Experienced software producer and architect who has a passion for working with others to achieve outstanding results. Adept at managing and working at all levels across groups to deliver products and sloutions that excite & delight customers. Endlessly curious on ways to improve systems and process to enhance success. Outstanding presentation skills, can present to any audience level and size. Possesses a get-it-done attitude!
Define and advances the strategic vision for application development and integration technologies. Manage the portfolio of development assets (platforms and tools) from selection to adoption and through retirement, document and facilitate their appropriate use, and providing design consulting services. Leads the definition, development, maintenance and adoption of the company's application architecture strategy as well as the application enterprise-level road map. Manage budget, issues, risks and people to accomplish goals.
Working to develop a new product as a startup within Telerik witch is a patent-pending Cloud-based cross-platform mobile development solution. Responsible for executing product and business strategy, including content creation through vendors, jr. developers and on my own to gain product visibility, market recognition and product adoption. The product targeted new targets markets for Telerik as part of an over all Cloud strategy for the company. Provided engineering with product guidance and product management.
Helped to start and run SoCal Code Camp. Contributed to the creation of and run the website, organize sponsors and speakers.
Instruct and develop materials for programming classes including .NET Framework Fundamentals, Visual Basic and other Programming classes, instructing groups of 30 to 40 students in lecture and hands-on laboratory environment. Consistently rated as a top instructor by students and administration.
Responsible for all software architecture, development and maintenance at King Schools the world´s leading producer of aviation training videos and computer software. Architected and led development team to deliver the first King Schools HTML5 learning management platform. The first version was delivered in less than 5 months where previous development efforts to deliver a new platform had failed after over a year’s effort.
Responsible for promoting and driving adoption of analytics products across platforms, comparing and monitoring competition. Worked as the product manager working closely with engineering to drive feature functions and future product direction.
Responsible for setting policies and procedures on product direction, setting pricing, comparing and monitoring competition. Work closely with Engineering, Sales and Marketing to ensure overall product success in quality, perception and revenue goals.
I had several different Evangelist roles while I was at Microsoft and each role focused on different audiences but the basics of being a technical expert on the .NET development platform and having a deep understanding of the competitive landscape. Communicating the value proposition of the platform and giving detailed feedback to various product groups.
In the Developer Platform and Evangelism West Region group, covering the entire West region. Was involved in developing the new role in DPE, focusing on non-Microsoft engaged solution providers to encourage server adoption and show the benefits of running web sites in Windows Server 2008 and Internet Information Server 7. Engaged several new broad audiences including web designers & PHP developers. Created national advertising campaign to drive interest in supporting programs.
In the Developer Platform and Evangelism West Region group covering Southern California. Drove depth relationships with customers from all segments to gain platform adoption. Developed value proposition content and messaging for use by DPE West Region to drive adoption in the startup community and competitive audiences. Worked with many startups to ensure success with the Microsoft platform including architectural and hands-on development guidance and support.
In the Developer Platform and Evangelism West Region group covering Southern California and Hawaii. Supported local .NET community activities and EPG customer accounts. Helped local community groups collaborate and market themselves to increase the monthly reach of the groups’ meetings. Worked with local and national account teams to expose non-Microsoft customers to the Microsoft platform to drive adoption of .NET technology.
Actively engaged the local competitive audience to affect perception change in that community. With three years of engagement in the competitive community, there have been many indications of impact including adoption of Microsoft technology and blog posts.
Executed many events for the local developer community including PDC Underground, SoCal Code Camps, Visual Studio 2005 Launch & Community Launch as well as many others. This included building and maintaining supporting sites and back-end tools.
Working with the DPE West Region strategy team, I drove technology implementations of early technology adoption wins at MySpace, SpotRunner, Qualcomm and many other accounts.
Worked closely with the West Region Customer and Academic groups in Southern California and Hawaii to scale impact of activities across audiences. Involved customers and students at community activities as well as organized community activities on college campuses to increase impact of efforts.
InterKnowlogy is a Microsoft Gold partner specializing in delivering custom solutions to customers using current and emerging technologies.
Was a Microsoft partner that specialized in delivering custom solutions to customers.
Was a Microsoft partner that specialized in delivering custom solutions to customers.
Motiva was a startup document management software product company.
Midstream was a startup company producing proposal management response software focusing on sub-billion dollar Department of Energy and Defense research requests for proposals.
Programming languages: C#, Visual Basic 1.0-6.0 & VB.NET, C++, MS SQL 6.5 - 2008, JavaScript, and MASM (and others)
Development Tools & Applications: Visual Studio, .NET Compact Framework, MS Office, MS Expression, MS Internet Information Server, COM+/MS Transaction Server, MSMQ, MS Proxy Server, MS Exchange Server w/Outlook, CDO and many others
Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows Win7/Vista/XP/2003/2000/NT/Windows (2, 3, 95 &98), Microsoft Pocket PC 2000\2003, Windows Phone 7, Windows Mobile 5, 6, 6.1 & 6.5, DOS, UNIX
E-Commerce, Internet/Extranet/Intranet architecture and programming, Active X COM, Active Server Pages (ASP), ODBC (Open Database Connectivity), ADO, SQL, HTML, JavaScript, Relational Database (RDBMS) Design and Normalization, Object Oriented Analysis & Design (OMT/UML), Software Interface Design for Windows. System Load/Resources Usage Analysis, Requirements Analysis and Specification and Project Management.
Highly motivated, organized, productive manager and programmer with excellent leadership qualities.
Very good verbal communication and excellent presentation skills.
Detail oriented and analytical, very entrepreneurial with good customer skills.