Summary

Technology professional with three decades of experience delivering systems that organizations depend on daily, and that the people who inherit them can keep running.

Primary areas of focus: cloud application engineering, DevOps and release automation, AI solution architecture, transactional web applications and services, reporting and data integration, and tier III support.

Professional experience

Senior Software Engineer

Savers · Bellevue, WA · 10/2009 – present

  • Deliver Azure platform work: infrastructure as code in Bicep, applications running as Azure Functions and Container Apps
  • Built multi-stage Azure DevOps pipelines that build an artifact once and promote that same artifact through development, UAT and production
  • Automated end-to-end browser coverage with Playwright
  • Built web-based enterprise management tools with REST services and JavaScript
  • Created and maintained custom cross-platform integrations
  • Designed and built a custom Analysis Services data mart and cube
  • Developed and managed SQL Server Reporting Services implementations
  • Constructed multi-threaded SQL Server replication management tools
  • Managed releases across development, test, UAT and production environments

Principal

Quidne · Anacortes, WA · 3/2000 – present

  • Design and deliver client web applications end to end — design, development, automated testing, release and tier III support
  • Automate infrastructure and deployment on Azure, including DNS migration and managed TLS, with verification gates that assert a release rather than assume it
  • Build reporting and analytics systems on SQL Server Reporting Services
  • Build web-service-based rapid application development tooling

Database Administrator

HealthPoint · Renton, WA · 3/2006 – 1/2009

Designed, built and implemented the reporting system HealthPoint credited with making it a national leader among Community Health Centers.

  • Developed a custom intranet application providing real-time reporting to all employees, a searchable employee directory and a lightweight integrated CMS

Application Development Manager

WizKids Inc · Bellevue, WA · 7/2001 – 3/2006

Sole development employee for the first three years; final team size was three programmers.

  • 20× web site popularity growth during tenure, to 400k daily hits
  • Built an online event management system carrying 10,000+ in-store events a month
  • Created an interactive customer support system
  • Built bulk e-mail and secure messaging systems
  • Constructed employee time-tracking and productivity systems
  • 2000 – 2001 Database Administrator, iJoin Co · Seattle, WA
  • 1998 – 2000 Database Analyst, Phycom Corporation · Kirkland, WA
  • 1996 – 1998 Network Analyst, Advanced Radio Telecom · Bellevue, WA
  • 1994 – 1996 Histologist, Marin Medical Labs · Greenbrae, CA
  • 1990 – 1993 Computer Lab Technician, George Fox University · Newberg, OR

Education

  • 1993 Bachelor of Science, Biology — George Fox University · Newberg, OR

Core competencies

Azure (Static Web Apps, Functions, Container Apps, DNS), Bicep, Azure DevOps multi-stage pipelines, PowerShell, Pester, C#/.NET, Playwright, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, SQL Server (SSRS, SSIS, SSAS), Git.

Updated September 2026.