Daniel L. Koger mobile: +1.425.442.7746 daniel@kogers.com daniel.koger@gmail.com http://daniel.kogers.com PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY Solutions Architect I have performed Hosted Solutions architecture design sessions to the global 1000 in 14 countries with a 95% success rate resulting in sales to some of the top ISP and Telecomm leaders. I have the ability to see beyond the technical and couple the needs of the business drivers to provide solutions for customers that unite business needs and technical constraints. I have designed and deployed both implementations and proof of concept environments ranging from a few thousand users to multinational enterprises with over 1 million Exchange subscribers. Standards Architect I have been involved in the development of several standards that have had impact on some of the largest software companies globally. I have spoken in front of government, private sector, executive council and standards conferences ranging from intimate groups of 3 or 4 to packed auditoriums with multiple thousands of attendees. Standards I have authored or co-authored are in use by Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, Boeing, AOL, API, Vignette and many others. Director I have had oversight, mentoring and development of teams of developers, architects, sales/pre-sales, vendors and business strategy teams. I have worked as a Program Manager for Microsoft and a Technical lead at Boeing. I have led individual teams and groups of teams ranging from a few developers to 24 strategists. Leader I have been a leader in the Infrastructure Optimization, Hosted Solutions and Standards development community. I have been recognized by the industry with awards for my contribution, vision and out-of-the-box thinking. RECOMMENDATIONS “Daniel is one if the greatest assets that Microsoft has encountered and is one if a kind! He is well known for his knowledge of not only SQL but programming knowledge & security skills. Daniel has been a pleasure to work with and always makes people laugh. He is the kind of person that people enjoy having around. I'm sure that Daniel's future will continue to be bright.” April 28, 2006 Byron Engelbrecht, Systems Engineer, Microsoft “Daniel is one of the most intelligent people I have met. Excellent out of the box thinker with architecting new solutions and extremely committed to getting the job done always.” April 28, 2006 Tim Poole (tpoole@ciber.com), Senior Recruiter, CIBER “Dan & I served on the ICE-Authoring group together to define the ICE 1.0+ and 1.1 versions of the standard. Dan's knowledge of content distribution and networking systems were widely appreciated in the authoring group. Dan was a deep contributor to the development of the ICE-Standard and could always be counted on to deliver on his commitments. Dan both writes and communicates well. I found his advice and counsel always excellent and his technical contributions first rate. I would be pleased to work with him again.” September 17, 2006 Bruce Hunt, Director Engineering, Adobe System's Inc. EXPERIENCE Planet Technologies November 2008 - Current Position: Senior Solutions Architect Led architecture design and process improvement sessions for various customers. * Technical Evagelist for Microsoft Educational Portals * Lead Architect for Windows 7 Application Compatibility Factory * Image Architect for Windows 7 Deployment * SharePoint 2010 Envisioning * Software Development Lifecycle improvement Endeavor October 2007 - August 2008 Position: Director, Solutions Architecture Managed architecture for the professional services team and directed new business development in the Microsoft sector. * Established the Endeavor infrastructure assessment framework practice * Provided architecture guidance for Endeavor sales * Performed architecture review sessions for Endeavor clients CoroWare June 2006 - October 2007 Position: Director, Enterprise Business Solutions Managed four teams and directed new business development in the Microsoft sector. * Grew business from four individuals to thirty six in twelve months * Opened four new opportunities at Microsoft * Established the CoroWare infrastructure optimization practice * Established enterprise optimization practice * Worked to finalize funding and business case for Software as a Service practice Microsoft June 2002 - August 2008 [subcontractor] Position: Senior Solutions Architect/Senior Consulting Engineer/Program Manager Skunk works * Designed, prototyped and evangelized the self service portal for an undisclosed project Further details not disclosed at this time. Infrastructure Optimization (IO) - http://www.microsoftio.com * Designed, developed, implemented and evangelized the US Services Infrastructure Optimization Initiative * Reviewed and corrected the IO matrix * Designed a sales collateral interface Microsoft Managed Solutions (MMS) - https://spsites.microsoft.com/sites/mms-services/default.aspx * Designed, developed and implemented a monitoring reporting interface (MRI) Web service and the reporting data warehouse * Designed an ad hoc reporting interface * Built a statistical trend data warehouse as a historical repository for MOM and SMS data stored in System Center Reporting * Built a read only Web service to export the data * Created a Read/Write Web Service to allow "touch-less" administration * Administered, engineered and architected the monitoring and instrumentation of MMS o Leveraged key technologies; MOM 2005, SQL Server 2005 and SQL Reporting o Developed and maintained scripts in Cricket, Perl, Monad and WSH o Generated