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Engineer -- Disc Drives @ IBM Developed both hardware and software for intensive testing of both mainframes and large disk storage systems. From June 1979 to July 1985 (6 years 2 months) San Francisco Bay AreaBeach Lifeguard (Junior and OpenWater) @ City of Los Angeles Supervised the safety and rescue of swimmers, surfers, and other water sports...
Engineer -- Disc Drives @ IBM Developed both hardware and software for intensive testing of both mainframes and large disk storage systems. From June 1979 to July 1985 (6 years 2 months) San Francisco Bay AreaBeach Lifeguard (Junior and OpenWater) @ City of Los Angeles Supervised the safety and rescue of swimmers, surfers, and other water sports participants on Los Angeles County Beaches. Strong swimmer and trained in first aid, certified in water rescue using a variety of aids and equipment. From June 1970 to September 1978 (8 years 4 months) Greater Los Angeles AreaEngineer -- Reward Integration, Open Source SDKs, APIs @ TANGO CARD, INC. Provides prepaid cards and non-profit donations through Reward Delivery Platform.Skills: ASP.NET 4.0: C#, MVC-3 Razor, ASP.NET MVC, AWS DynamoDB and RDS (MySQL).+ Gift Card Rewards Service API: HTTP POST SDK Development+ Tango Card API SDKs: Java, PHP, C#, Ruby, Python, and jQuery Plugin+ https://www.tangocard.com/gift-card-api/+ Zendesk Widget Development: jQuery.ajax, Sizzle.js, SCSS, and Handlebars.js+ Intuit TurboTax Rewards Purchase Site (ASP.NET MVC)+ Microsoft NuGet Extensions: Ninject, Moq, Newtonsoft.JSON, ReCaptcha, EPPlus, & AWS+ Security Testing: Burp Suite Pro: http://portswigger.net/burp/+ Credit Card Validation and Fraud Protection: http://developer.authorize.net/Reason Leaving: Resigned. From February 2012 to March 2013 (1 year 2 months) Greater Seattle AreaEngineer -- Image Services Team and Browse Team @ AMAZON.COM AMAZON.COM is a electronic commerce and cloud computing company.Skills: C++, Perl, JavaScript, UNIX.+ Media Services team -- Developed tools to manage the operation of the media system, which included image upload from merchants, caching, dynamic rendering, and display delivery. + On-Call Dashboard: Delivered an informative web-based system for monitoring alarms and sweeping surveillance of service based upon group ownership using LDAP.+ Search Data team -- Developing tools and solutions for search builds and browse assignments of merchant products and their properties (pricing, keywords, and binning).Reason Leaving: Resigned, on-call expectations conflicted with family needs. From January 2005 to February 2007 (2 years 2 months) Greater Seattle AreaEngineer -- Custom Embedded VOIP @ TeleSym TELESYM provided custom embedding of secure VoIP solutions into mobile command centres.Skills: C++, some C#, Doxygen, WinCE, MySQL, and Microsoft MSDE+ Developed embedded software components into core VoIP product delivered on WinCE for iPAC and PocketPC PDAs, XCode for iMac OS X, and Win.NET for Windows XP.Reason Leaving: Layoff, Venture investors pulled funding, the company closed. From August 2003 to January 2005 (1 year 6 months) Greater Seattle AreaEngineer -- Scalable Internet Data Store @ VIATHAN CORPORATION (acquired by DANTZ DEVELOPMENT) VIATHAN provided cloud services for relational data and file storage, 6 years before AWS.Skills: C++, Unix, Windows, MySQL, Microsoft SQL, XML, MyODBC.+ Virtual File System (VFS) Development on UNIX/Linux OS and MySQL, think Andrews FS.+ Developed a memory allocator via UNIX IPC shared memory, a storage replicator via Solaris RAM disk, an I-node Database for VFS with slaves using MySQL/MyODBC.+ Adaptive Storage Partitioning by Replica Migration for MS T-SQL servers, think MongoDB.+ [U.S. Patent # 6,523,036] http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6523036.htmlTransitioned: Acquired by DANTZ DEVELOPMENT. From August 1999 to October 2001 (2 years 3 months) Greater Seattle AreaEngineer -- Distributed In-Memory Database Service @ MICROSOFT MICROSOFT develops, manufactures, licenses supports and sells computer software.Skills: C++, Windows, Microsoft SQL, Oracle SQL, Visual Basic.Reason Left: Left to help start VIATHAN CORPORATION, Internet Based Data Storage.