Duke Zaffery Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

• Owned the Release process across the organization for all Mobile (Android and iOS) and Web product offerings, always with a focus on the highest quality customer experience o Audited code repositories and performed.
• Worked closely with architects to accelerate the Release cadence, and evolved Release processes from manual to fully automated, which included an organization-wide transition to trunk-based development and CI/CD
• Managed all LaunchDarkly and Django Waffle Feature Flags in Production, including enabling/disabling and writing targeting rules for A/B Testing
• Created and maintained documentation to guide developers toward best practices around feature flags, branch management, and version control
• Performed all deployments to Production; and contributed to Incident Response by rolling back, or spinning up hotfix branches and coordinating developer and QA efforts - always working towards the highest quality.
• To support the QA, Product, and Sales Teams, continuously built and deployed the latest version of all applications to a variety of test environments, and maintained the status and assignment of JIRA issues

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

• Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master
• Served as PjM of Release Coordinationo Weekly Platform (server/API) and Web release cadenceo Weekly Mobile release, alternating between iOS and Android platformso Applied SAFe Agile Release Train (ART) practices to.
• Served as PjM/Scrum Master for three (3) teams, including Platform (server/API) and fully cross-functional feature development teamso Guided the teams I served to use Scrum as a learning framework for improving their.
• Provided successful Company-wide training on the Agile Methodology within a Scrum Framework
• JIRA / Confluence Administratoro Assisted the IT Team as a JIRA/Confluence Admin, with responsibilities including:- Assisting end-users, and completing customization requests- Managing settings and maintaining.

San Francisco Bay Area

Technical Project Manager / Scrum MasterServed as Project Manager for the Data Engineering & Analytics group o As part of the Data Management team, we delivered a complex Data PaaS on the Google Cloud Platform to support a new retailer network that addresses the decline of physical retailo With Data Science, we developed Data’s AI, machine learning and.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Technical Project Manager / Scrum MasterMember of PMO (Project Management Office)
• Served as Technical Project Manager/Scrum Master for the following development teams on Project VRV:
• Data
• Reporting & Analytics - Built a Data reporting & analytics system that processed data from more than 1,000,000 Crunchyroll subscribers
• Reduced infrastructure cost by migrating from a self operated data center to AWS
• Core API (Backend Services)

San Francisco Bay Area

• Quality Assurance testing Customer Mobile's technology platform on multiple OEM mobile devices (Samsung, HTC, LG, Motorola) and wireless carriers (AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon)Tools:
• Android SDK, adb command line, DDMS, Jira, OEM-provided Firmware update appsTest Areas include:
• Application optimization for:- CPU and Battery usage- Device memory, form factor and display resolution- Network bandwidth constraints- Performance and Functionality during events which may occur when the application.
• Real-time mobile customer analytics
• Web-based content management system

San Francisco Bay Area

• Managed QA testing and release cycles for multiple video products and platforms, including:- Mobile Phones and Tablets – iOS, Android, and Windows mobile- High Definition, connected CE devices – HDTVs and Blu-ray Disc.
• Managed QA testing in an Agile environment, and helped our division adopt SCRUM methodology successfully
• Automated testing of browsers (Selenium), mobile devices and Web Services APIs
• Developed and maintained several corporate intranet web pages that provided a centralized location for all internal stakeholders to view near real-time status of all projects on the roadmap, as well as providing a.
• Implemented internal quality system improvements, audits, and provided cross-departmental training
• Developed Test Plans and created, maintained, assigned and executed Test Suites

Novato, California

• Applied advanced technical knowledge and problem-solving expertise to serve the needs of the QA, Engineering, Sales and Field Support teams, dealing with the reproduction and quick resolution of issues found by.
• Served as QA Lead on multiple hardware-based systems, including DVD, HD DVD, Blu-ray Disc authoring systems, and the professional video encoding product line
• Achieved mastery of numerous audio and video encoding systems targeted for both professional and consumer media delivery formats
• Created and executed test cases and test plans based upon Product Specifications and close interaction with Engineering and Product Managers
• Performed verification of stream integrity and standards compliance with format Specifications using a wide range of verification tools and techniques
• Worked closely with Engineering Management to improve processes and defect tracking databases

Emeryville, CA

• Designed, developed, and administrated a highly effective, accelerated training program, which enabled graduates to earn a Bachelor’s of Applied Science Degree in 14 months
• Responsible for maintaining the Quality of the Learning Environment
• Wrote and updated all Syllabi and Lesson Plans for each of the 25 individual Courses that comprise the Sound Arts Program - each of the 465 individual Lesson Plans contain complete Class Objectives, Instructor and.
• Managed a staff of 12 Course Directors, and over 20 Lab Instructors
• Created all Course Budgets, and operated department within limits
• Led interactive, classroom Lectures and Software Demonstrations to class sizes ranging in number from 18 to 36 students

Winter Park, Florida

• Administered all aspects of the Recording Engineering Course
• Updated existing curriculum and developed methods to improve quality of training
• Led all classroom Lectures and hands-on Laboratory learning experiences