CASEY CHESNUT

brains-N-brawn LLC (web)

casey@brains-N-brawn.com (email)
469.358.6519 (cell)
Please contact by email 1st

Objective: Advanced C# .NET developer specializing in pervasive computing. This includes having
experience with a wide range of technologies and targeting many different platforms.
Received the Microsoft MVP award 6 times in 6 different technical categories. Over 9
years working exclusively with .NET

Telecommuting positions are preferred. Would consider full-time positions for Research
& Development (R&D), Home Automation, or Speech Development.

Availability: Dallas, TX metroplex or Telecommuting.

Honors: Microsoft MVP – Client App Dev 2008

Microsoft MVP – Office Communications Server 2007
Microsoft MVP – Media Center 2006
Microsoft MVP – XML Web Services 2005
Microsoft MVP - .NET Compact Framework 2004
Microsoft MVP - Tablet PC 2003
Wisconsin .NET User Group Executive Committee 2005
AspInsider 2002, AspElite 2002

Contests: 2nd place - Microsoft Robot Invaders Coding Contest (Nov 2006)
1st place - Microsoft Code Your Way to PDC (Sep 2005)

Certification: MCSD .NET (Sep 2004), MCAD .NET, MCP

Transcript ID: 658671 Access Code: 12345678

Skills: Advanced in these bleeding-edge technologies

• .NET – C#, VB.NET

• .NET 3.5 – Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) / XBAP / Silverlight, Windows Workflow
Foundation (WF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
• Augmented Reality – ARToolKitPlus
• 3D – Managed Direct3D, MD3DM, XNA, WPF 3D
• Media Center Edition – Add-Ins, Hosted HTML, MediaState API, MCML
• DirectX – DirectShow, Managed Direct3D Mobile (MD3DM)
• Location Based Services – (LBS) MapPoint, NASA World Wind, Virtual Earth
• Speech / Voice – UCMA SDK 2.0, Office Communication Server, IVR, Speech Server 2007,
System.Speech, SALT, VoiceXml / VXML, SAPI, GRXML, N-Gram grammars
• Artificial Intelligence – Neural Networks, SOM, Hidden Markov Models, Image Processing,
Audio Processing, Video Processing
• Mobile / Wireless – Compact Framework (.NETcf), Mobile .NET, Pocket PC, SmartPhone, CE
• Digital Ink – Tablet PC WinForms, Ink in IE, Custom recognition, Smart Clients
• XML Web Services – XML Web Services, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI
o WSE 3.0, WS-Security (Xml-Encryption & Xml-Signature), WS-SecureConversation
o WS-Attachments (DIME), WS-Addressing (WS-Routing) / Referral
o WS-Eventing, WS-ReliableMessaging
• XML – XML, Schemas / XSD, XSLT, XPATH, SVG
• Web – ASP.NET Web Forms, minimal Javascript and DHTML
• Security – Web Service Enhancements (WSE) 3.0, Cryptography, Biometrics
 • SQL Notification Services – 1st .NET location-based service (LBS)

Education: 2 Masters obtained in parallel while working full-time

• MS Computer Science in Software Engineering, GPA: 3.7

University of Texas at Dallas; Dallas, TX [August 2000]
• Masters Equivalent Program in Software Systems Engineering
University of Texas at Austin; Austin, TX [December 1999]
• BS Computer Science, Minor in Philosophy, GPA: 3.3
Trinity University; San Antonio, TX [May 1998]

Lectures: Public speaking

• Dallas C# SIG (January 2008) Augmented Reality with .NET

• WI.NET User Group (November 2007) Augmented Reality with .NET
• Madison .NET User Group (October 2007) Media Center Development
• Madison .NET User Group (March 2007) Speech in Vista and Speech Server 2007
• Madison .NET User Group (November 2006) Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
• WI.NET User Group (June 2005) Presented Tablet and Speech technologies in .NET
• Student Ambassadors (April 2005) XML Web Services and .NET CF
• Harvard (December 2004) Presented .NET Compact Framework
• Mobile DevCon (March 2004) Presented .NET Compact Framework and WSE 2.0
• Harvard [David Platt] (December 2003) Presented .NET Compact Framework
• Carnegie Mellon (October 2002) Presented VoiceXml and Speech .NET
• OOPSLA (October 2001) Presented .NET XML Web Services tutorial.
• Dallas .NET User Group (April 2001 – January 2002) Founder of the user group. Made the 1st
introductory presentation in April 2001. Presented Web Services in June 2001.

Articles: Over the last 5 years I have written 70+ advanced articles for the developer community.
These articles cover a wide range of technologies and target a number of different
devices. They are primarily self teaching exercises, but they also prove that my skill set
listed above is not fluff. The articles are hosted at http://www.brains-N-brawn.com

Experience:

brains-N-brawn LLC (January 2001 - Present)

Self-owned contracting company. Run my own web server from home.