+ In-Memory Database (IMDB): an infrastructure supporting fast read-only data access or could persist to DBs from disconnected WAN clients via Active Server Page (ASP) and ADO clients.+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_COM%2B_IMDB+ OLE DB objects (Data Sources, Rowsets, and Views) and OLE DB Initialization layers to backend OLE DB providers (MS T-SQL and ORACLE) in order to commit updates.+ Transacted Shared Property Manager (TSPM) within the proxy layer of IMDB via MTS/COM+.+ Developed an emulated NFS Remoting Framework using DCE/RPC on Windows NT.+ Developed an NFS Server on Windows NT: Developed both User- and Kernel-Mode bedrock code in C++ (and using Microsoft DDK)+ Windows NT server product development (over Winsock 2.0 and Transport Device Interface TDI - Microsoft's Kernel Network interface). From January 1996 to August 1999 (3 years 8 months) Greater Seattle AreaEngineer -- Network Services, Media Devices @ APPLE COMPUTER APPLE COMPUTER designs, develops and sells consumer electronics and software.Skill: C++, Network Protocols, Video and Audio compression.Reason Leaving: Resigned, Moved to Seattle WA to be near family.+ AppleSearch: AppleShare Search Engine using Claris XTND document conversion system. + MovieTalk: QuickTime Video Conferencing protocol for both AppleTalk and TCP/IP.+ AppleShare Media Server: Host of QuickTime content and video conferences MovieTalk.+ Pippin Game System: Proposed, designed and implemented a Mac-based gaming system. From June 1992 to December 1995 (3 years 7 months) San Francisco Bay AreaEngineer -- Video Editing Tools @ Digital F/X (Acquired by APPLE COMPUTER) Digital F/X provided a broadcast-quality non-linear video-editing for Apple Macintosh.Skills: C++, Apple Client-Server technology.Transitioned: Acquired by APPLE COMPUTER+ Developed video codecs: MPEG, Fractal, and Motion-JPEG, added to Apple QuickTime.+ Developed Mac-based Non-linear Video Editing studio.+ Adobe TrueType Titler: Developed a broadcast-quality video titling system. From January 1991 to June 1992 (1 year 6 months) Mountain View, CAEngineer -- Interactive Animation Scripting Language @ MACROMIND (acquired by AUTHORWARE, ADOBE) MACROMIND was a leading provider of multimedia authoring software for MacOS and Windows.Skills: C++, Apple Media Toolkits, Pixar RenderMan, RS-232, SCSI.Reason leaving: Acquired by Authorware, relocation offered.+ Developer on "Director"+ Lingo (aka “Adobe Flash”): an object-based scripting language, became the de-facto-standard for development of interactive website animations and CD-based gaming.+ Lingo XObjects provided programmatic extensions to Director. For example, controlling external media devices such as CD-ROM and Videotape players through Macintosh SerialPort. From June 1989 to January 1991 (1 year 8 months) San Francisco Bay AreaEngineer -- Mobile Marketing Attribution Analytics @ TUNE TUNE delivers mobile marketing tools that help today’s digital marketer manage marketing campaigns, engage the right audiences, optimize app performance, and grow their business.Engineer, Lead, Manager at TUNE Inc., previously for 5+ years, FAAS integrations with third-party providers of mobile app analytics, collecting app events and ad:tech data from Mobile Advertisers and App Stores, creating aggregating jobs running on cloud batch services. Lead an R&D team in Tel Aviv, Israel. Micro-services in Golang, Integrations in Python, testing in Puppeteer & Jest.Led Teams:+ Facebook in TUNE Actuals+ TUNE R&D Lab: Lead/Manager of TUNE Tel-Aviv Developers+ TUNE Multiverse: providing ROAS (Return on Ad Spend)+ TUNE Reporting API: https://developers.tune.com/Development:+ Facebook Marketing and Insights APIs+ Golang Microservices using Protobuf.+ TUNE Slack Bot: Go/Docker Service using Slack RTM API, API.AI+ Data Analytics using R-Programming, GNU Octave, and Python SciKit-Learn and Pandas+ Data Collectors with 70+ Ad Spend/Revenue and App Store vendors:++ Facebook, Google AdWords, Google Play, Apple Search Ads, AdColony...