Redmond, WA
(425) 444-7124 (C) (425) 885-6135 (H)
March 2007 - Present
InfoSpace, Inc.
Bellevue, WA
Senior Development Manager
May 2006 - January 2007
CDigix, Inc.
Seattle, WA
Director of Development
Created and managed team of developers during the lifecycle of 3 significant
products releases using SCRUM and other Agile development processes.
Developed architecture, specifications, including operational
and support plans. Worked with marketing, and executive team, to help set
priorities and make time to market trade-offs.
Also contributed significant technology components to products: .NET web
services, SQL Server 2005 integration, ASP.NET, AJAX, IIS automation.
Co-inventor of patent pending video media
delivery product for college course content.
Industry Event: .NET Users Group - Design Patterns
September 2005 - April 2006
Microsoft Corporation
Redmond, WA
Fenway Team, Program Manager
Wrote specifications and architectural outlines for porting
the Axapta X++ language and kernel to the .NET platform. Established
development guidelines, resolved language design issues, and
created interoperable runtime API signatures. Introduced SCRUM
and Sprint practices to team, to deliver predictable, high quality,
and demonstrable product releases.
Certified Scrum Master: January 2006
August 2004 - August 2005
Microsoft Corporation
Redmond, WA
Asp.Net Team, Software Design Engineer
Augmenting and developing frameworks for automation of Web testing infrastructure in distributed deployment environment, for Vista Server IIS7 development. Desiged APIs for distributed management of large web farms, multiple versions of Windows, etc.
September 1999-July 2004
Microsoft Corporation
Redmond, WA
.NET Developer Platform, Program Manager (CLR)
Worked with .NET Framework Common Language Runtime (CLR) team, helping ISVs create programming language compilers targetting the CLR. Worked with both commercial and academic developers during this time. Customer presentations, industry conference speaking, all on .NET Technology. Also developed samples and presentations for .NET Remoting technology.
Sample development: MyC compiler for .NET Framework SDK,
CsLex (C# Lexer), .NET Remoting, Webservices.
Books: C# Essentials (O'Reilly), C#/VB.NET Design Patterns
(Wiley)
Articles: C# Regular Expressions (O'Reilly website)
September 1996-August 1999
Microsoft Corporation
Redmond, WA
Developer Relations Group, Technical Evangelist (Java)
Worked with ISVs and the Java developer community to drive the adoption of the Microsoft Java technologies. Responsibilities included: creating new ISV contacts, various group presentations, technology demonstrations, design previews, industry conferences.
Sample development: C++/Java via COM (JPoint for Developmentor), classic ASP/Java sample (htmlTable), an MTS/Java sample (mtsjtx), a DCOM/Java sample (comjtx), and native method sample (jdblib).
August 1995 - August 1996
Sybase Inc
Mountain View, CA
Internet Products Group, Staff Software Engineer
Development on web.sql V1.0, which provides database access from web pages using CGI and NSAPI protocols. Developed support for stored procedures, database datatypes, and extended handling of row data. Developed and delivered course work for technical support training.
Development of electronic commerce gateway, working with payment system protocols for First Virtual and Cybercash.
Java-based advanced development project work. Designed class libraries and methods.
February 1994 - July 1995
Sybase Inc
Emeryville, CA
Transaction Management Group, Sr Software Engineer
Project lead for Sybase XA/Tuxedo product. XA is a X/Open DTP standard. Developed XA support for the Sybase SQLserver database engine with the Tuxedo TP monitor. Worked with Novell Tuxedo engineering and Sybase SQLserver engineering groups. Developed testing methodology and specifications. Developed XA support for CICS/6000, Encina, and TopEnd support, working with respective vendors development groups. Developed and delivered course work for technical support training for all XA products.
July 1992-February 1994
Digital Equipment Corporation
Salem, NH
RTR Software Engineering, Sr Software Engineer
RTR (Reliable Transaction Router) is a transactional messaging product with routing, delivery, and fault tolerant features. Ported RTR V2.1 to Alpha/AXP. Performance benchmarking.
January 1992 - July 1992
ACMS/Unix Software Engineering, Software Engineer II
Developed distributed systems management entities in DCE environment (DECmcc). Developed functional specifications, design specifications, and test specifications.
July 1991 - January 1992
Tpwest Software Engineering, Software Engineer II
Developed UNIX based X/OPEN (TX, XA) compliant, multi-threaded transaction manager. Extended to support UNIX-based DECdtm interface. Developed VMS-UNIX TCP/IP network transaction protocol.
July 1987 - July 1991
DecIntact V2.0 Project Leader, Software Engineer II
Developed DECintact transaction commit protocol using DECdtm. Included functional specifications, design specifications, and test specifications. Participated in Digital X/OPEN working group (includes XA standard). DECintact V1.1: Developed enhancements for threading, node failure recovery (clusters), RMS journaling, and distributed queuing facility. DECintact/PC V1.0: Developed product assessment, acceptance criteria and bug fixes.
June 1982 - November 1987
Large Computer Group, Commercial Software, Software Engineer I
Developed VAX native translators of HP and CDC tape formats. Maintenance of layered products: Traffic-20, Cobol-10/20, others. Development of TCS, an automated testing & tracking tool utilized by several projects. Maintenance of Fortran-10/20 compiler & runtime environment. Enhancements of Fortran source debugger system, extended addressing support.
June 1980 - May 1982
Technical Support Group, Software Specialist I
Tops-10 operating system maintenance. Developed fixes for SPRs, provided telephone support to customers and field representatives.
Distributed Systems, Distributed Databases, Distributed Management, Transaction Processing, Concurrency Control, Multi-Threading, Networking(TCP/IP, DECnet), Kernel, Real-time, Device Drivers, Compilers, Editors, run-time Libraries
C#, C++, Java, VB.Net, Perl, Ruby, HTML, Pascal, Bliss, Lisp, Assembler (VAX,PDP,x86), TEX/LATEX, Fortran, Basic, Cobol, Snobol, APL
.NET (ASP.NET, AJAX, Web Services, Remoting), COM, Win32
Windows(2003, 2000, NT4, XP), UNIX (Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Linux), VMS, MS-DOS, Tops-20, Tops-1O
University of Arizona (1 YR BS EE), Digital courses (VMS Internals, DECnet/TCPIP networks, Object-Oriented Programming)
Politics, Wines, Expert chess player (peak USCF 2065), computer chess programming, bridge, science-fiction reading