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Austin, TX, US

• Create test automation for internal applications using Python, Swift, XCTestUI and Selenium
• Creation of and maintenance of automation infrastructure. * Train manual QA engineers in automation test creation using python and selenium

Austin, Texas Area

• Built team from ground up establishing team direction, development processes, workflows and best practices.
• Team built automation to test Apple call center tools creating over 1000 tests that replaced manual regression testing efforts, leaving manual testers time to focus on new features.
• Provided mentorship and career guidance for individuals on the team.
• Created tools for visualizing and reporting out bug data for projects under test, allowing project leads… Show more
• Created tools for visualizing and reporting out bug data for projects under test, allowing project leads, program managers and others to quickly understand a project under status and release readiness.
• Taught basic Unix and Software development skills to wider QA group to help develop the next generation of engineers and enlarge the QA group’s skill set. Show less

Emeryville, CA

Test Infrastructure development in Ruby and shell. Test development with Cucumber for MacOS, Windows, iOS and Linux. Management of large Jenkins server.

Santa Clara

• Responsible for directing the automation strategy for FIleMaker’s Bento product.
• Designed and implemented a test automation system for Bento that runs on both the Mac OS and iOS.
• Create automated tests in Python and Ruby for the Mac, iPhone and iPad using internal Apple tools and various open source libraries including Calabash.
• Setup and maintained a Jenkins continuous integration system to run groups of tests in response to checkins or as a part of nightly or… Show more
• Setup and maintained a Jenkins continuous integration system to run groups of tests in response to checkins or as a part of nightly or weekly test suites. Show less

San Francisco Bay Area

• Create automated and functional tests for audio encoders and decoders that ran on embedded Linux systems, Android devices and Windows and Mac desktops.
• Responsible for debugging and adding new features to an existing in-house test framework written in Perl and Python.
• Advise others on the team about best practices and implementation of automated tests and use of testing framework.
• Member of interview team… Show more
• Member of interview team responsible for creating interview questions, screening candidates, interviews and post interview reviews. Show less

• Created automated tests using Digidesign's automated test framework.
• Lead team of junior engineers in developing Digidesign's automated testing strategy, including mentoring and developing their Ruby and general coding skills.
• Extended and managed custom automated test framework used in testing Digidesign's flagship product Pro Tools on Mac OS X and Windows XP.
• Taught and mentored junior engineers on Ruby and programming in general so that they could create… Show more
• Taught and mentored junior engineers on Ruby and programming in general so that they could create automated tests. Show less

• Lead team of testers in compatibility testing for Pro Tools releases using automated and manual methods.
• Collaborated with Program Management to define schedules and release criteria.
• Created test plans and test cases to for compatibility testing.
• Qualified new Apple machines and Mac OS X release.

• Debugged and root caused third party reported defects in the prerelease versions of Mac OS X at the assembly level using gdb.
• Implemented fixes for Carbon or other affected frameworks; met regularly with major third party developers to discuss changes, bugs and workarounds.
• Documented, prioritized, reviewed and resolved all of incoming third party compatibility issues.

• Engineer and technical lead for CarbonLib 1.0 through 1.6; CarbonLib was the transitional implementation of the Carbon API on Mac OS 9.
• Developed APIs and support code in C; debugged applications with MacsBug; designed and supervised testing of CarbonLib.
• Collaborated with Program Management to define release dates and feature sets for the system.

Created installers for the Mac OS and various applications including the original iMovie.

Quicklook and regression testing for the Systems team.

Offensive Mobile Reversing And Exploitation

Certificate, Cybersecurity

Music Engineering