+ TUNE Reporting API SDKs, Python, PHP, Go, Node, Java+ TUNE Audience Segments: Node, Reactjs, Golang, MySQL, Docker+ TUNE Developers community: WordPress with Node/AngularJS plugins+ TUNE Labs (R&D): Python, Go, Travis CI, Docker, Iron.io.Tools used:+ Coding Languages: Python 3.6, Golang 1.8.3, PHP, JavaScript, Node.js+ Mobile Analytics Chatbot: Slack RTM and API.AI Agent NLP+ Metrics and Logging: Datadog and Kibana+ Container: Docker, Iron.io IronWorker and IronCache, AWS Lambda, AWS Batch+ Data Cloud: AWS ECS MySQL AWS Redshift+ Jenkins and Travis Continuous Integration+ Puppet: Site Configuration ManagerReason leaving: Layoff, Sundowning of product and cost-cutting measures. From April 2013 to May 2018 (5 years 2 months) Greater Seattle AreaEel Fisherman @ independent Swedish fishermen in a very small coastal town Rowed boat and handled nets to catching European eels. Delivered barrels of eels to Stockholm fish market, fixed nets and boats. Requested by the village's fishing elders to assist a clueless novice fisherman. From June 1987 to September 1987 (4 months) Gräddö, Stockholms Län, SwedenEngineer -- Life Insurance Products UX @ EFINANCIAL C#, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, JavaScript, SQL, ASP.NET, Web Forms, Web HTTP Post (ASHX), Web Service (ASMX), and WCF (SVC), Peter Blum .NET Web Controls.+ Call-Center Service using ASP.NET Web Forms, SQL, jQuery, Peter Blum.+ Bank of America Retail quotes using ASP.NET Web Forms+ Fidelity Life Association web service (ASMX)+ Agent Lead Creation/Update/Response service using the Strategy Design Pattern. From May 2011 to February 2012 (10 months) Greater Seattle AreaEngineer -- Expedia, Core Website Pages Generator @ AIM CONSULTING GROUP + Expedia’s E-Main engine (C++, JavaScript, Java, HTX – Expedia’s C++ based ASP)+ Java Caching System (JCS) to bridge simple POJO/POGO objects through JNDI.+ HTX (Expedia’s C++ based ASP) Validation tool: Using ANTLR (http://www.antlr.org/).+ Web Application Unit Testing: Using WatiN (http://watin.sourceforge.net/). From September 2010 to April 2011 (8 months) Greater Seattle AreaEngineer -- Microsoft, Open Source SDKs for Windows Azure @ COLLABERA Contract, 1-year, A-Dash: Deliver Windows Azure and other Windows products interoperability by providing Java and PHP developers with solutions, tools, and SDKs.Skills: Windows Azure, PHP, C#, Java, REST, RSS, OData, OAuth, OpenSearch, OpenXML.+ Windows Azure Platform Cloud Computing++ Open Source SDKs for Data Storage API & SQL Azure, PHP and Java++ Deployment Tooling for PHP, http://azurephptools.codeplex.com/++ Platform Interoperability Tenets & Tutorials+ Bing 404 Web Page Error Toolkit for PHP, http://bing404php.codeplex.com+ OpenXML, http://openxmldeveloper.org Toolkit for PHP, Java, & C# Developers+ Windows Federated Search Toolkit (OpenSearch http://opensearch.org) From August 2009 to August 2010 (1 year 1 month) Greater Seattle AreaEngineer -- T-Mobile, Project Management Site @ TEKSYSTEMS Contract, 6-month: Deliver Cell-Tower Site Project Planning web-service.Skills: PHP, MySQL, Drupal Content Management System (CMS), jQuery UI.+ Responsibility: Deliver a Project Management Site.+ Developed an internal project-management site using Drupal CMS as its foundation.+ Created several custom Drupal modules that minimally supported Schemas.+ Implemented additional functionality of the following Drupal community contributed modules.+ Created dynamic forms using Javascript and jQuery UI functionality and components. From February 2009 to July 2009 (6 months) Greater Seattle AreaEngineer -- EED, Legal Documentation UX @ Daticon EED DATiCON EED provided tools for discovery in legal proceedings such as litigation.Skills: C# 2.0, .NET 2.0, SQL Server, Doxygen, Sandcastle, WaTiN, NUnit, MSMQ, ASP.NET.+ Development/Maintenance – Online legal document collection.+ Test Driven Development – Spearheaded evaluation of test automation solutions.+ Documentation – Source code documentation tools: Doxygen, Sandcastle, LaTeX, Graphviz.Reason Leaving: Layoff, Company hit badly by financial fallout of Fall 2008 From September 2008 to January 2009 (5 months) Greater Seattle AreaEngineer -- MMO Backend Service @ BIGFISHGAMES.COM BIGFISHGAMES.COM is a casual gaming company.Skills: OO PHP, MySQL Store Procedures, UNIX, Bash, Java, AJAX.+ MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) team – Delivered a basic game service for collaborative avatar interaction built upon using GigaSpaces, an in-memory computing platform.