Darrin ("Darrique") Lane Barton
Experience

Casa Cupula Boutique Hotel, 2002-Present
General Manager

  • In concert with the Hotel owner, assisted in the creation and development of the hotel basically from the ground up.
  • Was charged with Management of all Operations including Housekeeping, Maintenance, Client Relations, Concierge Services, Reservations, Human Resources and Restaurant Management.
  • Grew the size of the hotel from 5 rooms in 2002 to the current 20 rooms. Including design and development of four mixed-use hotel/condo units.
  • Consistently grew RevPar, Occupancy, Revenue, and Profitability year on year; and grew our staff from 3 to 22 people in the process.
  • Formulated and executed on various marketing campaigns, promotional activities, and development of targeted plan for the Mexican market.

Independent Web Consultant, Seattle, WA, 2000 - 2002

  • Worked with a number of Consultancies in the Web Development arena with the creation and distribution of solutions integrating web and traditional software development.

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, 1996 - 1999
Lead Program Manager, Outlook

  • Primarily as an individual contributor, then as a Lead Program Manager, assisted with the functional design of Microsoft Outlook; specifically targeted at developer extensibility and object model functionality
  • Designed and lead the development team in created the Outlook Object Model and implementation of Visual Basic for Applications.

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, 1994 - 1996
International Development Evangelist

  • Charged with the development, content, and delivery of highly specified developer-oriented training for Microsoft Development Tools.
  • Traveled to over 30 countries world-wide annually meeting with, educating, and resolving technical issues for developers of Windows solutions.
  • Was an instrumental factor of increased sales of Microsoft Developer Tools outside of the USA/Canada over 500%

Microsoft Corporation, New York City, NY, 1989 - 1994
Senior Systems Architect

  • Assisted Sales agents in all technical matters of software and services sales and support 
  • Help design and train other Systems Engineers in technical sales of Microsoft Windows and Windows Office Applications.
  • Lead the East Coast Region for Microsoft Sales Architectural Engineer group
  • Provided key role in winning high profile sales for 6 years in Fortune 100 companies.
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