This document is a resume for James Bucher. It summarizes his education as a BS in Computer Science from Western Washington University, where he took courses in programming, operating systems, databases, and algorithms. It details his work experience at Microsoft as a Software Development Engineer, where he has contributed to projects using Angular, Typescript, C#, Java and other technologies. It also lists his skills in programming languages, operating systems, technologies and volunteer experience mentoring students and participating on cyber defense teams.

1. Last Updated on 29th February 2016
James Bucherjames.e.bucher@gmail.com | 509.628.6166
EDUCATION
UNDERGRADUATE
WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
BS - COMPUTER SCIENCE HONORS
June 2012 | Bellingham, WA
COURSE WORK
Undergraduate
• Unix Software Development
• Computer Networks
• Data Structures
• Object Oriented Programming in
C++
• Computer Organization II
• Analysis of Algorithms
• Database Systems
• Operating Systems
• Concurrent Programming
• Compiler Design and
Implementation
• Bioinformatics
PROJECTS
Undergraduate
• Modify Scheduler and Paging
Algorithm for FreeBSD kernel.
• Program a simple shell in C for
NetBSD.
• Program a remote file access
protocol in C open/read/write files
over a network.
• Scheme interpreter written in C++
• Wrote a compiler in C
• Package manager for windows in
Python
SKILLS
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
In order of familiarity
C# • Java • C • Typescript • Ada • Python
• Powershell • Shell • C++ • LATEX •
Scheme • Assembly
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Windows • Linux • FreeBSD
TECHNOLOGIES
.NET • MSBuild • Hadoop • Angular 2 •
Git
OTHER
Bilingual - English,Spanish
WORK EXPERIENCE
MICROSOFT – UNIVERSAL STORE, POWERBI SOFTWARE
DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER II
October 2012 – Present | Microsoft.com, PowerBI.com | Redmond, WA
• Help implement a proof of concept WYSIWYG website creation tool in Angular
2 and Typescript.
• Fix minor bugs in a web authoring application built using Angular and React.
• Implement End to End tests for a web authoring application using Typescript,
Jasmine and PhantomJS.
• Add click tracking to a legacy web app and analyze usage to prioritize product
feature implementation.
• Migrate a legacy build system and source control from TFS to Git and
implement a continuous integration system to improve velocity and product
quality.
• Onboard an Indian remote team from TFS onto Git to unify engineering
practices.
• Write a tool to analyze SQL queries using Microsoft SQL Parser to prioritize
data migration off of a legacy database.
• Implement fixes for the Windows Store Client application under tight release
deadlines.
• Analyze crash dumps to help stabilize Windows 10 for release.
• Work on a mid-tier system to support the lookup, placement and loading of
database shards for a distributed in-memory database.
• Develop a REST API to allow for the creation, deletion and modification of
multi-gigabyte databases stored in the cloud.
• Deliver fixes and features to a production live-site running across hundreds of
nodes across multiple data centers worldwide.
– Implement Least Recently Used eviction job to ensure that spikes in usage
won’t cause performance degradation.
– Fix race conditions between an Admin Service and Database Host service
seen only during failure events and upgrade.
• Refactor a large code base to reduce checkin times and reduce potential for
mistakes
– Develop framework to eliminate a step from the development process
where developers had to manually code bin-placing scripts for added
assemblies reducing both development time and possible mistakes.
– Migrate projects to the developed framework and test for regressions.
– Enable simulated deployment of product to checkin tests and reduce
simulated deployment time from 40 minutes to 20 minutes.
– Remove code compilation from process startup to build to improve
product reliability and recovery time.
– Port code from a multi-branch system to a single branch
• Work with team to move from a six-month waterfall release schedule to an
Agile methodology with monthly major releases and weekly bug fixes.
• Debug complex live-site production issues across multiple services owned by
different teams using different datacenters and infrastructure .
• Work with The Windows team to resolve performance regression caused by
security fixes in Windows 8.

2. Work Experience (cont)
MICROSOFT SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER INTERN
June 2012 – September 2012 | Redmond, WA
• Work with Partner Architect to architect a system running on Hadoop to compress and process data for consumption by a
distributed analytics database.
• Implement a proof of concept of the system on HDInsight (Hadoop)
– Implement a custom FileInputFormat for Hadoop to act as a preprocessed file format.
– Write a MapReduce job to pre-process raw tabular data stored in HDFS
– Modify a C++ database engine to consume the preprocessed file format.
– Perform benchmarks to validate the performance characteristics of the prototype.
WWU CS DEPARTMENT ASSISTANT SYSTEMS ANALYST
Jan 2010 – June 2012 | Bellingham, WA
• Troubleshoot hardware problems
• Prepare and concurrently deploy multi-operating system setups with both Microsoft and open source software.
• Administer Linux and Windows systems
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
ACM CHAPTER OFFICER WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
September 2008 – August 2009, September 2011 – June 2012 | (Vice Chair)
September 2009 – August 2011 | (Chair)
• Bring in speakers and organize events such as the end of the year barbecue.
ACM WEB SERVER ADMIN WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
May 2010 – June 2012
• Setup Apache, PostgreSQL, Django, PHP on FreeBSD inside Jails
• Setup pf firewall and DNS entries for server
• Administer Gentoo system running email
CYBER DEFENSE TEAM WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
November 2010 – June 2012
• Defend network from attack by a red team while performing business tasks throughout a two day competition
• Western placed 2nd
at the 2011 Pacific Rim Regional Competition
COMPUTER SCIENCE MENTOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
November 2010 – June 2012
• Tutored beginning Computer Science Students