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Greensboro, North Carolina, Us

Project: Bacterial Endotoxin Test Platform -- C#, WPF, .NET Framework 4.7, PowerShell, NSIS, SQL Server 2014-2022. This is a sophisticated WPF client-server desktop application. It drives an external BET machine, and stores assay results in the DB. Users can create and manage many business objects, such as assay templates, products, and accessories. There are many screens and functions related to pharmacopeial requirements and auditing. I updated the NSIS installer for a major release; which included implementing a complicated set of requirements for the many options and conditions of installations and upgrades. I also implemented many enhancements and bug fixes, in both the installer and the application.Project: Optical Verification Plate Certification Tool -- C++, MFC, MySQL. Developed a major update to the tool, to support a new, complex certification procedure. The old tool was a simple single screen utility. The updated tool introduces spreadsheets; multi-stage wizards with live status updates for the machine it operates; color coded data tables; password protected user management; system settings screen; and many developments to the original functions. This was challenging with MFC. I also did a lot of work on the requirements, test plan, and test documentation for this tool. And I was very resourceful in coordinating people to get this project done.Project: Inference Server -- C++, Linux. Developed test programs & hardened Linux system image for this secure Linux app server. It exposes a TCP API to transmit, execute, and otherwise control custom executable packages. Each customer has a set of security tokens to authenticate, authorize, and secure their packages. Packages are restricted to the customer’s directory and data; but otherwise they can run arbitrary code. The server also incorporates the TPM2 module in securing packages.

Greensboro, North Carolina, Us

Project: MIL-STD-1553 Test Framework -- C/C++, Linux. Developed a test framework based on MIL-STD-1553 and ECSS. These are networking standards commonly used for aircraft and spacecraft. This is part of a project to develop a satellite storage device; but the framework will be used for other projects as well.Project: Lung Health Spirometry -- Delphi 7, C#, COM, WCF, C++, RDS, Citrix XenApp, Virtual Channel, PostgreSQL, WiX. My favorite part of this project was grappling with arcane things. Win32, window messages, and surprising behaviors that you don't normally have to deal with in modern applications. I solved threading, timing, and complicated DPI issues. And I did a lot of device control programming.Project: Heart Disease ECG -- VB6, VC6 C++, COM. This is an extremely old and complex code base with a lot of complex C macros and COM objects. My greatest achievement was fixing a thread timing issue that occasionally produced a subtle error in the ECG. I noticed it when I was programming handling for various types of device signal loss. It was extremely difficult to debug, but I created a tool, systematically cut the possibilites, and traversed vast amounts of code to track down the single incorrect integer that the faulty agents were coordinating on.

Boulder, Co, Us

I established the QA program at Windward. I originally started at Windward as a developer back in 2009, and I came to find that improving quality was the most important thing to do. I felt a strong sense of responsibility, and also a strong sense of opportunity. I could see what others could not. I would do what others would not. So I made it happen.I drove improvements to quality in many ways. I rewrote code to be safer, more understandable, and more testable. I developed testing tools. I automated builds and test systems. I established specifications and a culture around that. I restructured code sources and repositories; and helped define branching practices. I wrote guides for developers. I engineered and analyzed quality metrics. And I evangelized, fought for and achieved improved quality practices. And I did all of this with ROI top of mind.I also continued looking at the big picture, and doing my damnedest to help take the company to the next level. I became even more of a key resource in interviewing for key positions at the company. And I grew tremendously as a manager.

Boulder, Co, Us

As a dev at Windward, I extended the main application, Windward Reports with many features and enhancements, large and small; and I overhauled some large, cross-cutting parts of the system, a few times. I worked mainly on the back end, but I also did substantial work on the front end (AutoTag). I created an HTML parser and a printer API. I greatly improved and enhanced the charting system and PowerPoint system. I became an elite expert in manipulating Microsoft Office document formats, including DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX. I overhauled the build system and substantially improved automation and reporting of builds and test results. I evangelized quality practices, and I brought huge change in planning and specification. I also served as the lead developer on a new, SharePoint-based web application (Arrow) that I helped create from scratch, and maintained for a few years. I designed, created, and maintained web parts, file context menu extensions, workflows, configuration and deployment utilities, and installers.I also helped on the creation and maintenance of the original Javelin web application. I created a data layer and a few of the UI components. And I assisted with extensions to AutoTag that integrated it with the Javelin web API.In addition to my technical work, I also spent a tremendous amount of effort doing whatever I could to help take the company to the next level. I really deeply thought about the state of things, and how we could improve them. I scrutinized our practices. I collected, analyzed, and reported data, where I could (and where I could make time). And I tried my damnedest to bring solutions to hard problems - including some hard conversations and debates. I also became very practiced in interviewing; and I went on to become almost a constant, not only for technical developer interviews, but also other key positions such as directors of development, marketing, and sales.

Boulder, Co, Us

I started out as an intern at Windward, doing technical evaluations and reports of competing products. I did that for a year, and then in 2008, I started working on unit tests in Java. I also did a whole bunch of other things including writing marketing blog articles, writing user documentation, and doing customer and sales technical support.

At High Country, I worked on extentions to the 3D CAD application, Autodesk Inventor.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

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