Will Munslow

Current

• Software Engineer at Nuance Communications
• Applications Development Lead at SNAPin Software

Past

• Software Design Engineer at Action Engine Corp.
• Software Engineer at Tumbleweed Communications
• Software Test Engineer at Worldtalk

• Software Test Engineer at Intermind Corporation

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Education

• Highline Community College
• Mt. Rainier High School

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Industry

Computer Software

Will Munslow’s Summary

Programmer, mostly scripting languages. Jack-of-many-trades. I fit in mostly between the hard-core developers and everyone else. I excel at learning quickly and taking over tasks that mainly interact with the rest of the company. I love startup companies.

Will Munslow’s Specialties:

Interpreted languages, user interface/usability design, mobile devices.

Will Munslow’s Experience

• Software Engineer

  Nuance Communications

  (Computer Software industry)

  2008 — Present (1 year )

  Maintained and updated Javascript code responsible for downloading/updating the main application. Our custom interpreter ran my scripts first that are used to download updated application files from the server, check roaming status, verify the security of the files on the filesystem and launch the main application. It is challenging to balance the speed, memory and disk space requirements with new feature requests to support GSM, CDMA, smartphones and feature phones.
  
  I wrote a test reporting tool in XBL (a proprietary server language). The automated test suite wrote out a report in JSON format that was uploaded to the server. My application displayed the results in aggregate with charts to identify problem areas allowing the viewer to drill down to see details about devices, operating systems and specific test results. This was particularly challenging as I had to learn XBL while solving the overall goal of making the results useful.

• Applications Development Lead

  SNAPin Software

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  June 2004 — Present (5 years 6 months)

  Wrote XML/HTML hybrid documents responsible for the UI and the Javascript files responsible for the business logic of displaying billing information, FAQs, and diagnostic data for mobile phones and user account information. All of this was written for a custom interpreter that was ported to various phone OSs (Windows Mobile, Symbian, etc.).
  
  Challenges included taking into account various device differences (screen size, filesystem, system settings access, processor speed) and creating a user experience to make everything simple to use and easy to navigate.

• Software Design Engineer

  Action Engine Corp.

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  January 2002 — June 2004 (2 years 6 months)

  Wrote XSLT/XML/HTML-like markup to display content (sports, news, etc) on handheld devices (mostly mobile phones). The XSLTs transformed the content from the server in XML format and turned it into an HTML-like format for the interpreter on the client. Before this, I didn't know XSLT and had to learn it quickly.

• Software Engineer

  Tumbleweed Communications

  (Public Company; TMWD; Computer Software industry)

  November 1999 — October 2001 (2 years )

  Built a web front end for configuring an email firewall server. HTML, Javascript, SQL, ASP, and glanced at some Java when the ASP was thrown out and the entire thing was rebuilt on Struts.
  
  I was introduced to Web and Software Usability and read a lot of books by Nielsen, Norman, Krug, Zeldman, et al. Web Usability was exploding at this time and there were lots of discussions about how to display many different views of the data to the user in a way that made sense.

• Software Test Engineer

  Worldtalk

  (Computer Software industry)

  June 1997 — November 1999 (2 years 6 months)

  Tested client and server email security products, most through ad hoc testing.
  
  We wrote an automated test tool in Perl that created email messages that used a tool to shoot them at the server over SMTP, then checked the results via POP3 to verify the server policies were correctly applied.

• Software Test Engineer

  Intermind Corporation

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  December 1996 — June 1997 (7 months)

  Intermind built a software product that was ahead of its time. It allowed websites to syndicate data almost exactly how RSS does it today. It also used a web browser as its User Interface that really confused people since at the time, browsers were used to view websites "out there" and the software ran on the client side.
  
  My job was to test the client software to make sure it correctly updated connectors (feeds) and displayed the results.

Will Munslow’s Education

• Highline Community College

  Associate of Arts , Writing , 1991 — 1993

• Mt. Rainier High School