Manage global teams providing strategic direction while executing testing for high profile customers during their SDLC, ensuring customers are able to meet internal calendar goals. Maintaining testing infrastructures staying within budget in order to meet desired margin goals while delivering effective and efficient practices.

Manage global teams providing strategic direction while executing testing for high profile customers during their SDLC, ensuring customers are able to meet internal calendar goals. Maintaining testing infrastructures staying within budget in order to meet desired margin goals while delivering effective and efficient practices.

Manage global teams providing strategic direction while executing testing for high profile customers during their SDLC, ensuring customers are able to meet internal calendar goals. Maintaining testing infrastructures staying within budget in order to meet desired margin goals while delivering effective and efficient practices.

Create and Execute tests across various software platforms at a moments notice. Testing styles include but are not limited to Functional, Load, Usability, Exploratory, Data Integrity Mobile and telephony.• Test Engineer/Test Team Lead/Tester, embedded with corporate customers• Gold Rated Tester• Top Manual Tester of 2010 at uTest; 2011 Top Tester of the Year award at uTest; 2014 Top Tester of the Year award at uTest• Ability to jump into high-stress, low documentation environments with ease• Ability to adapt to the needs and process of the client• Contracted through Applause to coordinate all testing efforts for multiple clients; both startups and established Enterprise companies

Title: "Birds and Beacons of Michigan"Released: March 28, 2020Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., Atglen, PA

Title: "Sky Pilot of the Great Lakes"Released: May 2014Publisher: Avery Color Studios, Gwinn, MichiganA biography of the Rev. William H. LawPublisher's Web Store: http://averycolorstudios.com/Books/Nautical.htmlAmazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1892384698/ytsejamcom-20Barnes and Noble: http://goo.gl/pCA4ROWebsite: http://www.johnkotzian.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/OfficialJohnKotzianGoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22247507-sky-pilot-of-the-great-lakes

Website dedicated to furthering the interest in Progressive Rock, Progressive Metal and AOR music through community, news, reviews and interviews. • Web coding/maintenance/support • Analytics/Marketing/Promotion • Coordinate Artist/Label Relations • Conduct/publish interviews/reviews of Progressive Rock artists

Enterprise process development. Quality Assurance and Control. Methodology and management management. Training. Small Project management. Quality Manager at program levels.Responsible for maintaining software quality within the enterprise by coordinating and executing project and program level testing efforts, managing testing teams, IT process creation and execution. • Managed Test Leads from multiple departments on multiple Priority 1 Programs• Coordinated test planning, estimation and execution on projects• Administration of HP Quality Center• Created and executed Quality Assurance training for the enterprise• Installed and executed ITIL based Change and Release Management processes

Internal IT process development. Quality Assurance and Control. Methodology management. Training. Small Project management. QC Test Lead at the project and program level. Business Systems Analysis and PlanView Administration.Responsible for analyzing business systems to make recommendations on efficiency, manage small projects and overall Quality Assurance.• Managed projects to upgrade Vista Plus and Control-M systems• Consolidated multiple instances of Crystal Reports into a single monitored and recoverable system• Administration of the HP Quality Center and PlanView applications• Served on the Standards Review Board as owner of the test thread in the BGI methodology• Installed Project Phase Gates into the BGI methodology• Executed the role of Test Lead on over 20 projects and programs• Created and executed Quality Assurance training for IT

Internal IT process development. Quality Assurance and Control. Methodology management. Training. Small Project management. QC Test Lead on project and program level.Responsible for maintaining software quality within IT through testing, process creation and execution.• Implemented the SUMMIT-D methodology in 2000• Managed the SUMMIT-D methodology from 2000 to 2002• Implemented efficient changes to the methodology through various iterations as business needs changed• Created the ITIL based Release Administration department and processes• Hired and trained Release Administrators• Executed the role of Test Lead/Tester on 60+ projects

Inventory Management for Waldenbooks seasonal kiosk IT hardware.Responsible for the coordination of shipping, tracking and maintenance of POS equipment for 1000 seasonal business kiosks.• Maintained an accurate country-wide, large-scale inventory of POS equipment• Reduced the yearly cost of inventory storage by $50,000• Implemented an inventory tracking database• Trained inventory management staff• Recognized by BGI field managers for Excellence in Customer Service