+ E-commerce team -- Delivered an Data Analytics and Reporting ETL service and refactored sales transaction service adding better error handling and status email notifications.+ Site Management -- Created Apache mod_rewrite tool rewriting/managing site-wide URLs.+ Documentation -- Operational perspective after code walkthroughs. ORM, GraphViz, LaTeX.Reason Leaving: Hired as needed. From January 2007 to July 2008 (1 year 7 months) Greater Seattle AreaEngineer -- Platform Recovery Solutions @ EMC DANTZ DEVELOPMENT (acquired by EMC) was a provider of backup-and-restore software technologies.Skills: C++, C#, Doxygen, Windows, Microsoft SQL, XMLReason Leaving: Acquired by EMC, relocation offered.+ Local Disaster Recover: Reversed engineered Windows system boot processes, phases of Windows install process.+ Drivers for storage devices, Device setup and Driver install, and SCSI interface. + Remote Disaster Recovery: Reversed engineered setup of network devices for Windows systems, and created a remote data recovery using .NET Remoting. From October 2001 to July 2003 (1 year 10 months) Greater Seattle AreaEngineer -- Knowledge Engineering @ INTELLICORP INTELLICORP provided a development environment of knowledge systems on the Lisp machines.Skills: Objective-C (Stepstone), LISP, SmallTalk, Prolog, and C++Consultant and Trainer in developing AI, Knowledge Base, and OOP solutions internationally with many 3-to-6 month stints: Shell Oil, England; BMW, Germany; Dutch Power, Netherlands; UBS, Switzerland; Motorola, Ford, Morton-Thiokol, United States. From June 1985 to July 1989 (4 years 2 months) San Francisco Bay AreaTutor -- Computer Science @ Stanford University Applied Mathematics, Smalltalk, C, and LISP From September 1984 to August 1987 (3 years) Stanford, CaliforniaOwner -- Dance Club @ Echo Beach Dance Club Opened with friends a dance club in a dilapidated warehouse and it became very popular. After 2 years with a cheap lease, the lease jumped 4 fold, thus closing the club. From June 1985 to July 1987 (2 years 2 months) San Francisco Bay AreaApprentice -- Porcelain Studio @ ARITA PORCELAIN LAB Formerly Yazaemon Kilns, I pushed broom, loaded and emptied kilns, and glaze dipped bisque-fired handicrafts. From August 1986 to October 1986 (3 months) Arita, JapanTutor -- Computer Science @ University of Exeter Introduction to Computer Programming, Pascal & C languages, on IBM PCs. From March 1985 to June 1985 (4 months) Exeter, United KingdomBartender @ Varsity Theater A great evening side-job at a popular club that featured live music and foreign flicks, while I served espressos and aperitifs. From October 1979 to November 1982 (3 years 2 months) Palo Alto, CaliforniaOwner and Juicer @ Jeff's Juice Bar Contemplating next move and graduate school, opened a juice bar blending organic fruits and veggies with protein powder next to a muscle beach lifting area on “The Strand” boardwalk in Hermosa Beach. Frequently visited by bodybuilders and powerlifters, including arnold schwarzenegger. Took evening classes at Santa Monica Junior College in microcomputer programming, composing electronic music, art theory, and video editing. From May 1978 to July 1979 (1 year 3 months) Hermosa Beach, CAEngineer -- E-Signature Integration Services @ DocuSign DocuSign® is changing how business gets done by empowering anyone to transact anytime, anywhere, on any device. DocuSign and Go to keep life moving forward.Engineer at DocuSign Inc., FAAS integrations for automating and connecting the entire agreement process, which includes logging, third-party archiving, and triggering CLM workflow tasks.Micro-services & Integrations written in TypeScriptUX development in TypeScript & React & ReduxUX testing in Cypress.io, Selenium & PuppeteerMultiple environment deployment in Jenkins & Docker3rd-party providers' OAuth 2.0 & RESTful APIs: Google Drive & Sheets, Box, Dropbox, Microsoft SharePoint & OneDrive, DocuSign CLM, DocuSign SpringCM Workflow, and Cloud Elements. Greater Seattle Area
IBM
Engineer -- Disc Drives
June 1979 to July 1985
San Francisco Bay Area
City of Los Angeles
Beach Lifeguard (Junior and OpenWater)
June 1970 to September 1978
Greater Los Angeles Area
TANGO CARD, INC.
