Aug 2014 – Sep 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · Vancouver, Canada Area

• Responsibilities included setting standards for developing software in modern environments that need to be tightly integrated with large, industry-leading open source platforms and technologies as well as non-traditional, leading-edge environments. The requirement allowed ActiveState to hold the premier Cloud Foundry Foundation board position up until the acquisition of Stackato PaaS solution by HP.
• Supported attaining and retaining the best technical people, team restructuring, training, community involvement and evangelizing the work that ActiveState has contributed to in the PaaS space. Responsibilities included interviewing candidates for development (cloud engineer) positions as well as devops positions. Community involvement was done through various meetups, sponsoring speakers, conference participation and webinars in relevant technologies.
• Technical highlights included:
• Linux distros/environments: Ubuntu 14.04 (server/desktop), 12.04 (server), ElementaryOS (desktop)
• VMWare, VirtualBox, HPCloud, AWS, Google Compute, etc
• Versioning/dependency/release management with Git (GitHub, branch-per-feature, hot-fixes, submodules and subtrees) and upstream OSS integration.
• Ruby/Go components
• Docker
• Ansible, Vagrant, NIXOS, bash, zsh scripting
• TDD, BDD
• Scrum, Kanban and associated practices
• Jira, OpenProject, Bugzilla
• Jenkins
• SRED application
• reigning poker champ

Jun 2012 – Jun 2012 · 0 mo · Oslo, Norway

• Presented on modern Branch-per-Feature in 2012.

Apr 2012 – Apr 2012 · 0 mo · Vancouver, Canada Area

• Presented on modern Branch-per-Feature with Agile.

Nov 2011 – Dec 2013 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Redmond, WA

• Consulted for the Patterns & Practices team as an advisor for the CQRS and Event Sourcing Journey Guidance Reference Material.
• Advised on the type of Open Source engagement to pursue
• Advised on the potential Reference Material Domain
• Kick-started the roll out and introduction to Git and Github to the department
• Implemented the write-side of the Discount Domain in the RI
• http://blogs.msdn.com/b/agile/archive/2012/07/26/cqrs-journey-guidance-project-released.aspx

May 2010 – Apr 2014 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Vancouver, Canada Area

• Provided vision for technology and architecture, guidance for domain modelling, guidance for migrating to new processes, guidance on embracing the polyglot developer, guidance for overseas outsourcing, provided strategy to deal with legacy code, hired most of new development staff, planned for future architectures, set up continuous integration, migrated to a functional branching strategy, structure for automated acceptance tests, mentored and trained staff and other initiatives. Technologies/duties/practices/etc included:
• DDD/CQRS/ES
• C#/VB.Net/NodeJS/Go
• ASP.Net MVC/FubuMVC
• BDD/DSL
• VisualStudio w/ ReSharper
• IntelliJ Community Edition w/ GoLang plugin & mobile development for Android
• Linux (Ubuntu, Xubuntu, CentOS)
• Git (w/ submodules, gitolite), Svn
• TDD/mock frameworks
• Automation of build and deploy
• Pound, SSH, rsync, etc
• ServiceStack
• Oracle 10/11
• MongoDB, Redis
• NUnit/JUnit
• Vagrant, Chef, investigations into container technologies like Docker.io
• 0MQ (ZeroMQ)
• ElasticSearch
• UML via LibreOffice
• Jira/Confluence (a few plugins including GreenHopper, Tempo)
• TeamCity/Octopus
• Storyteller/Specflow
• Castle Windsor for IoC
• NHibernate (w/ FluentNHibernate)
• Bash scripts including Git hooks
• PCI DSS adherence/OWASP training/SRED filing
• 3 time poker tournament champ :)

Sep 2009 – Sep 2009 · 0 mo

• Presented 4 times in the Development Fundamentals track.
• This included:
• S.O.L.I.D.
• Layers (put together presentation and code samples)

Mar 2008 – Aug 2008 · 5 mos

• Staffed and lead a team in a complete rewrite of a fat-client windows application into an SOA solution. CI, SCRUM and Messaging Patterns are some highlights.
• Technologies/tools used:
• C# 3.5 w/ Resharper (VS2005/8) and TeamCity
• WCF/Web Services/.NET Remoting
• MSMQ 3.0
• .NET Encryption
• SVN, TeamCity and FogBugz
• NUnit, RhinoMocks
• Windsor Container
• ActiveRecord/NHibernate/NHQG
• SQL Server 2005
• RedGate SQL Toolbelt

Mar 2007 – Sep 2007 · 6 mos

• Provided guidance for future tech leads.
• Played key role in initial communication with major customers.
• Lead requirements gathering at major kick-off meetings.
• Provided strategies for maximizing the value of software development efforts.
• Continued development lead duties as before. (see previous experience at this company)

