ANDREW S. TUCKER

abqjtw@r.postjobfree.com

http://www.halcyon.com/ast

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

** ***** */*++ development for multiple platforms and operating systems

* ***** ** ****** *** application level development experience with

Windows CE

7 years of experience managing a development team

4 years of experience developing cryptography and security software

2.5 years of C/C++ and Java debugger and compiler development

1 year of experience developing web portals with ASP.net and WCF web services

1 year of experience developing streaming media players for embedded

systems

Co-wrote a book on Windows CE application development

Author of over a dozen published technical articles on software

development

Instructor for college courses on software engineering

Public speaking and technical presentations at developer conferences

Microsoft MVP, Windows CE: 2001-2004

EDUCATION:

M.S. Computer Science, University of Washington, March 2000

B.S. Computer Science, Seattle Pacific University, March 1994

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE:

Microsoft: 3/2004 - present

Development Lead/Manager, Business Online Services Group: 7/2008 - present

Managed a team of 10+ developers working on an for selling online services

Built a development team and utilized Scrum methods for agile development to ship 5 releases in 15 months

Integrated site commerce with third party billing system to support credit card and purchase order transactions

Delivered full support for globalization of site to any language, locale and country

Onboarded BPOS, Azure and other services for trial and purchase

Designed and delivered quick trials user experience for service signup

Designed and delivered portal for allowing partners to create quotes for purchase on behalf of customers

Designed and delivered support tools for customer service and and development troubleshooting of production site issues

Drove performance improvements to email notification system and ASP.net infrastructure to support scalability and faster signup times

Presented a technical talk on the use of X.509 certificates in web development

Development Lead, Windows Security: 3/2004 - 7/2008

Responsible for managing a team to maintain and deliver all cryptographic infrastructure in Windows Vista (eg CAPI, DPAPI, Certificate APIs, Smart Cards, Authenticode)

Managed a team to deliver a smart card deployment application

Lead a team of developers to design and implement CNG, a new cryptography API for Windows Vista

Lead a team of developers to design and implement support for biometric authentication in Windows

Lead a team of developers to add SHA2 and AES support to DPAPI and Authenticode

Interface with NSA, NIST, DOJ, Commerce Department and other government agencies to ensure compliance with FIPS 140-2,

Common Criteria and cryptography export regulations

Developed and presented a talk on new crypto components in Windows Vista for Microsoft PDC 2005, RSA 2006 and TechReady 4

Aegis Software: 8/2002 - 3/2004

Provide technical expertise for all phases of consulting project

lifecycle

Managed a team of developers working on a secure messaging product using cryptography and steganography

Designed and implemented custom APIs, configuration utilities and a network service for new WinCE device

