Scott Kurtzeborn |
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OBJECTIVE: |
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To apply my technical, leadership, and interpersonal skills to deliver technology experiences which are delightful and accessible to everyone. |
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WORK EXPERIENCE: |
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Engineering Manager (Oct 2016 - Present) Office, Microsoft, Redmond, WA
- Manager for the localization platform team consisting of 14 engineers. Responsible for work balancing and assignment, backlog management, performance assessments, and hiring.
- Managed services which are depended on by partners across the company to facilitate the translation of article content and software strings using recycling, vendors and machine translation.
- Drove the modernization of these services overcoming systemic performance, stability and reliability issues migrating from on-prem hardware to Azure PaaS based services.
- Standardized on a common workflow execution system, telemetry system, code repository, and devOps live site support model.
Lead Software Development Engineer (Aug 2012 - Sep 2016) OneNote, Microsoft, Redmond, WA
- Drove consensus among partner teams on design for a notebook change notification pipeline from O365 to OneNote services and directly managed its implementation.
- Lead design and implementation of OneNote online enrichments framework supporting both real time, background and crawl workflows.
- Partnered with multiple MSR teams to deliver various enrichment technologies such as Handwriting OCR, Article extraction, and Business Card extraction.
- Managed OneNote clipper project from prototyping through shipping v1.
Lead Software Development Engineer (Nov 2006 - Aug 2012) Office, Microsoft, Redmond, WA
- Office Licensing and Deployment team manager for Office 2010 and 2013 products managing a team of 7.
- Initiated coordination and sharing of a common licensing platform between Windows and Office products.
- Lead design and implementation of Office client licensing for subscriptions.
- Managed responsibilities, workload, and deliverables for remote partner team in Microsoft Ireland
Software Development Engineer (May 2002 - Nov 2006) Office, Microsoft, Redmond, WA
- Worked on the Office Deployment team for 4.5 years on both the Office 2003 and 2007 product cycles
- Team Bug Triage driver for the Deployment team through Dogfood, Beta and RTM of Office 2007
- Designed and implemented the 2007 Office setup package chaining technology and all installation UI
- Designed several Windows Installer Custom Actions supporting uninstall and proper rollback
Developer/Technical Lead (Apr 2000 - Apr 2002) Red Rock Internet Technologies, Lindon, UT
- Worked on several web programming projects from initial contract signing through final acceptance using ColdFusion, Perl, and shell scripts
- Designed relational database schemas and managed them during project development using Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MS SQL Server
- Set up and maintained a firewall and internal network using NAT on Linux
- Designed and implemented web crawling tools in Perl
Computer Architecture Course Teacher's Assistant (Aug 1999 - Jun 2000) Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
- Initiated, designed and implemented web based Perl application for class administration
- Assisted in test preparation and evaluations of students' work
- Periodically taught class
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EDUCATION: |
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Brigham Young University, College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Provo, UT
Bachelor of Science: Computer Science, April 2002
Overall GPA: 3.18/4.0, Major GPA: 3.2/4.0, Scholarship: Edward C. Giles Foundation
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EXPERIENCE:
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Boy Scouts - Varsity Team Coach (Sep 2012 - Aug 2016)
- Scout leader for 4-6 young men ages 14-15.
- Organized 4 week-long high adventure activities include 2 50-mile hikes.
- Organized team activities centered around merit badges, rank advancements, and vocational training.
ACM BYU Chapter - Vice President (Mar 2000 - Dec 2000)
- Organized chapter activities (programming contest, recruiting meetings, presentations, Windows Install-a-thon).
- Developed chapter web site using PHP.
LDS Mission in Asuncion, Paraguay (Jan 1996 - Feb 1998)
- Served in several group leadership positions.
Boy Scouts - Eagle Rank (Fall 1991)
- Planned and organized meetings and events. Developed teaching skills.
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SKILLS: |
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Programming: |
C#, C/C++, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, HTML, WiX, XML, XSLT, ColdFusion, Perl, PHP, shell scripts, batch files |
Applications: |
Windows Azure, IIS, Windows Installer (MSI) Custom Actions, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Online, Team Foundation Services, ReSharper, NCrunch |
Operating Systems: |
Windows, Linux |
Fluency in Spanish Language: |
2 years native, 3 years of college coursework in spoken and written Spanish |
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INTERESTS: |
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Mobile Programming, 3d Printing, Soccer, SCUBA Diving |