Ben Gillis

Current

Principal at Industry-Strength Solutions

Past

Premier Field Engineer, Developer Support Escalation Engineer, Software Developer at Microsoft
Principal at Industry-Strength Solutions, Inc.
Director of Academic Administration at Texas Wesleyan University

Software Developer at Zadall Systems Group
Software Developer at Control Systems International
Systems Engineer at General Dynamics

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Education

Northwestern State University, La.
Northwestern State University

Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Ben Gillis’s Experience

Principal

Industry-Strength Solutions

(Computer Software industry)

September 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

Private consultant, .Net, java, embedded technologies. Specialties and interests are automated methodology strategies and tools.
Premier Field Engineer, Developer Support Escalation Engineer, Software Developer

Microsoft

(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

June 2005 — September 2008 (3 years 4 months)

Premier Field Engineer, Microsoft Mediaroom.
Support Escalation Engineer, Product Services and Support.
Developer support, HTTP-based technologies: System.Net, IIS, http.sys/Http API/HttpListener, ISAPI, web services, aspx (Asp.Net), asmx (Web Services), .Net Remoting, CLR, interop, pinvoke, COM/DCOM, Internet Explorer. BizTalk, Dynamics, Office, SharePoint and SQL Server developer cases involving any of the above.
Principal

Industry-Strength Solutions, Inc.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1996 — June 2005 (9 years 6 months)

Owner of small software development consulting shop providing turnkey solutions with our automated methodology tools and the resulting pre-built/auto-generated software frameworks. Clients were Fortune 30 to venture capital, technology product-to-market efforts.

Typical applications were N-tier disparate platforms consisting of Microsoft, *nix/java and embedded technologies with the occasional mainframe.
Director of Academic Administration

Texas Wesleyan University

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1995 — January 1996 (1 year 1 month)

Administrative applications, server and network planning and deployment, building a department, standardizing support and operations procedures.
Software Developer

Zadall Systems Group

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1994 — January 1995 (1 year 1 month)

Pharmaceutical POS applications development; client/server, peer-to-peer and OS abstraction middleware architecture.
Software Developer

Control Systems International

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1991 — January 1994 (3 years 1 month)

Process control/deterministic applications for manufacturing, petroleum, agriculture and SCADA verticals. British Petroleum, Maraven, Morton International, Pemex, BNSF, Saab Sweden and others.
Systems Engineer

General Dynamics

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1987 — January 1991 (4 years 1 month)

Software development for office applications, performance/utilization applications, network management, instructor for developer/operations personnel training.

Ben Gillis’s Education

Northwestern State University, La.

M.A. Educational Technology , 2003 — 2003

9 hours toward Master's in Educational Technology
Northwestern State University

B.S. Geology , Geology, Computer Science , 1982 — 1986

Have remained a geology hobbyist 20 years now.
Currently researching possibilities with grad school: Geology + technology experience.

Activities and Societies:

NSU Geological Society