SUMMARY:

• Confidential is a leader, developer, and architect of apps with over 20 years of development experience.
• He seeks a contract position to develop innovative, resilient, scalable mobile apps using Xamarin Forms and ASP.NET Web API for web backend.
• Spoken at over 15 developer conferences and user groups in the US and Europe.
• Developed the data layer for the Mobile Line of Business Accelerator from Confidential .
• It was downloaded by millions of developers want to learn to build business apps.
• Confidential has written over a dozen articles published in various magazines.
• Wrote on topics about .NET, Mobile Apps, and home automation with over 10,000 readers per month at its peak.
• Full time trainer teaching hundreds of programmers in a variety of new technologies in the 90s

SKILLS:

Xamarin Forms

Xamarin iOS

Used to build iOS apps.

C# middle tier and UI work for iOS and Android.

.NET Core

Web API development for REST APIs.

ASP.NET API

Entity Framework

Azure App Services

Used for hosting REST APIs.

Azure DevOps

Primarily client - side validation for web apps

AppCenter

Used for building, distribute test versions, logging, metrics, and publishing to stores.

HockeyApp

Used for distribute test versions, logging, and publishing to stores.

Applications Insights

Used for logging metrics.

BitRise

Used to build Xamarin Apps and push to HockeyApp or AppCenter.

Realm

Database and syncing between backend and devices.

SqLite

Database and syncing between backend and devices.

Auth0

Used for authentication IAAS.

OAuth

Used for authentication and authorization

EMPLOYMENT:

Confidential

Director of Application Development

Technologies used: Azure DevOps, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API, Angular, Enterprise Service Bus, SQL Server, White Hat SAST and DAST

Responsibilities:

• Creation and management of a software development group to build custom software.
• Lead software development to build a secure, reliable, flexible software product to manage leasing and client relationship management.
• Create and manage the software process to manage the software process and allow for continuous integration and delivery.
• I built a new department that was up and productive in less than 5 months, resulting in the first version on budget and timely delivery.
• The teams' productivity allowed for absorbing work from a vendor that failed to deliver with only minor impact to the schedule.
• I worked with the IT leadership team to convert the IT organization from a set of silo departments to a collaborative organization focused on delivering a unified plan.

Confidential

Practice Lead

Responsibilities:

• The technical and business lead for all cloud and mobile development.
• Work with the sales and marketing team to market and sell work in the space.
• Technical contact for partners, including Confidential, Xamarin, and Amazon.
• Built app for a client using Android and iOS native. Technologies used: Xamarin Forms
• Represent Confidential to the public via social media, blogging, and speaking engagements.
• Sold and executed on projects worth 25% of the unit's target revenue, which help the group exceed revenue and gross margin targets.
• Created service lines to assist sales in selling cloud and mobile development, leading to the group's first cloud and mobile sales.

Confidential

Sr. Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Management of ASP.NET and IIS.net websites and included ad sales, engineering, and operations.
• Program Manager for Open Source initiatives for Azure Application Platform Team.
• Team contact for the unit with Legal and Marketing.
• Manage product releases for ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET Web Pages 2, Entity Framework, and many other .NET components created by the unit.
• Open Sourced major Confidential technology including ASP.NET MVC, Web Pages, Web API, Entity Framework, and SignalR, which started a deluge of other teams around the company using and release Open Source.
• Centralized localization process resulting in cost savings that covered the added cost of 5 additional languages.
• I created a project to redesign the websites for the first time in several years.
• The release of the new sites was released simultaneously as the public beta launch of Windows 8.
• The new flat UI design resulted in increased traffic and ad revenue.
• Streamline how content was released resulted in improved customer satisfaction.

Confidential

Business Manager

Responsibilities:

• My day-to-day operations management allowed Scott Gutherie to stay focused on issues to improve Azure development and increase adoption.
• Open Sourced the Azure SDKs. The result was increased Azure awareness overtime by customers and developers who were not already Confidential customers.

Confidential

Sr. Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• .NET 4 installed on a billion computers and the fastest adoption of .NET resulting in rapid developer adoption of Visual Studio 2010.
• I created a release strategy that included lower the Windows Update installation failure rate of .NET from 10% to be 2% or less.
• The results were lower support costs, higher customer satisfaction, and improved relationship with the Windows division.
• The release strategy also included a requirement to reduce the install package size.
• The final release package size shrunk by 80% resulting in lower distribution cost and higher customer acceptance.