Korin Bampton

Korin Bampton

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Manager, Security Operations at Dotdash

  • Education

    • Eastglen HIgh School

      1990 - 1994
      High School Diploma High School Diploma

      Activities and Societies: Manager for the junior volleyball and basketball teams.

    • University of Alberta

      1995 - 2000
      Bachelor of Science Computer Science

      Activities and Societies: MC for Graduation Banquet Earned a BSc in Computer Science

  • Experience

    • Bioware

      Jan 2001 - Jan 2002
      Programmer

      Created prototype of the audio engine for use on the Xbox. Responsible for other coding efforts with a focus on character aspects such as generation and levelling.

    • CodeBaby

      Oct 2002 - Aug 2004
      Programmer

      Originally responsible for creation of back end system to support the user interface.Transitioned to support of the graphics engine, where I made improvements allowing use on a wider range of computers than originally supported.

    • City of Edmonton

      Aug 2004 - Feb 2005
      Portal Implementer

      Implemented Plumtree Portal 5.0 for the City of Edmonton's website.

    • TELUS Communications

      Jan 2005 - Jan 2007
      DBA

      Responsible for installation and management of Oracle & SQL Server Databases. Including Windows, HP, AIX (RAC Databases). In addition- I was a member of the production support team - Designed and implemented a system to refresh training databases. This system was developed within a very small and urgent time frame.- Due to my programming background, I liaised with internal clients when there were development issues using the database

    • Investopedia ULC

      Dec 2007 - Apr 2009
      Team Lead

      Team lead of the On-line Stock Market Simulator. My responsibilities included- Mentoring new staff- Planning, organizing and running project sprints.- Working with internal business client to determine requirements- Document and design new components as well as improve documentation on older components- Interviewing potential new hires

    • NAIT

      May 2009 - Apr 2010
      Instructor and Developer

      Instructor for "Introduction to the Game Industry""Artificial Intelligence in Games""3D Environments and Assets""Advanced Game Programming"Course developer for "Artificial Intelligence in Games""3D Environments and Assets""Advanced Game Programming"

    • Flint Energy Services

      Aug 2009 - Dec 2009
      Report Writer

      Developed and wrote reports with Oracle Report Builder and Crysal Reports to work against a third-party product called Smart Plant Materials.

    • Flint Energy Services

      Feb 2010 - Mar 2012

      Senior Developer and Team Lead for internal development projects at Flint. This included prototyping, coding, setting standards and data modelling. Technical lead charged with integrating JDE and Prism with a product called Smart Plant materials.

      • Senior Developer

        Nov 2010 - Mar 2012
      • Technical Lead

        Feb 2010 - Dec 2010
    • Alberta Blue Cross

      Jun 2012 - Jun 2015
      Contractor - Programmer / System Analyst

      PL/SQL programmer (with a little bit of Java) focused on implementing batch and conversion processes, reviewing code and performing query and code optimizations for projects within Alberta Blue Cross. In addition, I instructed team members in TDD using PL/SQL.

    • Investopedia

      Jul 2015 - Mar 2017
      Head of Support

      Responsible for overall support / infrastructure of Investopedia.com

    • Investopedia.com

      Mar 2017 - Sept 2018
      Project Manager, Platform Team
    • Investopedia

      Jun 2017 - Sept 2018
      Manager, Software Development

      Manage a team of 6 people broken into 3 distinct groups - QA / support - they handle the day to day & off hours initial support for the site as well as work with internal teams to perform better QA- Automation - they handle automating whatever we can including CI, unit tests, etc.- Platform / DevOps - they handle our infrastructure and deployments.

    • Dotdash

      Sept 2018 - now
      Manager, Security Operations
  • Licenses & Certifications