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Redmond, WA, US

We are experienced strategists, startup founders, Fortune 500 executives, engineers, organization specialists and innovators focused on helping our clients succeed.We are retained by boards and C-Suites to build, rebuild or transform companies by focusing on people, product, process and platforms.We're unique in that we partner with our clients to not only.

Redmond, WA, US

Force multiplier and team leader developing and maintaining initiatives our customers can trust.- Foster an open and collaborative environment that fosters creativity, innovation, automation and learning.- Work across clients, vendors and internal teams to effect broad performance improvement by designing and implementing processes, metrics and programs.

Redmond, WA, US

Data Pipeline Design-to-Delivery; Vendor Project Management; Mentor to Junior Team MembersResponsibilities:- Design, implement and deliver automated and resilient GDPR-compliant data pipelines for internal business metrics: user engagement, product reliability, data quality and service utilization projects- Gather reporting requirements and deliver.

Redmond, WA, US

Manage relationships with partners, test vendors, hardware manufacturers and product team. Serve as Scrum Master for SDN (Software Defined Networking) Feature Development team. Own and drive published Qualification Criteria and provide interim Program Management for SDN and OIP (Inoperability Program for Skype Business Server) programs. Coordinated.

Redmond, WA, US

Drove quality initiative across Office organization for Lync Client. Provided data acquisition, analysis and reporting of engineering activities in source code tree. As final checkpoint for Lync Server release, collaborated with core engineering team to ensure high quality standards.Contributed vision and broad guidelines for quality team of 20+ and $500K.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Member of Defect Prevention Team in partnership with User Research to empower Test professionals through development of training and tools for use in critical review of specifications content so that fewer defects.
• Contributed to definition of 18 “shifts,” or trends in computing that impact business, people and technology; and “sparks,” or methodology for Test to understand features and related shifts. Drove team consensus for.
• Designed, coordinated and implemented Root Cause Analysis effort, with form deployment across entire Office organization that enables Test feedback earlier in product cycle.
• Collaborated with Microsoft Research on long-term SWEPT initiative to address broad-impacting issues for product teams resulting from code changes. Vision for initiative is to transform global software engineering.
• Organized monthly meeting between global Test team of 85 and MICROSOFT TESTER ARCHITECTS GROUP (TAG), a group of Senior Test Leads from across Company, to discuss topics including testing of services, test production.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Member of dedicated small team responsible to drive risk analysis initiative through Windows Vista RTM, and process improvement through Windows 7 RTM.
• Architected and drove implementation of scalable risk analysis toolset for Windows Shiproom to enable better data-driven decision making. Worked on tools to analyze changes in binaries between two builds, and produced.
• Specified and implemented developer-level toolsets to aid in shipping Windows Vista (DIRT). Evaluated and designed scalability improvements for product-wide Risk Analysis data gathering infrastructure (BRAT). DIRT and.
• Successfully adapted BRAT toolset designed and implemented by Microsoft Research to scale processing to accommodate everyday changes in a Windows build.
• Designed, coordinated and implemented ezRCA initiative to drive feedback earlier into product cycle. Led small virtual team to create questions for base form, and was point of contact for teams across Company to assist.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Software Architect responsible to design implementation for centralized automated test execution system, or Feature Integration Testing Service (FITS), on top of Microsoft Windows Testing Technologies (WTT). Scaled lab.
• Implemented Longhorn Quality Gate for standardized shared testing policies; reported to Windows Vista Shiproom regular status of Quality Gates.
• During Windows Vista, teams submitted tests to FITS. Designed central lab from software submission process and through scalable validation process. Managed FITS hardware budget, software architecture work, and.

Redmond, Washington, US

Led small team of SDET test developers focused on “End-to-End Scenario Testing". In order to accomplish the scale and size of required tests, we engaged with a team developing an automation system that later became WTT, a standard eventually used across all of Windows and many other divisions in Microsoft. I designed and implemented several key features.

Redmond, Washington, US

A lot of change happened during these years. Responsible for OS features and functionality for a number of technologies, I built a team of up to 40 people, and established test leads from the top performers to help manage the technology teams. Our team worked to design, develop and deploy a number of test tools, suites and automation. We delivered daily.

Redmond, Washington, US

I was hired to perform hardware compatibility testing for the Japanese version of Windows 95. This include 3-mode floppy and NEC hardware testing. I was asked to develop file system test tools for multiple asian language character sets.After the release of Windows 95, and a reorganization, I moved to become a test lead managing the testing of multiple.

Worked as the technician in the back-room setting up, configuring and fixing computers for customers.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Leadership Mba

Bachelor Of Arts, Linguistics