b'RESUME\nDennis Cronin\n12770 N 102nd St.\nScottsdale, AZ 85260\n480-451-5356\ndennis.cronin@gmail.com\nwww.denniscronin.net\nLinkedIn\n\nSUMMARY\nExperienced software manager accustomed to building or re-building teams to deliver benchmark results.\nStrong developer, knowledgeable about a wide range of technologies, leads by example. Understands software\ndevelopment from "bare metal" up through business strategy.\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Proven leader of high morale high output teams\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Leads by example, rolls up sleeves and writes code\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Familiar with a broad range of current technologies for web, applications, and server.\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Experienced with implementing agile practices in the fabric of a larger enterprise\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Innovator, serial \xe2\x80\x9cintrapreneur\xe2\x80\x9d, instigated major Microsoft re-org around Internet television, spawned\nthe Java browser project at Spyglass, created the product lines at Central Data that led to it being\nacquired by its biggest competitor.\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Enjoys communicating, speaking, mentoring, cross-group and cross-company collaboration.\n\nEMPLOYMENT\nMicrosoft - June 1997 to July 2014\nSenior Software Engineer\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Moved to Arizona and returned to developer roots\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Worked on many aspects of the Xbox Live 1 st party video service\nIndividually responsible for tool chain for captions and subtitle ingestion and processing, including a\nsystem for doing automated alignment of captions with media (patent pending)\nSoftware Development Manager, MSDN\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Responsible for all aspects of the MSDN technical web site\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Defined requirement and schedules for editing and publishing tools\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Drew up statement of work (SOW) for external consultants to help build the next generation MSDN\npublishing platform\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Highly agile team, two week sprints, strong focus on accountability and throughput\nProduct Unit Manager, Microsoft Television\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Ran the Redmond portion of Microsoft TV\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Worked with cable television technologies and embedded firmware for legacy set top boxes and later on\nthe Microsoft IPTV offering\n\xe2\x80\xa2 With the Microsoft TV CTO Peter Barrett, ran incubation efforts which led to a major Microsoft re-org\nabout Internet television (eLive)\nVarious previous roles, development manager, development lead, software developer\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Worked on initial release of the PocketPC\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Built publishing tools and utilities for MSNBC\n\xe2\x80\xa2\n\n\x0cPrevious work experience\n\xe2\x80\xa2 Prior to Microsoft, worked on Internet web browsers, Unix and NT device drivers, and embedded\nfirmware for various IO devices at Spyglass and Central Data Corporation\n\nTECHNOLOGIES\nI am familiar with a wide range of technologies both web-centric and application-oriented. In approximate order\nof familiarity: C#, Javascript, HTML and HTML5, CSS, CSS3, XML, C/C++, audio DSP, Java, Perl, Jquery, DirectShow,\nDirectX, and much more. I am familiar with Windows systems as well as Linux. I\'m a fan of Microsoft\'s Team\nFoundation Server (TFS) which is their suite of software life cycle management tools. These tools are deeply\nintegrated with Visual Studio and support all aspects of software development: source code control,\nstory/feature/task management, bug tracking, continuous integration, deployment, and more.\n\nSPEAKING AND MENTORING\nI presented to a number of Microsoft groups on Agile and other methodologies for increasing team throughput\nand driving positive team morale. I was active early on in the Agile movement, helping drive adoption of agile\ntechniques, bringing in Ken Schwaber to speak, and working with Ward Cunningham during his brief tenure at\nMicrosoft to organize a number of Agile events where developers could cross-pollinate and discuss agile\nconcepts. I recognize the need to adapt agile processes appropriately to company objectives and team sizes.\nI also maintained a number of both mentor and mentee relationships to help others grow and to identify areas in\nmyself for improvement and growth.\n\nHOBBY WEB SITES\nI run a handful of popular Internet sites:\nfreecell.net - popular addictive online solitaire (used AJAX long before it was christened AJAX)\njezzball.net - twitch game using HTML <CANVAS> and Javascript\nwinnablesolitaire.com - familiar Klondike solitaire with mods to make it 100% winnable\n\nLANGUAGES\nEnglish, Spanish, Portuguese\nEDUCATION\nE.E. and C.S. course work at the University of Illinois'