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Mclean, Va, Us

Seattle, Washington, Us

Engineering Manager for Prime Video API team, owning 2 Tier-1 services that deliver content and metadata that power the Prime Video storefront. Leader of leaders. Director of Mentorship for BEN Tech. SDM across distributed teams geared towards delivering results.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Led CloudHSM’s Platform team for an external facing service allowing users to manage and access keys on FIPS-validated hardware, protected with customer-owned, single-tenant hardware security module instances that run in Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs).

Seattle, Wa, Us

Engineering Manager on the Lodging Pricing Availability Service (LPAS). LPAS is a critical Tier 1 service that searches and provides lodging prices and inventory availability for lodging properties within Expedia and third parties.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Worked as a Test Manager in the Global Customer Operations (GCO) group. GCO is responsible for implementing and managing all of the tools that are used by Customer Support agents to provide customer service to all brands under Expedia, Inc. Although the title of this role is Test Manager, the role is that of an Engineering manager because the responsibilities require managing of all disciplines in engineering units.Responsibilities include:• Managing a mixed discipline engineering team (Dev/Test/PM) in an agile environment.• Scheduling and prioritizing work for feature teams• Helping teams to drive stories to closure with high confidence and quality• Developing cross-organizational goals for the entire GCO Organization (100+ engineers)• Enhanced a test infrastructure design to ensure that the team had proper test coverage via a CICD pipeline• Created and implemented a plan to eliminate dependence on an off-shore manual test team.• Designed and implemented "Test Sprints". This consisted of organizing a 2 week sprint dedicated to focus on quality across all of our products: added new test infrastructure for varying types of automation, added additional automation, focused on performance issues or any items plaguing our users.• Worked closely with the leadership team to determine the direction of test and help to shape an “engineer” environment• Created and ran strategy planning meeting to organize management to push for our goal of Daily deployments. • Created success metrics to answer the question "How do we measure quality and what does success look like?"

Redmond, Washington, Us

Worked as a Senior Engineer on the Outlook Calendar Team. The Outlook Calendar Team is currently responsible for creating an immersive calendaring application for the new Windows 10 operating system. Responsibilities include:• Working closely with the internal Office Performance team to ensure that the calendaring app meets all boot time, memory consumption and disk space requirements.• Implemented testing gates to help the development team ensure that new features to not detrimentally impact performance metrics.• Investigated all performance regressions • Worked closely with internal teams to set performance goals for the app• Worked on the calendar item feature crew implementing various features that assist with navigation, ease of use and accessibility.• Worked on XAML animations for visual enhancements

Redmond, Washington, Us

Worked as a Senior SDET on the Information Protection Experiences (IPIX) test team. The IPIX team currently owns the Reporting experience for the entire IP organization. The Reporting experience consists of ALL FFO related reports and also the Visualization Framework which other teams will use to on-board their own unique reports.Responsibilities Included:• Created a test infrastructure for the Visualization Framework.• Created test mechanisms to validate the feature in the live datacenter (probes, monitors and end to end tests).• Helped to create best practices for handling on-call incidents for on-call engineers• Worked closely with management to ensure that the on-call incident handling was seamless by meeting weekly with on-call engineers and incorporating feedback into actionable items for the team.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Devoted 50% of time on management responsibilities and 50% of the time on development responsibilities. Lead Responsibilities: · Provided test leadership for multiple features: Antimalware, Reporting Engine Publishing service and email message tracking features. · Helped direct reports to deliver features on time and with high quality · Helped to develop career plans for direct reports and find challenging and career growing opportunities · Managed team schedule to ensure on-time shipping of all products Individual Contributor Responsibilities: · Debugged complex problems within a live datacenter environment · Implemented and deployed fixes within a live datacenter in a timely fashion to avoid any downtime or negative impact on customers · Maintained individual test projects that require creating and implementing test plans for features in the previous mentioned areas. · Worked on new end-to-end test harness and test cases that were run WITHIN the live datacenter environment to ensure high quality and functionality of currently operating datacenter · Helped to configure and troubleshoot probes that run within a datacenter to allow constant testing and monitoring of features in place of SCOM · Worked on Transport High Availability feature creating and implementing the original test plan

Redmond, Washington, Us

* Implemented test tools to assist in various types of testing of Forefront product* Implemented automated test cases that run on a daily basis with an expected 100% pass rate. * Made various helper classes to encapsulate common functionality across test code. * Worked to keep the product ‘workload agnostic’ so that automation was not dependent upon workload specific binaries for execution. Automation was also not aware of the current workload under which the product was executing. This allowed for “plug and play” automation code that needed no altering if any additional workload were supported. * Created testing mechanisms to plug-in to workloads to allow Forefront interaction to be tested. * Implemented a PowerShell wrapper to execute Exchange PowerShell cmdlets on automated machines. * Created a “Smoke-It” test application which ran as a web service to make it easier for members of the development team to run automation test passes with private builds (builds not generated by the build system) after making changes to code. This reduced the amount of product breaks and automation breaks. * Created new test infrastructure for next generation products * Wrote full test plans that include test requirements, design and goals. Test plan is reviewed by entire feature team (project management, development as well as test). * Wrote a test plan for the entire product for a milestone/release. This is typically done by leads in the Test department. After writing the test plan, drove it to completion by presenting it not only to the entire feature team (dev/test/pm for the product), but also to the entire quad (all feature teams within the quad, this consists of 4 feature teams) as well as all of the quad managers. After writing the test plan also SWAG’d the test items and created work items for other members of the team including myself. Drove the milestone to Test Complete on-time meeting all automation goals.

North Reading, Ma, Us

Masters, Computer Systems Engineering

Bachelors, Computer Systems Engineering