Developer Engineer

Sarah Dilling

Mountlake Terrace, WA *****

email: ******@*****.***

phone: 425-***-****

Objective

Seeking a job opportunity in the Seattle, WA area which has challenging problems to solve by writing web software that improves user experience.

Education

University of California at Los Angeles

MLIS, 12-2005

California Institute of Technology

B.Sc., Geophysics, 1994

Experience

Lockerz 8-2011 to present

Front End Web Developer (Aug 2011 - present)

Worked on a 6 developer agile team to create new commenting system.

Wrote PHP interfaces to web services to access data within Symfony framework.Wrote CSS, JS, HTML user interface to PSD provided specification from designer.Facilitated knowledge transfer between developers and other teams within the company via JIRA and backlogs.Modified internal tool written in Django to interact with new web services allowing administrator to more easily invalidate caches at specific times rather than waiting for a batch process to occur, providing more control over content appearing on the website.Created process for and ran Release Management cycle for Shop software package.Spelunked heavily modified Magento 1.7 codebase to look for places to improve shopping cart/PayPal interaction times.

Linden Lab 1-2006 to 8-2011

Search Engineer (June 2010 - Aug 2011)

Program Manager of Communications & Knowledge Management (Oct 2009 - June 2010)

Interim Technical Lead of Search (Jan 2009 - Oct 2009)

Web Developer (Jan 2006 - Oct 2009)

Worked on a 4 developer agile team to bring new search interface online a month before original deadline.

Served as integration point between front-end dev and back-end devs.Wrote mainly python (within flask framework) with some html, css, and javascript bits.Kept communications open with QA person to ensure bugs weren't lost between 2 tracking systems.Wrote first draft of UX Specification of redesigned search product.Brought design specs together with developing back-end API to meet a deadline for user-testing of new search interface.Implemented limited word filtering in coordination with viewer and server teams to restrict access to adult-oriented wordsHelped create search of virtual world accessible via web interfaceConfigured and maintained Google Search Appliances (GSA)Configured and maintained python crawl scripts which rendered virtual world information into interlinked html pages for GSA processingIntegrated 3rd party python search code into local environmentWorked on PCI compliance (mostly Perl CGIs)Developed and implemented weekly blog summarizing company-wide information for busy co-workers to reduce their information seeking timeDeveloped and implemented internal communication policy focused on reducing communication channels

UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Science

Coursework from 9-2003 through 12-2005

Information in Society Information Structures Information Access

System Analysis & Design Human-Computer Interaction Metadata

Contemporary Children's Literature Information Policy Seminar Descriptive Cataloging

Government Information Techniques & Issues in Information Access Special Libraries

Introduction to Information Technology Management Theory & Practice for Information Professionals

Information-Seeking Behavior Information Retrieval -- User Centered Design

Answerbag.com

Internship, April 2005 to September 2005

Redesign of site layout for better accessibilityDevelopment of process to screen community moderators

Silver Platter Software

Developer, January 1, 2003 to April 15, 2003

Wrote C++ code to network online games on Windows 2000 computers.Used generic programming with templatesUsed boost libraries for loosely coupled codeWrote python pre-processor to cross-index Doxygen generated documentation

Tritech, Inc

Developer, June 10, 2002 to October 30, 2002

Set up log4j in pre-existing code baseSet up Junit unit tests on pre-existing code baseCreated csv output widget inside pre-existing html output reporting systemCreated affiliate program to help drive traffic to member websitesExpanded affiliate payout from 1-tier to 2-tier systemCode base was live credit card processing system (with attempted 0 downtime)

TruePricing

Contractor, April 2002

Used Perl and shell scripting to load data into PostGreSQL with COPYCreated test suite with Jmeter for jsp pages returning xmlHelped set up production environment (installation of PostGreSQL and Tomcat on server)

ArsDigita

Developer, March 2000 to February 2002

Member of engineering team working on new product development

Used Java, Tomcat, and Oracle to develop collaboration productsCoded new features in response to use cases developed by marketingMade changes to code in response to tickets filed by QAHelped define the product in collaboration with marketing

Worked on client team creating website

Used Tcl, AOLServer, and Oracle to modify ArsDigita Community System for eBilityWorked closely with client to modify existing code to meet their requirementsUsed ticket tracker, bulletin boards, and conference calls to stay in close contact with clientImproved bboard and chat modules to client specifications

Wedcom, Inc.

Developer, September 1998 to February 2000

Responsible for daily deployment of collateral to live NAS servers.Responsible for Perl CGIs to take sweepstakes entries, MySQL database to store entriesReported entrants to co-sponsors in Excel spreadsheet format.Coordinated personalization and configuration of iChat serverDocumented existing functionality for marketing so they could request upgrades.

SkillsWorking knowledge of *nix, Windows, and Mac OSX systems and programs.Have programmed recently in computer languages:

Have worked recently with the following databases:

Have worked recently with Git, Mercurial, and Subversion.Can read and write French passably well.Last revised October 18, 2011

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