globe. Focused on high-performance improvements to the product through analysis of site download and execution behavior, and design and implementation of JavaScript improvements. Diagnosed and mitigated high-profile live-site issues, and generally guided and influenced development efforts across the product; go-to guy for anything Homepages at MSN. Managed vendor work items, designed code, and ensured vendor implementations followed coding standards for security and quality. Coded in C#, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, XHTML, HTML5.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Hands-on Development Manager for MSN Global Entry Points team, responsible for MSN Homepages in 40+ markets around the globe. Managed a team of up to 22 FTE developers and ~100 vendors world-wide (China, India, Hungary). Mentored both junior and senior developers. Worked with PM and Test counterparts for roadmap, budgeting, and staffing. Managed and contributed to development efforts from specifications to designs to work items to dates and to actual code deliverables. Architected multiple iterations of MSN homepage, including a sharable module catalog and multi-branch development patterns; implemented features within that framework. Drove design and development of experimental Silverlight-based MSN hubs network in coordination with international teams. Developed MSBuild extensions for generating website code under proprietary MSN publishing platform. Travelled to China to evaluate prospective vendor agencies, setting up a successful MSN coding shop in Shanghai. Greatly improved code quality by writing coding standards for JavaScript, C#, CSS, and XSLT, enforced through strict code review and static analysis policies within the development team. Coded in C#, JavaScript, jQuery, InfoPath and Silverlight.

Redmond, Washington, Us

MSN US Homepage. Managed a team of 3 FTE and a half-dozen vendors. Architected, pitched, coded, and delivered new MSN homepage architecture that greatly improved the performance of the site from the previous version. Drove adoption of minification techniques in MSN products through creation of Microsoft Ajax Minifier tooling and build processes. Wrote and enforced through code reviews JavaScript coding standards enabled by the minifying step which greatly improved readability and maintenance of source code. Coded in C#, JavaScript, CSS, HTML/XHTML.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Microsoft Research, Interactive Visual Media Group -- mostly the World-Wide Media eXchange (WWMX) project. Coded GPS-based location-tracking software, interactive and automated image geolocation-tagging utilities, and a social-media style, map-based image-sharing application (WWMX). Coded video-processing algorithms for potential security application offering. Co-inventor on multiple software patents in search-result UI, encoding geolocation information, and automated image-stitching grouping algorithms (7,475,060;7,580,952;7,620,631;7,966,301). Generated many patent applications from work done during this period. Developed code for shared-display UI and navigation. Co-author on 3 ACM publications. Coded in C++, C#, JavaScript.

Redmond, Washington, Us

HomeAdvisor: developed back-end industry-leading Internet loan engine, including partner data feed ingestion, loan parameter logic evaluation, and product retrieval algorithms. Coded in C++ and SQL. Tablet PC: Work on handwriting ink-recognition note-style application, Microsoft Journal. Developed rich-text object entry, positioning, and display algorithms. Developed Undo/Redo algorithms. Coded in C++.

Us

Lead client-side development team for start-up e-commerce site specializing in analysis and sales of cell phone plans and handsets. Managed a team of 5 FTEs, including performance evaluation, and career mentoring. Coded ingestion patterns for partner information, display of editorial articles, UI for plan- and equipment-choosing wizards. Worked with PM, Design, and Test counterparts to establish site flow and architecture. Coded in C++, ASP, VBScript, JavaScript, and SQL.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Development Lead responsible for MSN Core sites: Communicate, Essentials, Chat Central. Managed vendor resources and developed code for MSN's web-based e-mail application, Internet chat client, and network highlights site. Coded in ASP, VBScript, and JavaScript.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Visual C++ product, Windows Layer for the Macintosh team, an award-winning Microsoft development tool for Macintosh. Coded Windows applications exercising various Windows API (OLE, COM, User, etc), recompiled with the WLM libraries, then determined whether any issues in the generated native-Mac application were in the WLM library or the Windows API. Found bugs in internal Window 95 UI and drove to resolution via Windows team before shipping. Coded native Mac OS OLE type-library utilities that shipped with the product. Coded a number of sample application that shipped with Visual C++, including a fully-functional HTTP-server. Coded in C++/OLE/COM/MVC/ATL for both Windows and Mac OS.Briefly on the Visual J++ team where I coded sample Java applications, including an embedded webpage spreadsheet applet for Bill Gates used during a conference keynote address.

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Cambridge, Ma, Us

Aero/Astro Athena Fluids Project. Developed interactive graphical visualization and pedagogical courseware for various Aeronautical Engineering department fluids dynamics curriculums. Coded interactive tutorials and quizzes, and simulators for fluid flows around airfoil shapes and rocket engine nozzles. Coded in C and Fortran on Unix/X10 workstations.

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