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Kirkland, Wa, Us

Seattle, Washington, Us

Managed team of outsourced engineers responsible for fixing issues across the product portfolioCreated and implemented an issue prioritization and escalation framework to standardize and simplify communications across the organizationStood up public-facing status page for all products and backend services

Seattle, Washington, Us

Established Program Management discipline - defining, recruiting, and managing a team of 4 awesome PMs responsible for direct management of all engineering tasks and decisions across all productsOversight of definition and execution of multiple custom development contracts, successfully releasing new products and functionality to 100,000s of usersCreated and implemented an executive-level prioritization framework for engineering initiatives

Defined and delivered product roadmap, from client interviews, mockups, proof-of-concept, delivery, and subsequent metric-driven iterations of refinementReduced new client onboarding from 3 months all-hands-on-deck to 3 hours by a single person by driving company-wide product discovery and process improvement, enabling massive small- and mid-market upselling Increased Creative Professional Services output 4x via custom tooling, revamped QA methodology, and new process managementEstablished KPIs and live dashboards across Product, QA and Professional ServicesReduced software QA costs by 50%, while improving release cadence and qualityIdentified and developed custom tools for sales to allow easy and accurate simulations of our marketing automation productUltimately increased both top and bottom line growth, contributing to a successful acquisition

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Created and implemented plan for transitioning existing test process from waterfall to agile for Azure hosted SaaS and Office plug-in client productsCoordinated offshore manual test team of 15 employees, improving test request intake process from business owners and identifying test coverage gapsLead testing efforts for customer provisioning tool with local and offshore resources, validated against business requirements and SOC-2 compliance

Seattle, Wa, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Owned the SQA of a networked consumer electronics product with 3 unique embedded microcontroller devices and a proprietary 802.15.4 network implementationCreated test strategy to address resource and schedule constraints Developed flexible test automation infrastructure (Python, Lua)Coordinated with client to understand product requirements and identify additional opportunities for test automation in related systemsCo-designed BLE/802.15.4 radio timesharing schemeShipped reference development platform of hardware/firmware/network

Taoyuan, Tw, Tw

Analyzed 3rd party data provider web service and identified security and performance issues, proposed solutions, validated internal and 3rd party implementationIntegrated Testopia with existing test automation to drive test pass execution and reporting via custom XML-RPC interface (LAMP, Perl)Coordinated external test lab validation of IR control of consumer electronic devicesOwned complete testing coverage on multiple features of internal cross-platform graphic composition framework used for HTC Sense 3.5/4.0 on phone and tablet devicesCollaborated with Dev/PM on defining new public APIs for graphics composition framework

Redmond, Washington, Us

Received Microsoft “Gold Star” Award in November 2008 for extraordinary contributions across disciplines to successfully ship Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-076Oversaw testing efforts for all Windows security patches from June 2008 to January 2009• Reviewed fixes, evaluated risks and mitigations, ensured all test teams met requirements• Worked closely with test owners, development and release management• Coordinated company-wide integration test passes• Made final QA go/no-go decision before release to 300m+ customersDefined documentation standards for Windows 7 feature test specs to enable full knowledge transfer to the Windows Servicing teamDeveloped a web dashboard using ASP.NET to calculate and track Win8 manual test execution cost and failure triaging costs, to enable Windows leadership to establish goals and measure progressDeveloped extensible test harness using C# to automate testing of Windows Hotfix and Security package manifests, resource localization, install, uninstall and payloads, which eliminated manual testing cost and unreliable results and enabled complete test coverage of all 150+ package permutations within minutesInvestigated security vulnerability reports through debugging, reverse engineering and code analysisTested and signed off many Hotfix and Security patches for Windows Media products, adding manual and automated tests based on customer scenarios and affected code pathsCreated and maintained test plans and developed automated test cases using C++ for DirectShow Editing Services SDK and Windows Media Format SDKMaintained and modified the system for automated testing of private Windows Media Format SDK binaries using SQL Server, ASP, C++, and VB ScriptDeveloped Windows Media Format SDK C++ sample applications