Sandy Jensen

Current

• Sr. Principal Software Engineer at Symantec

Past

• Sr. Development Manager at Symantec
• Sr. Software Engineer/Development Manager at Brightmail
• Programmer/Analyst III at University of California, San Francisco

• Staff Research Associate at University of California, San Francisco
• Staff Research Associate at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
• Summer internship at University of California, San Francisco

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Sandy Jensen’s Summary

I'm an experienced software developer with a strong background in application development and team leadership. My ideal working environment: part of a highly-technical team, designing and building solutions to interesting problems using standard internet protocols.

Sandy Jensen’s Specialties:

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Sandy Jensen’s Experience

• Sr. Principal Software Engineer

  Symantec

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SYMC; Computer Software industry)

  January 2008 — Present (1 year)

  Responsibilities include...
  Architecture: leading small teams to define, document, and review system architectures for new projects or extensions to existing products
  Integration: primary point of contact for evaluating opportunities to integrate data or technology from other groups within Symantec
  Coding: direct development for critical/high-priority projects
  Mentoring: assist in the technical development of other team members, including code review and being an advocate for best practices
  Requirements: collaborate with other groups to turn desired outcomes into requirements that can be used to drive system development
  External: participate in high priority technical user groups

• Sr. Development Manager

  Symantec

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SYMC; Computer & Network Security industry)

  June 2004 — January 2008 (3 years 8 months)

  Led two small teams focused on AntiSpam engineering (4 developers on each team).
  
  BLOC Engineering is responsible for the design and implementation of Brightmail's 99.999% uptime production environment, serving tens of thousands of organizations including several very large ISPs and hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies.
  
  AntiSpam Technology Group is primarily an R&D group responsible for Brightmail's AntiSpam filtering technologies.

• Sr. Software Engineer/Development Manager

  Brightmail

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

  July 1999 — June 2004 (5 years)

  Started as a developer and added the manager role in 2003. I spent 95% of my time as a developer even after the meetings began, though; it wasn't until Symantec came along that I started considering myself a manager.

• Programmer/Analyst III

  University of California, San Francisco

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  February 1998 — July 1999 (1 year 6 months)

• Staff Research Associate

  University of California, San Francisco

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)

  July 1997 — February 1998 (8 months)

• Staff Research Associate

  Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)

  May 1995 — June 1997 (2 years 2 months)

  An integrated transcript map of human chromosome 1p35-p36.
  Jensen SJ, Sulman EP, Maris JM, Matise TC, Vojta PJ, Barrett JC, Brodeur GM, White PS.
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9177782
  
  Physical mapping of the CA6, ENO1, and SLC2A5 (GLUT5) genes and reassignment of SLC2A5 to 1p36.2.
  White PS, Jensen SJ, Rajalingam V, Stairs D, Sulman EP, Maris JM, Biegel JA, Wooster R, Brodeur GM.
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9691177
  
  Cloning, chromosomal localization, physical mapping, and genomic characterization of HKR3.
  Maris JM, Jensen SJ, Sulman EP, Beltinger CP, Gates K, Allen C, Biegel JA, Brodeur GM, White PS.
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8661141
  
  Human Kruppel-related 3 (HKR3): a candidate for the 1p36 neuroblastoma tumour suppressor gene?
  Maris JM, Jensen S, Sulman EP, Beltinger CP, Allen C, Biegel JA, Brodeur GM, White PS.
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9516840

• Summer internship

  University of California, San Francisco

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)

  1993 — 1994 (1 year)

  Molecular analysis at the NF1 locus in astrocytic brain tumors.
  Jensen S, Paderanga DC, Chen P, Olson K, Edwards M, Iavorone A, Israel MA, Shannon K.
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8625164