Feb 2007 – Mar 2007 · 1 mo

• Headed Development and QA.
• This included:
• Continuous integration
• Automated acceptance and unit testing
• Introduction of TDD
• Office space organization for optimization of face-to-face communication
• Introduction of pair programming
• Staffing
• Deployment strategies
• Managing legacy system
• Switch from VSS to SVN
• Training and mentoring existing staff in current disciplines
• Ensuring regular working hours for staff
• Technologies/tools:
• ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server, SVN, NUnit, FIT, CC.NET, NAnt, NCover, Log4Net, Resharper, RhinoMocks, WatiN

Nov 2006 – Feb 2009 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Developed initial inventory tracking .NET windows application. Used Agile and Lean principles and methodologies. Staffed development team. Setup offshore development house. Implemented pub/sub architecture around event-sourcing. Transitioned team for EAI, SOA and DDD concepts. Arranged training for staff. Researched other product development. Currently overlooking all IT activity activity as an advisor on an as-needed basis.
• Technologies: C#, SQL Server, NUnit, xtUnit, WatiN, RhinoMocks, Castle Active Record, Castle Windsor, MonoRail, Resharper, Windows API, Devexpress, SVN, GIT (msysgit), Services integration (POS, Faxing, ordering from distributors, etc)

Sep 2005 – Apr 2006 · 7 mos

• Developing web sites for international classifieds. Work includes localization strategies for new areas as well as existing ones such as the US market.
• Technologies:
• C#, ASP.NET, custom/user controls, control property extensions, TDD, NUnit, ACT, Visual Studio IDE macros

Sep 2004 – Oct 2005 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Designed, developed and enhanced EAI and SOA projects for power trading in the North American market.
• Provided .NET support to existing staff moving to development in OO and .NET.
• Implemented migration paths to .NET.
• Implemented migration paths to well structured, maintainable code from legacy systems using best practices.
• Work was done in C#, VB.NET, VB6, VBA, Excel, Access, Oracle and SQL Server. Other tools used where NUnit, ZaneBug, VBUnit, NMock, VBMock, VSS, Vault, FogBugz and Microsoft Project Server. Methodologies used included AOP and TDD.

Jun 2004 – Sep 2004 · 3 mos

• Architecting and developing multiple projects using .NET technologies for a B2B/EAI solution.
• Technologies: Biztalk, SharePoint, Microsoft Application Blocks, ASP.NET, Web Services, IVR integration, code generation w/ XSLT/XSD

Mar 2003 – Nov 2003 · 8 mos

• .NET code development for the documentation department.
• Authored, translated & revised .NET API reference documentation.
• Collections, Indexers & Interfaces
• Public & Private Assembly Documentation
• Documented Crystal Reports - Whidbey integration.
• Visual Studio Alpha’s other new features
• ASP.NET Data Binding & Event Bubbling
• Developed .NET coding standards & examples for documentation. (C#, VB.NET, J#, MC++)
• Revised Borland C# Builder integration.
• Testing .NET Code
• Documentation .NET API
• Developed an XML/XSLT based .NET documentation automation & conversion system.
• MSXML 4.0, XSLT Extensions, XPath, XSLT

Aug 2000 – Sep 2002 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Projects included:
• Online knowledge base web site. Pivotal’s Relationship, VB 6 and ASP were used.
• Developed new functionality for a home to school connection website for parents, teachers, students and administrators. Built architecture for stress testing of the system. Oracle, VB, C++, ASP, MSXML, 3rd party compression components and VSS were used.
• Developed the application for a custom legacy software remote deployment. This included:
• Test Driven Development (w/ NUnit)
• SQL Server 2000
• Application Domains, Threading, Dynamic Assembly Loading, Security & Reflection
• Messaging with pub/sub, guaranteed delivery, versioning, SOA
• Web Services, Windows Services & Windows Service Installers
• Distributed Load Balancing, UDP, Remoting & Serialization

Nov 1998 – Nov 1999 · 1 yr

• Provided the systems department with technical skills involving customer management applications to simple data pumps needed for telephone switches. Projects included:
• Maintained a desktop applications manager for customer service reps.
• Rewrite of the EAI customer administration and maintenance application. This involved integrating many systems, from payment processing, to actual phone switch maintenance.
• Development of new functionality for the batch processing utility for monthly statements.
• Development of new functionality for the comparison utility for cellular billing plans against past use history.
• Development of screen scraping software for legacy interfaces.
• Inspected critical code of internal applications for Y2K issues.

Sep 1998 – Jun 1999 · 9 mos

• Taught IT courses ranging from Office Applications to Database design

Feb 1992 – Mar 2000 · 8 yrs 1 mo

• In charge of all IT activity

Jan 1992 – Jul 2012 · 20 yrs 6 mos

• Worked on numerous contracts and employment engagements. Mostly windows and web applications, SOA and EAI. Experience varied greatly from implementation to dev lead to management to business analysis to project management.