Experiences at Avogadro

Wrote test automation using mostly visual basic. Although some web development in asp/vbscript.

I was the guy responsible for advancing a pilot deployment of a mobile IM solution to Genie, which is what the mobile Internet service brand of BT (British Telecom) was called at the time. (BT has since renamed their mobile service "O2", and the Genie brand has been subsumed as "O2 Live" or something like that.) It was a nifty project, and it gave me some very quick lessons in working with mobile telecoms operators. The product was pretty early stage, hampered by the constraints of dealing with WAP and SMS interfaces. (This was WAP 3.x days, and some of those phones were really crappy.)
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Front row seats at Mariner games
Interview dinners
Competitive coding contests
BBQs at the CEO's house
Ping pong and foos ball ladders

Unfortunately I can't give advice because the company doesn't exist anymore. It was bought by Openwave and I think everyone originally from Avogadro is now elsewhere.