About Ed Blankenship
Me and Infragistics
I am currently the Release Engineering Team Lead at Infragistics. My role is to be a third-party observer and provide guidance in improving our overall development process. With that, I research/plan/build whatever tools are necessary to implement those improvements, increase productivity, and provide more visibility into the overall development cycle. We have many releases a year to manage and we need to be as efficient as possible to continue delivering quality & value in every new release! I really get to use my expertise of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server to help out the company. As the Release Engineering Team Lead, I lead the Release Engineering Department which is responsbile for automated builds, creating product installers, packaging source code for customers, source configuration management/version control, metrics, release management, and development of internal productivity tools. We also have the large task of being responsible for TFS Operations & Maintenance. I was also awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for Team System. My MVP profile can be found at: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/ed.blankenship
Along with my current job, I occassionaly perform as a WinForms/WPF Technical Evangelist.
My previous position was as a member of the User Experience Guidance (UXG) group as a Guidisan (which is short for Guidance Artisan.) All of the UXG group members have clever names that describe what their job entails. UXG's goal is to be the go-to group to look for guidance and best practices for user interface design. With that, UXG is responsible for reviewing our products and making sure we improve the overall UX for the developers who use our products, as well as the ultimate end users - our customers' customers. I'm really excited about the number of projects, articles, and improvements we had accomplished and they continue to keep going!