Korin Bampton

Experience

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  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.

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  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.

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  City of Edmonton

  Aug 2004 - Feb 2005

  Portal Implementer

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

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  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

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  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

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  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"

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  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.

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  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
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  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.

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  Investopedia

  Jul 2015 - Mar 2017

  Head of Support

  Responsible for overall support / infrastructure of Investopedia.com

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  Investopedia.com

  Mar 2017 - Sept 2018

  Project Manager, Platform Team
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  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.

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  Dotdash

  Sept 2018 - now

  Manager, Security Operations