Dave Boudreau Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Boston, MA, US

• As a full-time Volunteer Leader with the American Red Cross (via Boston Cares), I helped implement COVID-19 safety protocols at the American Red Cross Food Pantry at a time when demand for food surged from 500 families.
• Lead teams of 6-20 volunteers on a variety of projects including assembling and distributing food bags at the East End House in Cambridge, park restoration and cleanup with the Esplanade Association, and tutoring.
• Over 2200 verified hours of service completed.

• Mentored, guided, and challenged a team of 8 direct reports (6 QA Engineers, 2 Tech Support Engineers) to set and achieve ambitious career goals and professional growth. The team has experienced 3 internal promotions.
• Established Circulation’s Tech Support Engineering discipline, which handles all bug reports and product enhancement suggestions, security incidents and requests, member grievance reports, access requests, and.
• Established and lead Circulation’s New York City office, which houses a multidisciplinary team of engineers, developers, and process improvement managers. Helped created a vibrant engineering culture.
• We have a Python Cloud microservices architecture, and our search runs on top of Elasticsearch on the scale of millions of documents. We run almost everything on AWS, and now that most of their services are.

• Improved the rating of the Pace Bike Share app from 3.2★ to 4.9★ in Apple’s App Store and from 2.6★ to 3.8★ in the Google Play Store. This was accomplished through creating rider persona and test plan documentation.
• Transformed the “Inbound Queue” Slack Channel from a bug report/feature request/administrative chore catchall to a stakeholder specific, priority defined, automated, ticket creating workflow. This saved the weekly.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Led an internationally distributed 4-person QA team in the launch of HBO GO for the Hong Kong, Singapore, and Philippines markets. HBO GO featured a multi-language UI and subtitles, playback continuity across multiple.

Brooklyn, New York, US

• Led every aspect of the VICELAND implementation of TV Everywhere for the US and Canadian markets from the signing of the SOW to launch. VICELAND obliterated industry expectations and debuted with an unprecedented 342.
• Owned several SEO improvements including deploying the hreflang attribute for dozens of international locales across four different VICE properties, and creating and submitting country specific HTML and XML sitemaps.
• Managed an Austria-based development team in building and launching 8 new international locales for existing VICE properties, Virtue (VICE’s integrated advertising vertical), and City Guides (a Google-sponsored, travel.

New York, New York, US

• Built, led, and mentored the ridiculously talented 5-person QA team that tested and maintained the services and tools that power one of the world’s fastest growing, media organizations.
• Helped production deployments evolve from a bi-weekly, 3-hour, multi-department, completely manual, late night event to a daily, time agnostic, mostly automated, 5-minute non-event by leveraging CI/CD technologies.
• Architected a Selenium Webdriver test suite, written in Python and executed through Sauce Labs, that was able to validate the website’s UI and an Appium test suite for native Android and iOS apps and multiple APIs.
• Led the QA effort on the multi-platform, ad server migration from OAS to Google’s Doubleclick for Publishers (DFP), which improved site advertising unit visibility by over 50%.

• ReLitNY was a small New York City-based, 501c3 non-profit. It believed that access to high quality literature has become a luxury rather than a necessity. It collected book donations and then hold monthly.

New York, NY, US

• Managed 2 QA Engineers and an intern in ensuring that client deliverables met Code and Theory’s highest standards.
• Led the testing effort on Billionaire.com, a bilingual lifestyle guide with a fully responsive design that scaled fluidly between desktop, tablet, and mobile displays. Billionaire.com was a 2013 Webby Honoree for Best.
• Led the testing effort on DuJour.com, a single view site that flawlessly hosted long form editorial, digital only content, and rich photo-centric advertising. DuJour won a 2013 Webby for Best Home/Welcome page.