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Benjamin Turner
Seattle, WA
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Work history
Lead Software Engineer
How would you describe your time at Jobster?
I currently work on Jobster's public website, adding features related to customer and company profiles. I've also worked on Jobster's recruiter application, which provides tools for recruiters at other companies to help them track potential candidates.
Software Development Engineer II
How would you describe your time at Amazon.com?
At Amazon, I re-built the Your Account Order History, Order Details, and Edit Order features for Amazon and partner websites, paying special attention to performance and security issues.
When I moved the Performance/Monitoring team, I developed a new hardware/software monitoring portal for Amazon engineers, incorporating multiple types of visualization techniques for keeping tabs on the many thousands of data streams regarding performance, reliability, etc.... 
Software Engineer
How would you describe your time at WhoWhere (Lycos)?
At WhoWhere, I extended the company's personal home page building software (used by many partners to offer their visitors ways to build their own home pages). I also built a new central registration and profile management front-end that unified all of Lycos' properties under a single sign-on and registration system. I built a new email address book application, including a general application framework supporting multiple brands and multiple languages (we implemented Spanish and English). I was also responsible for writing a reliable messaging receiver for information about what products our customers had purchased via a remote purchasing application and update our local database with this information in a fully automated way....
Apple
June 1996 to August 1998
Employee
How would you describe your time at Apple?
I worked for Apple's build and release department, which ensured that all software built by Apple had its source code and build tools documented and archived. I also worked on tools for breaking down Apple's domestic software installers and turning them into internationalized software installation packages....
Education
User Centered Design
How would you describe your time at University Of Washington?
The Certificate in User Centered Design is a great program that covers topics such as designing and running usability tests, contextual inquiry, and cognitive psychology.
Computer Science
How would you describe your time at University of San Francisco...?
At USF, I majored in Computer Science, with minors in Math and English Literature. I worked for the school's weekly newspaper, The Foghorn, served on the student body's Judicial Board, participated in several singing groups on campus, and worked for the University's computer labs and the graphic design center....
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