Stephen Giffin Email & Phone Number

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Co-Founder of an information technology consulting firm that focuses on application life cycle management.The following are my core responsibilities within the organization- Director of Product DevelopmentFocused on the development of tools and processes that simplify the application life cycle.- Life Cycle Management Mentoring Working with clients to define processes and the use of tooling in their application life cycle.- Project Recovery Working with our clients to recover projects in trouble and get them back on time and on budget.- Team Driven Application ManagementWork with teams of developers to deliver custom written applications that meet our client’s needs.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Director of Application Delivery, and team lead for IT Strategy for Statera South West. Current Responsibilities include. - ALM Analysis and design for clients - Large scale team delivery and methodology for Statera delivery teams. - Mentoring of staff on .net technologies and delivery processes. - Definition of delivery frameworks and code automation for Statera staff and clients. - Soution Architecture analysis and design for clients - Delivery of WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC applications with delivery teams. - Custom SDLC implementations to fit client needs - Client mentoring on it development processes.

• Developed and implemented custom SDLC processes for clients.• Architecture, design and oversight of WPF and WCF based application for clients using the 3.5 framework from .NET.• Designed and developed a complete development framework for WPF using the MVC and PAC design patterns. • Developed training and mentoring programs for clients. • Architecture, design and oversight of Windows tablet based applications that use a service driven data environment. • Analysis and usage of emerging technologies (.NET 3.0 and 3.5, WCF, WPF, LINQ)• Training and mentoring of staff on emerging technologies• Design and implementation for visual studio team foundation server and build environments.• Design and development of the Management UI for the Managed Services Engine Open source project with Microsoft.

Infrastructure and software solutions architect for a auto maker with plants near Columbus Ohio.• Designed and developed security and profile framework for .NET and Java environment in a SOA architecture. Designed consumable wrappers using a factory pattern to obfuscate contract management with the SOA environment for .NET developers. Security and profile environment was designed to plug additional interfaces to other security systems without application developers having to re factor in the consuming systems.• Designed and developed automated OS deployment software which allowed the customer to automatically deploy complex OS configurations of both windows servers and windows clients. The application is current in a patient pending status.• Designed, documented, and deployed standards for .NET development, this included patterns for development.• Designed, documented, and deployed development standards for windows development. These standards were language agnostic, and were general best practices for interfacing with windows.• Designed, and taught classes on how to use above standards to internal team members.• Designed, documented, and deployed source control and build environment for windows based development. • Designed, documented, and deployed windows Web cluster environment for .NET applications. • Was in a mentor role for other application architects, I reviewed application designs and provided guidance to issues within application designs. • Was in a mentor role for application developers on .NET based projects, I provided guidance and assistance with technical issues pertaining to use of patterns, and general .NET knowledge.• Architected and built debugging tools for Visual Studio 6 development. Scope of the tools was to provide application developers with real time access to memory conditions within the IDE development environment.

Team lead that managed and run application devleopment teams focused in Microsoft Technologies.• Project Manager and Technical Lead role for n tier client server application.• Managed team of two business analysis’s, and two application developers • Provided guidance and standards for development process and patterns for development.

Working on assignement for a auto maker near columbus ohio.• Designed and deployed MS SQL Server 6.5 environment that included development of developer standard for usage of MS SQL environment.• Designed and deployed NT 4.0 multi domain environment.• Designed and deployed NT 4.0 server images.• Designed and deployed Lotus Notes Version 4.0 environment.• Upgraded OS/2 server environment for 2.11 to 3.0 and later 4.0.