Marcus Bourland Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Kirkland, Washington, United States

- Regression Testing to verify fixes and changes within nightly builds.- Daily reporting to QA Lead/Producer to effectively communicate findings/problematic areas.

Bellevue, Washington, United States

- Interacting daily with teams and being a part of Concept Phases, Design Tuning, Tech Art, Engineering, Character Art, UX/UI, Weapons, Environment Art, and Quality Assurance.- Keeping directors, leads, and managers in sync and on track for deliverables with information provided from daily team meetings and playtests.- Planning milestones, building balanced sprints, and grooming product backlogs focusing on studio priorities while ensuring cross-team dependencies are understood. - Helping teams develop effective and efficient work flows for task tracking in ADO via OneClick actions and dashboard/query creation.- Monitoring sprint progress via team stand-ups/meetings and employing Azure DevOps tools to promote agency, transparent collaboration, and encourage team autonomy.- Successfully planned, coordinated, and executed development on core gameplay assets.- Reports/Conversations daily with the Lead Producer and Creative Director to convey team concerns or blockers that have surfaced. This also meant that I would help provide ideas/insight on how certain processes/assets could be improved.- Working closely with the Community Manager for external playtests and helped with providing build information for internal playtests.- Provide insight and suggestions for QA processes and bug reporting.- Taking and providing meeting notes to teams, while also simultaneously creating ADO Tasking during meeting times when needed.- Provide and except feedback from all areas of the project to help with team synergy for both internal and external teams, including setting up meetings/syncs based off time differences for people overseas.- Create documentation of various types.- Helped with video editing/creation using Adobe After Effects.- Helped with Graphic Art using Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator.- Converted and Prioritized an entire backlog of work items/documentation from ADO/Wiki to JIRA/Confluence and developed new processes to make Developer work lives easier.

Tempe, Arizona, United States

- Leading a team of Sandbox Testers and providing direct reports through test execution and other tasking.- Creating Test Pass Collateral and Priority Investigation Task work to verify fixes, changes, and stability of in game assets.- Delivering test designs/planning based on developer workflows or new features for future "retail" builds.- Cross-team communication with internal/external teams including producers, developers, engineers, and testers for sprint planning and test coverage.- Analyzing build stability, managing risks, and areas of improvement via KPI created dashboards.- Providing testers with monthly one-on-one meetings with direct reports to mentor and empower their growth.- Developing tester’s essential skills and best practices while delegating responsibilities.- Scheduling multiple tasks simultaneously to optimize output and turnaround time.- Testing daily builds to verify developer workflow functionality and game engine stability.- Create Test collateral for both Forge and Campaign Co-Op for the Winter Update.- Create QA Test Spec documentation for releases/updates during sustainment.- Create Test collateral for Bandit and Shroud Screen, along with helping organize Test Passes for Season 3.

- Worked on Halo Infinite during production and into the post-launch lifecycle of live service.- Wrote 43 Bugs in one week under tight time constraints and a bug deprived environment.- Logged 614 Bugs in the database with a 86% fix rate.- Software testing experience with proprietary game engine and 3rd party modeling software.- Mentored and trained new hires to become strong assets to the team.- Created PowerBI reports to bring needed visibility and maintained on a daily/weekly basis.- Escalated and investigated issues with concise information to communicate high impacting bugs.- Regression Testing to verify fixes and changes within nightly builds.

Phoenix, Arizona

-Driving sales in a numbers based environment while providing exceptional customer service.-Educated customers with in-depth product information to better inform them when making purchasing choices. -Consistently praised by upper management for achieving weekly, monthly, and quarterly sales goals. -Consistently mentioned as one of the top stores in the Region.-Maintain accurate inventory of over 3,000 store items thereby ensuring accurate sales data, procurement, forecasting, and improved supply chain management.-Opening/Closing the store.-Scheduling/Hiring.-Merchandizing/Processing Shipments.-Product launch event coordinator.-Social Media Captain for District 406.-Prepping & Scanning inventories at all stores within the district.-Photoshop work for stores. (Huddle areas & information)-Mentor to team members within the district.-Consistently training new team members to promote and support other stores.

38Th St & Thomas Rd

38Th St & Thomas Rd

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Writing reviews and opinions on a variety of media subjects.Editing and posting articles written by others.Helping maintain website layout using WordPress.Interviewing cosplayers, game developers, actors/actresses, and writers for upcoming releases/events.