Brett Harris Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Washington, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Deeply Local User Experience TeamCreated new UX for the “Language” and “Region” settings pages in the Windows 10 Settings app on various platforms (Desktop, Mobile, and HoloLens) to support the new Local Experience Pack apps. The settings pages are used by millions of our international customers to customize their settings for language, country, and date and time formats and more. Each release of Windows 10, we iterated to improve our feature by listening to customer feedback provided in Feedback Hub and Windows Store. Root-caused UX issues by debugging using WinDbg.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Windows International Test Team• Tested localization quality in 100+ display languages for a broad range of products (Windows OS, Windows Phone OS, Hyper-V, Bitlocker, Settings, Search, Text input and inbox apps)• Detected thousands of localization and world-readiness bugs in products by developing automated bug detection tools and self-hosting Microsoft products

Redmond, Washington, Us

Planned informative events for Carnegie Mellon students to learn about the Microsoft Intern experience and Windows Phone 7 App Development. Also planned social events such as XBOX Kinect Party events for studentsConducted reasonable budgets for each event for food, drinks, and raffle prizes.Sought out and coordinated knowledgeable guest speakers for events.Advertised for Microsoft events on campus through flyers, e-mails, social media, and word of mouth. Also, I was responsible for passing out Microsoft collateral to a broad range of students on campus.Collaborated with technical organizations on campus such as Association of Computing Machinery@CMU, National Society of Black Engineers, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Business Technology Club, and Game Creation Society.Served as mentor to two underclassmen computer science majors.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Class titled "Fundamental Data Structures and Algorithms"· Facilitated and taught a weekly interactive class of twenty students. Constructed worksheets, quizzes and powerpoints for recitations.· Designed automated grading tests for assignments using JUnit Tests· Conducted regular office hours, review sessions, and met with students one-on-one

Redmond, Washington, Us

-Worked with the Windows International Test Team to detect World-Readiness defects-Designed, developed and tested automated test algorithms in C#

· Designed and implemented a user-friendly dialog box in Java for users to initiate a web crawler in a prototyping tool program that evaluates your designs with predictive human performance· Honing testing skills by diagnosing bugs in code on both Mac and Windows Platforms · Expanding on the import from XML functionality to allow importing from other prototyping tools

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Class titled "Problem Solving Using Data Structures" for Intermediate/ Advanced Java Programming · Facilitated and taught a weekly interactive class of twenty-five students in a computer lab · Designed automated grading tests for assignments using Shell Scripts and JUnit Tests · Conducted regular office hours, review sessions, and met with students one-on-one