I excel at leading IT teams to research, design, develop (& I also code), maintain, improve, migrate, debug, upgrade, modernize, integrate, test, deploy, & sell systems & services into cloud & hybrid architectures.

 

Methodologies used: TOGAF SoaML BPMN UML BPEL RUP RAD Agile Scrum Macroscope CMMI

 

Technologies & Tools used: Cloud Azure SaaS SOA IIS ASP.NET JSON SOAP WCF REST XML SQL-Server Windows Azure DB MySQL ADO.NET ODBC JDBC Visual Studio NetBeans Eclipse TFS TOGAF SoaML BPMN RUP UML DDL BPEL Rational MVC MVVM WinForm WinRT WPF XAML AJAX HTML CSS Wordpress CMS DNN SiteCore VM Fiddler GCC MS-Office Visio PowerPoint Sharepoint MS-Project

 

Environments: Windows Azure, Windows … *nix (SUSE RHEL HPUX), z/OS … hybrid architectures

 

Languages: C# C++ ASP.NET LINQ T-SQL VB.NET Java ASP JavaScript C VB FORTRAN COBOL REXX

 

Experience & Expertise from: Microsoft, Boeing, learn2grow, University of Washington/JISAO/PMEL/NOAA

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 

Cloud Architect: Safeorb, Fall City WA 7/2013 –present, 1099 contract work designing, creating, maintaining, migrating, integrating, & deploying Windows Azure hosted systems, web sites, applications, services, SaaS, Databases, & data to & with private data center hosted systems, web sites, applications, services, SaaS, Databases, & data using Visual Studio 2010/2012 Ultimate with TFS & SQL Server & Window Azure SQL for ASP.Net & .Net in C# for scalable worldwide available systems, web sites, applications, services, SaaS, Databases, data, & client applications with DRP under NDA (Non Disclosure) & secrecy agreements

 

Expert Software Design Engineer (SDE): CompuCom, Redmond WA 4/2013 – 6/2013, contracted to Microsoft  SOA & SaaS work was for a product line which has not been released so the work & role is still under NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement) & secrecy agreements

 

Developer & Platform Evangelist (Expert SDE): CompuCom, Redmond WA 4/2010 – 2/2013, contracted to Microsoft as Developer & Platform Evangelist for Windows Azure & SQL-Azure from 4/2010 to 12/2011 then Windows Azure with Windows RT & Phone whenever requested or in an ISV’s target system architectures

Advised ISV & SaaS Architects in best design patterns & practices  for deliverables to Windows Azure,  Windows Azure SQL,  Windows Server, SQL-Server, Windows, Windows Phone, & Windows RT.

Demonstrated, designed, developed, debugged, maintained, built, configured, & deployed for use within Windows Azure & HPC & SQL, Windows Server, SQL-Server, Windows Phone & RT & Windows

·         Automated elasticity, load balancing, traffic management, CDN, HPC, & data syncs & backups

·         Transformations of ASP.NET sites & services from .NET 2.0 to 4.5 in private datacenters to Azure

·         SaaS & Service bus & authentications via JSON, REST, SOAP, XML, WCF, & Active Directory

·         Window Azure SQL & SQL Server databases, migrations, backups, stored procs, & syncs

·         Azure Table & BLOB storage, queues, & caching, DRP, syncs & backups across datacenters

·         ASP.NET, WPF, WinForm, & Windows RT UI for client applications, systems, & web sites

·         Azure emulators & VMs for development, testing, demonstrations, DRP, & production

·         Browser, tablet, Windows, & mobile client applications on emulators & then to the client stores

Deployed, monitored, maintained, updated, integrated, & scaled solutions at cloud & private data centers

Collaborated with, learned from, & mentored team members.  Methodologies: waterfall , scrum, & agile

Development & test architecture & tools: Visual Studio 2010 & 2012 Ultimate, Team Foundation Server, Windows Server as developer workstations, Windows Azure, Windows Server, HPC Server, .NET 2.0 to 4.5, IIS, WebDav, FTP, Windows Azure SQL, SQL-Server, Expressions Suite, Hyper-V, VM Ware, Fiddler

Build & test architectures: Windows Azure & emulator, TFS, Hyper-V & VMware virtual machines for Windows Servers & Linux, HPC Servers, SQL Servers, & Windows workstations, phones, & WinRT

Deployment architectures hosted at private & cloud data centers: Windows Azure, Windows Servers, HPC Servers, clustered Servers, Windows Azure SQL, Linux Servers, & Hyper-V & VMware virtual machines

 

 

Architect & Senior Developer: Learn2Grow.com, West Palm Beach  FL  11/2008 – 11/2009, FT employee

Team: architect (me), system admin/developer, SEO specialist & developer, Jr. developer, & web artists.

