Teresa Peters
- Account Type:
- member
- Location:
- Redmond, WA United States
- Member since:
- May 23, 2006
- Last Login:
- February 6, 2017
- Last Update:
- February 6, 2017
- Bio:
Skills
- Primary Skill:
- Intermediate Designer
- Secondary Skill:
- Skilled Tester
- Tertiary Skill:
- Intermediate 3D Artist
- Summary:
- Microsoft Corporation/Volt Information Sciences Ames, IA
Microsoft Student Ambassador/Partner [Iowa State], August 2005 - June 2007
* Organized and presented technical talks to students on campus.
* Promoted Microsoft products and technologies.
Iowa State: Virtual Reality Applications Center Ames, IA
Graduate Research Assistant, January 2006 - June 2007
* Programmed and designed various aspects of a plant cell metabolism virtual simulation and game.
* Managed artists and programmers.
* Taught myself Maya's MEL scripting language. Wrote and tested a plug-in (tool) using MEL and C++ to export shaders used in Maya files to a readable, parseable format.
* Integrated and updated depreciated code written using Maya's API.
* Mentored interns for three months during the summer of 2006.
* Created and textured 3D models for a tropical island simulation program.
Microsoft Corporation Redmond, WA
Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) Intern, Summer 2005
* Performed testing of 15 Microsoft SharePoint web templates and worked with a partner to build a test design specification for those templates. The templates were deployed in August 2005 at the following web site: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sppt/wssapps/default.mspx.
* Tasks included manual testing of the web sites and reporting (164) quality bugs.
* Tasks also included using software engineering skills to design, build, and test a flexible and dynamic framework for a localization tool for SharePoint sites. This tool was to be completed by a full time employee and deployed throughout FrontPage and SharePoint teams in Microsoft.
IBM Research Triangle Park, NC
Extreme Blue Technical Intern, Spring 2005
* Created thermal diagnostic software for IBM's E-Server BladeCenter.
* Simulated high-growth startup with product launch expected (date unknown) on engineering & business team.
* Presented weekly to executives to ensure approval and go-ahead on new products.
* Taught myself Java. Tasks included working on the database data retrieval process using Java and researching the database interface.�¢ï¿½ï¿½
Microsoft Corporation Redmond, WA
Software Test Engineer Intern, Summer 2004
* Tested a new feature (e-mailing calendars) for Outlook 2006 during its initial development cycle.
* Tasks included taking over some of a program manager's work when he left. This was achieved by making sure the feature functioned well and had a good user-interface.
* Wrote C++ build verification and acceptance test scripts to test the feature.
* Wrote a specification document to teach other employees how to build and write C++ test scripts.
* Taught myself .NET and C#. Wrote a program, using .NET and C#, to edit generated XML files to hide private and protected members from being displayed in generated help documents. This would prevent external users from knowing the members existed. The program is being used within the Microsoft Office group.
Microsoft Corporation Redmond, WA
Software Test Engineer Intern, Summer 2003
* Tested the appointments, SharePoint calendar integration, Chinese/Japanese/Korean languages in contacts, and contact photograph features for Outlook 2003.
* Tasks included writing C++ automation scripts for testing appointments, participating in organized bug searches within Outlook, and reporting (93) quality bugs. Tasks also included reviewing existing design specifications and writing a test design specification.
* Learned several test tools and taught how they work to other Outlook employees.
Recent Activity
No recent activity
