๐Ÿบ Lloyd Dewolf

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Network detection & response with Corelight; hands-on software quality engineering leader @ Corelight, Inc
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Redmond, Washington, United States, United States
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About ๐Ÿบ Lloyd Dewolf

Iโ€™m a full stack, full life cycle, hands-on software quality assurance (SQA) leader with a 20-year track record of delivering user-friendly products. These range from database systems to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions; web browsers to blogging platforms; and wellness to medical products. Iโ€™ve led and scaled teams at companies ranging from multinational companies like Ericsson to 10-person startups. My managers, peers, and reports have recognized me for my focus on influencing and improving quality from design through delivery and maintenance in production. Iโ€™m data-driven and work on reducing risks while passionately successfully advocating for customers and their experiences with our products and services.Experiences: senior quality assurance leader, test architect, customer care, computer systems analyst, and advanced technical customer services and support lead. I focus on communications, systems thinking, problem analysis, usability, automation, tools development, open source development, communities, and documentation.Specialties: QA management, context driven testing, problem analysis, situation management and support management. Intermediate expertise at project management, git revision control, Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS X. Experience in agile project management, Subversion, HTML, JavaScript, CSS and Microsoft Windows. Very familiar with open source development and its tools. Experience administrating JIRA issue management and Zendesk help desk and support ticket service.