Developed in C# unless it was already VB.NET (used reflection to convert VB.NET to C# when required).

Designed, developed, maintained, built, configured, & deployed for use within our architectures:

·         Transformations & optimizations of business logic & ASP.NET web pages from .NET 2.0 to 3.5

·         WCF services for our service bus & client applications.

·         REST services, APIs, & utilities to integrate our architectures & to interface with our vendor’s LAMP stack Web 2.0 social site

·         SQL Server 2005/2008 databases, migrations, backups, & stored procedures

·         WinForm, ASP.NET, & WPF user interfaces for our services, APIs, utilities, & applications

·         Processes, services, utilities, & applications to upgrade our uses of SiteCore CMS

·         Coveo search servers, indexing configurations, & their ASP.NET pages

·         Validation & test environments which emulated our deployments

Monitored, maintained, upgraded, & fixed deployed architecture at the data center via remote sessions.

Collaborated with, learned from, & mentored team members.  Methodologies: scrum & agile.

Development & test architecture & tools: Windows Server 2008 as developer workstations, .NET 2.0 to 3.5, WebDav & FTP 7.5, Visual Studio 2008, SQL-Server 2005 & 2008, SiteCore CMS, SourceVault SCM, Expressions Web & Blend, StarUML, Fiddler, NAnt, GIMP, Creative Suite 4 for web Artists, & browser web tools for developers & web artists.

Build & test architectures: Hyper-V & VMware virtual machines for Windows 2008/2003 Servers, SQL 2008 Servers, the team’s integrated build environment & SourceVault SCM & team wiki.

Deployment architecture hosted at data centers: load balanced Windows 2003 Servers using .NET 2.0 to 3.5, clustered SQL Server 2005, ForceTen courseware servers, SiteCore CMS, & an external vendor hosted LAMP stack Web 2.0 social site.

 

 

System Architect & Project Manager: Comsys, Renton  WA  11/2006 – 02/2008, contracted to Boeing

My immediate team: 2 other architects, 2 other project managers, a Senior Technical Fellow, 2 Subject Matter Experts, a customer representative, 2 immediate managers & any of their employees as needed.

The collaboration team within the organization (includes some members from my immediate team): 5 other architects, 5 other project managers, 5 Technical Fellows, 5 Subject Matter Experts, 5 customer representatives, 5 managers and any of their employees as needed and assigned from time to time.

Scope of work and deliverables: collaborate to research, evaluate, prototype, resolve issues, validate, plan, cost, and document the alternatives, standards, tools, skills and training required, process environments, and processes for the transformation and future production (next 12+ years) of a portfolio of government certifiable life and business critical components, software, and systems authored primarily in FORTRAN (over 3 million lines) to a modern object oriented language and its possible deployment architectures.  Maintain CMMI 3 rating.  Insure compliance with and advocate new enterprise architecture processes and standards.  Not only Project Management of the immediate team using mostly agile, scrum, and PM 2.0 methodologies, but also production of standards compliant metrics and reports for governance and upper management review boards which primarily used Waterfall methodologies.

Results: reduced the migration costs and timelines of portfolio transformation within a year by over 60% via automation of the source code translation and transformation processes.  Produced over 100+ pages of white papers (in addition to the documentation, databases, and custom tools) so anyone in the enterprise could also significantly reduce their timelines and costs by implementing the same or similar solutions and processes to work similar issues.  Hosted collaboration meetings and training classes with members of our organizations to address their related issues and educate them about our issues, solutions, findings, tools, and processes.

