- Build out release procedures and processes for releasing to thousands of sites.- Evangelize process improvements, enabling more stable product releases

- Initial QA hire at Acquia- Built out the automation frameworks- Evangelized BDD testing using tools like cucumber- Created Automation tools to launch development stages for ease of development and testing

· Automation Lead o Created an automation framework using BladeLogic’s CLI.o Created a driver for the automation framework. The framework picks up builds, installs it on test machines, sets data parameters, calls the automation framework and mails results.o Architected improvements in the automation framework to use tests written in Java or to execute external tests.o Set the automation strategy o Advocated for automation hooks in the product.· Scalability and Performance Leado Defined the initial scalability requirements for the BladeLogic OM product.o Built anexecution, monitoring and analysis framework..o Built a configuration framework that allowed for the creation of very large environments.o Designed and implemented a scalability lab that allows for the redeployment and reconfiguration of assets and network topologies in an automated manner.o Wrote reports covering the scalability issues and success of the BladeLogic product.

Oryxa was a company developing a software platform to allow for the integration of component based functionality into more traditional storage hardware (e.g. disk arrays and storage switches.) Oryxa’s goal is to enable the rapid development and deployment of storage functionality on storage hardware, moving the functionality from firmware/hardware onto a flexible software layer. Duties included:· Writing test plans for the Oryxa API.· Writing and execution of system test plans for components running on the Oryxa platform.· Collaboration on the general design of the testing automation structure including the required test harnesses (unit, system, performance)· Writing performance test plan.· Determining the requirements for the system test harness and performance test harness· Determining the system and performance testing strategy· Performed code coverage analysis on unit tested and system tested code.