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Victoria, BC, CA

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

• Planned and delegated timelines for concurrent projects based on business priorities and available staff resources
• Supported my team members' happiness, performance, and career growth through regular 1-on-1 check-ins
• Improved requirements engineering processes to deliver more predictable and accurate estimates and deadlines with my team
• Conducted technical and behavioral interviews, and mentored junior staff to excel as testers and developers
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British Columbia, Canada

• Collaborated to develop profitable slot and bingo video games for web, mobile, and tablet, while creating backlog content
• Developed client/software features, build & release tools, and test environments for various products
• Optimized game performance by implementing compression strategies, smarter sprite sheet packing, and enhancing production quality and communication
• Upkept, maintained, and improved DevOps/build systems for reliable content publication
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Downtown Victoria BC

• Led end-to-end Quality Assurance processes, ensuring product quality through rigorous testing of new content and client/server updates, and proactively identifying software errors
• Ensured safe, comprehensive product releases through manual test suites and automated testing (Selenium, Appium)
• Automated repetitive manual labor with Python, ADB and other tools
• Resolved critical production errors through investigative testing and communicated results to teams

Victoria, BC

• Maintain, update, and improve website features and load time
• Assembled an art book using Adobe Premiere and Adobe Photoshop entitled "Revolving W and Flying Pigs

Victoria, BC

• Led development of two children's video games for the Leapfrog game console using their custom C++ SDL engine
• Met a challenging deadline for a high-quality product with unwavering dedication, clear communication, and persistence
• Took ownership of some level/animation editing to remove any delays
• Massively improved code re-usability and game frame-rate
• Received excellent reviews from parents and children

Victoria BC

• Developed software updates for a 3D acoustic modeling program and an embedded speaker configuration system using the JUCE cross-platform C++ library
• Successfully integrated localization for non-English languages
• Designed and built an ASM-like language and compiler, reducing code by 60%, enabling new features, and allowing for detailed function documentation

Calgary, Alberta

• Performed Quality Assurance for file filtering and transformation products used in big data analytics
• Designed and executed remote tests across a diverse network of Unix, Windows, and Mac systems
• Investigated C++ program defects, reported issues, supported technical documentation, and ensured quality of releases