Gary Pederson Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Product Owner of two teams that are improving the internal developer experience at Jamf.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Acted as product owner of a new end to end test automation tooling. Guided iterative developed based on internal business requirements, user feedback, and data.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Developed API and GUI automation to test Jamf Pro integrations with school information systems and hospital information systems.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Creating a system to bring greater efficiency and quality to software development by appropriately applying the principles of industrial scientific management.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Advocated for, created and lead a continuous integration and automated software testing team as product owner and engineer implementing Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Automated Testing, and Automated Delivery of Mac and Windows desktop software and installers, iOS applications, and web applications.• Designed and automated an installer content and build system for desktop software, reducing code by 60% over the previous system and eliminating a single point of failure by allowing others to add or remove files from installers.• Created a three year roadmap for modernizing software products and development practices.• Set up and maintained VMWare ESXi on Macs to host automated builds and tests.• Managed Jenkins, Git, Mercurial, and Perforce servers.• Worked with developers in seven countries to localize desktop software and installers.• Became an internal expert and presented on the following topics: Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Delivery, Installers, Automatic Updates, Source Control Practices, Component-Based Software Engineering, Feature Toggles, Branching by Abstraction, Test-Driven Development, Behavior-Driven Development, Automated Testing, Deployment Pipelines, DevOps, Canary Releasing, Dark Launching, and Deming Cycles.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Designed, wrote and maintained automated acceptance tests, automated testing frameworks, and test result reporting systems using Eggplant, Perl, HTML and Fitnesse.• Assisted in the development of a Java/C++ sheet music viewer.• Automated builds of desktop Installers.• Created a testing lab and network with native and VMWare instances of Mac and Windows machines, machine image restoration, and VPN access.• Managed CVS and Perforce source control repositories and servers.• Developed the following applications: A custom image comparison tool in Objective-C used to test graphic output of applications • A web application used to organize musical instrument fingering charts and export those charts into a format used by musical practice software • A tool used to package sheet music, audio, and information files into a format used by musical practice software • Mock web applications in Perl for testing desktop software when the real web applications were not ready • A tool used to compare of the content of four databases

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Provided technical support and instruction for users of music notation and practice software on Mac and Windows.