Responsible for leading a team of Automation Engineers in developing best practices, strategy, and continuous integrationAdvanced building automation suite to support applications used both internally and externallyDrive load testing initiatives to further support the scalability of applications and infrastructure

As a Director at HMB, I am tasked with leading a growing group of individuals focused in the testing services space. My responsibilities include: helping folks in the practice grow to their full potential, setting the Technical Direction, defining Goals for Practice, facilitate Skill Advancement, defining our methodologies, account management and sales support.In addition, to overseeing our Testing Services practice, I provide our clients services and solutions. Automation Architect Mar 2019Trained multiple QA resources on programming (C#), gherkin, selenium. Stood up testing framework.Lead Business Analyst and QAJune 2018 – Feb 2019Over seeing a large initiative at a state agency, I have been tasked with responsibility for ensuring the re-write of a C++ application to C#. I am also responsible for implementing the testing process which will need to focus on security and high volume of transactions through an APIAdviser and Auditor – Various ClientsMarch 2018 – June 2018Working with clients to understand their pain points to testing and continuous integration. Uncovering bottlenecks, areas of risk, and challenges to faster implementations. Outcomes from the assessment provided clients with the ability to increase their output and provide faster releases to stakeholders Lead Business Analyst – Customer ExperienceSept 2017 – March 2018As the business analyst Lead on the payment options project within the Customer Experience program I was tasked for with laying the groundwork for the ability to offer customers additional options for paying their bills.DevOps Engineer and Test LeadMarch 2017 - Sept. 2017Lead on redesign of NiSource public supplier web sites. Responsible standing up the continuous integration architecture using Jenkins, creating test automation through C#/Selenium/Specflow/nUnit, build integration with msbuild, release management through PowerShell and managing the overall test execution for a multi-million dollar project.

Responsible for web application development teams at NiSource supporting the Customer, Work Management, and Damage Prevention applications. This role involves all aspects of Application Support team management from managing Production Support activities of the team to scheduling and forecasting enhancement projects. Engaged as a formal Program and Project Manager for high-profile regulatory and corporate strategic projects. These responsibilities include full life cycle Project Management from concept through turnover, resource management, and budget responsibility across multiple applications and vendors. Supported the overall team though development and continued maturity of the application change management processes required for our outsourcing contract.

As the Lead Business Analyst of multiple web applications for NiSource, including 17 Desktop applications and 7 Responsive Websites. I was responsible for gathering requirements, translating those requirements to features and user stories. With the development team, I assisted in implementing DevOps and Agile methodologies to increase our release outputI was responsible designing, developing, and maintaining automated tests using the tech-stack of C#, Selenium WebDriver, NUnit, and SpecFlow for UI tests. For API tests, we used Postman and implemented those as part of our build process through Jenkins. Implementing and maintaining these automated tests reduced manual testing effort by 75%.

Test Lead – Financial Application Migration - NiSourceOct 2012 – Dec 2013As part of NiSource’s largest IT project to date, I was the Test Coordinator for the Work Management System impacted on the project. I coordinated and managed a team of 12 testers through the design, build and test phases. My responsibilities included defining test strategy, execution and defect management. I was the center point for working with developers and business users for requirements and test traceability to those requirements. I was also tasked with creating Automated Tests using HP – Unified Functional Testing.Business Analyst/QA Lead – Website Re-Design - NiSourceFeb 2012 – Oct 2012Business Analyst and QA Lead for the re-design of a fortune 500 company website. The website redesign was implemented to meet the demands of customers increasing usage of mobile devices. As the Business Analyst lead, I was responsible for defining requirements, working through the UI design with business leads, and holding demos after each iteration.As the QA Lead, I was responsible for multiple activities under the project. Establishing traceability matrices, using loadrunner by Microfocus define and execute performance testing, creating test scripts, and leading a team of 5 to execute end user testing.App Dev - .Net MVC, jQuery, C# - NiSourceOct 2011 – Feb 2012Built a replacement for an existing mainframe application was utilized New Business unit currently uses to manage all new natural gas load requests and proposals. The build leveraged the MVC .Net framework using C# language. The front-end used CSS, razor/HTML, JavaScript, and JQuery. The database was built leveraging Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and nHibernate as the ORM.

Played multiple roles under support for corporate applications:Web Development• Develop user interface enhancements to JPMorgan Chase Real Estate and General Service web applications utilizingC#.Net, VB.Net, .Net 2.0 framework, and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005• Utilize SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2008 to manage all database related activity• Provide production support for multiple applications accessed by employees of JPMorgan Chase• Implemented JPMorgan Chase, corporate wide, physical records management applicationProject Management• Managed all testing for 2010 tech refresh of Approval Central, the system of record for approval authority forJPMorgan Chase• Managed the performance testing of Ariba 9R1, the procurement application used across JPMorgan Chase & Co.• Manage additional small scale performance tests on various applicationsQuality Assurance• Conducted Application Self Assessments on applications under the General Services umbrella, and followed up withany issued found• Developed, managed, and executed test scripts using HP Quality Center• Managed and documented application performance testing across multiple applications used within line of businessAdministrative• Financial Analyst for Corporate Real Estate and General Service applications• Created test plans for multiple projects and enhancements for Approval Central application• Developed server mappings using Microsoft Visio