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Bellevue, Washington, United States

QA Lead for major releases including expansion packs and quarterly content updates. I manage a team of analysts who all own a different major content system across the studio and work to get content handed off to embedded analysts, then advice the construction of test passes which are handed off to outsourced testing.- Set up a system to track test pass.

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Embedded QA Analyst for Gameplay Engineering and Audio teams.- Owned in-game portion of product Steam launch- Automated much of the process of bulk creating accounts for press demos and external playtests

Writing tools and performing tests for the Amazon Lumberyard game engine.

Greater Seattle Area

QA lead for the Technology Team as part of Relentless Studios. This team covered the core engine, networking, graphics and performance. I engaged in both direct testing of complex issues, as well as tasking another Test Engineer and a team of 8 Test Associates. I also wrote python tools, mostly built around parsing data out of client and server logs.

Kirkland, WA

As a team lead I provide leadership to a small team under me and the campaign QA team as a whole by tackling difficult problems, solving problems and making process suggestions to my immediate supervisor. I also own a level of the campaign and have all of the typical responsibilities of test ownership for that content.

Kirkland, WA

Managed a team of 6 testers performing a variety of tasks for our client company, ArenaNet. Daily responsibilities involve managing the 6 testers on my team as well as the (up to) 30 other testers in the lab, all in coordination with ArenaNet's in house QA. Often engages in hiring, performance evaluations, training and coaching as well as setting the.

Bellevue, WA

I worked directly, face-to-face with designers, artists and programmers to shepherd content from the initial conception to being complete, polished and deployed to live servers. Created test plans, which were then executed hundreds of times by 8 to 10 team members. Served as the primary tester on multiple piece of content. Helped train dozens of testers in.

Worked for seven months on the Halo: Reach campaign team, focusing on complex AI issues and difficult to reproduce scripting bugs.Operated as the teams' problem solver during the later stages of the project. Whenever an issue was difficult to reproduce or understand, it was given over to me to debug and reproduce.Afterwards I helped to ship the Kinect.

Often given sole authority and responsibility for specialized build testing.Provided unit testing for private builds working directly with programmers on an individual basis. Regularly provided QA coverage for the Art & Design feature teams. Constructed and executed complex test plans to assure build stability and functionality.Tested PC, Xbox, Playstation.

Maintained Nintendo's licensing and terminology certification standards for 1st and 3rd party software.Tested every title released for Nintendo's WiiWare and Virtual Console download platforms released for the '08 Christmas season.