Software Argonaut
Greater Seattle Area
- Current
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- Senior Software Developer at Meridian Group of Companies
- Past
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- Owner at Yuzu Trading Co. LLC
- Sr. Software Design Engineer in Test at Maxsam Partners
- Software Design Engineer in Test at Zillow
- Internationalization Consultant and Software Design Engineer at Volt, on assignment at Microsoft
- Internationalization Consultant/QA at Revenue Science
- Software Test Lead at Microsoft
- Education
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- Philipps-Universität Marburg
- DePauw University
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Jason Truesdell’s Summary
After a long career in software internationalization, I risked everything to take on a more entrepreneurial focus, introducing US customers to Asian lifestyle goods. The fruits of that are on YuzuMura.com, my online retail store.
After realizing that the wholesale side of that business was too expensive to operate on my available resources, I returned to software to solve interesting problems and pay some bills.
I dig Ruby on Rails and ASP.Net MVC. I'm happiest writing code in Ruby, C#, and Boo (think Python but with static types and semantic macros), and I've spent some time customizing the Boo compiler pipeline to build a pretty cool domain-specific language.
I love work that involves coordinating between geographically dispersed teams, and I particularly enjoy working on the market and technical requirements for Japan, Korea, and Greater China.
Pet projects:
I'm currently playing around with some constraint satisfaction problems in scheduling, experimenting with Cassowary.net and NSolver, attempting to apply constraint solving to a food-related variant of job-shop scheduling or combining protocols problem. I'm also trying to make sense of Bayesian probability.
I also spend a lot of time on two pet projects using ASP.Net MVC with a semi-DDD approach, and a Ruby on Rails thing.
I've been playing with F# a bit to bend my mind, though I'm not that savvy.
Jason Truesdell’s Specialties:
Internationalization, offshore vendor management, vendor training, web applications development, QA management, software development, C#, Boo, Ruby, Java.
Ruby, C#, and Java experience. ASP.Net MVC, some web services development.
Some experience implementing Fowler/DDD patterns such as Repository.
Jason Truesdell’s Experience
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Senior Software Developer
Meridian Group of Companies
(Capital Markets industry)
October 2009 — Present (2 months)
- Brownfield application conversion from C++ to Dotnet
- Development of web and rich client software for real estate transactions, capital investment funds, and point of sale systems. -
Owner
Yuzu Trading Co. LLC
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Consumer Goods industry)
February 2004 — October 2009 (5 years 9 months)
Importer and sales broker for Pan-Pacific lifestyle goods.
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Sr. Software Design Engineer in Test
Maxsam Partners
(Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2008 — September 2009 (11 months)
Technology rescue project for client luxury travel company client, Virtuoso. C#, Silverlight, Boo, UI and middle tier automation.
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Software Design Engineer in Test
Zillow
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
March 2007 — October 2008 (1 year 8 months)
Zillow.com platform test automation. Magical tools in C#, ruby, and java.
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Internationalization Consultant and Software Design Engineer
Volt, on assignment at Microsoft
(Public Company; VOL; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
July 2006 — March 2007 (9 months)
* Designs web and console applications for business logic, test automation frameworks, etc. in SQL Server Integration Services
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Internationalization Consultant/QA
Revenue Science
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
December 2005 — June 2006 (7 months)
Helped deliver internationalized version of a behavioral advertising system to a Japanese partner in a contract assignment. Some spec/design guidance, tools development, test automation, dev guidance, etc.
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Software Test Lead
Microsoft
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; msft; Computer Software industry)
June 1997 — April 2004 (6 years 11 months)
Internationalization focused software testing role. Initially in internationalization test for Internet Explorer and moved on to NetDocs (nee Infopath) then a long stint in MSN. Managed teams of 0-9 people.
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Jason Truesdell’s Interests:
cuisine, cooking, travel, ceramics, crafts, software internationalization, web development, nHibernate, Ruby on Rails
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