Susan Hert Email & Phone Number

Seattle

* Act as the primary architect, release manager, scrum master, systems engineer, and lead developer for a leading digital content delivery product for libraries (CONTENTdm).* Responsible for designing next generation back-end services, converting from file-based storage management served by C and PHP code to Java services accessing data from both SQL and NoSQL storage.* Coordinate with project manager, product support, IT department and developers to keep the project delivering solutions in a timely manner.* Provide technical design and procedural input within discussions across the organization, serving as a bridge between our remote office and other development teams.

* Acted as a primary architect of platform and underlying data model for automated delivery of data and information to help people make decisions about renewable energy resources.* Led development of Ruby services that compute weather forecast and statistical site assessment data and provide access to terabytes of gridded and ungridded data in an efficient manner.* Coordinated with product manager, scientists, forecasters, QA, CIO, and VP of Engineering to define product specifications, set development priorities and assure delivery of products on schedule.* Orchestrated development of different parts of the system with developer team members.

Senior software engineer in charge of community-related features on the web site.

* Led development of a federated search product, an OpenURL link resolver and electronic journal cataloging software using Java, JSP, Javascript, XML, XSLT, MySQL.* Coordinated with Program Manager and business team to assure timely delivery of features and fixes to satisfy market demand and customer satisfaction.* Coordinated development for each product to assure good communication among developers and between developers and other product team members, including developers, QA, customer support, program managers and product managers.* Acted as primary system and software architect and a principal developer.

* Served as architect and lead developer on two large, multi-site software library development projects (CGAL http://www.cgal.org and EXACUS http://resources.mpi-inf.mpg.de/projects/EXACUS/)* Spearheaded development for smaller, local software project (ExpLab http://explab.sourceforge.net) by writing initial design document and motivating quick development for on-time completion of project.* Coordinated with marketers of the software to help provide customer support. * Participated in decisions with executive board regarding commercialization and licensing issues.* Facilitated communication among developers, between users and developers, and between developers and executive board. * Developed and maintained tools for producing HTML and print documentation.* Developed and maintained project's web site.* Coordinator of regular developer meetings for 12+ developers

Ph.D., Computer Sciences

B.S., Math & Computer Science

B.S.B.A., Accounting & Computer Information Systems