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San Jose, California, Us

Embedded software engineer for high-end broadcast quality video to design and implement software for the Spectrum product line.* C/C++ code development on real time embedded Linux systems for video, audio and ancillary data encode/decode handling* Work with MPEG, DV/DVCPro, AVCI and H.264 video, PCM and Dolby audio formats* Design and implement fault tolerant software solutions based upon product marketing and SMPTE specifications* Write engineering specifications and functional test plans based upon product marketing requirements* Provide technical assistance to customers, customer support and QA to resolve any work flow or product issues

Member of the Omneon QA team responsible for test automation development to drive video based work follows for the Spectrum product line.* Wrote function and integration test plans based on engineering specifications* Embedded with engineering as part product feature development* Developed Unix based automation tests in C/C++, Perl, Python, Shell* Tested, diagnosed and filed incident reports on all automation issues found

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Member of the QA test team responsible for the testing of perpaid cell phone billing and reordering systems.* White box QA testing of Windows based mulit-systemed order entry system* Did Ruby test development to drive Windows base data entry screens* Automated and manual testing of HTML based data entry systems* Developed Perl utility scripts for generating credit card and customer data

San Jose, California, Us

Member of the Software Integration and Functional Testing Department responsible for cross product testing all of the Veritas enterprise level software offerings.* Project team lead with team members in both US and India.* Develop project schedules and test plans for both black box and white box testing.* Simulate system performance loads using Oracle databases.* Systems administration of both lab and uptime infrastructure systems.* Perform product documentation reviews and customer environment and problem replication.

San Jose, California, Us

Member of the customer service support team responsible for providing tools and services to customer support, engineers, and customers.* Project team lead for NUMA-Q customer service web pages for accessing SequentLINK customer data.* Performed web project planning and development using FastCGI/Perl, system testing, and rollout.* Development team member for the SequentLINK product shipped on the Dynix/ptx base operation system.* SequentLINK product development using C and Perl.* Oracle database design and implementation for storing SequentLINK customer data.Member of the customer service team responsible for providing second level support for the Sequent cluster and Sequent volume manager products.* Provided software support to customers for the Dynix/ptx operating systems.* Diagnosed system performance, process segmentation faults and crash dump analysis.* Provided problem diagnoses and resolution by phone and direct dial-in access to customer systems.

Mclean, Va, Us

Member of the Workstation Systems Engineering Center responsible for providing various prototyping for the Department of Defense.* Software integration of DOD UNIX applications* Web page development and data indexing using Harvest* Development of a virtual team room using Tcl/TK and Xerox Park's Lambda Moo* Software development using IP broadcasting and voice over IPMember of the systems administrators team responsible for providing systems administration of all the company computer systems.* Systems administration of the Sequent Symmetry system running Oracle Suite Financial suite* Work with and provide support to Oracle database administrators* Develop up to the minute system backup and restore tools using Perl* Setup and systems administration of HP, RS/6000, Sequent and Sun systems

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Member of the Special Projects Department responsible for providing development and support for the IRS Time Reporting System used by all the IRS service center employees.* Systems administration of the Sequent Balance systems* Database administration of Oracle databases* Development of Oracle SQL*Forms* Development of C and shell programs to interface with a backend Oracle database* Traveling to IRS service centers across the US to provide systems support

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

College intern in the Special Projects Department responsible for analyzing tax return data.* Wrote IBM 360/370 assembler programs for data analysis* Wrote JCL for SAS Sync Sort for sorting large amounts of data