Experience

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  Informix/ibm

  Jun 2000 - Aug 2001

  Software engineer internship

  - Developed a number of web applications to assist 4 internal development teams. Gathered requirements from management and developed a gantt chart, calendar app, and other communication tools from scratch. Some of the tools I created were later shipped as example use cases along with Informix's Cloudscape database. - Overcame a short ramp-up period to fix defects for Informix's web based database server administrator (ISA) over a 3 week Christmas break. Was asked back in the summer to continue fixing defects and implement small features for ISA. Show less

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  Ibm

  Jan 2002 - Oct 2012

  Softwareengineer/test engineer

  - Designed and developed functions for DB2 v9's native XML engine. Worked extensively with unicode (UTF-8) and other globalization techniques at the lowest level. - Owned the testing of two major components of DB2’s native XML engine including its indexing and xquery capabilities. Found double the amount of defects as the team average. - Became test lead for an international team working on the DB2’s decimal floating point. Project was delivered ahead of schedule and was named a top contributor for the year for the quality of tests written, number of defects found, and extra tools that improved the speed of test scenario creation. - Functionally tested DB2's multi temperature storage feature. On a team of 3 recognized for finding 3x as many defects as was projected. Was part of a pilot effort to first investigate integration of agile development and testing methods into our project life-cycle. - Was the test lead for developing a low level white-box test for DB2’s High Availability Data Replication project. This complex project required detailed understanding of the original code to run specific concurrency scenarios. Ported the tests to run in our nightly testing environment. - Led small test teams on 2 additional High Availability features. - Was the IT representative interfacing our development team to the local and global IT team. I researched new technology, guided requirement discussions, and negotiated hardware and IT needs on behalf of Portland's DB2 software group. Show less

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  Quantivate

  Oct 2012 - Jul 2015

  Director of technology/development manager

  - Oversaw all aspects of the technology department including the support, maintenance, and new development of Quantivate’s cloud based web platform. - Managed 2 major product upgrades from requirements to delivery in a high paced startup environment. During these upgrades, I managed a team of 4 on multiple projects from a previously untracked on schedule rate to hitting 70% to 80% on schedule rate. - Completed most of the testing and code/branch management for the team.- Managed the company's technical project releases. Including the coordinating the releases tasks of operations, program management and marketing departments. - Interfaced with customers for high priority questions or concerns and presented future product roadmaps. - Led and participated in discussions on the future of the product and the prioritization of projects. Show less

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  Self employed

  Mar 2016 - Jul 2017

  Contract software engineer
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  Diginius

  Jul 2017 - now

  Renkema consulting