My Resume...

Drop me a line if you have something in which I might be interested. I really enjoy consulting and am willing to telecommute with up to 25% travel. My preferred job would be one of the following: either a dev lead in charge of a small team working on web-based applications; or an independent consultant working with a great team.

Web-based Application Developer (ASP.NET, C#, AJAX, SQL Server)
More than 12 years architecting and developing web-based applications for internal business use and consumer consumption. For the past six years I have been a lead developer for Starbucks, responsible for externally facing web-based systems (including www.starbucks.com), and internally facing web-based applications including partner(employee) portal, store portal, and a variety of stand-alone internal applications. Previous to Starbucks, I was an independent consultant for five years, and ran White Hammond Consulting for one year. Prior to that, I served as a consultant for a couple of firms local to Seattle.

Recent Experience

Team System (In Progress)
Organized online ALM assessment, coordinated consulting firm for live ALM assessment. Incorporated results of assessment to modify work items and work item work flow.
Analyzed team usage and needs to determine TFS architecture.
Installed and configured Team Foundation Server (TFS).
Monitored, assisted peers in Team Suite usage.
Identified pilot projects and assisted developers in Team Suite usage.
Trained peers in Team Suite/VS2008

Virtual Earth (October 2007)
Designed and developed store locator using Virtual Earth v6 and MapPoint. WSE 3.0, VE v6, MapPoint , ASP.NET, AJAX www.starbucks.com/retail/find. Short deadline, single developer, shifting requirements.

SharePoint (January 2007)
Developer for SharePoint v3 (MOSS) implementation for store portal. The original store portal was built on Plumtree Portal. The new store portal provided

Team Leadership
Mentor to peers. First in team to certify (MCP). Assisted others in gaining certification. Identified process improvements and acted to help team over-come these issues - error logging (rather than event viewer, db, log files, emails). Code Reviews. Design Reviews. Unit Tests. Team Organization (squads, rather than flat structure). Leadership courses include: Squadron Leadership School (CAP), Squadron Officer School (USAF via CAP), Be, Know, Do (US Army leadership book).

Interests
Civil Air Patrol - Captain in the Civil Air Patrol (USAF Aux.). Aerospace Education and Logistics officer for Overlake Squadron
Writing - blogs, travel, articles
Softball - I play four seasons a year on a Redmond Parks league
Flying - Private pilot, ground school instructor, glider rating (coming soon)