Ben Martinek

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Trademob

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Technical Product Manager

December '12 - May '13


Job description

Trademob was an interesting expereince to work in an international environment with many shifting goals. During my tenure there I was able to organize the engineering team into regular releases after developing a minimum viable product for an Analytics Dashboard. Our infrastructure was handling roughly 2.5B events per month that point.

Life360

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Product Manager/QA Engineering Lead

August '11 - Present


Job description

Life360 has been an amazing experience in handling the multi-faceted experience of mobile products. While I have been there I helped our user base grow from 6M to 20M users. Overseeing quality across iOS and the very very fragmented world of Android products. Seeing my ability to help drive features in the main application, the CEO charged me with launching a minimum viable product for the Blackberry Market. Working with a remote engineer, we were able to release a beta version, to help satisfy our blackberry users.

Mekanism

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QA Lead

October '10 - present

Job description

Working at Mekanism has been a great opportunity to start the QA process at the ground level and implement infrastructure to reduce overhead for engineering and management teams. I am especially proud of helping deploy a new bug tracking system that helped reduce problems of project information being located in various places, reducing nagging email. Also I wrote several plugins for the tracking system in rails which sent out automated email leveraging google charts to give management team a numeric and graphic indicator of the health of projects in progress.

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 Apple

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QA Engineer

September '08 - October '10


Job description

Apple was a very special place to work for obvious reasons. I initially started as a contractor working on a patch for iPhoto 7 and iLife '09. I took a very passionate interest in the Places feature of iPhoto and helped develop documentation for other QA personnel and management for the feature. Due to my work on Places in iPhoto I had the opportunity to work on Aperture 3 Places feature and well integrating sidework I had done with GPS tracking and logging in that project as well. I volenteered to test iOS 4.0 RC and OS X 10.7 logging numerous bugs.

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Blurb

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QA Engineer

May '07 - September '08


Job description

Blurb was a great opportunity to step in working on client software from a developer's perspective. While there I had the opportunity to work on client applications integrated with web services.

Office of Congressman Pete Stark

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Mac Systems Administrator / Office Manager

May '06 - July '07


Job description

Working in Congressman Stark's office was a fascinating experience. While there my responsibilities included anything with an On button: Computers, Mobile Technology, Photo/Videography, conferencing under tight deadlines and high public visibility.

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University of the District of Columbia

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BA Economics

3.7 GPA

Studied economics with emphasis on macro and public policy. Significant research project consisted of a quantitative analysis of post-1989 German Economy as a microcosm of the greater EU economy.

Pima Community College

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Physics Engineering

Studied physics engineering in the effort to design motorcycles. While in the NSF summer program I learned significant amount about machining and some fluid dynamics.

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Coast to Coast Photo Post

Facebook application leveraging twitter, Google Maps, and various other APIs.

Crocs: Change the Tone

Facebook application using HTML5, jQuery,

Pepsi: Brisk Yourself

Facebook flash application using client uploaded images to create new images.

TruTV: Trupidity Game

Flash application pulling from extensive JSON file, with login through facebook.

iLife / iPhoto '07

Worked on the patch to fix various issues related to books.

iLife / iPhoto '09

I worked extensively on the new Places feature. Cataloged data flow and lifecycle of geolocation data.

iLife / iPhoto '11

Again I lead QA on the Places feature. In this iteration we worked on making it smarter and more intuitive for users. In this release I also helped work on location based slideshows, presentation of EXIF data via the new info panel, and facebook and flickr integration.

Aperture 3

Borrowing from my experience testing the iPhoto implementation of Places I assisted the Aperture team in testing PLaces. Aperture's implementation is more sophisticated which often required making various KML files and even my own personal GPS work to test extreme situations (logging 1.5 million location points). I also assisted with the extensible library feature.

Skills

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Web: HTML5, CSS3, Django, Rails, jQuery, jQuery Mobile, XML, JSON

Programming: Python, Ruby, familliar with Obj-C, C++

Tools: Bugzilla, Trac, Redmine, SVN, GIT, Charles, Fiddler, FireBug, Terminal

Education

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University of the District of Columbia

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BA Economics

3.7 GPA

Studied economics with emphasis on macro and public policy. Significant research project consisted of a quantitative analysis of post-1989 German Economy as a microcosm of the greater EU economy.

Pima Community College

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Physics Engineering

Studied physics engineering in the effort to design motorcycles. While in the NSF summer program I learned significant amount about machining and some fluid dynamics.