Lee Bankewitz

Lee Bankewitz

Sr Software Developer

Greater New York City Area

Current
  • Sr Software Developer at Made the Cut
Past
Education
  • State University of New York at Stony Brook
Connections
78 connections
Industry
Computer Software

Lee Bankewitz’s Summary

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

In 2006, Lee moved to Oxygen Media. He worked on Oxygen's revenue reporting software, introducing him to the financial side of a cable network. Work also included C# 3.0 / WPF on Ript, Oxygens consumer facing software.

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

Lee now works at a web company doing full time Ruby on Rails development in an all-agile environment.

Lee Bankewitz’s Specialties:

Agile software development, including TDD, Pair Programming and Scrum. Worked with C#, WPF, Analysis Services, and Ruby on Rails. 3+ years experience in the broadcast operations field. Lee is a Certified Scrum Product Owner.


Lee Bankewitz’s Experience

  • Sr Software Developer

    Made the Cut

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

    February 2008Present (1 year 6 months)

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

  • Software Developer

    Oxygen Media

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

    May 2006February 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 2004May 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)

    20022004 (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 19982003

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


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