๐Ÿบ Lloyd Dewolf's Current Company Details
Corelight, Inc

Corelight, Inc

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Network detection & response with Corelight; hands-on software quality engineering leader
๐Ÿบ Lloyd Dewolf Work Experience Details
  • Corelight, Inc
    Engineering Director Of Build, Quality & Release
    Corelight, Inc Jun 2020 - Present
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    2020 June 22: Starting at the startup Corelight. My decision to join was an easy one given its deep roots in network security analysis and a pragmatic path forward to make its solutions accessible to the many organizations that would benefit from much improved network security.
  • Castlight Health
    Sr Director Of Engineering, Sqa
    Castlight Health Mar 2019 - May 2020
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Led a diverse 50-member onshore and offshore software testing organization. I successfully led a transition from all test engineers being in scrum teams to a hybrid organization with fewer embedded engineers per team and with highly focused centralized teams to drive both better results and better job satisfaction. The centralized teams were divided into: automation framework development, performance testing, and strategic customer contextual testing.โ€ขย Managed effectively by nurturing career potential and growth in my organization with minimal attrition.โ€ข Personified software quality confidence, issue isolation and risk identification.โ€ข Partnered with SDETs to architect test strategies, including testing for graceful degradation and performance testing.โ€ข Lead transition to a mobile-first testing organization.โ€ข Drove increasing the breadth and depth of automated tests to enable CI/CD.โ€ข Coordinated release management across different engineering teams to ensure quality rollout.โ€ข Advocated for the unspoken perspectives of our users.
  • Castlight Health
    Director Of Engineering, Sqa
    Castlight Health Aug 2017 - Feb 2019
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Led the quality engineering organization (SQA) of the wellbeing company Jiff, Inc. through the acquisition and successful integration into Castlight, Inc. We converged on a testing toolbox enjoyed by the whole test automation team. Drove quality in delivery of the first versions of the company's new flagship products, Anthem Engage and Castlight Complete. I collaborated extensively with Anthem leaders across its business.โ€ขย Added a 12 member Silicon Valley area team office to my San Francisco & India-based organization.โ€ขย Mandated additional testing for mobile-only products including a native iOS application.
  • Castlight Health
    Software Quality Engineering Manager (Sqa)
    Castlight Health Sep 2016 - Jul 2017
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Led Castlight quality engineering in the US and India through a significant reorganization. I focused the team on a consistent and rigorous release testing process using critical user journeys on our two most widely used environments: Internet Explorer 10 and Apple iPhone.
  • Apcera
    Engineering Manager (Build, Ci, Qa & Release)
    Apcera Feb 2016 - Sep 2016
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    โ€ข Led the QA and Build, CI & Release teams in close partnership with software development managers, software architects, team leads and individual contributors to continuously raise the quality bar and maintain Apcera's high standards of test automation.โ€ข Managed and grew team, hiring three intermediate test engineers and a SDET. โ€ข Supported team in expanding test automation to include all supported IaaS (vSphere, AWS, OpenStack, GCE, Azure) and CLI client configurations (Linux, Windows 32-bit, Windows 64-bit) to best reproduce customer infrastructure varieties.โ€ข Led transition from biweekly releases to quarterly releases to meet enterprise expectations of quality and predictability.โ€ขย Organized company-wide half-day developer presentations of the Apcera Platform release's new features.
  • Apcera
    Senior Test Architect
    Apcera Oct 2015 - Jan 2016
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    โ€ขย Tested deployment and administration of sophisticated Apcera Platform server node clusters.โ€ข Collaborated with developers on getting to root cause and eliminated frustrating intermittently failing tests.โ€ข Designed and implemented website performance tests.
  • Joyent
    Quality Assurance Manager
    Joyent Jun 2014 - Oct 2015
    Mountain View, California, Us
    โ€ข Led establishment of quality assurance measures and testing standards for new applications, and enhancement to existing applications throughout their development life cycles.โ€ข Established and led all aspects of the QA process for Joyent Cloud products including test planning and execution.โ€ข Analyzed product user stories and use cases. Internal champion for strategic customers.โ€ข Managed the QA team including contractors and collaborated effectively with developers, product managers, and the support team to meet product release commitments.โ€ข Communicated test progress, test results, and other relevant information to stakeholders and executive management.โ€ข Proactively identified and mitigated risks and removed obstacles to releasing products.โ€ขย Cultivated and disseminated knowledge of quality assurance best practices. Drove continuous improvements in product quality.
  • Joyent
    Software Development Manager
    Joyent Aug 2013 - Jun 2014
    Mountain View, California, Us
    Although hired to lead quality assurance across the company, Joyentโ€™s urgent need to improve the quality of the Joyent public cloud user portal led me to become the software development manager within three weeks of starting with Joyent. At the time, Joyentโ€™s Public Cloud accounted for well over two thirds of total revenue and was steadily growing. I coordinated the efforts of two remote development teams.โ€ขย Collaborated with stakeholders and implemented story development.โ€ข Scheduled development and releases, and reviewed configuration changes.โ€ข Managed test plan and automation, and performed ad hoc testing.โ€ข Conducted user experience testing and participated in feature design.
  • Piston Cloud Computing
    Director Of Quality And Care
    Piston Cloud Computing Nov 2012 - Aug 2013
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    I enjoyed the fantastic opportunity to lead both the Quality Assurance and the Customer Care teams at Piston Cloud. I've never been better positioned to provide customers with the highest quality products, services, and support. It's a unique opportunity only made possibly by Piston Cloud engineers test-driven continuous delivery and their sophisticated devop customers' ability to provide detailed requirements.In additional to my existing areas as Director of Customer Care:* Integration and Functional Test Planning -- Automated, Manual, and Ad-hoc* Architect of Baseline, Performance, Endurance, and Stress Testing Framework* Bug Backlog Gardening * Acceptance Test Design
  • Piston Cloud Computing
    Director Of Customer Care
    Piston Cloud Computing Nov 2011 - Nov 2012
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    * Lead Piston Cloud Advanced Technical Support* Lead Piston Cloud Installation, Enablement, and Training* Head up Piston Cloud Internship Program* OpenStack Community Collaborator
  • Openstack
    Open Source Openstack Contributor
    Openstack Oct 2011 - Aug 2013
    Us
