Software Engineer

• Jan 2021 - Present

Software

• Jan 2021 - Present

Executive Vice President

• Apr 2008 - Jan 2021

Assist in creating and growing Casey Construction as a general contracting company serving a wide variety of customers in the commercial and residential market ensuring all projects are completed with a high level of quality craftsmanship.  Establish policies, procedures and tools that enable timely execution of projects.  Establish project contracts, schedules and deadlines. Create and secure associated documentation.  Hire, manage and facilitate the training of all personnel.  Manage all accounting, bookwork, legal services, and human resources.  Implement and manage all technology solutions including employee time tracking, accounting software, cell phone solutions, marketing media, website development and social media. Show less

Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch - Program Manager II

• Feb 2010 - Nov 2010

Build strong partner and customer relationships and foster a healthy LightSwitch ecosystem.  Manage Security features throughout the development process from specification definition to project complete.  Ensure that team members are working in a way that will help us succeed as a multi-site team.  Improve LightSwitch functionality and usability for customers.  Support customers and actively troubleshoot and fix customer issues.

Software Design Engineer In Test II: Microsoft Business Solutions, Axapta Test Tools Team

• Jun 2007 - Feb 2010

Application Team Liaison - Collaborate with the Usability and Axapta Application teams to assess and address the test impact of client feature uptake for application teams.  Lead role in the Forms Refresh project which involved development, implementation and application of a form conversion tool that updates the usability of specific form types to the new usability design. Design and implement a tool that analyzes form metadata and reports form visual quality errors to help reduce the number of visual quality bugs currently being produced in the product.  Plan, design, organize and deliver the Microsoft Business Solutions Quality Insider monthly newsletter distributed to all members of the Axapta development team and collaboration with the Great Plains and Navision teams that also distribute a customized version of this newsletter.  Plan, design and organize testing efforts for various Axapta Client features. Participate meaningfully in development and program manager design reviews, development and test code review, writing test documents, designing test cases, creating test automation using C# and collecting code coverage data.  Design, implement and maintain a unified test infrastructure to enable 300+ testers to automate test scenarios across Axapta. Prototype, write design documentation and conduct document reviews, implement new tools and tool features using C# and Agile development practices.  Support test infrastructure users, evangelize new functionality and inspire engineering excellence in test code a test team distributed across three sites worldwide.  Write user documentation, providing personal user support, evangelizing tools and best practices via documentation, remote presentations and on-site technical road-shows for hands-on learning.  Interact with development and project management to gain insight into upcoming features and influence product testability.  Shipped Microsoft Business Solutions Axapta 2009. Show less

Software Design Engineer In Test I: Microsoft Business Solutions Axapta Client Test Team

• Mar 2005 - Jun 2007

Plan, design and organize testing efforts for various data persistence features using the Agile process.  Participate in development, test design and code review, write test documents, design test cases, create test automation using C# and collect code coverage data.  Design, prototype and implement new test infrastructure and maintain any existing test infrastructure (C# and XUnit) brought forward as the team moves into a new product domain (Axapta).  Test Projects Include: Microsoft Business Framework Entity Persistence, Microsoft Business Solutions Tools Data Persistence, Starting Data Manager. Show less

Software Design Engineer In Test I: SQL Server Data Replication Team

• Oct 2001 - Mar 2005

Plan, design, organize, document and automate testing efforts for various features of Transactional Replication in the next version of Microsoft SQL Server to provide a high quality customer experience.  Collaborate with Development and Program Management to define and prioritize the issues and their resolutions.  Assist in the design, implementation, debugging and resolution of internal test processes and tools on a continual basis to improve testing efficiency and reliability. Key reviewer of peers’ test plans and scenarios.  Familiarity with a broad set of product features and related technologies with an ability to be highly effective in finding product defects exercising features in customer scenarios.  Provide feedback on feature testing status and stability and communicate testing data to management and product team accurately.  Shipped SQL Server 2005 - Write test plans and test case outlines, conduct test reviews, analyze weekly test results, file bug reports, create test automation using internal tools, T-SQL, C#, Visual Basic 6.0 and batch file code, provide test coverage for localized and down-level products and analyze and use code coverage data to improve testing.  Test Projects Include: DDL Replication, Replication Security, CLR User Defined Objects, Heterogeneous Subscriptions on DB2, Oracle and Sybase, Merge client requested snapshot, Merge statistics. Show less

Software Test Engineer: SQL Server Tools Team

• Sep 1999 - Oct 2001

Plan, design and organize testing efforts for various features and components of Microsoft SQL Server Management Tools GUI. Write test plans, test cases, and automation using Visual Test, Visual Basic and VB Script.  Assist with the design, building and maintenance of a stable, complete test automation environment. Shipped SQL Server 2000 and one service pack  Test Projects Include: OLAP Management Dialogs, Profiler, Replay, T-SQL Debugger

Foster Parent

• Feb 2004 - Feb 2005

Software Test Engineer: Microsoft.com Team

• Jan 1999 - Sep 1999

Web development and maintenance of internal test site and tools using ASP, T-SQL, HTML, MS Access, SQL Server 7, Java Script and VBScript.  Test all aspects of applications, tools, objects and localization on Microsoft.com  Assist with building and maintenance of a stable, complete test environment.  Test Projects Include: Registration Wizards, MS Search page, Download Center and various other internal MS tools. Web development and maintenance of internal test site and tools using ASP, T-SQL, HTML, MS Access, SQL Server 7, Java Script and VBScript.  Test all aspects of applications, tools, objects and localization on Microsoft.com  Assist with building and maintenance of a stable, complete test environment.  Test Projects Include: Registration Wizards, MS Search page, Download Center and various other internal MS tools.