Engineer Software

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Experience

Senior Java Engineer (Common Platform Interfaces Group Developer),

MSCI Inc,

Berkeley, CA

August 2011 - present

Writing Java code.

Senior Java Engineer (Software Engineer IV),

Cisco Media Solutions Group,

San Francisco, CA

June 2008 - July 2011

Software engineer at Agile (scrum) startup within Cisco, writing Java web services for a platform

that built social networking websites, Cisco Eos.

Agile Software Engineer,,

San Francisco, CA

April 2007 - June 2008

Software engineer at Agile software development consultancy, doing test-driven Agile development with a wide variety of

clients. Java/Spring/Hibernate/Postgres application for Sourceforge, Ruby

on Rails application for Bring Light, worked on Java code for Salesforce.com.

Web Archiving Programmer,,

University of California Office of the President

January

2004 - April 2007

Promoted from Programmer/Analyst II June 2005, doing Perl and Java.

Developer for online library of the University of California. Winner, Incentive Award Program, Spring 2005.

Software design and Java code for Digital

Preservation Repository and NDIIPP project, incorporating Internet

Archive's Heritrix crawler. Contributions to Heritrix include DecideRules

code

and a wiki page referenced from here on Embedding

Heritrix wiki page. Technical team lead for the NDIIPP team, senior coder and

architect, mentoring junior coders. Learned Ruby on Rails for NDIIPP user interface.

CRS II/Web Applications Programmer, ITS Tech Transfer Program,

University of California at

Berkeley

November

2002 - January 2004

As part of 3-person Systems team, developed applications in Perl and

PHP in Apache/Linux and shared PostgreSQL administration for departmental

website.

Web Programmer, ThriveOnline, San

Francisco

July

2000 - December 2001

Promoted from HTML Associate 2/01.

Coded Oracle-backed internal system administration apps and external web apps

in Perl and Java for

award-winning

healthy living site.

Hand-built HTML pages.

Devised Perl/XML solution using XSLT display stylesheets for publishing

50,000-page medical library and

daily Reuters feed, using native ATG Dynamo job

scheduling system.

Oversaw highly successful site moves from NT to Unix development; to new server

farm; and to Interwoven platform.

Introduced QA strategy and accessibility policy.

Wrote 10,000-line Fitness Planner for Kellogg's Fitness CD-ROM, included in 10

million

cereal boxes. Project-managed and led large, mission-critical

projects, tracking milestones with Microsoft Project.

Sample screen shots:

: Perl code,

HTML

:

Perl, Javascript and DHTML, HTML

: Perl and

Actionscript code

Lucent Technologies, Systems Support

Specialist, Denver, CO

November 1998-June 2000

Concurrent with web duties below, supported Legend PBX (phone system). Premier

Associate award, 2000; Key to Excellence award, 1999. Click for more information on this position.

Lucent TSO Recognition team

January

2000 - June 2000

Structured, designed, and coded internal corporate award

and recognition site.

Honors, Publications and Professional Associations

Sugarman, S., Pride Raffel, S., Loy, D., and Reyes, M., "Expanding the CDL Digital Preservation Repository for New Projects."

Presentation for the

Seneca, T., and Pride Raffel, S., "NDIIPP Web-at-Risk: The Development of a

Web Archiving Service at the California Digital Library." (Wrote all

technical content, about 15 of 30 pages.)

In proceedings of the

2006 International Web Archiving Workshop

Winner, for Librarians new to the Profession (Fall 2004 DLF

Forum)

/ALA

: Java SIG, Best

Practices/Software Architecture SIG, Women's Information Group, XML/Web Services SIG, Women in Technology International

(attend, non-member)

San Francisco Higher Education Web Professionals group (SFHEWP)

Education

Princeton

University, B.A. Magna cum laude in English June 1990, Phi Beta

Kappa

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