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Gus Class

HighlightsProven ability to simultaneously drive content creation, community engagement, social media, business intelligence, and search engine optimization (SEO) across web portalsVersatile engineering skills including API, web, mobile app, and client application developmentExcellent written & verbal communication both internally and with customers and partnersExperienced in working both in startup and corporate environments

Work Experience

Microsoft Corporation

October 2009 to present Developer Content Project Manager Responsible for blog content that reached the 96th percentile of MSDN blogs.Programmed samples to demonstrate key development scenarios and address customer pain pointsGrew developer content social channels to over 11,000 followers and 10,000 likes (fans).Managed complex projects coordinating content, marketing, engineering, and production.Created & managed site and content plans across a large developer portal through multiple Windows release cycles.Championed Windows features in coordination with evangelism and marketing resulting in coordinated messaging and delivery.Drove cross-company specification, implementation, and adoption of publishing features.

2005 to 2009 Programmer Writer / EvangelistProgrammed a software prototype in WPF for customer feedback gathering that was ultimately used in a patent application to demonstrate the UI metaphor.Evangelized developer features at Educause, TechEd, PDC, and Dell engagements.Created a multitouch game with Direct3D to demonstrate the touch-centric features of Windows 7.Successfully managed the release of developer guidance content across Windows at PDC.Architected & developed a web-based content management and publishing system used by Windows for DirectUI with SQL and C#/ASP.NET.Planned, socialized, & implemented coordinated programming guides for key developer scenarios working across multiple disciplines and levels of management.Delivered over 2000 reference documentation pages, 100+ C, C++, and C# SDK code examples, and 10+ end-to-end samples reaching over 3MM page views and 280k downloads worldwide.

Spam Arrest LLC

2003 to 2005 Software EngineerDeveloped and scaled an anti-spam and web mail service through multiple releases using Java, MySQL, MemcacheD, and Resin in a live Linux environment.Created JNI modules in C and C++ to connect native external libraries to our email infrastructure.

Selected Accomplishments and Publications:Microsoft Gold Star & Patent Cube RecipientProfiled in a cross-company blogging panel and in social media trainingGoing Places:

MSDN Magazine, December 2009Going Places:

MSDN Magazine, October 2008

Education

University of Washington, Aug. 2008, Masters in Business Administration

University of Washington, Aug. 2003, BS in Computing and Software Systems

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