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Saratoga, Ca, Us

Sofmen provides a full range of software development services, becoming our clients’ outsourced software engineering team. We specialize in developing the architecture for large, complex systems with heavy backend support. We also develop mobile apps (iOS, Android, and wearables) and web products (UI and also backend products like database and API development). Our cross-industry expertise includes social, healthcare, publishing, entertainment, multimedia, and e-commerce.Specialties:◆ Product Development◆ iPhone, iPad, and Android and mobile app development◆ Social Networking Applications◆ Content Management Systems◆ User experience (UX) & Interface Design◆ Developer Staffing for PHP, JAVA, MySQL Developers◆ Developer Staffing for HTML & UI Developers

Worked closely with CEO, Designer and CTO to coordinate the development of iPad Application and custom server components to support iPad Application.Managed team of 6 offshore resources using an agile approach.

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Responsible for all aspects of the Rhapsody client and server functionality and release management. • Oversaw all aspects of client testing. • Responsible for developing load testing scripts and framework and worked closely server engineers and database administrators to optimize and scale all aspects of the Rhapsody platform.

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Listen.com was initially a music directory that evolved into the Rhapsody music subscription service and was acquired by Real Networks in 2003. 1. Load and Performance Testing• Load testing all web pages and individual page level components.• Load testing application servers by simulating the Rhapsody Client protocol. • Worked closely with server engineers, db ops, and network ops to optimize application servers and databases.2. Testing all aspects of the Rhapsody Client• Created test plans and managed Jr. QA Engineers on test cases.• Tested front end and back end functionality.• Experience building the product from the ground up and numerous major and minor maintenance releases.• Responsible for running daily bug meetings with Development and Project Management.• Responsible for coordinating major and minor maintenance releases, everything from test coverage to releasing with Operations team.

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• PointCast was eventually replaced by the EntryPoint Client. Its components included a tuner bar (thin client), portal website, and backend servers.• Technical lead for backend servers (RServer) and responsible for testing all aspects of the RServer, including functionality, load/stress, performance, scalability, etc. RServer ran on top of IIS 4.0 and handled all interactions from tuner bar and portal.• PointCast Studio was an animation tool that enabled you to create dynamic, high-impact ads and SmartScreens that are used within the PointCast Client. Similar to Macromedia Flash.

San Jose, Ca, Us

PageMill 3.0 WindowsSiteMill 2.0 MacPageMill 2.0 Windows• PageMill was a product for creating and managing web sites.• One of the first WYSIWYG HTML editors!

• NetCarta WebMapper is a site management utility based on spider/robot technology for Windows and UNIX.• Microsoft acquired NetCarta.