Senior Software Engineer at Global Crossing
Rochester, New York Area
- Current
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- Senior Software Engineer at Global Crossing
- Past
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- Development Engineer at Eastman Kodak
- Technical Assistant at Rochester Institute of Technology
- Helpdesk Assistant at Rochester Institute of Technology
- Engineering Co-Op at Eastman Kodak
- Education
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- Rochester Institute of Technology
- Rochester Institute of Technology
- Connections
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- Industry
- Telecommunications
- Websites
Erica Erkkila’s Summary
Primarily a CGI applications programmer with extensive background in writing tools that communicate with back-end LDAP, Remedy, Oracle, and other servers. Also develops shell applications including auditing scripts that help admins locate and correct bad or inconsistent data in various database or directory-based back-end servers. Some limited unix systems administration experience related to dialup ISP operations.
Previous to this, had a background in research engineering, usually applications development on both unix and windows systems to demonstrate various image processing algorithms, with some experience in digital hardware development (educational background is Electrical Engineering with an emphasis on signal and image processing).
Erica Erkkila’s Specialties:
Perl, SOAP, CGI, LDAP; HTML; C, Java, C++, Remedy (ARS) programming
Erica Erkkila’s Experience
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Senior Software Engineer
Global Crossing
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; GLBC; Telecommunications industry)
January 1999 — Present (9 years 8 months)
Developed various in-house account managment tools and monitoring software on AIX, Solaris, Linux, and Windows platforms. Extensive use of Perl, PerLdap, SOAP, and CGI to develop both web and shell based applications.
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Development Engineer
Eastman Kodak
(Public Company; Consumer Electronics industry)
June 1996 — January 1999 (2 years 8 months)
Developed demonstration software (in Visual C++/Microsoft Foundation Class environment) to evaluate the feasibility of using various image processing algorithms in electronic cameras.
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Technical Assistant
Rochester Institute of Technology
(Higher Education industry)
September 1994 — May 1996 (1 year 9 months)
Taught undergraduate lab courses (digital systems, controls, digital electronics, analog electronics I,II,III); assisted professors with image processing projects (including halftoning); did miscellaneous support for the Electrical Engineering department (including conducting tours of the department)
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Helpdesk Assistant
Rochester Institute of Technology
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
March 1990 — May 1994 (4 years 3 months)
Student job, answering phone calls and assisting walk-ins with VAX/VMS and Ultrix questions, account setups, etc.
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Engineering Co-Op
Eastman Kodak
(Public Company; Consumer Electronics industry)
June 1991 — February 1994 (2 years 9 months)
EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, ROCHESTER, NY
Title: Engineering Co-op (Imaging Electronics Lab/Imager Systems Development)
Designed motherboard for CCD video camera; obtained data from digital camera captures in order to find appropriate color matrices, offsets, and white balance factors for image processing; did C programming to find numerical RGB data for electronic still camera captures and integrated the code into an existing X-windows display program; studied C code written to interpolate the green layer of an RGB capture; programmed 6800 series and Mitsubishi microprocessors; designed micro interface for a DSP evaluation board; wrote AHDL programs for Altera PLDs (7000 series) to provide timing for CCD sensors
Erica Erkkila’s Education
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Rochester Institute of Technology
MS, Electrical Engineering, September 1994 — May 1996
- Activities and Societies:
- IEEE
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Rochester Institute of Technology
BS, Electrical Engineering, September 1989 — May 1994
- Activities and Societies:
- IEEE
Additional Information
Erica Erkkila’s Websites:
Erica Erkkila’s Interests:
consumer electronics, dogs, chickens, guinea fowl, digital photography, reading, history, video editing
Erica Erkkila’s Groups:
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RIT Alumni Group - Rochester Institute of Technology -
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Kodak -
Global Crossing Alumni Network
Erica Erkkila’s Honors:
Amorese Scholarship, 1995
Graduated with highest honors, 1994
RIT Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Scholarship, 1993
Kodak Scholarship
RIT Alumni Scholarship
Dean's List (Fall 1989-Spring 1994)
National Merit Scholarship
High School Valedictorian, 1989
Erica Erkkila’s Contact Settings
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