Bill Marrs

Current

• Owner at Kenyon Hill LLC

Past

• Programmer at Rational Software
• Programmer at PureAtria
• Programmer at Atria Software

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Education

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Connections

38 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website
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• My Website

Bill Marrs’s Summary

I worked at HP/Apollo Computer as a co-op job in college doing software testing. Then a summer job and after I graduated for Atria Software (formed mostly of former Apollo programmers). I wrote the original test scripts for ClearCase. Then, moved on to converters (importing versioned files from RCS, SCCS, DSEE into ClearCase). Then, I did some work on ClearCase command-line tools and a core "VOB" library. One of the last things I worked on there was "relocate" a tool for moving elements between VOBs. Atria merged with Pure then Rational and IBM after I left.

That was about 9 years. By the late 90s I had been tinkering with some websites and I was looking for something new and different, so I went out on my own operating some website. I'm still doing that today (another 9 years later). My main sites are http://gametz.com (a marketplace for people to trade/buy/sell video games and other stuff), http://surveycentral.org (a community/social-oriented question and answer site), and diethound.com (diet information and discussion).

From my ClearCase years, I used C/Unix primarily. Now, I use mostly Perl and PHP; also, MySQL. I do basically everything on the websites I run now, so I know a fair bit about UNIX/Linux administration (email, DNS, web, scripting, security, etc.). Also, there's a fair bit of customer interaction (feedback, responding to and fixing bugs, moderating trade disputes, and community moderation).

As you might have noticed, my design skills are not my strong point. But, if you can get past some of the unsophisticated look & feel of my sites, you may find some nicely implemented systems. That's where I tend to do well. GameTZ's systems for offer/trade/ratings, also matching, the review system, and the search system are all things I'm fairly proud of.

Bill Marrs’s Specialties:

I love working on interactive multi-user, database-backed web systems. And, I think I'm pretty good at it.

Bill Marrs’s Experience

• Owner

  Kenyon Hill LLC

  (Internet industry)

  Currently holds this position

• Programmer

  Rational Software

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RATL; Computer Software industry)

  1997 — 2000 (3 years )

• Programmer

  PureAtria

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  1996 — 1997 (1 year )

• Programmer

  Atria Software

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

  1991 — 1996 (5 years )

Bill Marrs’s Education

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  1986 — 1991

Additional Information

Bill Marrs’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Website
• My Website

Bill Marrs’s Groups:

•    Atria Software Alumni

Bill Marrs’s Contact Settings

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