Experience

ISSAQUAH SCHOOL DISTRICT 411
• United States
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Substitute Teacher

  • 2019 - Present


Microsoft

• United States
• Software Development
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Build Engineer / Software Engineer / Developer

  • 2007 - 2015

  • Held series of software development and build engineering roles at Microsoft from 2007-2015 (with two short sabbaticals throughout this period) and worked in the company's IXP Operations, Media Center, and Embedded Windows groups • Managed daily builds on a content-build system that produced help output in various formats and languages for the majority of Microsoft platforms; resolved build breaks and defined customer-requested enhancements for the publishing team • Debugged customer build issues and breaks concerning both build content and various machine-related issues • Played critical customer advocacy role, presenting customer issues to the sustained engineering team for resolution and possible revisions to the build system • Implemented various PowerShell tools to increase the turnaround time in troubleshooting build issues • Maintained and monitored the daily automated code check-in and build verification system (SNAP) for Media Center to catch possible breaks in builds, and quality gates, prior to official introduction to the software control system. • Overhauled and enhanced the build verification system documentation • Implemented ad-hoc SQL queries to identify common build break reasons and common developer offenders • Implemented system validation of user names against the main check-in system • Ensured that high priority source code changes were prioritized in the build process verification • Maintained and enhanced various Perl and Command Shell scripts to run Windows scripts (Timebuild) in Embedded Windows • Ran content-scanning and .NET design-programming rules against the build



Geneva

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Developer / Engineer (SQL, Visual Basic & Visual Source Safe Emphasis)

  • 2000 - 2001

  • Developed new modules for an advanced communication ATM Banking system which used individualized audiovisual messaging to communicate with targeted ATM customers • Specific modules developed include: demographic marketing, geographic, and ATM capabilities and location information • Worked as part of a large development team where component compatibility was crucial; the system consisted of ActiveX and server dll’s running under COM+ • Developed new modules for an advanced communication ATM Banking system which used individualized audiovisual messaging to communicate with targeted ATM customers • Specific modules developed include: demographic marketing, geographic, and ATM capabilities and location information • Worked as part of a large development team where component compatibility was crucial; the system consisted of ActiveX and server dll’s running under COM+


Synon Corporation
• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• Software Developer / Engineer

  • 1996 - 1999

Chartwell Home Therapies
• United States
• Medical Equipment Manufacturing
• Software Developer / Engineer

  • 1995 - 1996