Sisters, Oregon, United States
Over twenty-five years' professional writing and editing experience and over fifteen years' professional software development, with emphasis on .NET and SQL. Thorough understanding of English grammar and punctuation and both periodical and book-publishing style issues. Ability to plan and complete ambitious projects and to manage a team of authors, editors, software developers, and artists. Broad software programming skills, including SQL Server and MySQL, ASP.NET, VB.NET, and C#. Interested in exploring new media technologies and publishing cool stuff in electronic media. Specialties: Electronic-book publishing; Web-based e-commerce, CRM, and UI development.
Lead web, mobile, database, and server developer for Garratt-Callahan Company, the largest privately held water treatment company in the United States. Duties include architecture and coding of web sites and Xamarin and Javascript mobile apps, and online management of a geographically distributed software team operating in Central Oregon, Uruguay, and Argentina. Technologies include MySQL and SQL Server; .NET Framework and .NET Core; Javascript and Typescript; AngularJS and Aurelia SPA frameworks; Cordoba/Phonegap; Xamarin for UWP, Android, and iOS; Linux Bash; and Azure DevOps and Hosting Services.
Corporate president and a consultant for .NET Framework and SQL Server development and for electronic publishing issues. Projects included architecture of Baen Publishing's Web API, co-design and software architecture for the Planet Baen social-networking game, contributions to Kurzweil Technologies' Blio eReader software, and architecture of RetroLeagues Fantasy Sports site and the Litropolis community publishing site. ElectricStory.com (http://www.electricstory.com) was a software developer, e-book retailer, and publisher of new and reprint science fiction and fantasy by prominent, award-winning writers, including winners of the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards. I managed incorporation; contracting of attorneys, accountants, artists, writers, and editors; website design and development; and the launch marketing campaign, which got us press in Locus, Scifi.com, SFsite, Infinity Plus, Strange Horizons, eBookad.com, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Wired News, Library Journal, and The New York Times.
.NET Software Engineer and database developer working on a variety of Web-based software projects, including games and business applications.
Coded websites to promote XBox games (Banjo-Kazooie, Viva Pinata, Lips) using ASP.NET, AJAX, and various CMS and data-retrieval and authentication APIs. Helped develop publishing tools in WPF.
Set up and managed our Microsoft Team Foundation Server development system. Wrote controls in Silverlight 1.1 and 2.0, using C# and Visual Studio 2008.