Engineer -- Reward Integration, Open Source SDKs, APIs
February 2012 to March 2013
Greater Seattle Area
AMAZON.COM
Engineer -- Image Services Team and Browse Team
January 2005 to February 2007
Greater Seattle Area
TeleSym
Engineer -- Custom Embedded VOIP
August 2003 to January 2005
Greater Seattle Area
VIATHAN CORPORATION (acquired by DANTZ DEVELOPMENT)
Engineer -- Scalable Internet Data Store
August 1999 to October 2001
Greater Seattle Area
MICROSOFT
Engineer -- Distributed In-Memory Database Service
January 1996 to August 1999
Greater Seattle Area
APPLE COMPUTER
Engineer -- Network Services, Media Devices
June 1992 to December 1995
San Francisco Bay Area
Digital F/X (Acquired by APPLE COMPUTER)
Engineer -- Video Editing Tools
January 1991 to June 1992
Mountain View, CA
MACROMIND (acquired by AUTHORWARE, ADOBE)
Engineer -- Interactive Animation Scripting Language
June 1989 to January 1991
San Francisco Bay Area
TUNE
Engineer -- Mobile Marketing Attribution Analytics
April 2013 to May 2018
Greater Seattle Area
independent Swedish fishermen in a very small coastal town
Eel Fisherman
June 1987 to September 1987
Gräddö, Stockholms Län, Sweden
EFINANCIAL
Engineer -- Life Insurance Products UX
May 2011 to February 2012
Greater Seattle Area
AIM CONSULTING GROUP
Engineer -- Expedia, Core Website Pages Generator
September 2010 to April 2011
Greater Seattle Area
COLLABERA
Engineer -- Microsoft, Open Source SDKs for Windows Azure
August 2009 to August 2010
Greater Seattle Area
TEKSYSTEMS
Engineer -- T-Mobile, Project Management Site
February 2009 to July 2009
Greater Seattle Area
Daticon EED
Engineer -- EED, Legal Documentation UX
September 2008 to January 2009
Greater Seattle Area
BIGFISHGAMES.COM
Engineer -- MMO Backend Service
January 2007 to July 2008
Greater Seattle Area
EMC
Engineer -- Platform Recovery Solutions
October 2001 to July 2003
Greater Seattle Area
INTELLICORP
Engineer -- Knowledge Engineering
June 1985 to July 1989
San Francisco Bay Area
Stanford University
Tutor -- Computer Science
September 1984 to August 1987
Stanford, California
Echo Beach Dance Club
Owner -- Dance Club
June 1985 to July 1987
San Francisco Bay Area
ARITA PORCELAIN LAB
Apprentice -- Porcelain Studio
August 1986 to October 1986
Arita, Japan
University of Exeter
Tutor -- Computer Science
March 1985 to June 1985
Exeter, United Kingdom
Varsity Theater
Bartender
October 1979 to November 1982
Palo Alto, California
Jeff's Juice Bar
Owner and Juicer
May 1978 to July 1979
Hermosa Beach, CA
DocuSign
Engineer -- E-Signature Integration Services
Greater Seattle Area
University of Washington
Certificate, Management in the Technology
2005 to 2006
University of Washington
Certificate, Visual C# and .NET Programming
2003 to 2003
University of Washington
Certificate, XML Application Development
2002 to 2003
University of California, Santa Cruz
Certificate, Software Engineering
1994 to 1995
Santa Clara University
Masters Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Architecture, 3.8
1983 to 1985
Stanford University
Master's degree graduate work, Artificial Intelligence, 3.5
1982 to 1985
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Bachelor of Science - BS, Double major: Electronics Engineering and Physics, 3.5
1974 to 1979
Santa Monica College
1978 to 1980
El Camino College
1975 to 1978
What company does Jeff Tanner work for?
Jeff Tanner works for IBM
What is Jeff Tanner's role at IBM?
Jeff Tanner is Engineer -- Disc Drives
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Jeff Tanner works in the Computer Software industry.
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