William Forney Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Converted to FTE on the Stormbreaker team.This job contributes to Starbucks success by delivering high-quality, dependable, and stable technologies and security capabilities in support of the Starbucks Engineering Platform. This position is accountable for the implementation, installation, configuration, monitoring, analysis, maintenance, and technical support of the platform. In addition, models and acts in accordance with Starbucks guiding principles. Some key responsibilities are implementing a wide variety of features across Azure cloud technologies: Azure Functions, SQL DB, Blob Storage, Key Vault, Service Bus, Event Hub, and Containers, supporting the development team and performing activities to resolve developer issues in a timely and accurate fashion, engineering build and release processes using Terraform and Ansible using Azure platforms, ensuring infrastructure architectural solutions are stable, secure, compliant and documented, in accordance with Company standards and practices, conducting research and making recommendations on standards, products, and services, implementing all technologies in accordance with Information Security's guiding principles for highly sensitive data, providing high-availability operational support and automate solutions across the environment, implementing deep telemetry capabilities to provide ongoing success and performance metrics, implementing service monitoring across all platforms to ensure continuous availability and operational continuity of critical systems, upholding company policies, and legal/regulatory requirements, such as PCI, implementing and maintaining system configurations and baselines to support secure application development software control best practices and standards, communicating highly complex ideas and concepts to non-technical peers and customers, and last but not least, presenting the ability to establish cross-functional, collaborative relationships with business and technology partners.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Picked up for another AIM contract tour in the Thor's Hammer team this time, which was replaced by the Stormbreaker team shortly after a reorganization, still working on the point-of-sale system software and data APIs.

Seattle, Wa, Us

This project via AIM Consulting on the Solstice project in the Phoenix team has me working on a sales data pipeline using Terraform and .NET 6/7 in Azure Functions.

Seattle, Wa, Us

This project via AIM Consulting had me helping improve the point of sale system, development processes, and tooling on the North Star team.

Providing expedient, cost efficient, and strategic technical solutions for clients, performing risk analysis and aligning company vision to outcomes, overseeing budgets

Mount Vernon, Wa, Us

I have worn many hats, including technical adviser, network administrator, database developer, software architect, and graphic designer for this firm and continue to consult as needed.

Detroit, Mi, Us

This project was a short-term contract via World Wide Technology (WWT) to provide an assessment of the Little Caesars point of sale system project. I advised on architectural patterns, created proof of concept libraries, performed refactoring of the middle tier, assisted with some minor functional implementation, updated the continuous integration scripts to improve build performance, improved project documentation, and helped with production support.Some of the technologies used included TypeScript, React, Redux, Webpack, Node.js, Electron, Linux, WSL, Bash, ASP.NET Core, C#, Kafka, MongoDB, Docker, Kubernetes, MarkDown, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft Azure.

Des Moines, Iowa, Us

Starting as a three-month contract via World Wide Technology (WWT), this project was extended multiple times. It involved upgrading and extending a Windows Forms application used for compliance tracking of equipment in the field. The application was written over a decade ago and maintained over the years. I added a custom implementation for a generic wizard control, several functional updates to existing screens, and streamlined a large amount of legacy boilerplate. I also updated the database access code.The technologies for this project included C#, VB.NET, Windows Forms, WPF, XAML, and Oracle.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Worked in the Microsoft AI+R Academic team on the web site, mentored other engineers, and participated in Web community groups.

Redmond, Washington, Us

On contract via Webtellect, LLC to Microsoft Research at the Internet Services Research Center (ISRC) working on academic.microsoft.com

Hanover, Md, Us

Contractor at Frontier Communications doing ASP.NET application development using Aurelia, and TypeScript. Lead developer for multiple projects with a variety of technology stacks from old classic ASP 3 to bleeding edge Aurelia and ASP.NET Core APIs.

Architected a new scalable blueprint for the data acquisition framework and tooling, designed and implemented a strategy to replace the front end infrastructure utilizing ASP.NET MVC, WebAPI, Azure DocumentDB, WebJobs, App Services, jsViews, Bootstrap, ES2015, jspm, npm, bower, Aurelia and a few other things.

Redmond, Washington, Us

During my time as a Sr. SDE on the MPSIT - Partner Incentives aka SMIT - OnePlan - Channel Incentives FSA aka MSIT LOB Dev aka CHIP team I helped build the channel incentives web site and related things leveraging JavaScript, TypeScript, DurandalJS SPA framework, KnockoutJS, WebAPI, and a whole host of libraries from jQuery to Kendo UI. I created and helped to create many patterns the team uses for the sites. I built a small SPA framework with jsViews prior to the DurandalJS introduction, and also created the first implementation using SignalR within the project and introduced a whole host of other improvements.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Agency Temporary at via VOLTFoundation Services SharePoint teamJavaScript, C#, XAML/Silverlight, SharePoint, HTML/CSS, etc.Working on the intranet foundation JavaScript, OT comment board, a VS addin, an MVVM OT highlights page and a few other things.

Mount Vernon, Wa, Us

I designed a lot of the databases that run our clients' businesses and web sites, along with Facebook apps, Silverlight sites, and windows line of business applications. I also do mobile development for Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7/Mango.Some projects:via Catalysis - tourmsn.com (Silverlight version from 2010),via Catalysis - various Bing projects,via VarVid - proof of concept screensaver for Wizards of the Coastsee www.visiblereality.com for more.

We provided professional consulting services including application development, database design, web development, marketing & branding, video and infrastructure consulting. I have overseen and worked with a myriad of clients on various projects.

Bellingham, Wa, Us

I was an ASP.NET developer for the online service system.

Mount Vernon, Us

Filling in for a fellow network administrator during his 3 month leave of absence, including some Access/VB.NET development projects.

Building, troubleshooting and configuring computers in the shop. Consulting, configuration and installation of client networks and equipment. Company web site maintenance.Please note this is not Intek Plastics. LinkedIn just thinks it is. This company no longer exists.

Helping clean up a large amount of code, guiding some parts of the project's future and learning a lot about how a good content management system (CMS) is built. During the time I was active on this project we introduced many new concepts and put in place the groundwork for many other projects that sprang up after this one died down with the rise of ASP.NET web parts and DNN.

I started a small Web design business before the Web really caught on locally and created a few sites for local businesses.

I provided technical support at a few non-profit organizations and setup NT server to host a few web sites on a 56k frame relay connection in Harrisburg, PA. I helped with networking and support of the building network which included a business and the office of Senator Mark Single. I also assisted in a little web design and other personal assistant type activities.

Computer Science

High School Diploma