Leo A. NotenboomFebruary 14, 2005 Puget Sound Software LLC, 2003-present Ask Leo!, a free technical support site with several hundred questions and their answers, with more being added daily. Innovations include the use of short video clips, audio clips and RSS. Ask Leo! content is also syndicated to other sites and publications including Aunty Spam, Business Know-How, Lockergnome and others. Additional clients and projects of particular interest:
See also the ongoing work for Dolls and Friends below. Excell Corporation, 2002 Microsoft MSN Build: 2002 Contract Software Engineer: Contributed to the development of tools & technologies to unify the process of building MSN server and client components from formerly disparate processes. Microsoft Corporation, 1983-2001 Technical Interviewer & Hiring Manager: during most of my tenure at Microsoft I frequently interviewed job applicants for software engineer and related positions. In recent years my role expanded to that of "hiring manager", having final say on whether or not a job offer would be extended to applicants on completion of the interview process. This role also involved several overseas trips with other hiring managers to interview candidates and make on-the-spot hire/no-hire decisions. Developer Division: 1998-2001 Author: Wrote MSDN Magazine's Custom Add-Ins Help You Maximize the Productivity of Visual Studio .NET. Staff Engineer: July 2000 through November 2001 worked in a part-time capacity on independent projects, including data mining the bug tracking and source code control databases for information on developer productivity, building tools to aid in that effort, as well as ongoing consulting to the build organization. Release Development Manager: Until July 2000, lead a team averaging 20 in size, of builders and developers. The build team's responsibilities included daily builds and validation tests of Visual Studio .NET and related products, including service packs, QFE's and component builds for other teams. Major accomplishments here include representing the team and significantly improving the perception of the lab throughout the division, while also establishing a much healthier and happier work environment for the builders themselves. The development team owned both the tools and scripts used to execute the build, but also the fundamental tools and processes used to generate VS7's setup using the Microsoft Installer. While managing and growing this team, I also acted as one of the primary architects of the new processes used in the lab to build VS7. Microsoft Expedia: 1995-1998 Software Design Engineer (SDE): April 1997 through June 1998, developed a new interface layer for the corporate version of Expedia to an additional Computerized Reservations System (CRS). Work included basic infrastructure, the majority of air-related functionality, a session management and sockets based interface, and a terminal emulator with access to extensive service instrumentation. Technical Operations Lead: From March 1996 through January of 1997, handled nearly all technical operations responsibilities for the development and launch of Expedia, Microsoft's Internet-based travel product. This included:
SDE: Nov 1995 - 1996: Extensive modifications to the X.25 communications code interfacing Expedia to the CRS. Included support for multiple virtual circuits, performance counters, a sockets-based proxy, and queuing for CRS capacity limits. Expedia was Windows NT 4.0 based, making extensive use of custom written NT services, such as the interface code above, and Internet Information Services. All code written in C++. Telephony Development: 1994-1995 Development Lead: Led a team of eight developers working on a Windows 95 TAPI-based telephone and answering machine. Accomplishments included harnessing the dev process; and with two peers acting in place of our Dev Manager on medical leave. SDE: Took part in the creation of the Digital Signal Processing Resource Manager Interface (DSPRMI), enabling device independence in DSP-based add in cards. Implementation was a set of 32bit, ring zero, simple COM objects in C++, residing in a VxD under Windows 95, and including a 16 bit ring 3 interface. A patent (5,748,468) was awarded for management of over commitment of the DSP in multi-tasking environments. Microsoft Money: 1992-1994 Development Lead: Lead a team growing from 5 to 16, from start to ship on Money 3.0. Accomplishments include establishing a healthy working environment across groups; hiring and managing the growth of the team; managing a feature relying heavily on an outside service provider; and jumping in to help implement features in a technically complex code base. WinHelp / MultiMedia Viewer: 1990-1992 SDE: Implemented features in WinHelp 3.1 including "User Defined Help", and "Secondary Windows". I also implemented several minor features, and as proof of concept, partial support for character mode Advisor help files. Development Lead: Supervised the "Core Help Team" of 4 to 6 engineers. Released several versions, including WinHelp 3.1 for Windows 3.1, and a version used as the base for Cinemania 1.0. As "acting program manager" I handled the specification and client communication. Implemented the "Help On Top" feature, performance improvements, and helped on a platform-independent file format. When WinHelp and Viewer merged, I became lead for Viewer 2.0, used as the base technology for Encarta 1.0. I facilitated the project's reaching code complete and eventual release. Languages Utilities: 1987-1990
BASIC/Business Languages: 1984-1987 SDE responsible for a new BASIC front end to the Microsoft C compiler, I was made lead for 4 to 7 developers on:
Microsoft Cobol: 1983-1984 Maintained assembly language 8080 and 8086 1.x versions. Technical support contact for IBM, who repackaged it. Participant in the version 2 C rewrite and the port from Xenix to MS-DOS. Primary contact for government certification of version 2. HeroicStories, 2001-2004 Volunteer webmaster & technical resource for HeroicStories, an internet publication. Efforts included:
Dolls and Friends, 1994-present My wife's retail collectible doll and teddy bear shop. My roles include:
Puget Sound Software, 1982-1985 In 1982 PSS was my own consulting firm with one customer specializing in custom devices for which I was the sole provider of software.
International Entry Systems Incorporated, 1979-1983 IESI built data-entry terminals for data processing bureaus, and a CP/M based small business computer. My work included:
University of Washington, 1979 Coursework: software for an 8080 based point of sale terminal; system
software for a microprocessor controlled train set. Education: B.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, 1979 |