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angela sh'k'anna korra'ti

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Position in software localization, software testing, Internet service providing, or World Wide Web work.

Recent: Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, Microsoft Visual Studio.Net
Older: EXTRA! Enterprise 2000; myEXTRA! Enterprise 7.0; EXTRA! Personal Client 6.3; EXTRA! Personal Client 6.4; EXTRA! Personal Client 6.5; EXTRA! Personal Client 6.7; Codewright 5.1; Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0
Home: Apache 1.3.26 (Web server); Pine 4.61 (mail program); Lynx 2.8.4 (Web browser); Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 3.02 through 6.0; Netscape 4.8; Netscape 7.02; Microsoft Outlook 97, 98, and 2000; Majordomo 1.94.5 (mailing list management software); Paint Shop Pro 7.0; Opera 8.5; Firefox 1.07

Have tested and fixed bugs for products localized into German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese

10/04 - 10/05: Volt Computer Services (contracted to Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA)
Software Test Engineer

Daily automated testing of Windows Media Player on Windows Server 2003 SP1; automated performance testing of Windows Media Server on Windows Server 2003 SP1; daily automated testing of assorted media components on Windows Vista.

7/03 - 7/04: Volt Computer Services (contracted to Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA)
Software Test Engineer

On contract to the Windows Media Group at Microsoft, conducted automated build verification tests and automated functional testing for the Windows Media Player, primarily on Windows 2003 but also on Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98, and Windows ME operating systems, in English, Japanese, and German. Some manual testing of the Media Player also conducted on the Longhorn operating system.

9/02 - 1/03: NexInfo Solutions (contracted to AskMe Corporation, Factoria, WA)
QA Tester

10/7/02 - 1/17/03: On test team for AskMe Enterprise 6.7.6; responsible for functional testing of product's Web interface; automation of test cases in Javascript and running of automated test suite manager for the product. Also responsible for generating new builds of the product and installing on team servers, and for maintenance of test cluster servers.
9/4/02 - 10/6/02: Large dataset testing of AskMe Enterprise 6.7.3; sharing responsibility to generate new builds of the product and test databases to be used with daily builds; conducting functional testing of the product's Web interface, and as test cases dictated, running database-level procedures and scripted system tasks.

4/98 - 10/01: Attachmate Corporation, Bellevue, WA
Localization Engineer

Oversaw localization of myEXTRA! Enterprise 2001, EXTRA! Enterprise 2000, and EXTRA! Personal Client 6.7 into German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. Worked with translation vendor to send files to be translated and receive back translated files, and fixed bugs in functionality and layout that occurred during the development cycle.
Assisted in fixing of bugs in localized versions of EXTRA! Personal Client 6.5, EXTRA! Personal Client 6.4. Bugs fixed focused on functionality and layout of localized controls and occasional translation problems.

1/95 - 4/98: EDP Contract Services, Bellevue, WA
Software Test Engineer (contracted to Attachmate Corporation)

October 1997 - April 1998: Tested EXTRA! Personal Client 6.3, EXTRA! Personal Client 6.4 under Windows 95, Windows 98, and NT 4.0 platforms, English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese versions thereof.

Software Test Engineer (contracted to Microsoft Corporation)

June 1997 - August 1997: Tested IntelliPoint 2.1 under Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0, Windows NT 3.51, Windows 95 OSR2, and Windows 98 (beta) operating systems, European versions thereof.
February 1997 - June 1997: Tested Phone 2.0 under Windows 95 operating system.
September 1995 - February 1997: Responsible for the automation of testing of IntelliPoint 1.1, IntelliPoint 2.0, and Phone 2.0 under Windows 95, Windows NT 3.51, and Windows NT 4.0 operating systems.
January 1995 - August 1995: Tested French, German, Spanish, and Italian versions of IntelliPoint 1.1 under DOS 6.22, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Windows 95, and Windows NT 3.51 operating systems.

9/94: CDI Corporation West, Bothell, WA
Contract Worker (contracted to MIDISoft Corporation)

6/91 - 2/94: Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Technical Support Specialist I

Provided technical support for localization of Cue Cards for MS Access 1.0, and for Windows Help files for PowerPoint 3.0, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, and Windows NT 3.1. Provided general technical support for the Systems International department as part of the ASKTSS group.

1996 - Present: Murkworks, Seattle, WA
Assistant System Administrator (Informal; our home Internet site)

Maintenance of web page for Two Moons MUSH, for which I have programmed a mySQL database with a PHP front end accessible through the web site.
Installed Apache web server, Pine, Majordomo, Perl, and other applications on Murkworks site; assist in additions to Murkworks Web page.

1987 - 1991: Transylvania University, Lexington, KY