automatic SLA scorecards based on SRS roll-up of MOM and script generated XML Business Desktop Deployment (BDD) Reporting * Developed the architecture for the BDD 2.0 reporting user interface (UI) o Leveraged key technologies; MOM 2005, SMS 2003, USMT, SQL Server 2005 and SQL Reporting o Oversaw development o Worked with multiple solution teams to correlate end solution Hosted Solutions Architecture Team * Completed the certification for Hosted Exchange 2003 and began leading architectural design sessions at various locations around the globe * Leveraged the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) o Led Architectural Design Sessions (ADS) o Conducted Proof of Concept (POC) deployments o Piloted initial implementations * Sessions were delivered in fourteen countries and three continents resulting in 95% implementation rate after the ADS * Leveraged key technologies; MOM 2000, SMS 2003, Exchange 2003, SQL Server 2000 Microsoft Provisioning System (MPS) 3.0, and Automated Deployment Server (ADS) 1.0 * Designed format for Architectural Design Session and trained Microsoft personnel and Partners on implementation Hosted Solutions Development Team * Designed and created a C# based test harness for hosted provisioning systems * Developed and implemented a set of schemas to leverage MAPI clients in a High Volume Exchange environment * Assessed and Corrected incompatibilities in various versions of a service provider/large scale messaging schema for Exchange 2000 Ciber, Inc. June 2001 - June 2002 Position: Practice Director - Microsoft .NET Technologies Managed and directed a team of 20 senior Microsoft .NET developers. * Duties included scheduling jobs, project oversight, team management, individual management, cost accounting and technological direction * Program scope included multiple sites across several states * Represented clients and consulting firm on several industry authoring groups o Projects had significant impact on fortune 500 companies * National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Freedom of information scientific research site o Designed and deployed content management system * Boeing eBuy/ECES confirmed delivery language o Designed and piloted a confirmed delivery language across 18 application systems and 37,000 vendor companies * Co-authored and mentored the development of the XML Font specification 1.1 for Microsoft's font team o Chaired the initial multi-company review BEST Consulting/Herrick Douglass October 1997 - January 2001 Position: Director, XML Strategies/Senior Consultant Managed and directed a team of senior Web developers for Herrick Douglass. * Duties included scheduling jobs, project oversight, team management, individual management, cost accounting and technological direction * Represented on several industry authoring groups o Assessed and provided technical direction regarding emerging standards in HTML and XML * Designed and implemented a front-end for a contextual self-organizing mapping application to provide knowledge management for senior management review * Designed and implemented a content syndication language Microsoft/CellPro March 1993 - October 1997 [subcontractor] Position: Network Analyst and member of the Operations Web Development Team Designed and integrated a standardized database front-end for Web users to retrieve data on current conditions in the Microsoft Operations Center. Web site was published in "Worldwide Operations Integration," regarding the final web site and tool kit. * Observed, investigated, repaired and/or escalated any issues involving networking and telephony in the operations center * Provided customer service and problem resolution on a variety of topics * Developed and delivered instructor-training courses for internal customer courses * Analyzed and tested new hardware and software systems for successful integration in the existing environment Second Generation Data Corp/HST Group January 1987 - March 1993 Position: Developer/Analyst Designed and implemented software applications. Trained staff, scheduled personnel and managed a staff of five. Provided customer relations, debugged software product and managed hardware resources. * Proposed, acquired and installed computer networks in an educational environment * Provided ongoing support of software and hardware already installed * Provided data and network support for various Mortgage companies * developed and implement CRM and agent interface on Windows 3.1 PUBLICATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Present and Past Professional Associations * IDEAlliance member * ICE Author (Information and Content Exchange) * G-SAM - Experts Panel Published Links * Content Syndication * ICE Application Discussion XML Handbook Version 5 June 2004 * XML Handbook Version 4 December 2001 * XML Handbook Version 1 June 1998 * Whitepapers and Articles * ICE 2.0 Specifications August 1st 2004 * ICE Cookbook August 29th 2000 * ICE 1.1 Specifications November 15th 1999 * ICE focused on Rich Media including live broadcast feeds * W3C Note on Content Syndication October 26th 1998 * Public Presentations and Speeches * Standardization Experts Panel G-SAM 2004 * Lead of the Open Publishing New Technologies Panel in 2001 (government sector) * Guest Speaker on Syndication Security at XML 2000 (book format only) CERTIFICATIONS AND TRAINING HP Certified Technician 1988 Certified Apple Talk to Novell 1990 MCP (NT Server/Enterprise) 1995 Certified XML Programmer 2001 Hosted Exchange 2003 2004 ITIL 2.0 Foundations 2007 Maintaining SQL Server 2005 2008 Implementing SQL Server 2005 2008