Experiences at Employease

Lead Engineer of a group of 8, entrusted to oversee entire release cycle of an Internet based human resource management system (HRMS) used by 1000 companies with over 300,000 users. Responsible for Functional Requirements Analysis, Architecture Impact and UML Design using Rational Rose, Project Planning with MS Project, Hands on Implementation using emacs, JBuilder and JUnit, Defect Assignment, and Deployment....

Release nights. The release team would go to a nice dinner and then come back and put up the outage page. Over the next 12 hours or so, while waiting for your turn to put up your code or oversee migrations or verify test cases or (hopefully not) scrambling to fix problems, you were either sleeping on the floor, snacking, watching movies, playing video games, or wandering around outside in the dark. It was like a big sleep over party for geeks....

On of my favorite projects I worked on at Employease was the recruitment application (~2000-2001). For the time, there was some amazing innovation in that offering, including customized question/answer definition, clever use of DHTML, and some great search tools and interfaces. I also learned a lot about the recruiting process, which has helped drive that aspect of my career....