    Open Source OpenStack Participanthttps://launchpad.net/~lloydde* Co-chair of the Related OSS Projects track at OpenStack Summit Spring 2013* Chair for the Related OSS Projects track at OpenStack Summit Fall 2012* Elections Inspector for OpenStack Foundation Board Individual Member Elections, 2012* Alternate representative for Piston Cloud during OpenStack Foundation drafting, 2012* OpenStack Governance Elections Committee member, Spring 2012* Chair for the Ecosystem track at OpenStack Summit Spring 2012* Participant in OpenStack Security Team Policy revision, 2011
  • Automattic
    Wordpress.Com Vip Services Operational Lead
    Automattic Mar 2007 - Nov 2011
    San Francisco, Us
    Primary I coordinated the software engineering resources of WordPress.com VIP Managed Cloud SaaS Hosting.* Worked extensively with partners analyzing their requirements, documenting and designing solutions.* Created project timelines and Gantt charts.* Database structured analysis and data modeling for creation of an internal customer relationship management (CRM) system.* Reviewed and selected the proper system software for agile project management.* Designed and oversaw the implementation of numerous software tools to support the team, and directly assist WordPress.com's VIP Partners.* Regularly reviewed PHP code and MySQL queries for security, scalability and conformance to standards. * Isolated, debugged, and reproduced complex web browser, JavaScript, WordPress, PHP, and web server problems.* Regularly reviewed and designed fine-tuning for the WordPress.com service, and core WordPress software.* Studied and reported on competing products and offerings.
  • Automattic
    Quality Assurance Coach
    Automattic Sep 2006 - Nov 2011
    San Francisco, Us
    Automattic colleagues sought my quality assurance and user interface expertise when releasing new products and new releases of existing products.Although my previous quality assurance experiences have required my more formal testing skills for Automattic's projects my extensive experience rooting out problems was invaluable in ad hoc testing and analysis. Automattic develops, tests, releases and iterates rapidly -- often on live sites.
  • Wordpress
    Wordpress Contributor
    Wordpress Sep 2005 - Nov 2011
    Open Source WordPress Participant. Most active 2006-2009 doing software testing and project management. Activities have also included evangelism, free installation help, answering questions on the support forum, creating patches, and documentation.Contributed code to WP 3.2, 3.1, 3.0, 2.9, 2.8, 2.7http://profiles.wordpress.org/users/lloydbuddhttp://profiles.wordpress.org/users/foolswisdom
  • Flock Inc
    Software Quality Assurance Lead
    Flock Inc Sep 2005 - Sep 2006
    Menlo Park, Ca, Us
    * Specializing in Community based Quality Assurance.* Traditional Quality Assurance methodologies.* Experienced with Linux development, and open source development and its tools.* Windows and Mac white box QA.* Member of three persons product and release management team.* Communication coordination for world wide distributed development team.* Problem analysis.* Core contributor to documentation.* Interviewing and hiring of developers and testing engineers.* Usability expertise in web browsers.
  • Mercurial Communications
    Software Test Lead
    Mercurial Communications Feb 2005 - Aug 2005
    Ca
    One of two team leads. I was the primary technical lead.* Technical QA lead of 8 person team working primarily on Netscape Browser 8 on MicrosoftWindows.* QA security lead and performance lead.* Test plan creation, test cycle management, test case creation, and test cycle execution.* Patched Netscape to include Firefox patches 1.0.0 through 1.0.6.* Management of issue tracking system, Bugzilla.* Performance testing using Rational Purify and Boundschecker.* Debugging of C, C++, Javascript, and XUL.* Gathered feedback from users
  • Ibm Canada
    Db2 High Availability Support Analyst
    Ibm Canada May 2000 - Jun 2004
    Armonk, New York, Ny, Us
    DB2 UDB Advanced Support -- Down Systems (Engine)As a member of IBM DB2 Advanced Support, I provided remote support of down DB2 production systems where the problem was the DB2 engine on Linux, Windows or UNIX:* In-depth investigation of customer problems focusing on providing immediate relief, and then on long term resolution, and improvement to DB2 .* Debugging complex C and C++ code.* Analysis of OS environments and call stacks for Linux, AIX, Windows, and Solaris.* Extensive use of UNIX shells and scripts.* Worked closely with DB2 RAS/PD (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability, and Problem Determination) Team.* Consistently one of the top customer ticket resolvers with high customer satisfaction.* Active member of both the DB2 logging and the DB2 backup/restore developer mailing lists.* Assist administration and maintenance of Linux and AIX servers.* Formal mentoring of team members on internship from Germany and Japan.* Informal mentoring of numerous colleagues particularly related to DB2 logging, recovery, replication, Linux, and IBM internal bug tracking (PMR and APAR) processes.
  • Brooks Automation
    Qa & Tools Intern
    Brooks Automation Sep 1998 - Apr 1999
    Chelmsford, Ma, Us
    โ€ข Build Manager for the Cluster Tool Control Group.** Responsible for the code bases and releases of multiple systems.** Consulted on the use of the configuration management system.** Assisted in an upgrade to the configuration management system.** Experience in all roles of the integrated problem tracking systemโ€ข Authored Functional Specifications, a Detailed Design, and Test Plans and TestImplementations.โ€ข Developed an install script using InstallShield 5.5 for a complex system.โ€ข Member of Quality Assurance Team, responsibilities included installations, setting up testbeds, and regression testing of a real-time console application.โ€ข Participated in Code Peer Reviews, releasing products to manufacturing, and AcceptanceTesting.โ€ข Maintenance of product release notes and build management web pages.โ€ข Updated the GUI interface to a robotic control system used in the manufacturing ofsemiconductor products.
  • Pacific Forestry Center (Nrc)
    Entomology Research Assistant Intern
    Pacific Forestry Center (Nrc) Jan 1998 - Apr 1998
    Ottawa, On, Ca
    * Designed and implemented simulation software in Borland Delphi.* Windows programming experience using Delphi (object-oriented Pascal).* Authored design documentation for simulation project.* Performed duties in a research environment, interacting with PhDs and forestry experts

๐Ÿบ Lloyd Dewolf Skills

Linux Mysql Cloud Computing Software Development Wordpress Apache Unix Php Subversion Software Engineering Saas Open Source Git Software Project Management Agile Methodologies Sql Databases Scalability Agile Project Management Mac Os X Integration Css Quality Assurance Web Applications Ubuntu Os X Management C Rest Operating Systems Release Management Test Automation User Experience Start Ups High Availability Jira Relational Databases Rcs Solaris Perl Product Development Software As A Service Pain Management Representational State Transfer Cost Value Requirement Prioritization Gantt Charting Data Modeling Revision Control Systems Ubuntu Gnu/linux

๐Ÿบ Lloyd Dewolf Education Details

  • University Of Victoria
    University Of Victoria
    Computer
  • Ibm Toronto Laboratory
    Ibm Toronto Laboratory
  • Camosun College
    Camosun College
    University Transfer Program

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