tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87138304872451033752011-08-02T11:20:36.747-07:00<hr> <a href="http://lance-miller.blogspot.com">homepage</a> | <a href="mailto:this.is.lance.miller@gmail.com"> this.is.lance.miller@gmail.com</a> <hr>LanceMillerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967321155433918187noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8713830487245103375.post-23349746674168331552008-01-17T05:04:00.000-08:002009-06-16T12:54:42.360-07:00<hr /> <center><h2>Education </h2></center> <p> </p> <p>Evergreen State College, Bachelor of Science 2003 </p> <p>Awarded National Science Foundation CSEMS Scholarship for excellence in computer science </p> <p> </p> <p>Antioch University Seattle, Whole Systems Design </p> <p>Fall 2004 – March 2006 </p> <p>Client-Side Web Programming Certificate: U of Illinois: 2008</p> <p> </p> <p>Computer Career Highlights at Evergreen State College </p> <ol style="margin-left:1.25cm;list-style-type:decimal; "> <li style="margin-left:0cm;"> <p style="margin-left:0.25cm;">Streaming Media Server Administration internship on Linux and Mac OS X servers. </p></li> <li style="margin-left:0cm;"> <p style="margin-left:0.25cm;">National Science Foundation scholar for excellence in computer science. </p></li> <li style="margin-left:0cm;"> <p style="margin-left:0.25cm;">Technical consultant for the Advanced Computing Center. </p></li><li style="margin-left:0cm;"><p tyle="margin-left:0.25cm;">Volunteer instructor for independent learning contract teaching Linux and networking administration. </p></li></ol> <p> </p> <hr /> <center><h2>Professional Experience </h2></center> <p class="P4"> </p><p>December 2005-May 2008</p><p>System Test Engineer, Streambox, Inc., Seattle, WA </p> <p>Member of hardware development team, involved in all phases of prototyping.</p> <p>Software testing. </p><p class="P12">Hardware testing. </p><p class="P12">Documenting for internal development team and external marketing team. </p><p>Unix scripting for Storage Area Network product that receives concurrent 4Mbps live streams, converts and ftp files.</p> <p>Support liaison for major broadcasting mobile news gathering deployments.</p> <p>Designer and leader of the <i>Streambox BottomUp Productive Workplace Group</i>. <a href="http://progressive-positive.blogspot.com/2008/01/bottom-up-workplace-productivity.html">See generalized mission statement here</a>.</p> <p class="P3"> </p> <hr /> <p>February 2005-December 2005 </p><p>Manufacturing Support Engineer, Streambox, Inc., Seattle, WA </p><p>Building single rack space computers by hand. </p><p>Custom configuring audio and video features. </p><p>Loading, configuring, and testing software on each computer. </p><p>Network configuration and client software set-up for each computer. Improvising networks and video streaming for the testing of each system. </p><p> </p> <hr /> <p>May 2004 - December 2004 </p> <p>Web Programmer, Wedgetail Consulting, Inc., Seattle, WA </p><p>Various projects required editing HTML, and writing custom PHP to interact with MySQL. </p><p>Fast response to a wide array of clients and scenarios describes the fundamental demand of this position. </p><p> </p> <hr /> <p>April 2004 - July 2004 </p><p>Test Engineer, LioNBridge /Veritest, Bellevue, WA </p><p>Contract position to Microsoft MSN Research </p><p>Telecommute work environment. </p><p>Performed research related to ranking of webpages within search engines, determining if characteristics of an URL were an attempt at inflating it's ranking. </p><p> </p> <hr /> <p>December 2003-March 2004 </p><p>I.T. Specialist, TVW, Washington State's Public Affairs Network, Olympia, WA </p><p>Temporary position in service to the WA legislative session </p><p>Encoded live and taped media for distribution on streaming media servers. </p><p>Wrote Coldfusion web application used on tvw.org site. </p><p>Backup and archiving of streaming media files. </p><p>Maintained and updated website content. </p><p>Upkeep of database integrity. </p><p>Help desk type services to accommodate the office staff in conducting daily computing needs for their job. </p><p>Assistance services to the public in regards to tvw.org and its streaming media services. </p> <hr /> <p> </p><p>April 2003-October 2003 </p><p>Network Administrator, Dispute Resolution Center of Thurston County, Olympia, WA </p> <p>Managed network system and served as a help desk to eight employees. </p><p>Wrote php/mysql applications to facilitate many tasks at the DRC. </p><p>Remained on as consultant till July 2004 move to Seattle. </p><p> </p> <hr /> <p>September 2002-June 2003 </p><p>Technical consultant, Advanced Computing Center at the Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA </p><p>Tutored CS students. </p><p>Assisted the system administrator in troubleshooting various issues. </p><p> </p> <hr /> <p>March 1997 - July 2002. </p><p>Successive Positions, Trident Seafoods Corporation, Seattle, WA </p><p>Head of Quality Control on vessel Neptune dealing with Ikura sold in Japan. </p><p>Bookkeeper at Akutan Alaska facility </p><p>Crew Chief Assistant at Ketchikan facility. </p><p>Laborer on vessels: Bountiful, Sea Alaska, Independence, Neptune, and Naknek. </p><p> </p> <hr /> <p>Aug 1995- Oct 1996 </p><p>Janitor, Antarctic Support Associates – McMurdo Station, Antarctica </p><p class="P12">The experience was almost beyond words. </p><p>Passed several physical and mental screenings to qualify to winter-over. </p><p>Six months without seeing the sun. </p><p>A.S.A. is no more - Raytheon handles the science support. 303-790-8606 </p> <hr /> <img style="border:none;padding:0px" src="http://remote-recorder.appspot.com/img?id=lance-resume&public=no&uname=lancemiller777" /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8713830487245103375-2334974667416833155?l=lance-miller-resume.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>LanceMillerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967321155433918187noreply@blogger.com0