Nik Boyd @ GlobalEnglish

Dot Net Engineer, 2010 October - 2012 August

GlobalEnglish Corporation
8000 Marina Blvd., Suite 810
Brisbane, CA 94005

GlobalEnglish fosters Enterprise Flency^TM at Global 2000 companies.

• Designed and built a highly scalable and highly available (24x7) text to speech conversion service with VisualStudio 2008, C#, WCF, MS Voice, Spring.NET. Deployed the initial prototype and voices (SAPI) into Microsoft Azure.

• Designed and built a highly scalable and highly available (24x7) speech recognition service with VisualStudio 2008, C#, WCF, EduSpeak, Spring.NET.

• Revamped the speech recognition server-side architecture from a 3-process model to a 1-process model. Simplified the speech recognition service with VisualStudio 2008, IIS, WCF, REST, Spring.NET.

• Reconfigured the speech recognition server-side architecture to support deployment in the cloud with Microsoft Azure (Web Role), SQL Azure, Visual Studio 2010, .Net 4.0.

• Designed and built learner enrollment web services with Microsoft VisualStudio 2008, C#, WCF, Spring.NET.

• Designed and built learner account domain model classes with Microsoft VisualStudio 2008, C#, NHibernate, LINQ, SQLite. Annotated the domain classes with NHibernate mapping attributes to support domain driven design and automatic database schema generation (hbm2ddl).

• Used extensive unit tests to support refactoring, continuous integration, and automated regression testing.

• Designed and developed unit tests with NUnit and TestDriven.NET.

• Collaborated with other team members using PivotalTracker Agile project management system.

• Participated in project iteration planning and effort estimation.

• Participated in daily Scrum meetings.