Alex Stahl Email & Phone Number

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Reston, Virginia

Northern Va

San Francisco Bay Area

Engaged in private consulting agreements to build automation solutions using tools like CentOS, ArchLinux, VirtualBox, Ruby, Vagrant, Chef, Bash, Jenkins, Nexus, Apache, Git, etc. Have been hanging out in the Retail Sector the last few years. Helped an international clothing retailer rebuild its register deployment systems. Built various development components, including a build pipeline and an elastic non-prod environment system, for an offline subscription service. Rebuilt a legacy logging system for PCI compliance for a luxury goods retailer.

San Francisco Bay Area

Engaged as a Software QA Engineering Consultant on Android application clients. Focused on test execution and tooling - writing & running test cases & scripts - while advising on technical aspects of the testing process. Shipped three white-label applications to major U.S. clients.

The Presidio

Built a Software QA program for this highly-secretive internet start-up.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Built process and organized agile test team to deliver test design, execution and results• Guided both the team's technical and organizational development• Developed lightweight test automation framework in Ruby to cover Facebook API implementation and user­-facing gaming platform.• Tested new features & approved releases throughout

Developed and executed test strategy for Leapster, Didj & Leapster Explorer handheld gaming platformsLed testing of firmware and content on each deviceShipped 30 titles, increasing productivity by 100% in 3 yearsTested upstream test projects (SDKs, APIs, docs), reducing bug counts, cycle time and cost of downstream productsIdentified, defined requirements for, and designed high-return test tools, incl. gameplay automation, content diff/change control, and data-driven techniquesBuilt a technically-skilled, tools-based test team with solid QA methodologies and processes

Contract position as a technician for a mobile metrics company. Maintained a data warehouse inventory in MS Access (created records, wrote SQL queries and generated reports). Performed whitebox QA of production data as it was processed through proprietary processes. Administered various archiving (Perl) and backup procedures (DVD).

Contract position. Executed black-box software testing on PlayStation, PlayStation 2, and PSP games from 3rd Party Publishers and prepared bug reports based on test results. Also performed hardware testing on new revisions of PlayStation 2 and PSP Systems.

Performed multiple roles simultaneously at this digital cinema startup. As Webmaster, developed and administered corporate website, including all technical implementation. In Business Development, rewrote and developed the Business Plan, prepared financial planning (Balance Sheets, Sales Forecasts), and competitive analysis.

Developed and implemented site, including page layout and coding (HTML & JavaScript), graphic design (Photoshop) and CGI/Perl scripts. CSS didn't really exist when I had this gig.

Responsible for different levels of network administration and user support. Performed administration of Novell Netware and Windows NT servers. Operated backup systems. Resolved user issues in tracking system, and provided desktop support to ~250 users.

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