Ron Mills

About Ron Mills

Professional Experience: Adaptable, effective, and innovative technology professional with demonstrated success in coordinating and leading business acquisitions, development and onboarding, program management and consulting on key projects related to multi-million dollar risks. Experienced in customer service situations, Big Data analysis and business enhancements in highly dynamic, ambiguous, environments. Personally consulted on drafting congressional bills in partnership with federal law enforcement to address national cyber security. Goal: Enter into a challenging position that requires in depth, hands-on involvement with new technology, investigatory responsibilities, software security and forensics, support planning and strategizing. Specialties: escalation management, project management, acquisition, online advertising, budgeting, malware, forensics, data analysis, root cause analysis, macros, cyber security, SQL, Microsoft Access, Excel, PowerPoint, organizational skills, process development, Visio, reverse engineering, code de-obfuscation, black ops, decompiling, pattern detection, intelligence gathering, botnet, display advertising, search advertising, publisher monetization, content advertising, pivot tables, PowerPivot, php, MySQL, asp classic, asp.net, C#, Code Look, Code Review, Release To Operations (RTO), proactive monitoring, data security, Big Data, lawsuits, litigation, expert witness, legal advisory, Business Intelligence (BI), technical program management

Experience

1. Lead Software Developer Sr Supportability Program Manager

   Microsoft

   Jul 2016 — Present · Issaquah, WA, US

   Diversity and Inclusion participant and ally. Pairing the experience of others with my perspectives and position to raise awareness and bridge the gap of understanding and acceptance across diverse groups. • Mentor and coach to management and peers in the areas of team direction, change management and working with different personality types. • Headcount modeling for vendor and FTE resource allocation, budgets, fiscal planning, and project planning. • Architect and develop the Connected Telemetry Platform from the ground up with the customer at the center and building the technologies out around the interactions to incorporate aspects of the experience with the expected lifetime value. • Connect disparate data sources of varying formats to collect, load, transform and report in aggregate and the most granular level to deliver robust insights of performance, challenges, and business impact. • Systems currently load and process an average of 900M records monthly, 10B+ annually. • Develop algorithms for Weekly/Monthly reporting to deliver sales leads, cost reduction, external staff performance management and ROI calculations comparing cohort groups of revenue ranging from $5MM to more than $400MM monthly. • Proactively matched key employees with difficult to fill roles that allowed us to unblock and scale up our operations. • Architect and execute migration of on-premises infrastructure, code, data, and resources to Azure. Including IIS to Azure Web App, local MS SQL to Azure SQL, and others. • Partnered within FTE and vendor resources to migrate from Azure resources to Unified Data Platform (UDP), Data Bricks, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), and other enhanced security infrastructure. • Converted Power BI reporting from Azure SQL to ADLS using Spark Connectors, including DAX, Visuals, slicers, validation, and documentation. • Technologies Used: C#; ASP.net; Bootstrap; Telerik; SQL; Big Data; Azure SQL; Data Analyst; Power BI; Azure Databricks; Azure DevOps.

Education

• Charter College

  A.A, Computerized Accounting

  1997 — 1998

• BotNet Task Force Member

  Software Security and Law Enforcement

• DEFCON and PubCon

  Hardware and Software Security

  2008 — 2009

• University of Alaska Anchorage

  Computer Science and Psychology

  1996 — 1997

• Certified Ethical Hacker

  Software Security

• University of Phoenix

  Computers and Information ProcessingOrganizational Behavior

• SkillPath Seminars

  Business Management

  2002 — 2011