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Myspace or Facebook (or neither)?

Both and neither. Each meets a different need and applies to a different context. Neither's really my scene, though.

Posted @ 03:51PM, June 05, 2008 by J Bihun | Permalink
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Work history

WhitePages.com August 2005 to the present
QA Manager

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How would you describe your time at WhitePages.com?

I manage the QA team responsible for Whitepages' state of the art directory search service and applications, as well as related applications like our developer API and B2B products. I coordinate resources and help steer projects, administer my team of employees, and provide both broad and deep technical insight into project management and development decisions.

Before my promotion into this position, in addition to the normal duties of a software test engineer, I helped to develop, maintain, and extend test automation and test automation infrastructure and was QA Lead for a large, ambitious e-mail relay project. While in this role I also took over development leadership for same project, balancing the demands of both positions.
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SolutionsIQ June 2005 to August 2005
Software Test Engineer

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How would you describe your time at SolutionsIQ?

For a large regional and national insurance company, test internal software and hardware used to handle data transfer and process claims among regional offices and the headquarters office; also, help create a test automation strategy and framework for this group.
excell data June 2004 to June 2005
Software Design Engineer in Test 3

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How would you describe your time at excell data?

On contract to Microsoft Corporation, Visual Studio, Visual C# group. Planned and ran automation to fulfill test scenario matrices, and created and maintained scripts and test tools to improve automation infrastructure division-wide. Helped maintain the cross-product-unit computer lab under the authority of the lab manager. Tested and maintained test automation for test feature areas.... read more
Various Contract Positions September 2002 to June 2004
Quality Assurance Engineer

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How would you describe your time at Various Contract Positions?

Agencies included Volt Services Group; Venturi Technical Partners; Comsys; and SolutionsIQ. Clients included Philips Oral Healthcare; TranSenda Corporation; City of Seattle Department of Design, Construction, and Land Use; drugstore.com; and Microsoft Corporation.

For all positions, tested
builds of business-critical software for release; documented test plans and QA process and method; helped to maintain QA/development lab servers and prepare new builds for testing; liaised with other groups to ensure resources and scheduling.... read more
Sitesmith September 2000 to May 2001
Systems Architect

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How would you describe your time at Sitesmith?

(Now AboveNet.) Implemented, in Cold Fusion, perl, and Oracle, an intranet knowledge repository and company-wide operations support system, combining document storage; all aspects of company, employee, and vendor information; and billing and hours entry systems. Was part of a two-man development team, supporting first 400 and later 2500 employees, maintaining and adding functionality to this system.... read more
Amazon.com February 1999 to July 2000
Software Development Engineer in Test

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How would you describe your time at Amazon.com?

Developed internal tools for software testing and development groups to improve the quality assurance process; specifically, developed both automated testing suites and web-based software lifecycle tracking software, using perl, Javascript, SQL, HTML, and CSS. Earlier, founded testing group for new Amazon.com product; created test method and test automation, in perl and in a proprietary perl-based scripting language, for assigned product and all Amazon.com products.... read more
volt services group February 1998 to February 1999
Software Test Engineer 2

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How would you describe your time at volt services group?

On assignment to Microsoft Corporation, Middle Eastern Product Group. Tested HTML features in bidirectional language versions of Microsoft Word 9.x, including creation and implementation of test scripts, resolution of localisation issues, development of testing automation and strategies, bug tracking, and testing under multiple web browsers and computer platforms.... read more
Zip2 May 1997 to January 1998
Quality Assurance Analyst

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How would you describe your time at Zip2?

Tested web-based software; was product testing lead for multiple products; was Macintosh testing lead; created of TCP- and database-reliant software, primarily in Visual Basic, for automation of testing; was Partner Support liaison; co-developed company-wide quality assurance policy; was department webmaster, responsible for intranet dissemination of product and server information.... read more
Netcom On-line Communications October 1996 to May 1997
Electronic Technical Support/Policy Management

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How would you describe your time at Netcom On-line Communications?

Provided end-user technical support, via email, for both proprietary and third-party Internet software; revised and wrote information files regarding customer issues and resolutions thereof; was primary Macintosh email support representative. For three months worked half-time for the Abuse team, researching and processing reports of system abuse.... read more
Books That Work January 1996 to September 1996
Software Quality Assurance Lead

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How would you describe your time at Books That Work?

Tested Windows and browser-based software; supervised contract testing staff; co-ordinated beta testing for the QA group; was product release engineer and internal technical support; helped write and edit WISE installation scripts for released products.

Education

foothill college August 1997 to December 1997
Linguistics

How would you describe your time at foothill college?

Returned to school for one semester.
american river college August 1993 to December 1995
Math/General Education

How would you describe your time at american river college?

Attended part-time during high school, working towards Maths degree.

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