Don Peters Email & Phone Number

Loveland, Co, Us

Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

Virtual

Collaborated as a consulting engineer within agile software delivery teams, emphasizing comprehensive quality considerations encompassing functionality, testability, usability, performance, and accessibility.• Led back-end (API) testing for AWS-based eCommerce application using Kotlin/REST Assured• Contributed to automated (Cypress) and exploratory front-end testing efforts• Coordinated work across multiple internationally distributed teams, fostering collaboration• Managed releases to production across 4 teams, reduced deployment time by 80% with zero downtime• Spearheaded the revamp of internal QA training• Developed self-guided learning projects using Python, Pytest, and Selenium.

Greater Denver Area

Worked with a team of coaches and leadership to define and maintain organizational standards for delivery• Served the organization's goals by evangelizing the principles and values, and helping teams to align their practices to effective delivery• Catalyzed the organization's standards for team and project health by providing specific coach services to teams and creating experiment-driven coach engagement plans that align team and coach to improvements• Coached individuals and teams in areas of professional development such as conflict dynamics, consulting skills, and emotional intelligence• Ensured the successful start-up of projects by collaborating with sales, customers, and teams to plan and deliver effective project kickoffs• Led large group (10-50+ people) activities including workshops, retrospectives, ideation sessions, story mapping, and other interactive sessions• Served on Virtual Office Leadership Team, and helped shape the remote work culture into the de facto working mode for the entire division.

Greater Denver Area

Worked as a QA, Agile Coach, Operations Manager, and Facilitator to help teams and individuals with process improvement• Promoted a culture of shared responsibility for quality across the entire team.• Collaborated seamlessly with Developers, Product Owners, Customers, and Stakeholders to align expectations, devise effective test strategies, and ensure coherent implementation.• Fostered the acceleration of feedback loops, particularly with Stakeholders, to enhance communication and responsiveness.• Championed a culture of continuous improvement, guiding teams in the examination of processes and the implementation of incremental enhancements.• Contributed to the expansion of the Denver office, facilitating its growth from 4 to 50+ team members within a span of two years.• Served on the Denver Office Leadership Team and coordinated with HQ to manage hiring, staffing, and office activities

• Increased productivity and reliability by designing and testing automated product verification and validation tools• Managed and coordinated JITC and NIQU certification processes for new production system• Wrote and executed test plans, test procedures, and test cases for large scale production system• Successfully executed Factory Acceptance Tests to stakeholders• Automated test suite execution for regression and performance testing

• Executed and improved upon team’s test processes and procedures for validating imagery products• Developed and wrote test scenarios based on release content or project requirements• Worked with systems engineering, development, and operations to understand and learn new project functionality and how it affected operational procedures• Verified satellite imagery produced from the Ground System, Online platforms, and Offline custom applications to ensure imagery conformed to product specifications• Identified and reported imagery anomalies during test executions; reported and troubleshot issues with team members and other teams such as systems engineering, development, and program management• Provided assistance in researching and answering both internal and external inquiries related to image and/or product quality

• Managed IT related projects spanning multiple teams and sites• Performed SQL Server Database Administration for 20+ instances• Installed and supported in-house photogrammetric and image processing application in large lab environment which included: Web front-end servers,1500+ processing servers, and Clustered database servers

• Managed technical support and maintenance for photogrammetric digital aerial camera and scanner• Coordinated training, installation, and inventory between North America and Europe offices• Procured, configured, deployed, and supported automated image processing system • Improved customer support by researching and implementing Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system• Standardized installation and documentation processes

Master'S Degree, Geography

Bachelor'S Degree, Geography