Christopher Cowell Email & Phone Number

Portland, Or, Us

Portland, Or, Us

San Francisco, Us

I write API documentation and build customer training courses for a late-stage AI startup.

San Francisco, California, Us

I work in GitLab's Professional Services division, helping customers learn to use our product. It's really good software.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Courseware designer and technical writer.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

I shifted from HealthSparq (one of Cambia's sub-companies) to Cambia Consumer Solutions (another sub-company). My responsibilities stay largely the same.

Portland, Oregon, Us

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

I help make sure Puppet's software works well. I write tests (automated and manual), do lightweight management, and muck around with Ruby, Selenium, and English.

Austin, Texas, Us

Helped transition a manual testing-based QA organization toward significant automation through my contributions as a tester, programmer, and mentor.-- Managed the team that developed the GUI and API test automation framework that is now used by most of our engineering department in four global locations-- Using Java, Selenium, Robot, and TestNG, contributed large portions of the automated test framework's code-- Wrote automated tests for many parts of Jive's flagship product-- Using Java, Python, and BASH, created testing and validation tools widely used by release teams, Dev Ops, and QA-- Using Jenkins, maintained test-related portions of a CI/CD deployment pipeline-- Using JSP and Play Framework, created webapps for monitoring CI/CD status-- Contributed heavily to process development and improvement within the QA organization by leading code reviews, spearheading code standards development, participating in pair programming, and providing formal and informal mentorship-- Trained interns and Jive engineers on the usage of our test automation framework-- Presented the test automation framework's architectural design, features, and implementation to internal and external audiences

Austin, Texas, Us

Tested key parts of Oracle's middleware suite, including Oracle Business Rules (a Java-based rules engine) and Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder (a Java-based utility for migrating physical installations of Oracle middleware to virtual platforms). Wrote test specs, wrote and ran tests, and worked with development and docs teams to resolve issues revealed by testing.

Dublin 2, Ie

Developed prototype applications for Accenture's research and development lab. Demonstrated how emerging software and hardware technologies can help solve business problems. Promoted and presented these technologies within Accenture, to our clients, and to media.

Dublin 2, Ie

IT consultant for government clients in Sacramento, CA. Java/J2EE coding, technical writing, and small-team management.

Program administrator and reading tutor for an adult literacy program in Lansing, Michigan, while serving as a federal VISTA volunteer.

Managed all technical aspects of the main office of Harvard University's Let's Go travel guidebooks. Created the largest network of NeXT machines on the east coast. Trained incoming editors, did recruiting and hiring, and managed communication with researchers in the field.

Traveling researcher and writer for the Let's Go: USA and Let's Go: Pacific Northwest, Western Canada, and Alaska guidebooks. Covered Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and the Yukon.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Ph.D., Philosophy

Post-Baccalaureate Study, Philosophy

Visiting Scholar, Philosophy