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Santa Barbara, California Area

HG Data has built the world’s largest and most accurate database of b2b technology customer intelligence, tracking more than a million businesses and the specific software/hardware/cloud products they are using. HG Data was named a 2014 Gartner Cool Vendor for Information Innovation. Led by a team of data scientists, analysts and machine learning experts, HG's mission is to deliver our customers the holy grail of data for their marketing and sales programs.Responsible for the overall quality bar of HG Data’s big data generation pipeline, customer facing SaaS data platform and internal full stack applications.• Chartered to implement the QA engineering function within HG Data’s engineering team.• Presented initial observations and suggested resource requirements to fill in the QA Engineering team.• Hired QA Engineers/SDETs embedded within 4 Scrum teams.• Evangelized for CI/CD to allow for weekly and daily releases.• Designed and implemented the initial instances of UI and API end-to-end test frameworks supporting: test fixtures and service endpoints scoped to environments, dockerized, running (locally, CI, Stage and Production)• Thought leader promoting Docker usage throughout teams.• Authored and championed throughout engineering several process documents, value systems and conventions for QA. (definition of done, definition of data done, story grooming checklist)• Designed the layout and championed introduction of the Engineering Confluence site.• Fostered the notion of an architecture review board and participate as a member.• Participate in backlog prioritization, story grooming and sprint planning

RightScale: The world's largest cloud management platform SaaS, having launched over 6M servers. Provides efficient configuration, monitoring, automation, and governance of cloud computing infrastructure and applications. RightScale abstracts infrastructure design to a layer above the IaaS provider.Responsible for the overall quality bar of the RightScale Cloud Management SaaS platform.• Grew the QA engineering team from 2 to 18 QA engineers over 4 locations (Santa Barbara, Belarus, Scotland, Panama).• Key contributor to the agile manifesto (RightScale's Scrum/Agile SDLC).• Conceived and drove the weekly release train initiative to fruition. • Set requirements, architecture and oversee implementation for all system level test automation frameworks (Web UI, API, Backend Services).• Participate in story grooming, sprint planning and retrospectives.• Remote collaboration with 4 geographically separated development teams.

The Microsoft/AdECN Federated Exchange is the first true exchange for online advertising, in which every ad impression is targeted and auctioned individually. Based on the model of a modern stock exchange, Microsoft/AdECN provides liquidity to ad networks and other aggregators of online advertising traffic. The Exchange has been built to scale to 30B impressions per month, 6K transactions per second per scaled unit, with less then 100 ms of latency.• Created the QA organization responsible for the delivery of the initial and subsequent Federated Exchange releases deployed to Microsoft’s production environment- Conceived QA’s methodology, processes and strategy for functional, performance and system integration verification- Derived skill set criteria and hired QA staff( 3 leads, 12 total team members )- Designed and oversaw the build-out of functional and performance test environments- Contribute in Sprint planning and Sprint backlog discussions- Delivered several flawless releases requiring zero P0 critical bug fixes- Remote collaboration with 3 geographically separated development teams- Designed and oversaw the implementation(C# over .Net) of the Exchange Automated Test Harness( meta-data driven test cases, starting state setup, stimulate impression traffic, emulate Ad Broker responses, verifies system outputs, system state change, internal logic)- Designed and oversaw the implementation of the Exchange Performance Test Harness using the MS DevStudio Test Rig as the foundation. C# based load tests coordinated to run across N+1 scaled driving agents. Scaled to drive, emulate and verify to 10K tps. • Co-Authored software development life cycle SDLC• Evangelized Scrum/Agile throughout the organization• Production Triage QA representation• Integrate AdECNs standalone QA organization into the broader Microsoft Ad Platform Test organization.

CallWave is a mobile telephony and speech application company that enables mobile, landline, and desktop interoperability. CallWave has a long-standing reputation in the telephony industry with a history of more than 5 billion PSTN originated calls; 15 million seats installed; 50+ patents issued or pending and nearly 2 million active users• Created Callwave’s SQA department which in large part contributed to 15 quarters of profitability and Callwave’s IPO in September 2004- Conceived SQA’s methodology and processes - Derived staff skill set criteria and hired QA staff- Designed and oversaw the build-out of the System Test lab• Co-Authored software development processCallwave continued:• Co-Authored software source code control and release process• Devised production release methodology and processes• Perform key review of marketing requirement and engineering functional design specifications• Direct day to day SQA operations: (mentor QA engineers, shepherd releases through QA)• Author detailed SQA release schedules: (In MS Project, generate multi-resource project schedules)• Author detailed production release notes and deployment plans: (deployment items and back-out plans)• Shepherd production deployments: (organize all involved resources, synchronize deployment actions)• Address Production related issues: (size problem, consult with development feature leads, suggest course of action, manage issues through resolution and deployment• Act as build manager• Provide Automated Tooling requirements, design and author Automated Tools• Perform testing tasks as required. (Fill in for absent resources, help mitigate schedule risks)

• Responsible for all aspects of PulsePoint’s Technical Support, Field Support, Sustaining Engineering and Training Departments.- Day to day technical management of 22 subordinates and 4 direct reports- Managed a $2.2MM budget- Negotiated support and service contracts- Member of PLPT Strategic Presentations Team (Key Player in 5 member team)- Provided all serviceability requirements implemented in the PLPT Enhanced Application Platform (EAP). The EAP was the first Telco grade voice application platform to run on WindowsNT- Led the EAP certification effort at GTE, PLPT’s biggest customer

Created and managed the Technical Support Sustaining Engineering Department.- responsible for resolving all software related defects- package software bug fix release updates• Managed all aspects of Industry leading Technical Support department• Developed and maintained ISO9001 department procedures• Developed and maintained support and service agreements• Liaison to DGSD engineering department for design review and specifications• Responsible for $1.2MM department budget

3/85 to 6/94 – Held the following positions during this periodManager Technical Support, Manager European Technical support (based in the United Kingdom), Supervisor Technical Support, Hardware Manufacturing Engineer