John W. Warns has over 30 years of experience developing business applications and managing development teams. He has extensive experience with Agile methodologies like Scrum and SCRUM Master certification. He has developed over 60 Windows Phone applications with over 139,000 downloads. Currently he is a Senior Developer providing technical support to Xbox application developers at Robert Half.

1. John W. Warns
5814 79th
ST. CT. E. Puyallup WA, 98371
(253) 845-3588 Home
(206) 953-6164 Mobile
johnwarns@hotmail.com
Objective
I seek a position in which I may leverage my extensive technical, leadership and managerial
skills.
Professional Summary of Experience
30 plus years of increasing responsibility developing business related applications and
managing individuals both on and off shore in doing the same. Dedicated to quality of code
and the further development of those that report to me in both programming skills and
personal goals. Metric driven, experience with Agile methodologies (am a qualified Scrum
Master), TSP (Team Software Process) and PSP (Personal Software Process). Work in
both strategic and tactical elements for the group, including 3 year planning, technical and
business roadmaps, software acquisition, SDLC (software development life cycle) definition
and standards development. I have recent application development experience in the mobile
environment of Windows Phone.
Knowledge and Skill Areas:
Requirements Gathering Application Design
Specification writing Agile development
Object Orientated development Problem solving
Application development Application implementation
SDLC SCRUM Master
TSP Launch coach PSP instructor
Mentoring Career coaching
Development leadership
Windows Phone Development:
• Experience with 7.0, 7.5, 7.8, 8.0 and 8.1 (pre-release) SDKs, since 2010.
• Over 60 personal applications in the windows phone app store, with
139,000+ downloads.
• Work with the Microsoft Windows Phone team, modifying and extending
the Retail Demo application. Adding new features and re-working it for use
with the 8.1 SDK, for world wide deployment. This application includes an
Azure interface.
• Construction of 4 social applications to be used by the Window Phone 8.1
demo, for world wide deployment. These application includes an Azure
interface.
Technical Languages: C#, T-SQL, Stored Procedures, XAML/Silverlight,
SSRS,

2. SSIS, HTML, Javascript,
LINQ, Visual Basic, ASP.Net, SQL Server, SQLite
Operation Systems: Windows XP, Windows 7 Windows 8 and 8.1, Windows
Phone 7.1, Windows Phone 7.8, Windows Phone 8.0,
Windows Phone 8.1, Windows Server
Tools: Team Foundation Server, Microsoft Office 2010, Visual
Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio 2013
Employment History
Robert Half Bellevue Wa.
Senior Developer May 2015 – Present
Xbox developer’s support
Provide support to existing and new Xbox application developers. This support
includes answering detailed technical questions, solving problems encountered by
partners and providing code when required. Efforts included assisting partners in the
transition to Windows 10 by developing sample/reference programs to illustrating
new Windows 10 features/functionality on the XBOX One.
Senior Developer March 2015 – May 2015
Microsoft Windows Phone Prototype development
Using new technologies developed for the Windows Phone my job was to write
applications that demonstrate how they may be used. This might be a game, a
browser or any type of application. The job also required that I construct White
Papers that informed other programmer how they might incorporate the technology
in their applications. The project was successfully concluded with the
aforementioned technologies being accepted for inclusion in a future version of
Windows Phone.
iSoftstone Kirkland Wa.
Senior Developer May 2014 – March 2015
Microsoft Retail Demo Sample project
Prepare a sample windows phone provisioning application, to be shared with
Microsoft partners to assist them in the construction of their own provisioning
programs. Work done with Windows phone 8.1 SDK.
iSoftstone Kirkland Wa.
Senior Developer April 2014 – May 2104
Microsoft MMR project
Provide SQL and C# support for the development the MMR project. This project
supplies information on decommission, replacement and relocation of servers vital to
Microsoft’s operations. This information is eventually posted to ITSM for action.
iSoftstone Kirkland Wa.

3. Senior Developer July 2013 – April 2014
Microsoft Retail Demo project
Re-writing of the Microsoft Retail Demo application, to be placed on all Microsoft
8.1 retail phones worldwide, design and develop four social applications to be used
as demo programs on Microsoft phones. Work done with pre-release versions of
Windows phone 8.1 SDK.
Parametrix Aurburn WA.
IT Manager Applications Services January 2012 – March 2013
Oversee the implementation, development and support of all Parametrix’s business
application portfolio. Manage and lead a small development staff.
Microsoft Redmond WA.
Principal Development Manager February 2008 – January 2012
Work collaboratively across ASM and with the COE’s to deliver the scalable
solutions / services needed to support Microsoft. Partner with ops to ensure we have
smooth deployment and operation of the service. Provide your development team
with the opportunities and mentoring they need to grow in their careers.
Drive accuracy of estimates and accuracy of the schedule in cooperation with
program management. Partner with test to deliver products that are testable and of
high quality. Partner with program management to ensure that the right product is
delivered at the right time. Ensure that the development team has the right talent on
the right challenges to deliver the best product we can. Partner with System Center
product group to drive IT requirements to products. Acquire ITIL foundation
certification.
Senior Program Manager May 2006 – Febrary 2008
Through various reorganizations I have now positioned my career as a Senior
Program Manager. As such I work in various realms the three most active being:
1. TSP / PSP - as a TSP launch coach I perform project launching, that is the
initializing of a projects and giving guidance to practitioners as they proceed
through their plans. The process is a product of SEI (the Software Engineering
Institute) from Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/tsp/main.html and is based in the concept of defect
reduction. As a PSP instructor I provide training to those interested in this
methodology in 2007 I traveled to Beijing China and provided this training to
one of Microsoft’s partners (ChinaSoft).
2. MSIT TSP data expert – This activity has allowed me to maintain a connection
to the development world. To facilitate my activities I constructed a highly
secure TSP data warehouse into which all MSIT TSP Data is ported, using SQL
Reporting Services I’ve constructed various reports providing upper
management a true picture of how TSP is impacting MSIT. I am told that I am
the first in the TSP community (both inside and outside of Microsoft) to
accomplish this.

