About Me: Steven Erat

Where I Live and Work:: Home: Bolton, Massachusetts;
~~Work~~ Worked: Newton, MA
What I Do Did:: For nearly nine years I was employeed at Adobe Systems, via the acquisition of Macromedia and Allaire. While there I was known for my dedication to helping customers learn to use the ColdFusion Application Server and its associated language CFML while I helped them resolve their related development and adminstration issues with the technology. I worked on the ColdFusion 8 Engineering Team as I QA'd many of the new features, and during that time I even spent a month in Bangalore India training other QA Engineers. I then joined the Flex SDK QA team to work on DataService testing, SOAP WebService testing, Linux testing, and SWFObject2 Flash Detection integration. But then there was this just before Christmas of 2008...
My Favorite Activities:: Photography, Running Linux, Outdoor Adventure, Travel, and Life Sciences
My Former Life:: Neuroscience Research Laboratory Technician at NIH, USDA, and Brandeis University
About TalkingTree:: The name TalkingTree is derived from a gathering place in San Salvador Island

Flex SDK Quality Assurance Engineer, Adobe Systems
ColdFusion Quality Assurance Engineer, Adobe Systems
Senior ColdFusion Product Support Engineer, Adobe Systems
Senior ColdFusion Product Support Engineer, Macromedia (acquired by Adobe)
ColdFusion Product Support Engineer, Allaire (acquired by Macromedia)
Neuroscience Laboratory Technician, Brandeis University, Laboratory of Neuroscience
Laboratory Animal Technologist, BioTransplant, Charlestown MA
Equine Veterinary Technician, Tufts University Vet School
Neuroscience Laboratory Technician, USDA Human Nutrition Research Center, Laboratory of Neuroscience
Laboratory Animal Tech and Neuroscience Lab Tech at National Institute of Health, National Institute on Aging
Deck hand on a commercial fishing vessel called Miss Ann, on the Chesapeake Bay
Volunteer tour guide at National Aquarium in Baltimore

Boston University Center for Digital Imaging Arts, Digital Photography
Stanford Center for Professional Development: Computer Security
Red Hat Linux Training: Introduction to Linux, Networking and Security, Rapid Track to Linux RHCE
Boston University: Certified Java Developer
IBM Training: Introduction to Websphere Administration
Sun Training: Introduction to Java, Servlets and JSP, J2EE Applications Programming
Bentley College: XML, Intro to Perl
Brandeis University: Web Security, Intro to XML, Advanced Java
Macromedia Training: ColdFusion MX, Java and JSP with JRun, Performance Tuning ColdFusion, Dreamweaver, Flash, Flex
University of Colorado Health Science Center: Neuroscience Ph.D. program
Harvard University Extension School: Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Signal Transduction, Biochemistry, Intro to Java, XML for J2EE, Database Design
Towson State University: Bachelor's Degree in Biology
Wallops Island Marine Science Consortium

Certificate in Professional Digital Photography from CDIA at Boston University
Red Hat Linux Certified Engineer (RHCE)
Certficate in Java Programming from Boston University
Advanced ColdFusion Certified Developer
Radioactive Materials Handler, NIH
Radialogical Worker I, Department of Energy
Beta Beta Beta Biology Honor Society, Towson State University
Laboratory Animal Technologist, American Association of Laboratory Animal Science

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