I’ve successfully led a number of important projects at YouTube. I have a proven track record of delivering results on time and within budget, and I have a strong ability to work cross-functionally across time zones to achieve goals. Experienced in auditing and creating new processes for engineering teams.

Lead and improve efforts for QA, Release, and IT for the BandPage Engineering Organization. Managing a small, technical test team. Overall responsibility for quality of front end, back end, data, and network services. Direct and develop web, mobile, infrastructure automation efforts within all areas of the company. Oversee success of weekly releases from a production standpoint: on time and of high quality. Tighten/loosen process as appropriate to ensure fast timely releases of high quality, using great communication at all times.Designed and implemented site uptime automated tests to monitor main site pages, node services, conversion tracking, and external widgets in order to complement lower level infrastructure checks. ScrumMaster for the front end and back end development teams. Ensure that teams maintain accurate velocity, are free from distractions, high performing, and empowered.git, arcanist, phabricator, sourceTree, jenkins, chronos, marathon/mesos, REST, robot framework, selenium, python, jQuery, SQL, jira, postman/jetpack, chrome console, AWS, EC2, IAM, S3.

Managing a QA division that includes large franchise web/facebook based games along with several mobile titles on iOS and Android. Manage QA internally and maintain external partnership for real money gaming portfolio. Oversee a QA division, consisting of 50+ onsite/offsite testers and outsource vendors. Manage vendor relations for several outsourced services.

Managing 54 people (direct and dotted line) across five game franchises. Resourcing and schedule management for over a dozen features in the test pipeline with half a dozen releases going out per week. People management across four locations in the U.S. and two locations offshore.Successfully reduced critical escapes by 85%, overtime by 50%, and brought team health back to green after first quarter on the job. Responsibilities grew from managing one game franchise to five franchises after second quarter. Reduced CS tickets by almost 25% on live web titles. Standardized and centralized process and information across all titles in order to quickly move headcount as needed.Improved processes enough to move headcount off to other strategic games titles as necessary with no loss to measured productivity.Ramped up multiple offshore teams to support both US daytime and evenings at a reduced cost to company.

Manage interoperations testing, compatibility testing, and automation development programs across divisions at Avid Technology Inc. Assemble and manage offshore test programs in China and the Ukraine. Successfully transitioned 100+ person engineering organization from waterfall to agile practices. Experienced Scrum Master.Manage, review, budget, and motivate a staff of 18 personnel.

Manage and provide leadership to audio/video test team for industry leading hardware and software company. Manage and create annual budget. Track and hit milestones for projects that span the country and the pacific rim.

Responsible for up time, maintenance, and security of worldwide company network consisting of Cisco routers, switches, and firewalls in LAN/WAN/VPN environments. Responsible for day to day management of LAN switching and VTP domains. Upgraded all VPN tunnels from Linkpath to IKE/IPSEC. Maintained PERL scripts used for updating passwords in remote offices.