Experience

Kline Galland Home

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Day Center Driver

  • Mar 2017 - Present

  • Transport seniors between their homes and the Polack Adult Day Center and on outings in a safe and courteous manner• Maintain the vehicle with daily checks and attend team meetings as required



Allyis

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Xbox Engineering Services Build Engineer at Microsoft

  • Sep 2015 - Jun 2016

  • Supported their TFS build system which builds thousands of builds per day by performing weekly scheduled updates and triaging daily build breaks as required• Enabled Xbox and OS engineers to deliver great gaming and entertainment experiences, and outstanding desktop as well as Phone Apps



Inspur Worldwide Services

• Build Engineer at Microsoft

  • Mar 2015 - Jun 2015

  • Built and monitored sessions, fixed broken sessions, and prepared test environments for SCCM engineers using .NET, C#, XML, SQL, monitoring tools, and Visual Studio/TFS• Tracked bugs and fixes when the code failed using Project Studio • Built new servers, deployed new hardware, and maintained existing hardware, which included patching• Overall supported daily Nova Operations by leveraging past work experience on both the operational side as well as the infrastructure side



Trinity Parish Episcopal Church

• United States

• Member of the Vestry (Board of Directors)

  • Jan 2012 - Jan 2015

• Co-editor "Chimes" Newsletter

  • Oct 2008 - Nov 2013



Collabera Inc.

• United States
• Accounting

• Windows Embedded Builder at Microsoft

  • Jan 2013 - Jul 2013

  • Maintained 100+ VMs running buddy builds, code reviews and gated check-ins• Supported 300+ developers and testers across 2 main Microsoft product families (Auto and CE) used in cars, like Ford Sync with 50+ source control branches



TEKsystems

• Malaysia
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Visual Studio Builder at Microsoft

  • Jan 2011 - Jan 2012

  • Primary builder provided front-end support for daily validation build processes, including monitoring builds, break/fix management, issue tracking, and identifying and resolving a wide variety of build-related issues for different products and versions in the Visual Studio family• Worked with development teams to build components of a software product, including maintaining batch files and tools to keep up with changes in the product• Performed, and helped debug builds as required• Worked with scripts written in Perl, JScript, VBScript, CC++, and other languages, including troubleshooting



Artech Information Systems

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Silverlight Builder at Microsoft

  • Apr 2009 - Jan 2010

  • Ran periodic integrations using Source Depot (Microsoft’s proprietary version of Perforce) before release dates• Produced builds for PC and Mac on demand• Communicated results of Build Verification Tests to the rest of the development team• Debugged build scripts when there are any issues



Cobalt Group (now CDK Global)

• Configuration Management Engineer

  • Sep 2006 - Mar 2008

  • Managed the build process, recorded data and produced reports using Ant, Zope/Plone, Python, Perl, Shell scripts, SQL, and Excel. Administered Perforce and Bugzilla for the company• Achievement: Championed Configuration Management and Build Engineering at the company for four months after my manager resigned



Volt Technical Resources

• United States
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Software Design Engineer at Microsoft

  • Nov 2005 - Sep 2006

  • Performed daily retail and debug builds of a feature branch of Windows Vista Operating System (before it was released) to run on multiple platformsAnalyzed and solved build breaksConducted daily Forward Integrations from parent branch and Reverse Integrations to parent branch as requested using Source Depot (Microsoft’s proprietary version of Perforce)• Achievement: As a contractor, I was asked to build signed DLL and CAB files for a developer’s special project, which eventually became part of Silverlight. None of the regular builders could help me, so I had to study Microsoft’s internal documentation called MSDN. I learned how to sign and compress the files on my own and created a build script that satisfied the request.

• Build Engineer

  • Oct 2004 - Nov 2005

  • Managed the build process, recorded data and produced reports using Ant, Zope/Plone, Python, Perl, Shell scripts, SQL, and Excel. Administered Perforce and Bugzilla for the companyAchievements: • After observing the build system, I saw opportunities to automate. I documented my observations to my manager and convinced her to further automate. I modified existing scripts and schedulers to ultimately gain up to two hours per day in improved efficiency by automating the company’s daily build schedule• Increased internal customers' productivity and reduced their downtime by meeting and exceeding management targets for responding to their requests by creating scripts and self-service Intranet pages• Received a bonus as the first employee in the company to be promoted from a non-technical customer-facing position to a technology position

• French WebCare Advisor

  • Aug 2003 - Oct 2004

  • Worked in fluent French and English with SalesLogix Customer Relationship Management software to track customer questions and solved their problems with HTML coding and troubleshooting. • Communicated successfully with employees from many other departments.• Trained and mentored two French-speaking WebCare Advisors.



South Seattle Community College

• United States
• Higher Education

• Teaching Assistant & Lab Aide/Manager

  • Sep 2002 - May 2003

  Teaching Assistant: Utilized proficiency in SQL, MS Access, VB6 to help students.Computer Lab Aide/Manager: Troubleshooting problems for up to 20 students per day.



Canadian Forces

• Canada
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Public Affairs Officer

  • 1999 - 2002

  Second-in-command for the region. Oversaw all outreach projects and responded to information requests.Supervised Administrative Professional for the office.