Roderic Campbell
Computer Science graduate from Rochester Institute of Technology. Last worked as White Box QA Engineer at Slide Inc.
| Headline: | Engineer |
| Skills: | C/C++, Java, Languages and Platforms, Perl, PHP, Python, Software Engineering, SQL, Web Development |
| Interested in: | Consulting opportunities, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Providing services to startups, Trading services |
| Schools: | Rochester Institute of Technology |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Slide Inc, San Francisco, California |
| Position: | White Box QA Engineer |
| Time period: | September 2007 - April 2009 |
| Description: | • Extended the primary internal tool used by Community Support to assess and modify individual user accounts on the live site.
• Where necessary added functionality to the production code to appease customer requests • Interfaced with engineering and PM to develop test plans, define scope and maintain roadmap. • Carried out QA responsibilities for several of Slide’s properties including SuperPoke, SuperPoke Pets and Slide Shows on both Slide.com properties as well as on the Facebook and OpenSocial (MySpace and Hi5) application platforms. • Acted as the gatekeeper of products as they went from development to production through QA. Conducted spec and code reviews to ensure no site breakages or hidden code paths. Transferred code review results to black box QA point of contact to help determine best UI testing strategy. • Conceptualized and developed a new tool for testing the SuperPoke Pet Shop to reduce friction in releasing new virtual inventory. • Responsible for technical education of the graphic design team and new engineers on our processes including everything from back-end components to front-end technology. |
| Employer: | White Oak Technology, Silver Spring, Maryland |
| Position: | Software Engineer |
| Time period: | June 2006 - July 2007 |
| Description: | • Designed and developed parser to produce consistent data formats from a wide variety of non-standard and inconsistent data sources.
• Performed hot-fixes in live environment using Python to populate live MySQL instances. |
| Employer: | Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems and Solutions, Gaithersburg, Maryland and Herndon, Virginia |
| Position: | Software Engineer |
| Time period: | September 2004 - June 2006 |
| Description: | • Participated in a selective program gaining exposure to a variety of different technologies and roles within the company.
• Maintained a large scale service-oriented web application portal using BEA WebLogic. • Participated in a team responsible for integration of several newer software systems into the central data analysis tool. • Initiated a new engineer training program to quickly integrate new hires into a well established and veteran team. • Oversaw the transition to Ant as a build utility on a large system. • Developed a low-level network monitoring application for QoS test bed utilizing RSVP. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Rochester Institute of Technology |
| Time period: | 2002 - 2004 |
| Degree: | Computer Science, MSc |
| University: | Rochester Institute of Technology |
| Time period: | 2000 - 2002 |
| Degree: | Computer Science, BSc |
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