Recent Projects

still under reconstruction

11/15 – 5/17 Principal Mobile/ Azure Software Architect, Lead Developer and Lead Technical Solution Architect Joint Commission - Chicago, IL (remote from Seattle) Microsoft technology stack leading a team of devs, PM’s, SME’s and business stakeholders in Chicago. WPF, ASP.NET, Windows Azure, Windows 8.1,Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 10 UWP mobile applications for enterprise health care certification. HIPPA compliant migrating web based apps to mobile technology and Azure. Azure worker roles, database, hybrid connection manager, Azure Active directory, mobile data services, service bus queues, notifications, Cortana speech recognition and app services. Encrypted data for mobile with online/off-line synchronization with on premise databases. Lots of hands on coding. Highly scalable critical application for health care. Reported to CIO and business owner for future applications. Legacy on premise database re-architecting for optimized Azure mobile database access.

05/14 – 1/16 CTO (Investor and developer) IUNU - Seattle, WA Startup producing high technology plasma indoor horticultural lights and systems. Software and hardware development. Using Arduino, Win10 embedded. Full automation using ZigBee radios for sensors, actuators and embedded light controllers. Window 10 UWP applications for desktop control. Integrated with Windows Azure cloud based master control and logging. Also, 3D printing, mechanical and electrical engineering. (I’m an investor). LINQ to EDM database modeling and generation.

08/13 – 4/15 Lead Technical Solution Architect Wicresoft - Bellevue, WA Microsoft technology stack. Windows Azure, Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 applications for enterprise. Architecting complex system solutions using the full stack. Note 3-5 hrs per week

08/13 – 9/15 Senior UX design developer Microsoft - Redmond, WA Working on future UX (User experience) for Bing Maps, Windows Phone 8.1 speech using various platforms. Rapid proof of concept of future UX scenarios. Platforms of Azure, ASP.NET, Silverlight5, windows phone 8.1 and Windows store apps. Did the Cortana UX POC app, Phone Continuum, others that are not publicly announced. Areas supported are OSG, WP, IoT and Artificial Intelligence. Written in XAML/C# and MVVM. Latest apps part of 4 new features in Win 10. Also PowerShell Azure deployment and Azure API’s. Windows 10 development.

02/13 – 07/13 Architect/ Application Developer Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - Seattle, WA Creating the Investment Gateway application for investment grants and proposal funding. Enterprise Line of Business Application in XAML/C#/MVVM. Very short time frame to release. Contract. Worked closely with IT project team and business to assist in requirements gathering and analysis. Guided user requirement gathering in a dynamic, fast paced environment. Helped articulate requirements through wireframes and other visuals in a highly agile and iterative manner. Ensured that complexities of data and process requirements of system were reflected in UI design. Guided UI design of application(s) bringing best practices of industry to bear with development team. Implemented XAML/ MVVM/C# WPF UI design. Developed interfaces that involved large volumes of complex data. Data architecting using LINQ to EDM. Conducted usability sessions, task analysis, heuristic evaluation, rapid prototyping and other methods of user needs/ goals analysis