Steve Kuo

Lynnwood, Washington, United States Contact Info
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🚀 Technical Team Builder & Force Multiplier 🛠️

For over a decade, I have been a…

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  • Salesforce

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Volunteer Experience

  • Group Leader - Volunteer

    Snohomish County 4-H

    - Present 9 years 8 months

    Children

    Helped with 4-H model train group, computer group and general group activities and events.

  • General IT Support

    Trestle Homeschool Association

    - Present 11 years 2 months

    Education

    General web page hosting and development support.

Courses

  • Azure Bootcamp

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  • OOBootcamp

    Fred George

Projects

  • Premera BlueCross - SOA

    General C#, Agile and XP practice development and help. General coaching and support for implementing Continuous Delivery and delivery of quality.

  • Premera BlueCross - eCommerce

    1 Month with a total of 6 months of extension. Responsible for maintaining and rewriting legacy internal web deployment tool. Also helped to influence, mentor and architect integrated devOps and Continuous Delivery model. Worked with and coached/mentored an internal team in adding new features/functionality and a Selenium/SpecFlow functional test framework.

  • Premera BlueCross - SOA

    3-Months. This project was to help provide technical support and delivery of Affordable Healthcare Act functionality. It involved middle tier services that monitored file system and Windows message queues that would trigger internal processing of customers, both inbound and outbound. It involved writing WCF and WindowsMessageBus services, with an MVC structure that would process data into and out of various databases utilizing stored procedures and EntityFramework. Also included in the…

    3-Months. This project was to help provide technical support and delivery of Affordable Healthcare Act functionality. It involved middle tier services that monitored file system and Windows message queues that would trigger internal processing of customers, both inbound and outbound. It involved writing WCF and WindowsMessageBus services, with an MVC structure that would process data into and out of various databases utilizing stored procedures and EntityFramework. Also included in the engagement was Agile and XP practice training/coaching of product owners, scrum masters, developers and testers involved.

  • Apex Learning

    12-Month Engagement where I helped deliver a complete rewrite of the company's flagship learning product. Multi-Site project interfacing with external teams. The team I worked with delivered the core portal for students to pick Tutorials, Lessons, Content and Testing. CSS/HTML/JavaScript/jQuery/KnockoutJS Single Page applications that interfaced with WebServices utilizing EntityFramework to transfer and retrieve data from multiple databases and other services. Also included in the…

    12-Month Engagement where I helped deliver a complete rewrite of the company's flagship learning product. Multi-Site project interfacing with external teams. The team I worked with delivered the core portal for students to pick Tutorials, Lessons, Content and Testing. CSS/HTML/JavaScript/jQuery/KnockoutJS Single Page applications that interfaced with WebServices utilizing EntityFramework to transfer and retrieve data from multiple databases and other services. Also included in the engagement was Agile and XP practice training/coaching of product owners, scrum masters, developers and testers involved.

  • Intermec Corporation

    6-Month project. This project was creating an internal tool that would facilitate materials compliance report generation for all components of manufactured hardware. The site consisted of ASP.NET front end, connecting to WCF Web Services and interfacing to a SQL back end with EntityFramework. Also included in the engagement was Agile and XP practice training/coaching of product owners, scrum masters, developers and testers.

  • Oregon Mutual Insurance

    6-Month project. Created a single page application using CSS/HTML/JavaScript/jQuery that connected to a AS400 backend through .NET Web Services and XML. This site took a paper process that had a two week turn around time to giving quotes in seconds and policies in hours. The project was delivered using full Agile and XP practices. This project was a co-located project where a majority of the pair programming was done virtually using Skype and WebEx. Also included in the engagement was…

    6-Month project. Created a single page application using CSS/HTML/JavaScript/jQuery that connected to a AS400 backend through .NET Web Services and XML. This site took a paper process that had a two week turn around time to giving quotes in seconds and policies in hours. The project was delivered using full Agile and XP practices. This project was a co-located project where a majority of the pair programming was done virtually using Skype and WebEx. Also included in the engagement was Agile and XP practice training/coaching of product owners, scrum masters, developers and testers involved.

  • T-Mobile - HSO

    16-Month project. Mentored teams in Agile and XP practices. Helped to coordinate and drive operations group acceptance of Agile and XP practices. Created coursework in Test Driven Development and Pair Programming practices. Drove the implementation of a TeamCity based Continuous Integration ecosystem. Wrote, created and maintained a many different projects. Personally responsible for removing over 35,000 lines of code from a "challenging" code base.

  • HAL

    .NET MVC WPF application. Registration, adjustment and connectivity of proprietary audio mixer systems.

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  • Hidden City Games

    Worked on a Adobe Flex based open ended and dynamic multi-player online sci-fi prototype, FreeMarket by Luke Crane and Jared Sorensen. Created and wrote code for match-making, game setup, turn tracking, video and audio capture/display and gameplay.

  • Grand Cru Wines

    Create and implement integrated sites for Wine Shop and Wine Bar. Also performed system analysis and integration with Point of Sale and inventories and for both entities.

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  • Peppermill Casino - Customer Retention/Appreciation System

    Helped to maintain and implement new features in an existing legacy code base to extend features, tracking and promotions for a customer facing rewards system.

  • Fidelity Mortgage

    Helped to create an ASP.NET website and services for a moving utility site.

  • Microsoft CORE Delivery

    3-Month engagement where I implemented a Silverlight system designed to help checklist complex final release gates for products.

  • United Health Care

    Helped create an ASP.NET website and service for users and administrators to use and maintain COBRA benefits.

  • Wizards of the Coast - D&D Online & MTG: Online

    Helped to create .NET 3D rendering engine that was used for MTG: Online and D&D Online.

  • Backyard NBA Basketball 2004

    Gameplay engineer

  • Backyard NFL Football 2003

    Game programmer

  • Backyard Hockey 2002

    Game programmer

  • Moonbase Commander

    Game programmer and level designer.

  • Backyard Soccer MLS Edition 2001

    Gameplay engineer.

  • Backyard Baseball 2001

    Game Programmer...

  • Freddi Fish: The Case of the Creature from Coral Cove

    Game Programmer

  • Amen: The Awakening

    Producer on the unreleased project AMEN: The Awakening

  • Total Annihilation: Battle Tactics

    Helped to create, produce and promote Total Annihilation: Battle Tactics

  • Total Annihilation: Kingdoms

    Helped to produce and manage Total Annihilation Kingdoms.

  • Total Annihilation

    Helped to produce, promote and create downloadable content.

  • Total Annihilation: The Core Contingency

    Helped to create, produce and promote Total Annihilation: Core Contingency.

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • German

    Elementary proficiency

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