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Plymouth, Minnesota, United States

In charge of systems and application for billing software. Special projects as needed.

Led implementation project of a new library management system resulting in savings over $25k per year. Lead a cross-functional project team. Completed on spec and on schedule.Led Digital Asset Management project after vendor negotiations. Worked with campus partners and vendor to migrate digital files - a new project for the vendor. Led UX project with students and faculty for website. Negotiated with and gained cooperation of campus partners to implement user ideas resulting in fewer complaints about website usability and flow, as per post implementation testing.

Conceived and led pilot project for public computing, gaining user buy-in through pilot program. Selected and implemented new technology that saved approximately $5k per year in technology and energy costs, with higher user satisfaction. Led server consolidation project saving approximately $10k per year in energy and equipment costs, based on replacement cycles and electricity usage.

Managed three testers in high-pressure environment to test and manage project lifecycle for pharmaceutical application. Developed and executed regression, systems, and functional test cases on a regular schedule. Used regular scrums and iterative two-week lifecycles.

Lead quality assurance for multiple projects from consultation to test creation and execution, Mentored non-QA staff on quality procedures and testing efforts. Wrote quality assurance guidelines based on best practices in a mixed environment. Avoided business disruption by implementing stress and load testing. Created and installed new workflows to ensure business continuity. Worked with end users to develop user stories and workflows, test strategies, and manage user acceptance testing for the major in-house system.

Led a team of up to four. Ran functional, systems, and regression test beds. Performed requirements evaluation, test case coverage gap analysis. Managed build schedule and defect tracking, including new defect tracking software. Lead code reviews and helped transition from waterfall to agile methodologies. Wrote automated test cases.

Led testing effort to deliver software on time without critical defects of a team of up to fiveQA’s. Managed the build schedule and project plan including delaying builds to ensure successful release. Implemented defect tracking system and automated testing.

Included requirements evaluation, progress reporting, defect tracking, test preparation, creation of a Test Approach Memo, requirement matrices, and test cases. Advised on testing approach for multi-team system testing; managed time and resources across multiple locales. Created testing tool using Python as a proof-of-concept for automated testing. Used Oracle PL SQL for test validation.

Consulting in Software Quality Assurance for projects in the financial industry and banking areas. Automated and manual testing (system, smoke, and user acceptance) for clients. Created automated tests in WinRunner and automated load testing using Load Runner.

Masters, Library And Information Science

Certification, Computer Programming

Trained in COBOL, CICS, and C

Ba, Philosophy