(01/2018 - 05/2018 as Consultant)

Dawson City Outfitters is a crypto-currency service company providing a variety of process automation for mining operations, tools for converting between crypto-currencies, tools for identifying arbitrage opportunities, and hardware sales of GPU mining components and systems.

Early stage start-up - Licensing and developing collectable card game IPResponsible for all strategic technology and technical initiatives for the company.• Developed and refined business strategy and market/pitch postioning in partnership with other founders.• Designed infrastructure for online play and evaluated vendors of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) products for feasibility and TCO.• Built cross-platform prototype components using Unity and C#.

Led successful software engineering team developing internal ASP.NET portal and custom workflow management engine for thousands of Office365 support engineers in multiple countries supporting millions of customers worldwide.• Project produced $1 million+ in annual billable revenue.• Engineering team responsibilities included mix of development, test, and operational support.• Worked with customers to create requirements and find cost-reducing solutions to support scenarios.• Managed technical aspects of project deliverables and planning, including time estimates, spec auditing, technical design documents, and technical requirements evaluation.• Implemented features and bug fixes using C#, ASP.NET and SQL

Developed features for and maintained a sophisticated web access portal highly integrated with SharePoint Server as part of delivering a comprehensive solution to EVMS project management.• Designed and implemented new features in ASP.NET / SharePoint frontend, including SQL backend and web service layer support.

Software Development Engineer – Touch Pack for Windows 7Developed a highly polished & intuitive WPF application to showcase Windows 7 multi-touch technologies using agile methods to meet an aggressive timeline.• Designed and implemented high-performance multi-touch WPF custom controls.• Tuned XAML styles & animations delivered by UX team to achieve performance targets.• Owned Audio and Localization infrastructure & cross-team relationships.Software Development Engineer/Test – Surface SDKPerformed a variety of roles in a startup like environment during v1 platform development. Primary responsibilities included developing infrastructure and support tools, and automation and applications to verify the WPF developer API of the Surface platform.• 2 patents for software designs• Designed and implemented customizable WTT result reporting web-site using ASP.NET Web Parts used by 150 person team.• Wrote software to test both extensions of standard WPF controls, and custom WPF controls.Software Development Engineer/Test – DirectXAuthored and maintained scripts and automation tools for a highly visible 16-person team through multiple Windows ship cycles.• Designed & implemented Continuous display compatibility test framework which increased display driver test data by over 1000%.• Owned Nextgen stress package for offsite OEM testing.