Julie Symons Email & Phone Number

Fairfax, CA

I had the privilege of teaching 7th graders in math at both grade-level and at an advanced level.

Cupertino, CA

As part of my teaching credential program, I was a student teacher in 7th grade math and high school Geometry.

Palo Alto, CA

I worked in HP Labs, the research lab of HPE, developing software for machine learning and image recognition. I was programming in C++, Scala, and Python to process and analyze large volumes of data using highly parallel processing models and GPUs.

Cupertino

• Responsible for backup recovery solution for infrastructure management software solution that included over 15 individual products. Drove solution in complex space with many partner dependencies with clear result of.
• Evangelist for failure recovery of infrastructure management software, improving quality of existing products, defining requirements for future products for crash recovery, HA failover, and restore from backup.
• Defined and managed partner program, defining dependencies and responsibilities of each product for each release. Strong sense of ownership demonstrated by tracking all issues to resolution for each release.
• Responsible for solution level testing, mentored test engineers to perform test cycles. Successfully found and addressed many critical issues during solution level testing.
• Built good relations with partners using strong technical ability along with good communication and negotiation skills to identify root causes quickly and resolve issues in a timely manner with customer friendly.
• Set up test environments, installed and configured operating systems, high availability software, installed and configured software products and managed infrastructure for provisioning in physical, virtual, and cloud.

Cupertino, CA

• Lead for the UI team on an easy deployment feature for Service Guard, designed new wizard, implemented new features, successfully negotiated with another team to implement a feature into their interface for the UI.
• Created and published deployment guide for HA clustering software on Linux, consulted with script developers on improvements to simplify deployment, performed Linux OS installs, provided many suggestions that were.

Palo Alto, CA

• Implemented real world proof of concepts demos of novel inventions for adding analysis features on top of system performance monitoring tools.
• Unique ability to work as a bridge between researchers and software product teams for technology transfers.
• Prototyped virtual networks as part of a programmable data center concept for infrastructure on demand. Showed demo to technical leads, directors, managers, and CEO.
• Published 6 papers and granted 6 patents with researchers on sophisticated ways of using pattern recognition and statistical learning techniques for detecting and identifying problems or changes in application.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Applied Mathematics

Single Subject Teaching Credential, Mathematics