Nathalie's Software Development  

Software development is one of Nathalie Lussier's core passions. She has been developing software since she first discovered programming in her early teens. She taught herself to program in C++ and soon after was taking programming courses in school. She then pursued further education and embarked on a series of internships at different companies to strengthen her software development skills.

The following are some of her previous work experiences.

09/2007 - 12/2007
Morgan Stanley, London, England

Lead Adobe Flex Developer

• Worked closely with clients to design and develop an Adobe Flex interface to display key business data in a refreshing format.
• Implemented dynamic charts and graphs from XML SOAP responses to give users a visual understanding of the data in Flex and Action Script.
• Developed an Export to Excel function to retrieve data from Flex into a spreadsheet format that can be saved by users.
• Wrote end-to-end functionality starting from Flex, through ASP.NET to pass SOAP messages, to coding Java server side database queries and data aggregation.

01/2007 - 04/2007
Platform Solutions Inc., Sunnyvale, California

CPU Firmware Developer

• Lead the daily bug status meetings, developed a PHP tool to display transient bug counts, managed the assignment of bugs to developers and tracked their progress.
• Learned the IBM z/Architecture assembly language by writing, testing and debugging new z/Architecture instructions using Intel's Itanium Assembly language.
• Leveraged self-modifying code to develop a dynamic debugging tool, written in Intel Itanium Architecture Assembly.

04/2006 - 08/2006
Morgan Stanley, New York, New York

Trading Application Software Developer

• Leveraged C# serialization and SOAP request/response messages to communicate with the Linux-run server side code while tracing the messages through from C# to Java in Eclipse.
• Wrote unmarshalling code to take XML and dynamically create columns and rows in a grid and display SOAP response data to traders.
• Incoporated my modules into the existing pricing form to recalculate prices based on the changing data retrieved from the feeds.

09/2005 - 12/2005
ALTsoftware, Waterloo, Ontario

Software Developer

• Became the sole developer for the C#-based test automation project (both build and test managers), implementing over 30 new features while increasing the level of stability and performance of the program.
• Leveraged C/C++ and OpenGL to create visual test cases to verify a safety critical Aerospace graphics driver.
• Traced through the graphics driver code and helped driver developers to pinpoint bugs, while acquiring a deeper understanding of graphics and low level programming.
• Developed keen interpersonal skills by working with QA, while catering to the needs of users and keeping the MySQL back-end and the GUI front-end well organized.

01/2005 - 04/2005
ScanSoft/Nuance, Montreal, Québec

Software Developer

• Researched and proposed a new database system and implemented the database layer changes with a co-worker.
• Reimplemented two modules of the Voice Recognition program, performed developer tests, created a personal schedule for time management while meeting release deadlines.
• As a Quality Assurance Engineer in 2004 I wrote and debugged Perl scripts, to set up new testing environments for different aspects of the software product.