• Rapp; Irving, TX (September 2010 – Present)

.NET C#, WinForms, ClickOnce, WCF Web Services
• Microsoft; Redmond, WA (March 2009 – January 2010) [Telecommute]
Implemented VoiceXml adapter for Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 using
Microsoft.Speech and the UCMA SDK.
• Microsoft; Mountain View, CA (February 2008 – November 2008) [Telecommute]
Developed speech web services for IVR system. Normalized and geocoded data, created grxml and n-
gram speech recognition grammars, etc.
• Edgenet BigHammer; Waukesha, WI (June 2006 – October 2007)
Part of a 3 person team that developed a web-deployed 3D room visualization application (Edgenet
Vision) using WPF and WCF. Focused primarily on XBAP security and deployment, the 3D content
pipeline, and data services.
• Microsoft; Redmond, WA (Nov 2005 – May 2006) [Telecommute]
Prototyped a graphical application for an Advanced Strategy group that used the following
technologies : CE, Tablet, and GDI.
• AQS; Hartland, WI (Nov 2004 – Oct 2005)
 Wrote an XML schema-based Rules Engine. It supported low level programming constructs as well as
higher level Domain Specific Languages (DSL). Worked in a XAML-like framework for developing
No Touch Deployment applications to a SOA backend. The system used multiple layers of code
generation with WSE security for exchanging data.
• Promega; Madison, WI (Nov 2004 – March 2005)
Extended some existing ASP.NET applications. E.g. adding security and exposing additional
functionality.
• Adesso Systems; Boston, MA (May 2004 – June 2004)
SmartPhone, Compact Framework, Xml-Encryption, Cryptography
• Johnson Controls; Milwaukee, WI (March 2003 – December 2003)
Partnered with Microsoft to port a large Web Service application (175 WebMethods) from the full
.NET Framework (XP) to the .NET Compact Framework (CE). Main development phases involved
extending base class library of .NETcf (175 types, 1750 methods), creating a managed ASMX web
service server for CE, and the actual port of the application logic (75K lines of code). Worked around
175 porting issues across 35 namespaces due to limitations of the .NETcf. Also, ensured WS
interoperability with the Soap Toolkit (COM / Scripting) and .NET clients.
• FreeMarkets; Pittsburgh, PA (February 2002 – October 2002)
Large (50+ developers) .NET development project for developing their next generation e-sourcing
platform. Developed ASP.NET business process modeling tool for designing a Workflow (basically an
online XML editor). Reflects against a strongly typed DataSet for its Model, to dynamically pickup
schema changes. The View is through the MS TreeView control and dynamically building a DataGrid.
The Control layer verifies and validates the process and runs an in-memory simulation to test the
process for any loops or deadlocks.
• Calpine; Fort Collins, CO (October 2001 - November 2001)
Developed backend Data Access Layer Web Service to receive XML requests, call 4 backend data
stores (real-time, reporting, relational, and financial) process the results and return as Typed DataSets.
Runs as a Windows Service which can be called with .NET Remoting for distributed communication.
Makes ADO.NET calls to proprietary APIs which were wrapped with C# components. Also,
developed wrapper for Office XP Web Components using XML Schemas/XSD.
• EDS; Fort Worth, TX (July 2001 – September 2001)
Contractor for EDS’s Web Engineering division. Developed C# component for providing notification
services. Developed C# Windows Service for determining that web sites/services were running.
• Sabre; Fort Worth, TX (March 2001 – June 2001)
Contractor for Sabre’s Shared Web Hosting division. Provided consulting on how to leverage .NET
Web Services to expand their business to external customers. Developed .NET Web Services to
provide authentication and authorization services to an Active Directory LDAP server using the .NET
Class Library, and native ADSI calls through a COM component from C#.

Valtech Technologies Incorporated; Addison, TX (August 1999 – December 2000) [1.5 years]
International consulting, contracting, and training group specializing in advanced e-business technologies.

• Adecco; Long Island, NY (Fall 2000 - Winter 2000)

Developing a web application for fully integrated staffing management.
• Zixit ZixMail and ZixCharge; Dallas, TX (Summer 1999 - Summer 2000)
Developing systems to provide secure email and e-commerce transactions on the Internet.

Raytheon Systems Company; Garland, TX (1994 – August 1999) [1.5 years full-time, 4 years part-time]
Global leader of defense and commercial electronics.

• SIVAM – Full-time Summer 1998 to Summer 1999, part-time Summer 1997

Developed integrated remote sensor system for reconnaissance and wide-area surveillance of the
Amazon.
• SecureID – Part-time Summers 1996, 1995, 1994
Developed system for creating tamper proof passports and identification cards.
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