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Kirkland, Wa, Us

Redmond, Washington, United States

Specializing in the testing and validation of hardware for the next generation of Cloud and AI infrastructure.

Redmond, Washington, United States

I Manage troubleshoot and triage all aspects of end-to-end physical infrastructure for Hardware Engineering and Testing. I work with a lot of prototype cloud hardware. I also design and administer servers, VMs, and private networks/testing domains. Includes the typical admin and tech stack of Hyper-V, AD with integrated DNS and imaging, as well as operations tools.

Redmond, Wa

Senior computer lab operations consultant. Manages, and administrates computer Lab Infrastructure for several feature teams at Microsoft. Assists customer migrations from legacy lab environments into the Azure cloud. Works with customer to order and deploy new assets into the lab and decommission old ones. Acts as the friendly, helpful liaison between the customers and their lab. Assures maximum up-time of critical infrastructure by mitigating hardware and software issues on desktop, mobile and servers in multiple labs through troubleshooting, triage and repair. Expands lab capacity by working with customers to order, install and set up new infrastructure, servers and test machines. Decommissions obsolete equipment. Plans, coordinates, and executes lab moves. Instructs others in the practices and standards of Microsoft Lab operations to assure consistency among lab installations. Presents status updates to management and customers. Modifies and maintains existing computer automation. Generates new scripts, and Windows Images. Manages VMs through Azure and Hyper-V accounts.

At Microsoft In Redmond, Wa

From performing an effective inventory of computer lab assets to switching out 40 gig network adapters in a stack of servers in a rack, I perform a large range of lab operations duties. My specialty is with unique, custom systems that require special attention in setting up and maintenence. I can unbox and deploy server equipment to racks, Install OS images as well as assure that the right configuration dimensions and accounts are set up properly for debug ports, IP power strips and KVM ports for those machines. I also help make lab moves happen. Upgrading hardware is also a snap as well, as well as performing firmware updates on switches, routers, computers and other lab hardware. Naturally, while I can perform these actions, I am also happy to manage and lead others in performing these actions as well as coordinating my actions with other teams and explaining the processes to upper management. Quality is my passion!

Redmond, Wa

Lab Operations Engineer (Service Operations) with over 14 years in the field. Coordinates Feature teams and manages their test collateral with lab infrastructure and testers to perform the test execution of their test binaries. Optimizes test collateral with execution and hardware matrixes based on customer needs to provide accurate, timely and consistent test results, specially on custom hardware featuring multiple GPUs or other unique hardware. Proven legacy knowledge in debuggers, test execution automation with a special interested in graphics in the Windows environment. Works with Lab infrastructure and IT as well as PMs test leads and other partners. I also I am also responsible for consistently reporting the quality of their unit, integration, and feature based tests during negotiated scheduled test passes in those labs using a test harness and reporting framework and through the management of venders who perform recurring test passes, triage and timely reporting of issues so that the feature teams can make timely decisions on the quality of their binaries.

Was responsible for leading the test execution and facilitation of feature teams needs in a huge lab. Worked with feature teams to assure tests were qualified and accepted into the lab, and that the tests were executed on the right hardware matrix at the right intervals. Coordinated with feature teams and the developing operations people to make sure that the new testing paradigm was being performed according to the new standards being developed.

Performed software test execution for the DirectX Feature teams as well as helped create the lab infrastructure and testing environment to increase the capacity to test on a larger set of machines in a bigger lab.

Responsible for the testing of DirectX D3D SDK and runtime components. Learned about product life style, RS232 based debuggers (rocket ports), computer hardware troubleshooting, OS installation and testing as well as generated consistent test results in a timely manner in a lab environment. Responsible for performing smoke tests on private binaries and time critical test passes. Learned how to utilize a build environment to build test binaries.

Entered military service doing in-shop and flightline propulsion work for F15-e, KC35A-R, C141 and the auxiliary power units.