Eva Pierce Monsen

 

eva.monsen@gmail.com

206.355.3271 cell (preferred)

612.326.5225 home

Skype: eva.monsen

 

Qualifications

 

·         Software engineer with master’s degree and 10+ years professional experience

·         Certified ScrumMaster experienced in leading software teams using Agile development and continuous releases

·         Proven ability to increase the effectiveness of software engineering teams by implementing and enforcing use of software engineering tools and practices

·         Wealth of experience implementing complex scientific and statistical software for academic applications

·         Experience in a wide range of platforms and languages, including C#, C/C++, .NET, SQL, Win32, Linux, Java, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Lisp

 

Experience

 

Personal Projects

·         Created gift registry Facebook application in Ruby on Rails and MySQL

·         Created web-based timesheet in Ruby on Rails and MySQL

 

Verdiem Corporation, March 2006 - December 2008

·         Led development team in building reporting software in .NET for PC power management, from inception and requirements gathering to coding, testing, and release

·         Led planning of Scrum sprints and removed project impediments for Scrum teams as a certified ScrumMaster

·         Designed and implemented 3-tier enterprise software for PC power management, through several major release cycles

·         Developed and supported internal software tools supporting the sales cycle

 

University of Washington, May 2005 - February 2006

·         Researched computational issues in biostatistics in the John Storey Lab of the Biostatistics department

·         Taught software engineering practices to statisticians through guest lectures and talks

·         Grew a small biostatistics software application written in R and Tcl/Tk into a cross-platform, open-source application

·         Developed computational algorithms for high-dimensional applications of biostatistics towards genome data, including microarray data

 

Freelance Software Engineering, April 2004 - present

·         For Microsoft, architected and implemented workflow management for subscription software sign-ups in C# using ASP.NET. Implemented automatic updates, and installation for same in C++ and COM.

·         Implemented new features and architecture for document repository server software in Linux using C, Apache, Berkeley DB

·         Streamlined issue-tracking, support, and release process for software vendors.

·         Evaluated candidates' technical skills via technical phone screens for job placement service

 

4MationGeo, Inc., April 2002 - December 2003

·         Architected .NET GIS data storage and analysis server product, including "offline" data processing service

·         Implemented .NET / C# software components for geostatistics, Kriging interpolation, data classification, and ESRI Shapefile processing

·         Established and enforced major pieces of software engineering process for growing company, including source control, bug tracking, unit testing, and design documentation

·         Designed and implemented .NET geostatistics add-ins for Statistica and MapInfo

 

Microsoft Corporation, August 1999 - March 2002

·         Designed and coded Web application for management of reporting server product, using C#, DHTML, JavaScript, ASP.NET, and the .NET Framework

·         Designed and coded developer unit test framework in C#

·         Coded COM object model in C++ and parts of natural language processing engine in Lisp for Microsoft English Query

·         Coded Suggestion Wizard database modeling feature of Microsoft English Query

·         Designed, coded, completed conversion of hundreds of legacy regression tests for linguistic engine to XML format

·         Completed training courses in .NET, Win32 Programming, Visual Basic, ASP, SQL Server Database Implementation, Using Design Patterns, Product Cycle Model

 

Case Western Reserve University, 1998-1999

·         Master's Thesis: Programmed and investigated use of genetic algorithm to evolve neural networks controlling model lizard tongue

·         Designed and implemented object-oriented CGI in C++ for browsing hierarchical directory structures, for Epidemiology department

·         Graded quizzes and exams for C++ course and managed grades database

·         Active member of Society of Engineers for two years, president for one semester

 

Cycorp, Inc., 1997-1999

·         Programmed heuristics in Lisp for assimilation of online knowledge sources into Cyc common-sense knowledge base

·         Programmed Web interface in Lisp and HTML for assimilation tool

·         Tested Cycorp software

 

Lafe Technologies, 1997-1998

·         Programmed digital image analysis tool for iris (eye) recognition in C++

 

Structural Dynamics Research Corp., Summer 1996

·         Tested, performance tested, debugged customizations to product data management (PDM) software

·         Implemented PDM software add-in in C

·         Documented PDM software specifications and object-oriented class hierarchy

 

Education

 

Case Western Reserve University 1995-1999

·         M.S. in Computer Engineering and B.S. in Computer Science

·         G.P.A. 3.97/4.00