Objective
Software Service Manager - Plan and Coordinate internal tools development, QA, and ongoing automation maintenance
for a medium to large sized software service. I have a lot of energy, a wide range of skills, and tend to be very productive,
in coding, analysis and interpersonal tasks. I would hope to still get my hands on the code, and if it was a smaller venture,
I would expect to do much of the coding myself. I expect a significant amount and complexity of work.
I don't want a situation where I am not challenged.
History:
Rhapsody Online, first at Real Networks, and then in spinoff
to Rhapsody International
June 2007 to October 2010
- Re-vamped Build Tools for 2 major rewrite releases
- Developed support monitoring tool using Ruby and curl with extensive reporting, and a complex coordinated menu system.
- Wrote 2 major versions of complex web oriented markup comparison tool using Ruby, curl, and the diff utility and a little nokogiri.
- Wrote 2 major versions of test signoff management tool, one in Ruby on Rails
- Developed simple Ruby on Rails configurations data manager.
- Created a test support probe using Ruby and Curl.
- Created a complex probe time report using Ruby.
- Installed and Managed internal Ubuntu and CentOS servers, and the software tools and resources thereon.
- Constulted with managers and administrators throughout the company with regard to issues of support and resource needs.
- Acted as QA liason and Analyst for a wide range of needs.
June 2007 to July 2007
Bugged defects and helped regress existing bugs for Ubuntu's Gutsy
Desktop and Server products using the
http://launchpad.net
project brokering web site. Achieved karma points of as high as
350.
CoCo - Software Engineer in Test with Developer Activities
November 2006 to May 2007
- Wrote a test harness for multi-platform work using Ruby,
Bash, SSH, Cygwin. Python used in early draft.
- Wrote automation scripts for Windows, Cygwin, and Debian hosts
- Assisted with other test and analysis needs.
onAir - Software Developer in Test
June 2006 to September 2006
- Assisted in test automation tool analysis and prototyping.
- Assisted with other consulting and script-writing duties.
Real Networks - Software Development and Test Engineer in QA
and Dev/Build
June 2005 to June 2006
- Wrote internal tools in Ruby, Ant, Java and Bash for Build and QA tasks.
- Assisted in analysis and testing duties.
Other Experience Left off for now, but goes back to 1983.
Education:
B.A., Economics, University of Washington, 1982. Cum Laude,
Phi Beta Kappa. Focus on mathematics coursework (48 credits from
math department, 10 credits statistics from economics department).