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Montreal, Qc, Ca

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

As a development manager on Motive’s upcoming Iron Man project:- Worked closely with the Technical Director while owning the planning and day-to-day operations of the Core Tech group.- Organized, tracked, and reported on the effort of 25-30 multi-disciplinary devs during conception and pre-production.- Worked with engineering leads to create and maintain planning deliverables (roadmaps, milestone objectives, backlog definition).- Participated in hiring processes, interviewing candidates for technical and project management roles.- Advocated for the project’s needs in conversations with partner engineering groups.- Facilitated retrospectives with team members, recording and summarizing feedback for leadership.- Identified and flagged risks in regular status reporting with development directors.As a development manager on Dead Space:- Onboarded onto the title on limited notice, replacing an outgoing Development Director for the Gameplay group.- Organized, tracked, and reported on the effort of ~30 multi-disciplinary devs during the final six months prior to launch.- Created focused JIRA dashboards to track scope changes, bug status, remaining effort, and feature completion.- Participated in frequent triage, change request, and feedback processes, contributing key planning data to stakeholders to drive towards the best decisions for our audience and our developers.- Escalated concerns on team health to production leadership in a constructive and actionable format.- Facilitated feature reviews with project leadership and gameplay designers, guiding discussions towards realistic and actionable feedback.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

As a quality designer embedded with the development teams of multiple ongoing game projects (Dead Space, Skate):- Was placed in a leadership position, charged with developing a new team to drive test automation initiatives across multiple titles.- Collaborated with technical, production, and QV leadership to define strategies and goals for test automation that fit project objectives and timelines.- Defined, tracked, and prioritized a backlog of required test automation for multiple projects, and managed ongoing delivery with a team of QA peers.- Maintained ongoing visibility of operations for QA leadership stakeholders.- Identified, mitigated, and reported on risks affecting the delivery of test automation.- Onboarded, mentored, and supported the growth of junior team members.- Defined KPI's and worked with partner groups to plan and implement instrumentation to measure the health and success of our efforts.- Defined requirements for QA technology needs, and advocated for those needs in interactions with QA engineering.- Shared technical knowledge with other QA members on areas of subject matter expertise (testing against services, telemetry systems, editor functionality, crash and error reporting, first-party integrations, etc.)

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

As an analyst embedded with the development team for "Star Wars: Squadrons":- Was accountable for test strategy, planning, and execution for areas of ownership (Online, Telemetry, and Engine).- Worked closely with development partners to ensure quality was present at every step of production.- Drove continuous process and workflow improvement for the wider QA team.- Onboarded, mentored, and supported the growth of junior team members.- Developed and maintained automated tests of game functionality with visual scripting tools.- Collaborated with technical leadership to meet strategic project testing goals.- Continuously advocated for and authored feature briefs for new tooling for QA.- Identified and implemented opportunities for data-driven testing.- Authored concise documentation on workflows and tools for QA and dev audiences.- Performed competitive analysis and delivered actionable feedback to dev partners.

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

As an analyst embedded in the client and server engineering teams for a branded mobile game:- Developed test plans, checklists, and testing strategies for core technology features and development tools with an emphasis on testing earlier in the development process.- Using white-box, grey-box, and black-box methods: executed testing over areas of ownership, verifying the accurate implementation of features with a high degree of quality.- Identified, isolated, and regressed detailed and technical bugs.- Drove communication and transparency between the engineering team and QA partners across different office locations through regular syncs and collaboration tools.- Leveraged source control and continuous integration/delivery to create client and server builds as needed to facilitate testing.- Built expertise in mobile hardware testing on iOS and Android platforms: sideloading apps, monitoring device logging and telemetry, and verifying platform authentication and store transactions.- Ensured good test coverage that accounted for mobile-specific challenges such as network switching, application interrupts, and varying hardware and operating system versions.- Developed proficiency with tools such as JIRA and Confluence, as well as familiarity with Unity.- Monitored external reporting and logging tools for the product such as Crashlytics and Loggly, to assist and inform bug creation and troubleshooting.

- Managed two public-facing websites and was responsible for editing site code, authoring content updates, and integrating and uploading changes- Collaborated with the IT helpdesk team and end users to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve system defects with a high level of customer service aptitude.- Conducted quality assurance and acceptance testing and authored release notes for monthly maintenance updates to web-based service portals- Developed custom software features for the SharePoint intranet environment, such as a system to record and report when intranet users had completed mandatory training- Authored, edited, and implemented intranet content updates to ensure consistency of style and tone and compliance with governance and brand policies- Developed and introduced 3 analytic dashboards to the division, which provided Executive leadership with regularly refreshed insights into business data, diminishing the need for manual querying and report generation- Trusted with the oversight and administration of employee requests for Reliability Clearance granted through Public Works and Government Services Canada as an Alternate Company Security Officer- Collaborated on an 1100 page RFP response, providing style guide input, copy-editing, and formatting services

- Assisted in the planning, migration and implementation of a new SharePoint 2010 intranet for the Canadian Government Services division- Played a key role in site creation, content migration, and custom feature development- Coordinated and delivered direct training to 200 business users as part of the launch- Authored communications related to the launch, training, and discontinuation of previous CMS systems- Took a strong role in defining go-forward policy for content management, permissions management, and communications within the new intranet

- As sole developer on the project, worked collaboratively with analysts and business users to design and program a completely custom internal procurement system using InfoPath forms, C# and SharePoint- Provided post-launch support and feature development for the system as business needs matured- Developed a C# application to regularly consolidate and refresh employee data from various data sources and databases

- Furthered the development of a customizable work order management system that the company had purchased- Developed and implemented automated rules for pricing and discount structures within the system to increase efficiency for end-users- Authored critical user walkthrough and help documentation for the system