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Houston, Texas, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

I do commission based closing for clients that already have lead generation handled

Lynnwood, Wa

Functioning initially as an IT service for small business and individuals, I and my partners built and managed servers and custom installations. We have transitioned into helping guide stakeholders with cryptocurrency investment and strategizing.

Bothell

I currently run several dropshipping companies that are mostly automated with some overseas supervision and built around my experience in eCommerce/Project Management Test and Sales.

Bellevue, Wa

Shipped Destiny 2 Disc, ran smoke, BVT and test passes in an Agile environment both with team and solo. Creative process and networking was highly encouraged and rewarded by being given specialized tasks from neighboring teams.⦁Worked in a fluid environment with constantly changing deliverables and timelines⦁Grouped with team members for tasks that involved complex requirements ⦁Propped builds daily checking for stability and regressions across several branches

Bellevue

Shipped Smash Squad. Created Test Cases, validated server and client and worked closely with Developers testing features. Studio was closed.⦁ Daily BVT and Smoke on Jenkins builds ⦁ Agile environment developing on several titles across multiple branches⦁ Created documentation on tasks for team members⦁ Worked closely with Developers through Softlaunch up to RTW

Redmond

Manual whitebox and blackbox testing on Xbox and PC platforms covering audio, input, feature integration and compatibility with 3rd party applications with a heavy focus on SmartGlass recognition•Network stress testing •Daily BVT and FVT testing •Tracking of multiple issues through regressions up to resolution

Redmond, Washington

Interfaced daily with 1st and 3rd-party developers about integration of rich data into the XBOX Live experience, including: Achievements, rich presence, NSAL, relying party, challenges, stats, and events.• Insure that all virtual sandboxes per studio were up and running fully functional|• Managed high profile 3pp studio portfolio including Crytek, EA, Tecmo-Koei, Capcom, and Ubisoft• Ran tests on Live interface and integration with rest of SOA-based systems• Managed critical functions with daily changing requirements• Implement json strings to set up custom play sessions• Create NSAL endpoints for clients bridging their platform with ours

Seattle

Reviewed multi-million dollar advertisement campaigns prior to them going live on Amazon and IMDB. Tested a wide variety of ad types for the most popular devices that users access Amazon from. Tested multiple scenarios for each type of ad on both the front and backend.• Successfully completed numerous ad campaigns for very powerful clients• Pushed forth a new workflow that streamlined the QA process for the team• Developed new testing methodologies working extensively inside of virtual machines• Tested functionality for Kindle, Web and mobile environments

Seattle

Had ownership of multiple sections of Amazon’s “Fulfillment by Amazon” infrastructure. Daily activities involved customer facing interactions dealing with high value premium sellers. I reconciled inventories while searching for patterns that could prevent fraud. Investigations included missing, lost and stolen merchandise within warehouses across North America.• High value reimbursement negotiations involving extremely subjective cases• Excellent attention to detail involving thousands of transactions per customer on occasion• Worked with multiple SQL databases as well as in Putty and JavaScript.• Interfaced with multiple support teams to reach best possible resolution for the seller.

Bellevue, Wa

Shipped PC game Hawken involved coordinating with a small team initially utilizing the waterfall testing method. Both white-box and black-box testing was performed. Defects were logged into SQL Database Jira. Midway through the project we were expanded as a team and switched to an Agile testing method, my role switched to writing Test Cases for my multiple areas of ownership using Zephyr.• Manual and Ad-hoc testing of unreleased PC title "Hawken"• Shipped best of show winning Gamescom demo build of Hawken• Testing of website video streaming and functionality of core assets such as the forums, sign up page and networking features.• Ownership of numerous Test Case suites• Wrote and executed Test Cases for multiple areas of ownership• Managed Confluence database for areas of ownership• Found and resolved hundreds of major and blocking issues within software• Helped bring new team members up to speed on project• Brought to light many severe blocking bugs as project went along

Redmond

Joined project during a period of inactivity, spent majority of project writing future test cases as scenarios and performing build verification tests with various audio codecs on the Xbox 360. Tested video streaming and playback across numerous formats and devices including Zune, Netflix and the HD-DVD player. Learned how to use Team Foundation Server while projects were being transferred over from Product Studio. • Manual and Ad-hoc testing of unreleased Xbox 360 accessories for stability with all existing 1st and 3rd party Xbox products prior to release. • Tested audio products on all audio codecs and against each other in a variety of real world scenarios• Verified all configurations and worked within Excel spreadsheets on a daily basis• Wrote test cases and scenarios as well as managed bug tracking within numerous databases including Product Studio and TFS• Worked side by side with team of engineers to perfect hardware before it released to the world• Assigned projects through their life cycle of conception to release• Found an issue with the Zune dock causing a hard lock within the Madrid dashboard• Found issue with wireless race wheel endlessly draining battery when out of range of console

Redmond

Five month sprint project where primary role was to help oversee smooth transfer of AT&T’s MMS functions to a new server. Assignment was to ensure the top 30 mobile handsets had full functionality in sending media and text between each device. Transmission of video was brought into high priority towards middle of contract with focus on clarity of each video transcoding properly in numerous resolutions.• Frontline tester of MMS media transcoder software• Installed numerous proprietary apps and software on handsets to measure data transmission• Insured that media sent between a wide range of handsets were received without error• Handled reproduction of incidents throughout the team• Found and plugged potential data errors between handsets• Owner of individual handset bug depositories• Managed overall spreadsheets used by team within Excel• Found numerous blocking issues with compatibility of Android based handsets transmitting messages to flip phones• Found issue involving IOS based handsets being unable to send to Android based devices

Redmond

Shipped Microsoft Kinect developing test cases for developers to help improve the A.I. Created data to be used by skeletal tracking tools from scratch with no supervision using proprietary tools.• Filed bugs detailing how to improve productivity applications and built queries in Product Studio.• Animated frame by frame skeletal models for running test cases.• Positioned on the front end of a pipeline in a non-siloed environment.• Integral in platform development leading up to release to world.• Created results/data for developers working in a live environment early in product pre-release cycle.• Worked within an agile testing environment that taught adaptation to rapid deployment cycles and changes in testing patterns• Demonstrated a high quality of test cases through comprehensive quality analysis & personal judgment calls.

Redmond

Evaluated the XBOX 360 hardware and software for defects across a wide variety of console and software regions. Consulted with experienced team members to formulate effective workflow.• Tested numerous XBL (XBOX LIVE) builds on all regions and models of hardware.• Tested all peripherals associated with Xbox 360 console in all possible configurations• Tested a wide variety of XBLA and Xbox games for numerous passes including international consoles• Verified unreleased titles to be compatible with all existing Microsoft XBOX 360 products• Tested for emulation of 1st generation XBOX titles with the XBOX 360 platform• Demonstrated a major bug with a USB hub causing a boot loop for the XBOX slim console

Master Of Computer Applications - Mca, Computer Science

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