Lee Bankewitz

Current

• Sr Software Developer at Weplay, Inc.

Past

• Software Developer at Oxygen Media
• Programmer at Chyron Corporation
• Programmer at Subrogation Partners

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Education

• State University of New York at Stony Brook

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Industry

Computer Software

Lee Bankewitz’s Summary

After majoring in Math and Computer Science at SUNY StonyBrook, I started work at Chyron, working with C# on broadcast graphics software. At Chyron, I was introduced to best practices in software development, as well as the domain knowledge surrounding broadcast operations.

Two years later I moved to Oxygen Media. I worked on Oxygen's revenue reporting software, introducing me to the financial side of a cable network. I also worked with C# 3.0 and WPF on Ript, Oxygens consumer facing software.

Oxygen's software development team worked in an Agile fashion, and I was a natural fit for the environment. Scrum, TDD, and especially pair-programming were all attractive ways to work, and I have become very comfortable with all of them.

Since January of 2008 I have been doing full time Ruby on Rails development at Weplay, where we also follow both Agile and XP practices.

Lee Bankewitz’s Specialties:

Agile software development, including TDD, Pair Programming, Scrum and Kanban. I am a Certified Scrum Product Owner.

C#, WPF, and Analysis Services. Ruby, Rails, RSpec, Cucumber, and Webrat.

Lee Bankewitz’s Experience

• Sr Software Developer

  Weplay, Inc.

  (Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)

  Full time Ruby on Rails development. Agile process, with pair programming and TDD. Using Test Unit, RSpec, Cucumber and Webrat. Engineering also works very closely with product to determine the business priorities.

• Software Developer

  Oxygen Media

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

  May 2006 — February 2008 (1 year 10 months)

  Worked in an extreme programming environment, with full time pairing and TDD. The team has a dedicated Scrum Master and Product Owner for each of its projects.
  
  Projects include consumer facing products such as Babynamer.com and Ript, as well as internal applications for revenue reporting and broadcast operations.
  
  Worked with C#, Wpf, Ruby on Rails, and Analysis Services.

• Programmer

  Chyron Corporation

  (Public Company; Broadcast Media industry)

  June 2004 — May 2006 (2 years )

  Worked mostly on XClyps, an HD/SD clip player. The framework of XClyps was later leveraged to created Channel Box. Also worked on a playlist app that interfaced with Chyrons flagship product, Lyric. Used C# and C++.

• Programmer

  Subrogation Partners

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  2002 — 2004 (2 years )

  Web developer supporting two in house web applications. AGS is a subrogation claims management system written in cold fusion, and used by SubroPartners employees to track their claims. The Subro Dashboard is written in java and used by management to view reports on the company's financials.

Lee Bankewitz’s Education

• State University of New York at Stony Brook

  Math, Computer Science 1998 — 2003

  Most undergraduate work focused on computer graphics using the OpenGL library.