Blake Kuver Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Washington, United States

Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

Redmond

• Extended the Office client licensing feature set, creating design documentation, implementing features, creating automation and rolling out features through quality gates.
• Improved check in level unit test coverage for key licensing scenarios by refactoring code into granular testable libraries and creating unit test suites to validate functionality.
• Drove integration of Office telemetry platform into the licensing code base, extending the current telemetry coverage and taking ownership of overall design, implementation, and validation.
• Reacting to live site customer issue by assisting CSS with data gathering and investigations and creating fixes for issues as necessary.

• Lead a team of seven engineers responsible for validation of licensing features in both the Office client applications and the Office Licensing Service.
• Provided project planning, budgeting and load balancing of feature work across the team ensuring successful final sign off and delivery of features and appropriate test collateral.
• Worked with partner teams to communicate current project status and ensured work on major features spanning across team boundaries was in sync.
• Grew the team through hiring talent and working with individual team members to establish long range commitments and growth paths.

• Drove configuration testing across the Office organization for the Office 2013 release driving test passes across functionality realms and driving final organization sign off.
• Owned validation and automation of a Direct Write text rendering engine and font fallback libraries for the Office UI.
• Drove integration of globalization source code analysis tools across the Office organization creating documentation for correcting source code errors, reporting overall project progress, and tracking individual team.
• Drove ARM\SOC integration across the GXP team ensuring shipping code was building and functional on the ARM platform and updating automation to validate end to end scenarios.
• Owned development of tool set used to validate correct rendering of text and fonts used to capture text rendering calls made from individual components in Office UI.

Redmond, WA

• Owned testing and automation of core features of the Office deployment system including a new MSI based engine, MSI product definition language and integration of the Office local installation source.
• Drove setup authoring validation across the greater organization developing documentation, automation libraries and tools to assist teams in this effort.
• Participated in team effort to automate the complete Office release pipeline resulting in a reduction of release time of Office 2007 SKUs from 8 months to less than one.
• Owned testing of MSI deployment engine for multiple releases of Visio, validating deployment script definitions and core deployment functionality.
• Drove integration and validation of multiple core Office technologies into the Visio code base as Visio integrated into the Microsoft Office build lab and deployment system.
• Developed and maintained the Visio test lab including designing the hardware layout, ordering hardware and supplies and designing and maintaining a network based imaging system

Seattle, WA

• Validation of InstallShield based deployment for multiple product updates, Visio Enterprise SKU, EVisio web based deployment and MSI based deployment engine.
• Took ownership of test and automation lab, extending the functionality of the lab and improving imaging performance.

Seatle, WA

• Validated functionality of web based dynamic catalog commerce system including integration of new payment methods and deployments of client and server based products.
• Created and maintained automated test suites used for final release sign off.
• Worked on team responsible for 150% performance gain for catalog page generation.