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Henderson, NV

Orem, UT

Orem, UT

• Hands-on technical manager, with responsibilities over development teams in the USA, Vietnam, and Russia. Demonstrated ability to deep-dive into technical matters to define direction and resolve team impediments. Key.
• Managed efforts to migrate our flagship MPi EDGE product off of a distributed database backend to a centralized SaaS level-4 backend. This included coordinating development efforts between teams, taking an active role.
• In charge of teams developing key components of our web-based platform strategy to further our SOA efforts and unify our various products. This included providing guidance on improving site up-time and performance.
• Responsible for the development of our next generation single-page application from assembling the team and defining our minimum viable product to releasing our first Alpha version to a test customer.

Orem, UT

• Leader and integral member of the development team focused on producing high-quality code to solve technical challenges. Proven ability to prioritize development efforts to ensure that valuable functionality is able to.
• Redesigned our Dealer Management System (DMS) integration product to decouple integration points from core processing allowing for easier extensibility and improved maintainability. This redesign also allowed the team.
• Refactored a custom installation tool to use a data-driven model, reducing code changes necessary for each release and improving overall reliability.
• Created a continuous build system to replace a cumbersome batch build process, reducing the time necessary to generate a release from around eight hours to mere minutes.
• Improved team capability by teaching team members how to understand and resolve problems rather than simply providing answers.

Orem, UT

• Member of a QA team focused on providing broad testing coverage for our flagship product.Key Achievements:
• Created a custom automation framework in C# for scripting GUI load and stress testing efforts.
• Created multiple code-based data validation tests to parse through gigabytes of compressed XML data and database rows to verify consistency and validity.
• Leveraged past experience to drive automated testing efforts, and evaluate third-party testing tools.
• Responsible for installation and maintenance of lab hardware including small routers, switches, wireless access points, laptops and servers.
• Worked closely with our Development and Technical Operations departments to identify and resolve customer concerns as well as come up with innovative solutions to our customer’s needs.

Lindon, UT

• Test engineer in a fast paced, outsource testing company that required the ability to switch between different types of testing disciplines based on customer/project demands. Key Achievements:
• Created reliable automation scripts using various scripting languages.
• Performed large scale automated client/server and web testing.
• Managed groups of testers to accomplish project goals.

Provo, Utah Area

Maintained and installed test hardware in Novell’s main testing lab, the SuperLab. Assisted SuperLab engineers with test setup. Received CNA certification for Novell NetWare 4.11