Innovative, out of the box thinker and serial innovator with an excellent reference and a sharp eye for quality. Seeking to capitalize on his outstanding and deep base of development and technology experience and broad industry exposure: 17 years of professional experience, with almost 10 at Microsoft and 2.5 years at Google; 5 and 5 years of professional experience developing and testing software, respectively; 3 years of professional experience in systems administration and Cloud/DevOps; 5 years in cloud, developer and other support and decades of experience in personal and open-source projects.
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Mar 1999 – Present | Director of Systems Design and Integration | NODOMAIN.NET |
Design, implement and maintain the ≈30-35 host/node, largely virtualized NODOMAIN.NET private, hybrid cloud, including numerous website properties and LAN/WAN services.
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Jan 2022 – Mar 2023 | Tech. Lead / Build Engineer | Tech Mahindra / Microsoft |
Produced evolving Windows images for Microsoft Surface new product and continuity of supply program turn-ups on a weekly cadence — utilizing multiple automated build systems that leverage unattended XML answer files and DISM, Azure DevOps build pipelines, Hyper-V and Kubernetes and git source control.
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Jul 2019 – Jan 2021 | Senior Developer | Akraya / eBay |
Assignment with the eBay Shipping Labels team. Responsible for ensuring that all daily shipping reconciliation batch jobs completed successfully, to ensure proper invoicing, payments and charges for billions of dollars' worth of shipping labels and insurance policies from a variety of carriers. Troubleshooted Java source code in a multi-region PaaS CI/CD environment with hundreds of VMs and containers and many, many more Kafka messages.
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Oct 2018 – Mar 2019 | Build Engineer | Tech Mahindra / Microsoft |
Serving as assistant to the main build engineer, produced reports and automation to improve the availability and security of the Azure Compute and hybrid Azure DevOps (née Visual Studio Team Services) CI/CD build environment for the Microsoft Office myAnalytics team.
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Jan 2018 – Jun 2018 | Software Development Engineer in Test II | Populus Group / Microsoft |
Perform a variety of test and test development activities for Microsoft's Azure Active Directory B2C service, an OAUTH 2 OpenID Connect based authentication and identity management framework.
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Jan 2017 – Mar 2017 | Technical Consultant / Cloud Support Specialist | Taos / Google |
Jun 2016 – Dec 2016 | Application Development Support Specialist / Cloud Support Specialist | Volt / Google |
Aug 2014 – Jun 2016 | Systems Administrative Support Engineer / Cloud Support Specialist | Volt / Google |
Provide developer support and solutions to Google Cloud Platform customers, serving both as an expert technical consultant and as a liaison between the customers and engineering.
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Mar 2012 – May 2012 | Software Test Engineer IV | Volt / Microsoft |
Ran and updated manual UI regression tests against a service pack release. Filed defect reports and verified fixes.
Sep 2010 – Apr 2011 | Software Development Engineer in Test II | Collabera / Microsoft |
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 | Software Development Engineer in Test II | Volt / Microsoft |
Performed testing and development for Microsoft’s Remote Desktop team to determine the upper-bounds of scalability for virtual machine based knowledge worker scenarios. Ran video and system performance profiling automation.
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Sep 2007 – Jan 2008 | Consultant | Wes Ratauschk & Associates |
Implemented a bespoke system in C♯, VB.Net, ADO.Net, ASP.Net and SQL for web and e-mail based sign-up of redeemable promotion codes to be distributed by e-mail for a marketing campaign of the client's and its advertising partners.
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Jun 2007 – Aug 2007 | Support Engineer III | Volt / Microsoft |
Performed multi-platform systems administration while on assignment with the Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services Archive DBA team. Provided final point of escalation support for the NOC.
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Feb 2007 – May 2007 | Integration Tester | ArcMail Technology |
Performed a variety of test, development and support functions for this vendor of open-source powered e-mail archival appliances.
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Oct 2005 – Oct 2006 | Support Escalation Engineer | Microsoft |
Jun 2005 – Oct 2005 | Support Engineer III | Volt / Microsoft |
Provided technical support and consultation to Premier and Professional customers and to supporting partner teams of Microsoft’s Services for Macintosh and Services for UNIX file sharing (AFP, NFS) and NIS interoperability solutions.
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Mar 2002 – Feb 2003 | Support Engineer | Volt / Microsoft |
Provided technical support to customers and business partners while on assignment at MSN Internet Access’ uppermost escalation tier.
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Oct 2001 – Jan 2002 | Software Test Engineer II | Volt / Microsoft |
Performed systems administration and provided team and partner support while on assignment with the MSN Messenger team.
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Mar 2001 – Jun 2001 | Systems Administrator | Puget Sound Network |
Performed systems administration and provided end user support at a Puget Sound area Internet service provider.
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Aug 2000 – Jan 2001 | Customer Installation Technician | Reflex Communications |
Performed installation of high-speed Internet service for the customers of a west-coast broadband Internet service provider.
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Nov 1999 – Aug 2000 | Software Test Engineer | Volt / Microsoft |
Performed manual BVT and RC testing to verify DVD playback functionality for the Microsoft Windows Digital Media Division.
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Feb 1999 – Oct 1999 | Software Test Engineer | Volt / Microsoft |
Performed daily manual and automated BVTs for the Microsoft Exchange team, working with internal partners to drive and verify the resolution of defects.
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Jun 1998 – Sep 1998 | Systems Administrator | Cortland Electronics |
Mar 1997 – May 1998 | Systems Administrator | Cortland Electronics |
Mar 1996 – Oct 1996 | Systems Administrator | Cortland Electronics |
Performed UN*X and Windows systems administration at a Seattle area Internet service provider. Provided customer technical support and performed cabling installation when necessary.
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Sep 1997 – Jan 1998 | Lead Support Technician | Alternate Access |
Served as lead Mac OS support engineer and provided auxiliary Windows 95 support for an Internet service provider with 7,000 customers in the Puget Sound region.
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Aug 1995 – Oct 1995 | Support Technician | Route 66 Networks |
Provided technical support to customers of a Seattle area social networking BBS and Internet service provider. Performed basic Windows NT and Macintosh systems administration.
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