Quality Assurance Manager

Shawna Martell

*** ********** ***** *********, ** 61822

Phone: 217-***-**** E-Mail: ******@*************.***

Professional Experience

Wolfram Research, Inc, Champaign, IL Jul 2011 Present

Manager, Web R&D, Jul 2011 Present

Mentor and train new managers, assisting them with project planning, staff interactions, and task

prioritization

Responsible for the day to day running for all Wolfram Alpha and Wolfram Research websites, as

well as the future planning and vision for websites still in development

Partner with executive team in the long-term website vision and planning

Cultivate, maintain and advance relationships with external partners

Key Accomplishments

Facilitated the reorganization of multiple departments and their management

Technical contact for Apple Siri/Wolfram Alpha integration

Technical lead for the implementation and rollout of Wolfram Alpha Pro

Wolfram Alpha LLC, Champaign, IL Aug 2009 Jul 2011

Manager, Web Development, Dec 2009 Jul 2011

Software Development Team Lead, Aug 2009 Dec 2009

Manage, hire, train and foster the development of undergraduate interns and full time employees

Direct the daily implementation and maintenance of the Wolfram Alpha website and sister

websites

Delegate, prioritize and organize development tasks for team of as many as a dozen developers

Manage communication and business processes between web development and quality assurance,

design, business development, public relations, and other development teams

Assist with external partner relationships

Key Accomplishments

Developed deployment procedure for high availability system across multiple colocations

Orchestrated the optimization of multiple inter-related release cycles

Wolfram Research, Inc, Champaign, IL Oct 2006 Aug 2009

Software Development Team Lead, Jul 2009 Aug 2009

Web Developer, Mar 2008 Jul 2009

Jr. Web Developer, Oct 2006 Mar 2008

Implement high availability web applications receiving millions of hits daily

Engineer database backend for multiple web applications

Mentor new employees regarding department procedures, policies, and coding standards

Acted as key player in the launch of Wolfram Alpha website in May 2009

Key Accomplishments

Deployed innovative new searching system for the Mathematica product as well as multiple

Wolfram websites

Gave company wide presentation regarding integrated internal searching system

Education

MS, Computer Science, Syracuse University Aug 2005 Aug 2006

BS, Computer Science, Houghton College Aug 2001 May 2005

Skills

Operating Systems: Mac OSX, Windows, Unix

Languages: Java, JSP, JavaScript, HTML, XML, SQL, CSS, Mathematica

Software Tools: Eclipse IDE, CVS, MySQL Workbench, Apache Ant, Wordpress

Frameworks/Libraries: jQuery, Spring, Hibernate, Handlebars

Tomcat, Apache

Web Servers:

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