Development and test architecture and tools:

·         Primary language alternatives of which my architect, development, and validation time was almost evenly distributed between: Java, C/C++, and C#

·         IDE toolsets: NetBeans, Eclipse, Visual Studio 6 and Visual Studio 2005.  NetBeans UML and BPEL, and IBM Rational UML and DDL

·         Build and debugger toolsets: GCC, J2EE, and JDK (Windows & *nix). Visual Studio 6 and 2005

·         SOA architecture: SOAP services with UDDI

·         Databases: Java DB, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server 2005/2000, and flat file (custom file based DBs)

·         Binary integration technologies (everything could not be transformed and certified at the same time so the old binaries had to work with the new ones): Platform Invoke, COFF, and JNI/JNA

·         Bug tracking via BugZilla. SCM via CVS, Subversion, and ClearCase. Integrated builds via CruiseControl. Project planning, tracking, and reporting via Excel and Microsoft Project

·         Windows XP workstations and laptops for local work and web and remote terminal sessions, and Windows XP and Server 2003, SUSE Linux enterprise, and HPUX hosts

·         Knowledge Management, PM 2.0, and collaboration via: wikis, web sites, and SharePoints

·         Deployment Platforms: Windows XP and 2003, SUSE Linux enterprise, OS/390, z/OS, and HPUX

Build & test architectures: isolated development, build and unit test, test, and functional test environments for each deployment platform.

Deployment architectures, enterprise server clusters hosting: HPUX, SUSE Linux enterprise, OS/390, z/OS, Windows Server 2003 .NET 2.0, Oracle DB2 SQL-Server 2005/2000 and flat file databases. And XP laptops!

 

 

Research Scientist 2: University of Washington, Seattle WA  4/2005 – 12/2006, (at NOAA) FT employee

Our immediate team: 2 other research scientists, principal scientist, and a research scientist as PM.

Our collaboration team: other research scientists within the NCTR, UW, NOAA, ATWC, and PTWC.

Scope of work and deliverables: collaborate to research, evaluate, prototype, resolve issues, design, build, validate, optimize, plan, cost, and document the alternatives, standards, tools, skills and training, process environments, and processes for the real time analysis and prediction of tsunamis propagating from a landslide or earthquake events.  Build, deploy, and maintain the operational systems.  Evaluate operational results after an event.  Produce the transactional “job control” core, and Jini services.

Results: produced and deployed SIFT (Short-term Inundation Forecasting for Tsunamis) versions 1.0 and 1.1

Development and test architecture and tools:

·         Primary language: Java, secondary languages: C/C++ and FORTRAN (Windows & RHEL for me)

·         IDE toolsets: JBuilder, Platform SDK, and NetBeans.  NetBeans and Argo UML tools

·         Build and debugger toolsets: GCC, Platform SDK, and JDK

·         SOA architecture: Jini, and sockets interfaces with other systems

·         Databases: MySQL or PostgreSQL (I placed all the database logic in the Java for portability)

·         Bug tracking via Mantis.  SCM via Subversion.  Collaboration via e-mail, IM, and web sites

Build & test architectures: development builds, unit testing, and Jini SOA was done on Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and Apple workstations and laptops.  Testing builds, validations, and Jini SOA was done on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux and a Windows.

Deployment architectures: Windows, Apple, RHEL, MySQL or PostgreSQL, Jini SOA.

 

System and Technical Architect: Comsys, Renton  WA  9/2002 – 8/2004, consulting contract to Boeing

My immediate team: architect (me) to train a developer team leader, 3 developers, test manager, and a tester.

Our collaboration team: the native team in the US, the team in training was to be remote in Moscow Russia.

Scope of work and deliverables: produce a web served front end to a z/OS hosted business critical mainframe system which was less expensive than redeveloping the business critical system. Prototype an alternate offshore teaming methodology; train the offshore team within the environment of the native team to work remotely as the part of the “complete team.”  The prototype offshore team methodology also included the requirements that the remote facility would pay for and the remote team members would be responsible for the training of their new and replacement members.  Implement the export compliant development and test environments as well as design, prototype, and document the mainframe interfaces with the web front end.  My remote team would develop, build, test, deploy, and maintain the mainframe interfaces and web front end.  Execute leadership, tracking, and communications throughout global time zones and calendar events while maintaining export compliance.  Maintain a CMMI 3 rating.  Insure compliance with and advocate new enterprise architecture processes and standards.  It was not originally planned but I also took on the additional roles of System Architect 4 months into the project and Project Manager in the last 8 months of the project.

