
Managing Consultant at 110 Consulting
Greater Seattle Area

Managing Consultant at 110 Consulting
Greater Seattle Area
(Privately Held; Management Consulting industry)
April 2009 — Present (8 months)
Currently leading the engineering delivery of the Application Platform Optimization web based tool set for the Enterprise Partner Group at Microsoft. The APO tool supports the Microsoft worldwide sales force with detailed and specific product and services recommendations based on customer profiles and feedback. The process records user inputs based on customer conversations and provides robust, customer ready product, services and partner suggestions to address specific customer needs.
I am also engaged in various business requirements and engineering efforts within MS EPG as well as providing technical management at 110 Consulting.
(Internet industry)
September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
I started a micro ISV to provide internet data collection, analysis and processing for individuals and companies that need reliable, robust solutions to data management problems. Based on my extensive experience in software delivery, I assist with inception and concept generation, workflow mapping, estimates and functional/technical specifications as well as development on the Microsoft platform with .net technologies. I provide end to end deliverables with documentation and operational support. To date I have delivered a proprietary data collection and response engine for twitter, web, xml and database enabled dynamic email delivery engine capable of localization in 36 languages, as well as various ecommerce and contact based web sites.
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2007 — September 2008 (11 months)
Senior management role in a product and services corporation providing social media data collection and analysis to Global 25 and Fortune 100 companies. Hired as a Technology Manager overseeing Product and Program Management and promoted to Director of Operations. Built an Operations Team and assumed the Information Technology management role leading to direct management of 12 personnel, 2 of 3 cost centers and 3 of 5 technology teams.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
November 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 1 month)
As a Program Manager in Microsoft IT, my primary role was to gather, negotiate and analyze business requirements and document functional specifications. I developed and presented analysis to decision makers against current and future architecture plans, negotiated feature, scope and integration issues against budget, schedule and ROI as well as collaborated with business owners and customer development teams on feature behaviors.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
January 2005 — November 2006 (1 year 11 months)
As the Worldwide Product Manager for Vellum, the internal Microsoft Volume Licensing email notification engine, I coordinated four Regional Product Managers to reduce overlap and increase delivery 300%, managed complex projects concurrently and negotiated schedule and scope with all levels of business and engineering. I also developed and supported a workflow application for review and approval of content. Held Sarbanes-Oxley 404 Sub Cycle responsibilities and delivered over 300K lines of XML, XSL and T-SQL code.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
February 2001 — January 2005 (4 years )
Began with support request processing and progressed to integrated release management. Acted as primary 24/7 support of online order processing applications consisting of 9 websites across dozens of IIS, Feed, File and database servers in Production, Business Integration and SQA environments.
(Government Agency; USN; Military industry)
September 1993 — February 2001 (7 years 6 months)
Storekeeper 2nd Class (NCO, E5) - Served as a Non Commissioned Officer while living and travelling abroad. Promoted ahead of peers and continually earned qualifications outside and above rank with demonstrated leadership and sustained increases in responsibility. Started with storeroom maintenance, at times supervised more than 40 personnel, improved shipboard process on passenger and cargo operations and held a position in the Commanding Officers suite at Naval Hospital Bremerton. Awarded Senior Sailor of the Quarter, Q1/2000 (#1 of 82) and recommended for Officer Candidate School.