Customized 8051 firmware for a headless embedded device

Developed and presented a talk on debugging eVC applications at 2002

Windows Embedded Developer Conference

Real Networks: 6/2001 -

8/2002

Implemented network streaming architecture for RealOne Player for WinCE

Ported RealVideo, RealAudio, MPEG4 AAC, and ACELP codecs to RealOne

Player for WinCE

Implemented multiple user interface features for RealOne Player for

WinCE

Isolated and fixed problems with streaming data over GPRS networks from

multiple service providers

Designed and implemented cross platform 3GP/MP4 file format reader and

HTTP file transport

Implemented wrapper for AMR codec on Symbian/EPOC based Nokia cellular

phones

Modified RTSP protocol implementation to interoperate with media servers

from multiple vendors

Added redirect support to RTSP protocol implementation

Wrote Python scripts to automate nightly build process for multiple

projects

Aegis Software: 8/2000 - 6/2001

Provided technical and writing expertise for all phases of consulting

project lifecycle

Provided technical review expertise for evaluating opportunities for

venture capital investment

Managed a team of developers working on multiple simultaneous consulting

projects

Ported WinCE flash file system to new hardware platform

Implemented Linux kernel module to verify Hi/Fn 7951 cryptography

processor

Architected the porting of a DOS PC Card radio test application to WinCE

GoAhead Software: 5/2000 - 7/2000

Developed network throughput test tool for Win32 and VxWorks

Optimized route parsing for cluster-wide messaging system

BSQUARE Corporation: 6/97 - 5/2000

Consumer Information Appliances Team: 1/2000 - 5/2000

Developed and presented tutorials on TCP/IP and socket programming

Integrated infrared remote control and DVD components into a new set

top box platform Hitachi SHx Compiler Team: 6/99 - 1/2000

Contributed maintenance and new back end optimizations

Added SH3-DSP Zero Overhead Loop support to the SHx assembler

Added new relocations to the Visual C++ linker Debugger Team: 6/97 - 8/99

Development lead for WinDbg and Visual C++ for CE from 11/97 to 11/98

Ported Visual C++ remote debug monitor from NT to CE

Maintained and extended remote debug monitor across all CE

microprocessors

Added active process debugging to VCCE 2.0

Added hardware floating point support to VCCE and WinDbg

Modified Visual C++ disassembler to process Hitachi SH3-DSP

instructions

Designed and implemented a compiler for the CE Interface Composer

layout language

Designed and implemented debugger interfaces for an unreleased product

Developed and presented a tutorial on Win32 multithreaded programming

Developed and presented a talk on debugging VCCE applications at 1999

Windows CE Developers Conference

Community Sector

Systems Inc: 8/95 - 6/97

Contributed to the development of PsychAccess, a document management

program, in Visual C++ and MFC

Designed and implemented porting of PsychAccess from Windows 3.l to

Windows 95/NT

Designed and implemented several DLL toolkits for reading and creating

proprietary data formats

Designed and implemented generic thunk solution to allow Win16 to call a

Win32 DLL

Maintained and extended an NT service for email processing with Extended

MAPI and ODBC

Wrote an Extended MAPI class to encapsulate sending and receiving of

messages, as well as address book manipulation

Integrated an ActiveX control and COM automation server to display data

in printable business forms

OUM and Associates Inc: 6/93 -

8/95

Lead developer for a team of six programmers

Designed and implemented a library checkout system using Visual Basic

and Access

Wrote and maintained a corporate client/server database application in

VXREXX and DB2 for OS/2

Developed OS/2 DLLs to interface REXX and C

Produce extensive database reports and queries with SQL Server and

Access

Jewell Technologies Inc: 9/91 - 2/93.Created Windows DLLs for the translation of graphics file formats

Wrote Windows installation program in Microsoft Quick C for Windows

Supported and enhanced Windows graphics file package

INDEPENDENT CONSULTING EXPERIENCE:

Object Tooling: 9/96 - 11/96Designed and implemented an NT service as part of a sample project to be

distributed with the Microsoft BackOffice 97 SDK

Used Extended MAPI and ODBC to integrate Exchange Server and SQL Server

and implement a simple, but scalable, purchase order system

Robotic and Embedded Systems Technologies: 1/95 - 9/95Designed and implemented a BASIC compiler for an embedded

microcontroller system

Developed hardware independent p-code for intermediate program

representation

MILITARY EXPERIENCE:US Army ReserveSignal Corps and Transportation Divisions, 1988-1996

PUBLICATIONS AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE:A DBWin32 Debugger for Windows - C/C++ Users Journal, October 1996

Adding Console I/O to a Win32 GUI App - Windows Developer Journal,

December 1997

Reading Java Class Files in C++ - C/C++ Users Journal, April 1998

Using WinSock with Windows CE - Windows Developer Journal, June

1998

CeRapiInvoke: A New Feature of Windows CE 2.0 - Dr Dobbs Journal,

September 1998

Windows CE API Quirks - Windows Developer Journal, May 1999

A Safer Alternative to TerminateProcess - Windows Developer

Journal, July 1999

Using IE4's HTML Parser - Dr Dobbs Journal, August 1999

Teach Yourself Windows CE Programming in 24 Hours by Andrew Tucker,

Jason Nottingham, and Steve Makofsky - SAMS, August 1999

Programming Corner column - www.windowscepower.com, December 1999 and

February 2000

Exploiting Hidden Features of CESH - Dr Dobbs Journal, May 2000

Batons: A Sequential Synchronization Object - Windows Developer

Journal, July 2001

Instructor for CSE 142: Computer Programming I, University of

Washington Extension, Fall 2001

Instructor for CSE 143: Computer Programming II, University of

Washington Extension, Spring 2002

Instructor for CSE 490B: Fundamentals of Object Oriented Data

Structures, University of Washington Extension, Fall 2002

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