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Portland, Or, Us

Portland, Or, Us

Architecting & delivering quality software solution and streamlining business process across organizational boundaries using my breadth of experience in software development, dev ops, and leadership to help solve problems.Working to define and implement Virtual Power Plant (VPP) for electrical network integration of Direct energy resources (DERS), distributed and 3rd party energy providers (DERMS), and large scale battery, solar, and wind farms. Aligning the electrical ecosystem to work in conjunction with electrical marketing function, operations, and management of demand response, frequency response, peak shaving, and contingency reserve as it relates to VPP to build a more automated solution.Working to redefine and implement notification management across the company to build a more holistic solution that supports customer communications, crew communications and outage to customer management, and building out cloud based solutions to support these solutions.Managing GIS efforts to align information across solutions and platforms to support multiple initiatives.

Portland, Or, Us

Designing innovative cloud solutions for the electrical industry. Implementing a large suite of AWS technologies (DMS, SQS, SNS, Lambda with Python, Log streams, IAM, DynamoDB, Aurora Postgres, API Gateway, S3, and more) to solve customers future need.Managing the full stack of Oracle NMS tools to support the outage managment, dispatch, and planned maintenance systems.

Portland, Or, Us

* Leading outage management application and Smart Grid technologies. Researching new ways to enable automation through CI and functional automated tools to support quick rollout of patches and new applications.* Building a functional test automation architecture to cover the PGE Transmission and Delivery IT applications.* Designed a Lego model separating tests from functional classes and utility functions to support cross application automation development.* Fully integrated end to end automation code development, management, and execution processes with Selenium, Zalenium, Docker, Load runner, Jmeter, C#, Nunit, Git, Bitbucket, Artifactory, Nuget, Jenkins, and Custom code for a reporting tool.* Driving QA practices and policies within the team to enable consistent methodologies & processes. * Designing Enterprise wide QA sharepoint site for standards, practices, and applications.

Portland, Or, Us

* Test Analyst for Coaching, Content, and internal tools team * Building out new test automation infrastructure in C#, Selenium 3, Selenium Grid 2, Docker (for Grid), Nunit3, Jenkins, Splunk, and PowerBI* Creating automation test to fully cover and support the coaching & content applications* Working with core architecture to drive changes into core infrastructure and define changes to further operationalize processes and tools to streamline use

Santa Clara, California, Us

Managed Test Automation Team - * Managing a team of test automation engineers and develop functional test automation using selenium, java, maven, team city, and cucumber. * Drive good test case practices, procedures, and prioritization with product teams to facilitate consistent understanding and align to automation team needs. * Define test automation platform deliverable's to build out a roadmap for integration of new features for the test automation platform. * Investigate and develop API calls to integrate with multiple systems for validation and reporting on execution status. Managed Continuous Integration Team -* Defined and build infrastructure build out for salesforce continuous integration and code migration with Team CIty, Github, Ant, and salesforce metadata API* Defined release gate criteria for environment migration of code* Built Production environment backup job for disaster recoverySalesforce Release Manager -* Coordinate multiple project releases across the salesforce landscape.* Manage code deployments in each sandbox instance, coordinated and worked cross team to manage code conflicts and align changes for successful agile deployments. Traffic cop for change and release across the sandbox ecosystem.* Root cause code defects, fix when possible or route issue to salesforce developer for fix on failed deployment.Salesforce Environment Administrator - * Manage multiple sandbox environment for the team. * Spin up / Refresh sandboxes, configure post refresh environments to get core functionality working, data load and ETL hierarchy data for object mapping, and configure / work with internal teams to reconnect external data integration environmentsSalesforce System Administrator - * Manage User, profile, permission set, groups, queue creation and updates* Configure and maintain integration's with salesforce instances * Worked with Developer to setup automatic unit test execution that runs across all sandboxes

Santa Clara, California, Us

Test Automation Lead & Global Architect - * Test Automation Architect for Intel. Experience in SoapU proI, Certify, Selenium, C#, Quick Test Pro.* Defined test case and infrastructure deliverable's, investigate and develop API calls to integrate with multiple systems. * Drove tool evaluations for next generation automation, and automated strategy to define and drive change across the IT landscape.* Managed the quality efforts of multiple projects, through people and processes.* Expertise in back end system database and middle tier analysis. This is accomplished through programming test harnesses and tools to exercise API's, Web Service, Stored Procedures, and Database structures.Continuous Integration Lead - * Developed and deploy continuous integration an continuous delivery for agile projects using Microsoft TFS, Team City, git, git hub, and others.

Santa Clara, California, Us