4. 3. Scrum – Now that I’ve obtained my ScrumMaster certification I am providing
this service to various Microsoft IT teams.
Senior Development Manager (XIT) May 2000 – May 2006
- Responsible for a base crew of 11developers (that can and has scaled up to as
many as 15) managing both the individual team members and those projects the team
works on. Serve as a leader in developing detail design, by acting as the application
architect. Represent team in the compilation of function specification for project.
Act as a proponent for Microsoft development methodology MSF (Microsoft
Solution Foundation). Manage the team in all aspects including (but not limited to)
reviews, one on ones, hiring and firing of team members, mentoring individuals,
budgeting, budget tracking, individual team members development, team building
and representing the team to upper management. I am also responsible for providing
estimates on projects, tracking projects, design, coding and the delivery of projects
for distribution. We delivered applications to a worldwide audience.
Senior Application Developer May 1996 – May 2000
Design and program tools and applications needed for the smooth operations of
segments of the company to do its business. Act as technical advisor, and designer
on certain projects.
Microsoft Projects Examples
Tools Heat Map:
This is a Web application that provided management with a quick look at the status of
projects; also provide them with metrics that helped to determine a project that could be in
trouble with enough lead time to take actions.
Technologies used, Web services, ASP.net, SQL 2005
TSP Tools:
A series of programs written in C# that interacted with Team Foundation Server to extract
TSP (Team Software Process) projects from the various TFS servers throughout Microsoft
and stage that data for use in metrics and reporting, this was the first successful enterprise
project of this of this type known to have taken place, technologies uses: C#, SQL 2005,
Windows Form Application, Web services and SSRS.
MSIT Applications
Various applications within Microsoft IT used by Microsoft to run the business, a sample of
this would include (but not limited to):
ITConfig – an application used by Microsoft Datacenters worldwide to operate the data
center, ASP.Net, Javascript SQL Server, web services
MSAPPS – MSIT Application repository, used to manage all application on corporate
servers, HTML, Javascript SQL Server, web services
ITSM – Microsoft IT service management application, purchased package extensively
modified by my team to meet Microsoft operational requirements.

5. DATASERV (Subsidiary of Wang, formerly BellSouth) Channhassen MN
Senior Technical Resource, 1986 - 1996
Provide analysis of new technologies and their impact on both business systems
And methods used within them. Positions also included the evaluation and construction of
new tools leading to the integration of new technologies into existing and future systems.
Analysis of methods employed in data processing.
Recent technical achievements:
Windows Phone Development:
I have created (to date) some 60+ windows phone application presently available on the
Windows phone store, with over 139,000 downloads and growing at between 50 and 70 a
day, using a variety of technologies and techniques. May be viewed at:
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/search?q=john+warns
Windows Form Application:
Archery Club – A complete membership management system for use in small to medium size
(200 – 500) member archer clubs features include: Written in C#, use of SQL 2012
(LocalDB) and LINQ.
Education
University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point WI
B.S., American Civilization, 1974
Dozens of technical and managerial courses offered or sponsored by Microsoft, list available
upon request.
Awards
1989 Winner Dataserv Achievement Award
1992 Dataserv Reach for Excellence winner
1994 Sales Recognition for ASDS project
1995 Nomination for Reach for Excellence
2008 Microsoft IT Pro award for Innovation
2009 Microsoft IT Deliver IT award
2010 Microsoft IT Deliver IT award
2011 Microsoft IT Deliver IT award
Publications
January 1986 Article in NEWS 34/38 "System/36 Does Do Windows"
November 1986 Article in NEWS 34/38 "System/36 Menu P.C. Style"

6. September 1988 Article in DataNetwork "Calling Programs From Within Programs"
September 1988 Article in NEWS 34/38 Reprint of "System/36 Does Do Windows" in
Italy (First Edition)
January 1989 Article DataNetwork "Windowing in RPG II."
June 1990 "User written Help Screens" NEWS3x/400
Spring 1991 Speech to Twin Cities 3x users group entitled “LAN HO! RPG II in the
Local Area Network World”
July 2009 IT Manager Webcast: How Microsoft IT Manages Vendor
Development Projects

7. September 1988 Article in DataNetwork "Calling Programs From Within Programs"
September 1988 Article in NEWS 34/38 Reprint of "System/36 Does Do Windows" in
Italy (First Edition)
January 1989 Article DataNetwork "Windowing in RPG II."
June 1990 "User written Help Screens" NEWS3x/400
Spring 1991 Speech to Twin Cities 3x users group entitled “LAN HO! RPG II in the
Local Area Network World”
July 2009 IT Manager Webcast: How Microsoft IT Manages Vendor
Development Projects