Eric-Alexander Bitton Email & Phone Number

Culver City, California, United States

Handling of physical media assets in MPA-certified facility. Performing restores from archive. Receiving, barcoding, and vaulting new assets. Managing media vault and tracking incoming and outgoing assets.Checking out assets to technicians as needed. Burning discs, ripping discs, offloading hard drives. Remote terminal access used extensively in all tasks.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Handling of both digital and physical media content from all movie and TV studios in MPA-certified facility. Barcoding and queuing of content for encoding which is then sent to distributors and providers worldwide. Managing media vault and tracking incoming and outgoing assets. Fulfilling orders from providers by checking digital media library for requested assets and ordering new assets from studios as necessary. Performing QC on all trailers to ensure they are evergreen (no dates given) and Green Band. Placing encoding requests for content with the proper video and audio configurations.Jira and remote terminal access used extensively in all tasks.https://www.vubiquity.com/

Greater Los Angeles Area

Consulting on Quality Assurance and Quality Control for various clients.Short contracts requiring full use of QA and QC skills amassed over the years.

Burbank, Ca

Special project for NBC Sports, involving the identification and cataloguing of a large amount of broadcast tapes prior to archiving digitally. Content was from various Olympics, both summer and winter, as well as golf tournaments and other sporting events. Many tapes were unlabeled and required viewing to ascertain their content, along with a fair amount of detective work. Deluxe’s custom database was used to catalog the content .http://www.bydeluxe.com/

Burbank, Ca

Quality control of entertainment content on DVDs, Blu-rays, and digital files. Verification of audio, video, subtitles, functionality, and more. Various video players were used, as well as computers, and Apple TV boxes.

Los Angeles, Ca

Black-box testing of Flash and HTML5 advertising banners on PC, iOS, and Android on multiple browsers. Short term.http://canyondesigngroup.com/

Playa Vista, Ca

Grey-box testing of complex real-time cloud and Big Data computing system. Extensive use of Chrome Console, Jira, Gherkin, Putty, Google Sheets. Ad-hoc/regression/smoke/acceptance testing. Test cases and test suites creation.http://www.rubiconproject.com/

Glendale, Ca

Black-box testing of new website and website content for premier English-language Latino entertainment network. Test cases and test suites creation, regression testing, cross-browser testing on Win/Mac/iOS/Android.Company merged with Fuse TV on 9/30/2015.

Burbank, Ca

Quality control of entertainment content on DVDs, Blu-rays, and digital files. Verification of audio, video, subtitles, XML metadata, plus functionality testing of menus.Work was performed on-site at GDMX near LAX, now closed.

Beverly Hills, Ca

Black-box/grey-box QA testing of websites created for the AAA Playstation God Of War videogame franchise and the Fox Searchlight studio. Testing on PC/Mac with IE8/9-Firefox-Chrome-Safari, plus iOS and Android.http://godofwar.playstation.com - http://www.foxsearchlight.com/

West Hollywood, Ca

Black-box/grey-box QA testing of digital content for leading advertising agency: Flash banner ads, website takeovers, microsites, email campaigns, full websites. Verifying Atlas tags and other data in HTML, XML, and JavaScript code. Testing on PC/Mac with IE8/9-Firefox-Chrome-Safari, plus iOS and Android. Creation of all-purpose test suite for testing animated Flash banner ads. Updating and testing of Honda Powersports and Aspen Dental websites. Clients tested included Intuit Turbo Tax, Honda Motorcycles, Aspen Dental, King’s Hawaiian Bread, Dole, Willy Wonka, and Legoland California.http://powersports.honda.com/ - http://www.aspendental.com/

Los Angeles, Ca

Creation of detailed test suite for a custom mobile device for niche market. Test suite was created solely based on wireframes, tech specs, and other documentation as the mobile device had not been made yet.

Los Angeles, Ca

Black-box QA testing of “Tech Deck Live”, an unreleased browser-based 3D MMO skateboard videogame based on Tech Deck fingerboards, and running on Shockwave. Testing on Windows only with multiple browsers. Testing of every aspect of functionality, graphics, sounds, user interface, and gameplay.http://www.techdeck.com/en_us

Los Angeles, Ca

Black-box QA testing of Sony Playstation Store on both PC and actual PlayStation 3 console. Cross-browser testing on PC only. Additional testing with a focus on French and other European languages.

West Los Angeles, Ca

Black-box/grey-box QA testing of custom user interface running on specialized cellphones for entertainment-focused MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator). QA testing of every single application, feature and service used on all cellphone models, along with associated websites. Writing of and executing detailed test suites, coordinating with developers, flashing and activating cellphones, supervising small team of testers, generating reports and test plans.Company filed for bankruptcy in August 2007 and closed down.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amp%27d_Mobile

Los Angeles, Ca

Full black-box QA testing of games (“QB Shootout”, “Texas Hold’Em”, “Jamdat Air Hockey”, “Scrabble Blast”, etc...) for all makes and models of cellphones for all major service providers.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAMDAT

Santa Monica, Ca

Full black-box QA testing of the PlayStation 2 title “JakX: Combat Racing”, Sony’s 2005 “AAA” installment in the “Jak And Daxter” franchise. Additional testing for French markets.http://www.jakx-game.com/

Culver City, Ca

Full black-box testing of many different cellphone games published by Sony Pictures Mobile (“Jeopardy”, “Wheel Of Fortune”, “xXx”, “Spider-Man 2” titles, “Snoop Dogg Boxing”, “SWAT”, etc…) for all cellular service providers here and abroad, across a vast variety of cellphone makes and models. This position provided extensive knowledge of BREW, J2ME, and carrier requirements.

Los Angeles, Ca

Associate QA Lead on “Jumpstart: Advanced Preschool” PC educational title. Additional black-box QA testing on other “Jumpstart: Advanced” series titles (“Kindergarten”, “1st Grade”, “2nd Grade”), and “Curious George Goes Downtown”.

Burbank, Ca

Full black-box testing of “Ultimate Ride”, a rollercoaster engineering game for the PC.Testing of both domestic and foreign SKUs of the title.http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/ultimate-ride

Santa Monica, California, United States

Black-box QA testing of “Tony Hawk’s Pro-Skater 2” on both the original Sony PlayStation and the Sega Dreamcast. Additional testing of two different PC-compatible games: “Dark Reign 2” and “Civilization: Call To Power II”.