Steve Taylor Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Washington, United States

Remote

• Act as the Tier-2 technical response for highly complex traffic tolling infrastructure systems using both Windows and Linux.
• Write automation (typically in Bash or Python) to address coverage holes as they become visible to ensure a speedy detection and resolution cycle preventing potential revenue loss due services going down.
• Contribute to a repository of documentation using Confluence to ensure knowledge is easily retrieved and not in the tribal knowledge domain.

Redmond, Washington, United States

• Directed a vendor-based managed service for tier 1 coverage of Windows Engineering build system to automate releases and test pre-releases for Windows Operating system, eliminating hours of build recovery labor hours.
• Supported Tier 0 auto-recovery process by adding logic to handle new errors and improve documentation for training purposes.
• Modernized build experience for Windows Debugger, Windows Media Player, and other internal teams, eliminating dependencies on BuildTracker scheduling and machine management and Tequila tools and moving them to Build.
• Performed debugging, troubleshooting, and analysis across Windows Engineering build system to identify service blocking or degrading issues to restore production service (Build Cloud, Git, Timebuild, Artifact Services.
• Collaborated with Windows development team to launch SignLess effort and reduce duplicate files, resulting in performance improvement of nearly 50% (from 19 to ten hours).
• Worked with performance reporting system team to identify and resolve ESRP, CodeSign Classic, and SHIM service outages.

Redmond, Washington, United States

• Wrote and maintained a suite of scripts used to compile, localize, digitally codesign, package, index, and release Internet Explorer using Batch, Perl, and JavaScript.
• Performed source code integrations and managed preliminary merge conflicts for a dev team of 200 across ten branches, including Internet Explorer Feature and Windows branches.
• Developed a standalone build process to consume files from a Windows build to be used for packaging Internet Explorer to additional OS versions not supported by standard build system using Batch files and Perl.
• Crafted build system used to create cumulative updates used by Internet Explorer in their sustained engineering updates.
• Redesigned Internet Explorer build system to distribute tasks from individual machines to a cluster, reducing build time by 40%.
• Created SQL statements and a webpage to establish metrics and enable visibility around Internet Explorer signing tasks’ performance, resulting in a build time reduction of about 75% (from eight to two and a half hours).

• As the specialized operator of AN/SQQ-28 sonobouy system, performed independent sonar operations from the ship in concert with sonobouy deployment assets (helo\fixed wing aircraft) with the mission to detect, classify.
• Off-watch duties included a thorough maintenance schedule for various sonar support systems including the freshwater cooling system and the sonar dome.
• Worked on the ships’ cruise book staff as a photographer, copy creator, and content layout artist.
• Acted as the primary Search and Rescue Swimmer for man overboard, plane guard monitoring duties, and small boat operations.