Susie Bowman
Tilden Park Software2808 Adeline St. #1
Berkeley, CA 94110
susie@tildenpark.com
www.tildenpark.com
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CURRENT POSITION
Consultant, Tilden Park Software, Inc.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE AND EXPERIENCE
· Technical curriculum development and delivery.
· Current DBMS: SQL Server, Oracle, Cloudscape
· Extensive background and experience in all aspects of Software Quality Assurance.
· Development of media rich instructional Cdrom using iShell
· Current languages: Java, Javascript, DHTML, XML, SQL, iShell
SIGNIFICANT PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
· Tilden Park Software, 1998-99, 2001 to present
Ύ Software Training and Curriculum Development for Cloudscape DBMS, Sybase, Vision Jade, Java and Web Architectures courses.
Ύ Development of registration and test assessment portion of media rich CDrom
Ύ Project management and QA of various web development projects
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Portera Systems, 1999-2001
Managed development of Portera Learning Manager, a web-based Training
Management application for managing and selling training over the web.
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Versata Software (formerly Vision Software), 1995-1997
Managed Training and Technical Publications
and served as acting manager of Quality Assurance.
Developed and delivered training courses, hired and managed curriculum developers, trainers, technical writers and quality assurance engineers.
Responsible for production of manuals, help-text, CDRoms and packaging for Vision Builder and Vision Jade products and training.
· Elmwood Information Systems, 1994-95, 1998
Delivered Sybase training at Sun Microsystems.
Developed labs for Sybase System 11 Performance and Tuning Course
Curriculum development for Sybase Intermedia Server Product.
Updated third party Sybase course for System 11.
· Sybase Incorporated, 1988 -1994
Director of Quality Assurance
o Managed department which developed, maintained and executed tests, and created testing environment and tools for all products.
o Successfully grew the department to four first-line managers and 30 engineers.
o Created a testing tools organization which improved the capability to run and analyze tests faster.
Manager, Meta Server Engineering
o Manager of team responsible for developing an object-relational repository to support Modeling and Application development tools
o Designed/implemented the domain validation component of design compiler in Smalltalk and SQL.
· Ingres Incorporated, 1983-1988
Manager of group responsible for running, analyzing, porting and maintaining test suites; certifying beta and production releases of INGRES on VMS, UNIX, VM/CMS and PCs; providing tests suites to the porting group; and converting tests to work against new releases
Original member of Quality Assurance Group responsible for testing all parts of INGRES.
Ran, documented and enhanced existing tests - and ported them to UNIX.
Worked on design and implementation of new automated testing environment and tools.
Learned VM/CMS and ported test environment and tools there.
Trained new Quality Assurance employees in all phases of software quality testing.
Participated in design reviews, wrote test plans and trained software developers in software testing.
· Berkeley Systems Works, 1980-82
Managed Phonetic component of demi-syllable synthesis-by-rule project for development of commercial speech synthesis. Responsible for group of linguists designing recording, extracting, joining and tuning procedures. Aided in design of development system and rule syntax
EDUCATION
Ph. D - Linguistics (Not Completed)
University of California, Berkeley, CA
Master of Arts - Linguistics
University of California, Berkeley, CA
Bachelor of Arts - Linguistics (Phi Beta Kappa)
University of California, Berkeley, CA