Director of Engineering at DockYard, Inc.
Greater Boston Area
DockYard, Inc.
Director of Engineering
Boston, MA
DockYard, Inc.
Senior Developer
August 2014 to April 2016
Boston, MA
Outcome
Developer
June 2006 to February 2008
Cambridge, MA
Outcome
Associate Developer
June 2005 to June 2006
Cambridge, MA
Outcome
Developer Intern
January 2005 to June 2005
Cambridge, MA
Affinnova
Principal Software Engineer
January 2013 to July 2014
Waltham, MA
Affinnova
Software Engineer
September 2011 to January 2013
Waltham, MA
Outcome
Senior Developer
February 2008 to August 2011
Cambridge, MA
The University of Utah School of Computing
Research Intern in Virtual Reality Technology
May 2003 to August 2003
Salt Lake City, UT
What company does Estelle DeBlois work for?
Estelle DeBlois works for DockYard, Inc.
What is Estelle DeBlois's role at DockYard, Inc.?
Estelle DeBlois is Director of Engineering
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Estelle DeBlois works in the Computer Software industry.
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Estelle DeBlois's colleagues are Nicolas Mihalich, Alex Garibay, Lisa Backer, Pat Collins, Mary Pelletier, Eli Sadoff, Jon Lacks, Chris McCord, Sarah Canieso, and Marten S.
📖 Summary
Director of Engineering @ DockYard, Inc. Boston, MASenior Developer @ DockYard, Inc. From August 2014 to April 2016 (1 year 9 months) Boston, MADeveloper @ Outcome From June 2006 to February 2008 (1 year 9 months) Cambridge, MAAssociate Developer @ Outcome From June 2005 to June 2006 (1 year 1 month) Cambridge, MADeveloper Intern @ Outcome From January 2005 to June 2005 (6 months) Cambridge, MAPrincipal Software Engineer @ Affinnova .................✔ TECHNOLOGIESGroovy, Grails, MS SQL Server, Ember, Handlebars, LESS.Also used some Node.js to build internal, command-line tools.Dev/Build Tools: IntelliJ, Jenkins, Git, Grunt.Environments: Windows, Tomcat..................✔ WORK & ACCOMPLISHMENTSLed a team of developers and statisticians in an effort to streamline and automate the post-fielding data analysis and delivery of results to clients.- Trained the Analytics team on development practices, processes, and tools. Learned enough R to be able to review and guide statisticians through the refactoring of existing R scripts for better code modularity, maintainability, and automation.- Guided developers through the design and implementation of a data analysis configuration UI and backend data services that the analytics scripts could consume.- Built a framework for managing and executing analytics scripts, using JPPF for queuing up jobs and distributing them across available nodes. Wrote Windows batch files and Groovy scripts for installing and configuring all system components.Led the development work as part of a larger initiative to bring web-based reporting to Affinnova Studio.- Worked with internal stakeholders and BI vendors, researching and prototyping new data mining and reporting solutions.- Designed a reporting framework robust enough to support the numerous types of deliverables offered by Affinnova, and built an extensible, composable charting framework using Ember and D3 on the front end.Non-functional work:- Primarily responsible for the adoption of development and build tools such as code linting, minification, concatenation, and automated tests.- Helped formalize a system for maintaining a product style guide and a documentation library for existing Ember components.- Introduced a better testing harness for Ember, utilizing Mocha, Sinon, Testem, custom helpers and data mocking facilities.- Part of the release management team. From January 2013 to July 2014 (1 year 7 months) Waltham, MASoftware Engineer @ Affinnova .................✔ TECHNOLOGIESGroovy, Grails, MS SQL Server, Dojo.Dev/Build Tools: IntelliJ, Jenkins, Git.Environments: Windows, Tomcat..................✔ WORK & ACCOMPLISHMENTSDesigned and developed new features for Affinnova's web-based market research platform (“Affinnova Studio”).Built a rich text editor in JavaScript from the ground up, with a focus on browser portability and consistent markup. The editor is at the core of Affinnova Studio’s new product concept design toolset and is used daily by end users. It supports a range of common editing features (font style, size, color, bullets, text alignment, etc.) as well as custom elements that are proprietary to Affinnova’s technology. Heavy work with browser selection/range model and associated quirks, DOM manipulation, and event handling. Used RequireJS (including r.js for packaging), Rangy, jQuery and jQuery UI (for the color picker), QUnit.Refactored the Grails application codebase and build scripts to externalize all dev/test/prod application configurations, eliminating the need to maintain environment-aware WAR files.Helped migrate all code repositories to GitHub Enterprise and formalized a new development and code review process. Managed and maintained various internal tools (Jenkins, Redmine).Developed a proof of concept for an automated functional testing framework using Geb. From September 2011 to January 2013 (1 year 5 months) Waltham, MASenior Developer @ Outcome .................✔ TECHNOLOGIESPrimarily: Java, Servlets/JSP, XML, Velocity, Oracle SQL (9i-11g), jQuery, Ajax, HTML, CSS. Also maintained and helped migrate legacy Perl/CGI code to Java.Dev/Build Tools: Eclipse, Maven, CVS, JUnit, TestNG.Environments: Windows, Linux, Tomcat, Apache..................✔ WORK & ACCOMPLISHMENTSBuilt Outcome’s platform for web-based patient registries and post-approval studies, supporting the development of client applications by bringing together commonly requested features into a robust, scalable, configurable, and extensible solution.Collaborated with product managers, systems analysts and other stakeholders to collect and refine new feature requirements; wrote and maintained functional specs.Managed release notes, documentation, and training material on new platform functionality and customization options for application development teams.Experience with transactional database operations, writing and optimizing complex SQL queries for real-time reporting. Used SQL*Loader and PL/SQL procedures for uploading, mapping, and migrating large data sets.Developed several Java Swing desktop applications, including an internal tool used for building and configuring case report forms, as well as an offline data capture solution for various registries.Sole developer on multilingual voice applications for patient reported outcomes. IVR system built on Genesys VoiceGenie platform and VoiceXML.Led the development of a single sign-on system integrating multiple web-based patient registries using CAS (Central Authentication Service), JAAS, XML, SOAP, and Spring components: Security, Web Flow, Web Services.Worked with build engineer to implement an automated build process using Hudson. Pushed for a more streamlined development and deployment process that involved an upgrade to Maven 2 and the adoption of new plugins (e.g. Maven archetype to facilitate the creation of new web apps from the platform codebase). From February 2008 to August 2011 (3 years 7 months) Cambridge, MAResearch Intern in Virtual Reality Technology @ The University of Utah School of Computing - Designed a 3D model of an "endless hallway" using Blender, to serve as the primary virtual environment for an immersive locomotion interface:http://www.psych.utah.edu/~sc4002/bmohler_VSS04.pdf- Programmed user interaction and real-time behavior of the hallway model using the OpenSceneGraph graphics toolkit (C++, OpenGL) on a Red Hat Linux platform.- Conducted independent work on perceptual issues in virtual environments for the NSF-funded Information Technology Research project. From May 2003 to August 2003 (4 months) Salt Lake City, UT
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