kevin — Automation Engineer
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Azure solutions architect. Developing harware and software for over 45 years. Develpoing with the latest technologies. Most recently Blazor for websites and mobile apps. EnitytFramework for databases Sqlite, SQL and COSMOS DB. Internet of Things IOT device to Azure cloud for BI and AI
Have covered SQL from the start in TSQL, ADO.NET, EnitityFramework 6.0 and COSMOS DB
About Me
Technical Resume] Objective: To utilize my knowledge of computer technologies to take product from concept to market in the shortest possible time. Apply accelerated design methodologies supported by a properly optimized software engineering infrastructure. Participate in both internal and external customer product designs and development. Firm believer in continuous software education. Over 40 years of development and delivering products. Certainly, not done yet! Inventor, experienced serial entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of working in the software and hardware industry (40+ years). Strong information technology professional skilled in Agile Methodologies, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Development, Hardware design, Embedded Systems, and Software Project Management. Hands on software architecture developer. Has worked for Intel, Microsoft, Gates Foundation and Intellectual Ventures. Strengths: Software Engineering and Product Development. Mentoring, project, group and executive management (10 plus years). User Interface/ UX Design Mobile computing / Smart Phone development eCommerce applications, middleware business logic, Data providers and stored procedures. Business Web Site and Web Services Automation - (data driven web based applications). Business Automation Software or LOB (Line Of Business custom enterprise apps). Computer Systems Engineering. Enterprise applications and systems Data architecture and modeling, as well as re-architecting for the cloud using DDD, AMQP, Bounded Context, Context Mapping, CQRS, cold data projection and domain model logic / behavior. Entity Framework - COSMOS DB Other Skill Sets: Visual C#, ASP.NET core 6.0, SQL database TSQL, BI, JScript, XML, XSLT, XAML, WPF, Silverlight, WCF RIA, LINQ / PLINQ, ADO, WinRT, PowerShell, Azure and AJAX programming. Web Services.ASMX, WCF, EDM, ODATA, REST, SOAP and WebAPI. Internet technologies ISAPI, CGI, TCP/IP, Dynamic XHTML, protocols and ASP.NET 6.0. Social Media API's for search etc. Writing target specifications and understanding of the complete SDLC. DirectX and DirectShow filters, Security Camera drivers, audio and video security software. Adobe Photoshop CS5extended for buttons, splash screens, etc. Also, Expression Blend. Network systems administrator for internet and intranet. Microsoft Servers, CRM Dynamics, SQL2016 Datacenter, Hyper-V and Microsoft Exchange deployment/administration. Current Professional Development: Visual Studio.NET 2022 Enterprise C#, Entity Framework (EDM)6.0, MEF, Prizm, WCF, XML, XSLT, XAML, MVVM, MVC, ASP.NET 6 web applications, Blazor, providers and web services. Windows 10 - UWP applications. XAML animation and general expertise in XAML visual state machines. LINQ to Objects, LINQ to SQL, LINQ to EDM, LINQ to XML and PLINQ. Lambdas, delegates and method chaining. Azure web roles, worker roles, Azure SQL, WCF, Queues and service bus. Windows Mobile Phone Applications Also a Microsoft Certified Partner. Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) WebApi. Azure migrations and technical solutions. Multithreaded worker roles with service bus queues. SQL 2016 with SSMS. Azure SQL migrations and code based generation.
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Have developed and implemented many diffent sensors form scratch and using PLC, embeeded controllers and PC
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ARM Cortex and ESP32 controllers with firmware written in C++, RTOS
Electrical Engineer with BS from Michigan Tech. Worked at Intel, Microsoft, Intellectual Ventures, Gates foundation, etc. Skilled in circuit design, PCB layout, embedded microcontrollers, sensors, Fusion360, Visual Studion 2022.
