Eric Morin Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma

Boston Mass

Successfully acted as Quality Engineer and design consultant on all aspects of first release of hardware-based Precinct Voting Machine. Researched and specified hardware components.Consulted and contributed to development of feature requirements, with special focus on UI/UX. Traveled to remote locations to support hardware and software certification efforts. Developed and executed test protocols to ensure feature correctness and compliance with federal guidelines (VVSG 1.0). Audited and designed assembly line processes to ensure highest possible production quality.Successfully acted as defacto hardware manager – responsible for specifying and acquiring hardware for resale to customers.Successfully supported effort to gain certification for sale in New York State. Traveled to Albany multiple times to provide on-site consultation and support.Championed process improvements to requirements and issue tracking.

Boston Ma

Affectiva uses facial recognition to provide emotion and engagement recognition to market research firms.Quality EngineeringEnsured excellence in cross-functional collaboration to support development efforts. Researched features, designed and executed tests, wrote bug reports, participated in Scrum-based planning meetings.Tested features to ensure requirements compliance. Used data mining techniques to determine, gather, and implement test data. Continued to support Applications Engineering team.“Mars Project” Coordinator | Contract position Contracted to bring high-visibility project with significant financial risk to completion when previous staff became unavailable. Project involved market research in multiple countries, requiring coordination between several entities to recruit sample audience, conduct research, analyze results, and deliver reports to internal and external audiences.Despite poor documentation of highly complex and fragile process, successfully met all deliverable requirements before deliverable date.

Hired and trained staff to ensure customer deliverables were met. Defined technical processes and set targets for deliverables. Hired Quality Assurance staff and defined processes for same.

Greater Boston Area

Hired to streamline and organize a chaotic and poorly defined process to generate key client deliverables that at time of hire required several days to generate. Quickly cut generation time from days to an average of 2 hours. Provided front end customer support to world- wide customer base in all time zones. Established process documentation standards and documented processes.Wrote and edited existing python scripts to provide needed utilities for Applications Engineering team.

Boston Ma

www.nsphere.netProduct is localized data and localized search services syndicated across hundreds of partner and proprietary sites, written in .Net 4• First quality hire in reinvigorated and refocused startup with tight deadlines and short product cycles.• Filled many roles — individual quality engineer, manager of small quality team, build and release engineer, site operations, toolsmith.• Championed process improvements, including product planning, formal testing and development cycles, and documentation. Implemented “just-enough” testing to ensure acceptable quality while meeting aggressive release schedules.• Streamlined and automated cumbersome manual build and deploy processes for multiple product lines.• Hired, managed, and mentored junior staff members.• Served as sole test resource for 5-person development staff, and later as part of a two-person testing staff with a development team of 12, including 7 off-shore (in Serbia).• Documented processes and championed formal documentation as training for new hires, resulting in shortened ramp-up times and faster effective delivery for new hires in both QE and Development.

Leading web-based community for physicians.• Championed, oversaw and contributed to development of automated build and deployment tools, decreasing build and deployment times from several hours to 30-45 minutes depending on hardware.• Created new Release Engineering department and new Release Engineer role which formalized and controlled a previously undocumented and poorly-managed build and deploy process.• Organized and managed cross-departmental release team consisting of representatives of Release Engineering, Site Operations, Engineering and Quality Engineering to ensure minimal downtime.• Developed tools and processes to streamline time-consuming data restore process in test environments, dropping restore time from multiple hours to less than half an hour.• First quality engineering hire at new startup with young development team, instituted formal testing process and rigor around bug reporting and tracking.• Rapidly learned new tools: Linux, JBoss, Bash shell scripting, MySQL, Bugzilla, Subversion.

Boston Ma