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From: Perry and Lorae Merritt (plmerritt, hypermall dot net)
Date: 2002.04.03 - 11.46 MST
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----- Original Message -----
From: William Blazek
To: pmerritt, anterastorage dot com
Cc: William Blazek
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: Final interview
Hi Perry, Don, Jay, Kevin,
I wanted to thank all of you for the opportunity to interview with you yesterday.
Also, Perry, you asked about my ability to do the test engineering and
tools development that Antera will need. Another example that I forgot to
describe was when I moved from the previous to current generation of PBX system.
In 1995, a large number of developers, 50+, including myself,
moved to the current generation of PBX. This more than doubled the size of the
existing development organization. It required us to learn an
entirely new system archetecture, development process, tools, languages, etc.
I knew C from grad school work but not in a large scale, professional, production environment.
The new generation system had an entirely different software and hardware
architeture. The development tools for source control, debugging, processes and
tracking, etc. were all completely new. We did have a fair amount of training on the
new system but primarily we had to grind through the process of learning on
a daily bases as we learned our individual assignments. Also, we moved to the
new project at the beginning of a development cycle for a new release that was a
very large release relative to previous releases. There were lots of new features
added, some with new hardware to support, as well as major change in one of the
platforms the system operated on.
My project was an enhancement to station displays for conferenced and transfered
calls that provided more accurate display information which I was able to complete
on schedule and with high quality. This turned out to be a fairly complex assignment
because there were lots of feature interactions to consider and investigate as well as
a less than optimal design and implementation of the existing display feature.
I was quite amazed how the entire project was completed only slightly behind the
original schedule and was a complete success. Management was quite happy also.
There was potential for a project disaster if everyone was not able to learn the new system
quickly and effectively but the whole project came together quite well, all things considered.
So I consider this a major accomplishment in my career, to move to an entirely new project:
- Learning C in a truely large scale system - 2+ million lines of code
- New and much more complex system sofware and hardware architecture
- All new source control and delivery tools,
- All new ISO certified development processes
- New debugging tools
- New lab environment
- New type of assignment in Call Processing. Previously I had only done administration assignments.
- And completing a complex assignment on schedule and with high quality
This background, plus the others I described, make me very confident I can work with
the rest of Antera's engineering team to develop high quality test processes, tools and operations.
Thanks again for the opportunity to meet all of you yesterday.
Please feel free to pass this on to the rest of the team.
Sincerely,
Bill Blazek
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