Results: produced and deployed the web front end to the business critical system.  The remote team became fully functional members of the business critical system team (and provided alternate work shift services).

Development and test architecture and tools:

·         Primary languages: C# & ASP.NET on Windows, secondary languages: COBOL & REXX on z/OS

·         IDE, build, and debugger toolsets: Visual Studio .NET 2002/03, z/OS tools, Rational DDL & UML

·         SOA architecture: SOAP services with UDDI, in addition to the vendor’s interfaces with z/OS

·         Bug tracking via ClearQuest. SCM via ClearCase. Project planning and tracking via Excel & Project

Build & test architectures: z/OS cluster, IMS and DB2, Windows XP workstations, Windows 2000 server

Deployment architectures: z/OS cluster, IMS & DB2, Windows 2000 server cluster for IIS & z/OS interfaces

 

Technical Architect: Comforce., Renton  WA  1/2000 - 12/2001, consulting contract to Boeing

My immediate team: architect (me), 2 developers, database developer, and a tester.

Scope of work and deliverables: produce ASP front ends to Windows Server DCOM applications as part of a z/OS mainframe’s business critical system. Design, prototype, and document the Visual Studio 6 Enterprise development, test, and deployment environments for possible use throughout the enterprise.  Design recover legacy systems and their data stores written in Modula 2, VBA, and C; and then document and transform them to Windows and DCOM using Visual Studio 6.  Maintain a CMMI 3 rating.  Insure compliance with & advocate for new enterprise architecture processes & standards.  Build, train, manage, and mentor the team.

Results: produced and deployed the web front end and DCOM applications to Windows Server clusters which interfaced with the mainframe hosted business critical system.  Reduced the company’s Full Time Employee requirements by at least 20 via our business process automations.  Produced, validated, documented, submitted, and obtained enterprise architecture standards approval for the use of: Visual Studio 6 development and test environments, business critical use of SQL Server 2000, development and test tools used with Visual Studio 6, Rational UML and RUP, and DCOM and IIS ASP applications running on a Windows Server 2000 cluster.

Development architecture and tools:

·         Primary language: Visual C++, one developer was allowed to use Visual Basic

·         IDE, build, and debugger toolsets: Visual Studio 6, Rational DDL and UML, and z/OS tools

·         Databases: SQL Server 2000, IMS and DB2 Databases on the z/OS cluster

·         Bug tracking via ClearQuest. SCM via ClearCase. Project tracking via Excel and MS Project

Build & test architectures: z/OS cluster, SQL Server 2000, Windows XP and 2000 server

Deployment architectures: z/OS cluster, SQL Server 2000 and Windows 2000 server cluster

 

Software Design Engineer: Volt Redmond  WA  10/1996 - 7/1999, contract to Microsoft (Visual Studio)

Designed, developed, and debugged: components, software, databases, and systems in C++ for the languages division and then for Visual Studio after joining the initial Visual Studio team which aggregated Visual C++, Visual Basic, VJ++, and other tools and technologies to publish Visual Studio 97, Visual Studio 6, and finally the beginning of Visual Studio .NET

 

Software Design Engineer Test: Volt Redmond WA 7/1995-9/1996, contract to Microsoft (Windows CE)

Developed in C/C++, started on build 25 of WinCE and left after we shipped version 1.1 of Windows CE.

 

 

EDUCATION: BS Physics from the University of Washington.  Many short courses from/at Microsoft, Boeing, American Management Association, PMI, WSA, SPA, IEEE, SEI, UW, and cultural consultants for planning, enabling, & managing worldwide teams.  Intellectual Property, national and international issues and solutions.

 

STRENGTHS: embraces personal and team challenges, organized, efficient, consistent growth record, very productive and works with others to be very motivated, efficient, and productive. Excellent interpersonal, communications, & leadership. Constantly evolving education & awareness through IEEE, PMI, SEI, & MSDN.