Greater Boston Area
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- Founder and Principal at Thought Labs
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- Principal Engineer/ Lead at Compuware Corporation
- Senior Software Engineer at Compuware Corporation
- Senior Software Engineer at NuMega Technologies
- Executive Chef at many restaurants (including my own)
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Cappy Popp’s Summary
Executive implementation expert with extensive industry experience in social media, social networking, audience development, community building, and new media for both B2C and B2B with a strong focus on ROI. I have extensive experience in many technologies, frameworks, and tools, and am frequently asked to present at industry events and conferences as an expert in social media.
Tools and Frameworks:
Microsoft .NET/CLR, PHP, JavaScript, Facebook Platform, OpenSocial Platform, Bebo Platform, ActionScript 3.x, Flash, Visual Studio .NET (all versions), Visual C++, Win32 API, COM, ATL, IDL, MFC, STL/C++ Standard Library, UML, design patterns and complementary OOD technologies and processes, Agile methods, xUnit unit testing frameworks
Cappy Popp’s Specialties:
Social networking: Facebook, MySpace, OpenSocial, and others for B2B and B2C clients of all sizes and markets.
.NET, C/C++, PHP, JavaScript, ActionScript, XML, XSLT, HTML, CSS
Technologies and specialties:
- Facebook, OpenSocial and Bebo social networking application development, deployment, analytics, and management
- Wiki and blog creation, development, and management
- .NET IL Instrumentation
- .NET application and memory profiling
Cappy Popp’s Experience
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Founder and Principal
Thought Labs
(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)
June 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)
Thought Labs provides social media strategy and implementation for clients of all sizes. We work closely with our clients to build their social media investments from their inception to maturity with a while focusing on ROI. We guide clients to help them unravel the uncertainty of entering the world of Facebook, Twitter, OpenSocial and all other social media. We provide an entire range of services that meet the needs of today's demanding web markets: custom application development, widget and gadget creation, social media strategy, development of ROI metrics for marketing campaigns, user-generated content platform analysis and creation (wikis, blogs, and forums), and social networking expertise. Let us help you to make your social media vision a reality.
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Principal Engineer/ Lead
Compuware Corporation
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CPWR; Computer Software industry)
May 2005 — June 2007 (2 years 2 months)
• Proposed, designed, implemented, and tested a plug-in based framework for integrating all of the DevPartner tools with Visual Studio Team System/Team Foundation Server on various levels.Trained large teams of engineers and management on its operation and features.
• Designed, implemented, and tested a COM-Interop-based library that allowed the DevPartner Studio family of applications to integrate with the Compuware Track Record defect-tracking database. Addressed multi-runtime versioning issues through explicit management of AppDomains, publisher policy, and XML configuration files. Constructed a detailed automated NUnit-based testing framework to ensure code stability and integrity. -
Senior Software Engineer
Compuware Corporation
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; cpwr; Computer Software industry)
August 2002 — May 2005 (2 years 10 months)
• Implemented support for the .NET 2.0 Profiling API into the DevPartner Analysis family of .NET profilers.
• Researched and designed a WMI-driven .NET application profiler using Event Tracing for Windows, WMI instrumentation, and the .NET CLR profiling interfaces.
• Designed, implemented, and tested an application to allow conversion of all of the DevPartner Analysis internal binary data stores to XML.
• Helped to design, implement, and test an XML-based query layer that allowed the use of unmanaged in-memory data from managed clients. Designed and implemented a state management library for persistence of UI data based on .NET Isolated Storage and the State pattern.
• Designed, implemented and tested the development of a completely customizable (via configuration files or plug-ins) .NET-based build output logging and formatting tool. -
Senior Software Engineer
NuMega Technologies
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; cpwr; Computer Software industry)
August 1997 — August 2002 (5 years 1 month)
• Helped design and implement the type information subsystems that are currently being used by all versions of the BoundsChecker family of NuMega products. Heavily used .NET, XML, and COM/ATL. Designed and tested for use and deployment on both Win32 and Win64 (Itanium) platforms.
• Created a tool using Perl and Javascript that parsed header files and built C++ and IDL files for each of the method declarations found to produce .PDB/CodeView debug files with full symbol and name information to allow our tools access to parameter and method name information.
• As a programming consultant, diagnosed thousands of software problems in response to user needs and requests. Personally interfaced with hundreds of developers worldwide, both on-site and remotely, to determine and debug causes of crashes, errors, coverage, and memory utilization and management problems in their code. Provided concise solutions to complicated problems. -
Executive Chef
many restaurants (including my own)
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Restaurants industry)
January 1988 — August 1997 (9 years 8 months)
- Managed all aspects of a number of successful and award-winning restaurants including ordering, purchasing, staffing, payroll, in addition to cooking and food management.
- Learned how to work and make quick decisions under intense pressure in a stressful environment.
