David Metzener

Past

QA Analyst at Mobile Armor
Software Engineer/Software Test Engineer at SirsiDynix
Software Engineer at Sirsi Corporation

Software Engineer at Siboney USA
Software Engineer at Simutronics Corporation
Software Engineer at Milliken Publishing Company
Software Engineer at St. Louis University Hospital
Software Engineer at Milliken Publishing Company

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Education

High School Degree

Connections

64 connections

Industry

Computer Software

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David Metzener’s Summary

Before working in Software Testing, I spent about 15 years developing software in a variety of languages: 6502 assembler, Applesoft Basic, C/C++, Visual Basic, and Java for a variety of companies.

Recently helped SirsiDynix test a large client/server system using CompuWare's TestPartner and CARS systems before being let go.

David Metzener’s Specialties:

Knowledge of programming and experience with Black and White box testing.

David Metzener’s Experience

QA Analyst

Mobile Armor

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

June 2008 — November 2008 (6 months)

I'll be testing Mobile Armor's product to make sure there are no bugs in it at all. ;)
Software Engineer/Software Test Engineer

SirsiDynix

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

August 2005 — November 2007 (2 years 4 months)

Maintained large Client/Server Library Enterprise system written in Java and C - (Dec. 2003 - Aug. 2006)

Used Intellij’s IDEA IDE with Java 1.4-1.6 to maintain the Cataloging module of Symphony 3.2

Used Jira to track tasks/bugs

Worked as part of a 7-10 person team using the Scrum programming paradigm

Moved to the Software Test Engineering department - (Aug. 2006 - Nov. 2007)

Used CompuWare’s CARS to schedule testing tasks

Used CompuWare’s TestPartner 6.0 to automate test tasks that would run after nightly builds

Worked as part of multiple 7-10 person teams using the Scrum programming paradigm
Software Engineer

Sirsi Corporation

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

December 2003 — July 2005 (1 year 8 months)

Maintained large Client/Server Library Enterprise system written in Java and C - (Dec. 2003 - Aug. 2006)

Used Intellij’s IDEA IDE with Java 1.4-1.6 to maintain the Cataloging module of Symphony 3.2

Used Jira to track tasks/bugs

Worked as part of a 7-10 person team using the Scrum programming paradigm
Software Engineer

Siboney USA

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

January 2001 — April 2003 (2 years 4 months)

Responsible for the development and maintenance of educational software titles that were a part of the Siboney Orchard management system.

Started development of first e-Learning title. My responsibility was to port an existing title written in C with XVT to a Java application client for both Windows and Macintosh platforms.

Participated in development of “Reading Links” series. Product was written in Java 1.2 using Swing for both Windows and Macintosh platforms.

Modified 37 titles, which had been acquired when Siboney acquired the company that developed them, to work with Siboney’s management system called Orchard. Many of them were written in C with XVT: a cross-platform development library.

14 titles were written in Visual Basic 3.0 for Windows and needed to be updated to work under Visual Basic 6.0

4 titles were written in HyperCard for the Macintosh and Visual Basic 3.0 for Windows, they were converted to Java.
Software Engineer

Simutronics Corporation

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

1995 — 2001 (6 years)

Started development of a web based client for IFE (Interactive Fiction Engine) games utilizing DHTML with JavaScript.

Maintained IFE server which is used to run 5 online games. The engine is written in C and C++ using GCC on Linux servers. I used EMACS to edit the code.

Participated in a project to convert 3 million player log database records from a filesystem database to an Oracle 8i database. Wrote a C++ program to convert the records to XML where another program would take the XML data and place it into the Oracle database.

Participated in the development of CyberStrike 2, a 3D multiplayer Mech-style game. I was responsible for single player mission briefing animations. The project utilized C++ with STL and proprietary graphics routines using Visual Studio 6.0.

Participated in writing a Bulletin Board System for a move from AOL (America OnLine) to the Internet. I wrote the BBS front-end client in Java using AWT.

As well as other projects...
Software Engineer

Milliken Publishing Company

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

1990 — 1995 (5 years)

Responsible for porting existing Apple][ titles to IBM compatible systems. Titles included The First “R”, Scientific Reasoning, Word Math, Math Sequences and Comprehension Connection. Titles were developed in C using Microsoft’s Visual C/C++ 5.0 and Visual C/C++ 1.5 compilers.
Software Engineer

St. Louis University Hospital

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

1987 — 1990 (3 years)

Developed software and databases to aid doctors with cardiology research. Software was written in C with Visual C/C++ 1.5. Databases were created with 4th Dimension for the Macintosh.
Software Engineer

Milliken Publishing Company

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

1982 — 1987 (5 years)

Developed numerous educational titles for the Apple][. Titles included The First “R”, Scientific Reasoning, Word Math, Math Sequences, and various EduFun titles. Programs were written in Applesoft Basic and 6502 Assembler for Apple DOS and ProDOS.