Have developed many products and succesfully brought to market. From circuit boards, firmware, desktop apps, mobile apps, cloud apps, sensors, NMEA 2000 marine electronics. 3D CAD Fusion 360 for enclosures, circuit design and PCB layout. Microsoft development full stack Azure & Blazor C#
Worked at Microsoft as a UX designer / Developer. Have written many applications and interfaces as websites, embedded controllers, mobile apps, XAML
Applications (9)
Worked at Saber Engineering doing machine automation with PLC's Vision, IP cameras, actuators, machine vision
Authored article in Vision Systems Design about Gallo mass bottle counter using infrared camera and Microsoft DirectShow to count various unordered glass bottles on conveyor belt. Many more applications using machine vision
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Education / Training / Certificates(9)
Michigan Technological University - B.S. Electrical Engineering (Computer Engineering major, Computer Science minor). Graduated with honors. GPA 3.86
Ferris State college of Pharmacy - B.S. 5 years
Intel University management graduate.
INTELLECTUAL VENTURES UNIVERSITY Patent Education. Other: Past President of Seattle vNext.org President of Silverlight Developers Association. Past President of.NET Developers Association of Redmond. Currently on Board of Directors and founder of Seattle Silverlight User Group. Employment History: 10/19 - Present - President & CEO BlueOceanIOT® - Seattle, WA BlueOceanIOT builds NMEA2000 devices for IOT. We design and develop hardware, software and firmware for NMEA2000 devices. The goal is to get rich vessel data from commercial, recreational and military vessels to the cloud for BI and AI analysis. This is to help understand vessel operation for human safety and vessel operation. We also provide consulting, system design old or new and installation. We manufacture NMEA2000 device sensor/controllers and do custom design for others. CAN Bus data concentrators and control systems. 7/17 - 10/19 - VP of Software Engineering MarqMetrix - Seattle, WA Microsoft technology stack leading a team of devs, PM's, SME's and business stakeholders into migrating high end laser spectrometers to IOT. High end devices running Win10 IOT CORE They are provisioned with the IOT HUB in Azure during factory setup We have the ability to diagnose and monitor their health remotely We or our customers can update or install UWP foreground and background applications All software was created from scratch using Microsoft SDK's and VS2017 All build automation and deployment using TFS/DevOps Became a Microsoft IOT partner. Microservices for front end web and backend data in dev, test and production environments. Bidirectional configuration of device remotely. Local ETW logging and transmitted to Azure IOT HUB Hands on development with another developer to produce production worthy software with high availability and scalibility use Azure micro services…
11/15 - 5/17 Principal Mobile/ Azure Software Architect, Lead Developer and Lead Technical Solution Architect Joint Commission - Chicago, IL (remote from Seattle) Microsoft technology stack leading a team of devs, PM's, SME's and business stakeholders in Chicago. WPF, ASP.NET, Windows Azure, Windows 8.1,Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 10 UWP mobile applications for enterprise health care certification. HIPPA compliant migrating web based apps to mobile technology and Azure. Azure worker roles, database, hybrid connection manager, Azure Active directory, mobile data services, service bus queues, notifications, Cortana speech recognition and app services. Encrypted data for mobile with online/off-line synchronization with on premise databases. Lots of hands on coding. Highly scalable critical application for health care. Reported to CIO and business owner for future applications. Legacy on premise database re-architecting for optimized Azure mobile database access. 05/14 -1/16 CTO (Investor and developer) IUNU - Seattle, WA Startup producing high technology plasma indoor horticultural lights and systems. Software and hardware development. Using Arduino, Win10 embedded. Full automation using ZigBee radios for sensors, actuators and embedded light controllers. Window 10 UWP applications for desktop control. Integrated with Windows Azure cloud based master control and logging. Also, 3D printing, mechanical and electrical engineering. (I'm an investor). LINQ to EDM database modeling and generation.
08/13 -4/15 Lead Technical Solution Architect Wicresoft - Bellevue, WA Microsoft technology stack. Windows Azure, Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 applications for enterprise. Architecting complex system solutions using the full stack. Note 3-5 hrs. per week 08/13 -9/15 Senior UX design developer Microsoft - Redmond, WA
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