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Washington, District Of Columbia, US

Platform enables the development of products and services, leveraging data infrastructure and enhancing developer productivity across all of Mapbox. We span North America and Finland, and provide Mapbox with reliable and scalable ingestion, processing, warehousing and orchestration solutions.AI ML Platform - Sagemaker, Bedrock, LLMsAPI Infrastructure.

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

Led the Movement team at Mapbox! We publish the world's largest up-to-date, privacy-forward movement dataset, collected from over 700 million mobile devices and 45,000 different apps using Mapbox from all around the world.

Seattle, WA, US

Led the Content Management team at Tableau! We create engaging experiences as you navigate your workbooks, projects, and more. As a full-stack team, we leverage technologies including React, Redux, and microservices, deployed with Kubernetes.Drove and launched Collections (Think: Spotify playlists), the team’s first microservice, increasing developer.

Seattle, WA, US

• Grew Alexa Mobile Quality Engineering organization from 2 engineers, into 40+ spanning 3 teams, across California, Seattle and Chennai, India to support testing all aspects of the Alexa Mobile app. Pivoted Alexa Mobile.
• Single Threaded Owner (STO) for the quality of the voice experience within the Alexa Mobile application and the connectivity to all Alexa Accessories
• Lead performance testing initiatives with lightweight python automation, embedded Xcode and Android Studio tools to shepherd the JavaScript Alexa Mobile app to native, reducing load time by 80%
• Launched Alexa Mobile into 80 countries, with native in-app Alexa Voice functionality
• Lead team of SDETs, leveraging Appium, Python, Selenium and XCUITest based frameworks to cover regression testing

Chicago, IL, US

• Leader for the Quality Engineering and Mobile Development teams at the Motorola Seattle Design Center. My teams owned end-to-end quality and mobile apps for the WAVE Work Group Communications platform, a.
• Integral stakeholder in the software development lifecycle, injecting quality methodologies within requirement gathering, architecture designs and feature implementations
• Lead quality effort for WAVE SaaS offering, supporting group mobile communications powered by AWS
• QA lab architect and key tester, drove scenarios that simulated customer VoIP/SIP environments deployed in a virtualized environment with XenServer, ESXi and Hyper-V hypervisors
• Exhaustively tested WAVE VoIP deployments, leveraged Python, C++/Windbg finesse and Visual Studio profiling that simulated users from the low hundreds to thousands across a typical deployment
• Configured, deployed and profiled AWS instances running WAVE Proxies, connecting thousands of mobile users in a thin client environment with real time mission critical voice communications

Arlington, VA, US

Engineered, optimized and maintained a Mac and Linux network that consisted of hundreds of users, across five sites in four states, supported all technical aspects: phones, copiers, desktops, laptops and servers of all platformsServed as on-call 24/7/365 front-line support for IT related help desk questions, encompassing every piece of software and.

Drove Adobe AIR UI and Linux backend functional testing of a Network Security Forensics productEstablished the Quality Assurance department, defined testing protocols, metrics and deliverablesComposed test plans and test cases from use cases, functional requirements, and design documents Managed scope, resources and objectives of QA testing from project.

Seattle, Washington, US

• Pioneered an effort with the Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) team to create a map with ArcGIS linking Tacoma, WA farmer’s markets consumers and policymakers with their farmland to further land conservation
• Collaborated with multiple stakeholders to create useful product thus driving environmental conservation

• Supported a dispersed team in migrating to newer systems, including setup, installation and configuration of all required software and hardware
• Lead training on system maintenance and proper computing procedure to reduce downtime from several hours per month through individuals repairing issues themselves
• Provided immediate resolution of issues 24/7 to employees nationwide
• Standardized company wide IT protocol including ghosted system images, online backup, anti-viral protection and mandatory background software updates
• Reduced thousands of dollars in costs across cellular, software and hardware expenditures, by collecting user and business requirements, then finding the best option

Seattle, Washington, US

• Tested a high-profile web application accessed in millions of annual transactions on a point of sale system for a multi-billion dollar company.
• Directed all functional testing of Personal Book, including web front-end and Oracle backend
• Increased efficiency in the test cycle through promoting information flow between other business units and QA, refocusing lengthy test plans on critical, failure-prone areas
• Executed SQL queries to verify output of project into other critical key systems

San Jose, CA, US

• Lead tester of a web based collaboration product derived from Flex 2 and driven by Flash Player 9
• Diagnosed and isolated bug reports, and derived other quality issues against the Flash 9 project
• Bested deadlines through conducting efficient, thorough and well-communicated UI black box testing
• Verified Flash project on both PC and Macintosh platforms using Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, and Opera browsers

Seattle, WA, US

• Commanded deep knowledge of all WatchGuard security products, from SOHO and Enterprise VPNs to wireless products, integrated this knowledge into grey box manual testing and automation development
• Developed training for coworkers and management on functional and interoperability testing of IPSec, Remote User VPN, and both HTTP and FTP proxies
• Mastered testing of firewall management software via manual white and black box testing through ten+ major releases, including designing, implementing and maintaining efficient, thorough tests
• Managed a multi-platform test network, including Linux systems running DNS, SMB, LDAP, SMTP services and Windows 2003 Active Directory Servers, with IIS, DHCP, and DNS services
• Executed interoperability IPSec testing between WatchGuard firewalls and third-party vendors