Eric Schoonover

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Eric Schoonover’s Summary

Architect and technical generalist focused on Semantic Web ideas and technologies. Specialize in quickly developing enterprise class applications on emerging technology platforms.

Eric Schoonover’s Specialties:

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, ASP.NET (WebForms, MVC), Windows Communication Foundation (Web Services, SOAP, REST), Windows Workflow Foundation (Business Process Automation), Silverlight (Rich Internet Applications), JavaScript (Microsoft AJAX, jQuery), Semantic Web technologies (RDF, OWL, SPARQL, Linked Data)


Eric Schoonover’s Experience

  • Senior Software Development Engineer

    Microsoft Corporation

    (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

    August 2008Present (1 year 4 months)

    Member of a small incubation team working on developing a distributed Semantic Web graph data repository and query processing pipeline.

    Act as lead developer of graph data repository, query processing services, reasoning services, and associated .NET SDK.

    Manage remote development team in Europe, delivering advanced data visualization tools using Silverlight 3.0, RESTful Web Services, and ASP.NET MVC.

  • Solutions Architect

    Microsoft Corporation

    (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

    February 2006August 2008 (2 years 7 months)

    Responsible for the development of Microsoft Interactive Media Manager, a solution offered by the Global Services division.

    Managed onshore and offshore vendor engineering teams. Engaged with partners to create an ecosystem of solution extensions. Participated in internal business and architecture review with senior management. Worked directly with industry marketing teams to deliver high profile demonstrations and proof-of-concepts to customers around the world. Directly supported the field (consultants and customers) on every large customer deployment.

    Primary engineer on the Semantic Web related services at the core of the Microsoft Interactive Media Manager solution.

  • Technology Consultant

    National Sprint Tour

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

    November 2005June 2006 (8 months)

    Developed a SharePoint based web application that employees used for collaboration and publishing information to an ASP.NET based public website.

    Used Skype, Windows Media Encoder, and Windows Media Streaming to implement no cost live audio streaming for each National Sprint Tour event.

  • Project Manager

    Pacific Northwest Software

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    May 2005February 2006 (10 months)

    Led the team responsible for delivering custom SharePoint 2003 based collaboration tools to small and medium sized customers.

    Often managed 3-5 projects simultaneously and was intimately involved in the entire delivery process from initial customer contact to solution delivery.

  • Sr Application Developer

    Avanade Inc

    (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

    August 2004May 2005 (10 months)

    Supported projects with very tight deadlines that required advanced SharePoint 2003 development.

  • Application Developer

    Hunt Interactive

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    October 2003August 2004 (11 months)

    Worked as a full time .NET developer focused exclusively on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2003 solutions. Primarily developed portals for Fortune 500 companies in sports, software, health care, and finance.

  • Contract Developer

    Pacific Northwest Software

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

    April 2003October 2003 (7 months)

    Successfully developed SharePoint 2003 solution for Microsoft Games.

    This was a telecommuting position which required a significant amount of self motivation because SharePoint 2003 was not a released product and resources were limited.

  • Small Business Network Consultant

    Roberts Group Consulting

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Networking industry)

    March 2002April 2003 (1 year 2 months)


Additional Information

Eric Schoonover’s Interests:

emerging technologies, web platforms, social media, collaboration, semantic web, web services, off-road motorcycle racing, travel

Eric Schoonover’s Groups:

Casino Road Ministries Board of Directors, Brownfield Motorsports

  •    Semantic Web
  •    Microsoft - Alumni and FTEs (Official)
  •    Linked Data Web

Eric Schoonover’s Honors:

Achieved a 20% (exceeded) contribution rating, FY'09

Achieved a 20% (exceeded) contribution rating, FY'08

Gold Star Award, Q4'08
Presented to the top 5% of employees at Microsoft that exceed expectations in a notable way

Sales Excellence Award, Q2 FY'08
For supporting regional sales team in Italy working on Interactive Media Manager pre-sales opportunities

Delivery Excellence Award, Q1 FY'08
For work done on Interactive Media Manager deployment at Starz Entertainment Group

Exceeding Potential program in Services division, FY'08
The top 4% of employees at Microsoft based on annual performance reviews

Achieved a 20% (exceeded) contribution rating, FY'07

Gold Star Award, Q4'07
Presented to the top 5% of employees at Microsoft that exceed expectations in a notable way


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