Sep 2009 – Jan 2011 · 1 yr 4 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid

• Founding technical advisor for employee engagement platform. Q2 2010 Founder Showcase finalist. Advised on enterprise architecture for Fortune 500 deployments

May 2005 – Feb 2006 · 9 mos · Redmond, Washington, United States · On-site

• On assignment at Microsoft driving new features for an internal enterprise Litigation Support system and working closely with offshore vendors to maintain the legacy VB4 system.
• Utilized Enterprise Services (COM/COM+), Microsoft .NET framework (1.1/2.0), Web Services, VB4, SQL Server 2000/2005 build a highly performant system migrated from VB4 to C# 2005,
• Solution more robust and scalable than previous versions, increasing performance 150% over previous system.
• Leveraged experience and expertise with Microsoft Visual Source Safe and Team Foundation Server to organize builds sent to Production Support for deployment
• Worked with DBAs to fine tune the performance of a 2.5 terabyte database
• Communicated development efforts to Project Manager and Product Managers
• Worked with international partners providing insight into deployment best practices utilizing Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005
• Work with offshore developers to coordinate development efforts and releases to test teams

Mar 2004 – May 2005 · 1 yr 2 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · On-site

• Created feature rich web applications using ASP.NET, Web Services, C# and VB.NET. Reported to the director of engineering and CTO.
• Developed training initiatives to facilitate implementation of Microsoft patterns and practices and static code analysis to increase product quality.
• Actively raised awareness of new technologies, such as SQL 2005 Server, Visual Studio 2005, and Team Foundation Server and how they could be used to deliver customer solutions more efficiently than current tools.
• Interviewed potential new team hires, including company senior management positions.
• Led team architecture and design reviews, driving reuse across multiple projects.
• High reuse allowed project teams to complete assignments quickly, and focus on site design.
• New capabilities created for projects were packaged as reusable components for upgrades to existing deployed systems, or use with upcoming projects.
• Created integrated single sign on application utilizing Microsoft Active Directory, LDAP, ADSI, XML and Web Services for a large meta-bank.
• Architected design solution and lead development team for implementation into a web-based account management system.
• Worked closely with the Chief Security Officer and Chief Information Officer of a major federal financial institution to apply Single Sign On for their business.
• Increased performance of existing product offering by 280% through analysis and innovative SOAP message compression techniques.

Mar 2003 – Mar 2004 · 1 yr · Everett, WA

• Responsible for merging technical schematics and design documents to create secure and scalable systems, utilizing reusable data and middle tier business logic components built with Microsoft Best Practices.
• Built custom and configurable translation engine that translated various input formats to various output formats (such as comma-separated value documents to electronic data interface (EDI)).
• Upgraded existing legacy application (COM/VB) to a distributed VB.NET solution, increasing application throughput by 300% and providing scalability using MSMQ, SQL Server 2000, and Web Services.
• Leveraged translation engine in multiple projects to reduce initial cost of solutions and increase company profit. Engine used in major project for the United States Department of Finance and Accounting service, the financial arm of the Department of Defense.
• Built asynchronous solution further leveraging the translation engine to calculate mileage based on DFAS rules for freight management partners and clients. System used data mining and machine learning techniques using supervised learning algorithms to increase scalability and throughput of the system with minimal human interaction.

Jan 1997 – Jan 2001 · 4 yrs

• Researched, designed, and held the primary role in the delivery of highly complex software solutions.
• Envisioning and planning: requirements & specifications; preliminary project plan & timeline; proof of concept; status reports; risk identification and analysis
• Design & Development: refined project plan & timeline, solution/application architect; logical & physical design (diagrams); detailed design, including hardware; refined risk identification, analysis & mitigation planning
• Release: source codes & executables; operations guide; training/help documents; future enhancement recommendations or future solution phase/release recommendations; documentation of known issues associated with the current release; bug identification & feature request on internal tools; feedback to approprate teams on issues releated to early adoption of Microsoft technologies & detailed planning to migrate to final release of any early adoption of new technology uses