Keith Hill

Current

• Project Founder and Coordinator at PowerShell Community Extensions Open Source Project
• Software Architect at Agilent Technologies

Past

• Software Engineer at Hewlett-Packard

Education

• University of Colorado at Boulder
• Vanderbilt University
• Georgia Institute of Technology

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Blog
• PowerShell Community Extension

Keith Hill’s Summary

I have been working for Hewlett-Packard and spin-off Agilent Technologies for 21 years. For the past 15 years I have developing both internal use and commercial software including 8 years on the Agilent VEE graphical programming environment product. I was the technical lead on the Agilent T&M Toolkit for Visual Studio product.

I am passionate about learning the latest programming best practices and Microsoft software development technologies. I really enjoy sharing this knowledge with the software community via my public and corporate blogs and public .NET user group presentations. I also founded and contribute to the open source PowerShell Community Extensions project on CodePlex.

Keith Hill’s Specialties:

Strengths include .NET, C#, C, C++, XML technologies, LINQ, MSBuild, Team Foundation, multi-threaded programming, technical presentations. Early practioner of Extreme programming currently using aspects of the Agile approach.

Keith Hill’s Experience

• Project Founder and Coordinator

  PowerShell Community Extensions Open Source Project

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)

  PowerShell Community Extensions (PSCX) is a set of general purpose Windows PowerShell cmdlets aimed at software developers and administrators. Our goal is to fill in some of the gaps in the PowerShell built-in set of cmdlets.

• Software Architect

  Agilent Technologies

  (Public Company; A; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  June 2000 — Present (9 years 6 months)

  Agilent is a spin-off of Hewlett-Packard. Software lead on T&M Toolkit product. Worked on Virtual Rack product along with miscellaneous other internal software projects.

• Software Engineer

  Hewlett-Packard

  (Public Company; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 1986 — May 2000 (13 years 10 months)

  Worked on VEE Graphical Programming product.

Keith Hill’s Education

• University of Colorado at Boulder

  Masters , Electrical and Computer Engineering , 1992 — 1995

  Compiler project: I worked on a team of three to develop an Algol 60 compiler that generated compilable C code on the backend. Real-time OS project: Worked on another team to extend the pSOS source to add support for message queueing and semaphores.

• Vanderbilt University

  Bachelors , Electrical Engineering , 1983 — 1986

  Senior project: I worked on team of four that developed a Logic Analyzer for the Motorola 6800 microprocessor. I designed the hardware and assisted with the firmware. For our demo, we attached the probe to the logic analyzer's microprocessor to do a little self-analysis.

  Activities and Societies:

  Tau Beta Pi

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  Engineering 1982 — 1983

  Attended Georgia Tech my freshman year of college before transferring to Vandy.

Additional Information

Keith Hill’s Websites:

• My Blog
• PowerShell Community Extension

Keith Hill’s Interests:

Windows PowerShell MVP, Microsoft .NET, C#, LINQ, PowerShell Community Extensions.

Keith Hill’s Groups:

Northern Colorado .NET Special Interest Group.

•    PowerShell Power Users
•    DevelopMentor

Keith Hill’s Honors:

Awarded US Patent 6,941,558 and two others filed.

Keith Hill’s Contact Settings

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