Brian K Friesen Email & Phone Number

Portland, Or, Us

Portland, Oregon Area

Author of the literary fiction novel "At the Waterline."Available everywhere online and in your local bookshop in paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats.

- Authors or modifies program and system documentation including narratives, logic diagrams, input and output samples, user manuals, etc. Implement test scenarios & cases (with focus on integration & batch processing scenarios)- Development of testing tools for test automation & support- Implement test plans and test scripts (with focus on integration & batch processing testing)- Provides integration testing & performance testing- Evaluates abnormal terminations and makes corrections as required. - Developes automation scripts to increase process efficiency.- Technical writing and process documentation- Conducts User Acceptance Testing sessions

-Quality Assurance testing for proguitarshop.com-Writing and designing websites for Calmer Country Solar Power.-Quality Assurance for Pro Guitar Shop Webstore.-Providing in-depth critique and advice for writers. -Editing the book “Through the Screen Darkly” for Seattle film critic, Jeffrey Overstreet. Editing and proofreading fiction and nonfiction texts. -Offering suggestions from the grammatical to the conceptual.

Quality Assurance on web pages, web systems testing, metrics testing, Omniture tracking verification, Flash implementation testing, Usability and functionality testing. Verification of quality on all levels of internet development, training others regarding IT, report preparation, viewing and interpreting HTML code, creating and maintaining spreadsheets, customer Service,

Testing functionality of Fred Meyer webstore technologies.

Volunteer and Office Support

-Awarded funding in return for over 370 hours of research including transcription and correction of Reformation era anuscript. Researching Aboriginal health and narratives, Canadian Literature Post WW2 and Canadian Women writers.

Harbor Master Assistant at Rocky Pointe Marina - Managing 200 tenants and liveaboards at the marina. Writing and editing monthly newsletter and updating marina website. Working with government officials to meet annual regulations. Creating community and government documents. Meeting weekly and monthly deadlines. Handling marina accounts. Entering and tracking accounts for all tenants. Regular maintenance of the marina property.

-Attended training classes for leading creative writing workshops. Volunteer work typing submissions for publication, organizing mailings, and setting up for public readings.

Writing, producing, and editing an hour-long, bi-weekly poetry radio show. Conducting interviews, writing interview questions, attending and recording public poetry readings. Researching local, international and blind poets. Running studio-recording equipment.

-Assisted in four graduate and undergraduate courses. Positions entailed lecturing, assessing student performance, compiling final grades, helping and counseling students about their writing, meeting with students to refine writing projects, monitoring student progress, test supervision, problem-solving with instructors in contentious situations with students.

-Tutored in the Writing Center. Job included working with non-native speakers of English, scheduling appointments, proofreading and evaluating essays, grants, and creative writing, problem-solving and challenging students in their writing.

-Cared for a 23 year old autistic man. Position entailed administering medication, assisting in hygiene and helping client through evening routine. Companionship and care for the elderly. Assisted in care giving, sleepovers and excursions my wife's elderly and autistic clients.

Ma, English, Writing

Activities and Societies: Research Assistant, writing and reading groupsWriting and Research

Ba, English, Film Studies, Psychology

Activities and Societies: Creative writing workshops, Editor and writer of a Golden Hours radio show, Oral History project with Native.