Firefox Launch Coordinator at Mozilla Corporation
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Firefox Launch Coordinator at Mozilla Corporation
- Team Coordinator at The Camino Project
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- Quality Assurance Engineer at Mozilla Corporation
- Quality Assurance Team Lead at Treemo, Inc
- Administrative Manager at Dominion Real Estate Services
- Cash Receipts Clerk at Seattle Art Museum
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- Andrews University
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Samuel Sidler’s Summary
Project manager-type for releasing open source software (namely Firefox).
Samuel Sidler’s Experience
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Firefox Launch Coordinator
Mozilla Corporation
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
January 2009 — Present (11 months)
Coordinate maintenance releases (on average once a month) and unexpected "firedrill" releases. Involves working with groups across the company including the development, QA, build and release, marketing, web development, and localization teams.
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Team Coordinator
The Camino Project
(Partnership; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2005 — Present (4 years 9 months)
As team coordinator, I help to organize various teams as well as assist in other duties as needed.
Currently, this means I do the following:
* Assist in quality assurance and bug triage
* Manage our website
* Help plan releases
* Marketing and Press Relations
* "Drive" maintenance releases as needed
* Work with the Mozilla Foundation for monetary and governance issues
* Manage systems as needed (tinderboxen, etc)
* Find new contributors
* Work with designers as needed -
Quality Assurance Engineer
Mozilla Corporation
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
March 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 10 months)
* Crash analysis for Firefox 2 and Firefox 3
* Bug triage
* Manage the crash reporting system (Talkback) for Firefox 2 including its systems and database
* Started long transition in January 2008 to Launch Coordinator position -
Quality Assurance Team Lead
Treemo, Inc
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
April 2006 — March 2007 (1 year )
In charge of quality assurance and testing on a variety of phones and web browsers. Treemo produces a web and mobile platform which must be tested in a variety of web browsers and mobile phones.
As the team lead (and, currently, only team member), I am in charge of ensuring the quality of release before they launch.
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Administrative Manager
Dominion Real Estate Services
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Real Estate industry)
July 2005 — February 2006 (8 months)
In charge of administration and financial duties for four apartment complexes including handling rent payments, evictions, assisting property managers as needed, and inspections.
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Cash Receipts Clerk
Seattle Art Museum
(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Accounting industry)
July 2000 — September 2005 (5 years 3 months)
* In charge of Accounts Receivable
* Assisted in monthly and yearly bank and fund reconciliations
* Assisted in Accounts Payable
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