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Kirkland, WA, US

Bellevue, Washington, US

• Drove Quality mandates to go beyond “just bugs” and “test more” to drive changes to the software development lifecycle and culture, “Move quality upfront”.
• Owned and drove all quality initiatives for the full company.
• Quickly increased automated and manual test coverage, app stability, code quality, backend availability, bug fix rates, and customer review scores.

Seattle, Washington, US

• Scaled Prime Gaming test and launch capabilities and shifted quality left
• Increased the number of content launches tested and released each month by 5X (from 15 to 80+) and decreased the percentage of launches with blocking bugs found during testing each month by 75%
• Built Prime Gaming QA delivering a larger vision and mission, increased efficiency, shared best practices, further test automation, and faster career growth with QA teams supporting multiple ops and engineering orgs.
• Regularly defined and executed multi-million-dollar work orders for external QA resourcing and staffing.

Seattle, Washington, US

• Built the Amazon Game Studios external games Publishing QA department from the ground up and shipped 7 high quality and highly rated mobile games on iOS and Android in 2 years.
• Identified, reviewed, and created business relationships with multiple Vendor partners to provide testers for all Amazon Game Studios projects both locally and internationally which are still in use 10 years later.
• Defined the core test processes and KPIs that are still used across all games in Amazon Game Studios.
• Hired and managed the QA team for The Grand Tour Game providing all development, functional, and certification QA. TGT was the 1st game ever built on the Amazon Lumberyard Engine to ship on Xbox One and PS4, as well as.
• Hired and managed the QA team for Twitch Sings, the 1st game ever released from Twitch.Shipped Titles:PC/Console
• The Grand Tour Game

Cary, NC, US

• Senior Engine Test Manager for the Unreal Engine
• While I was the Sr Engine Test Manager for the Unreal Engine 30% of Xbox and PC games and 20% of PlayStation games above 90/100 on Metacritic were created using the Unreal Engine.
• Built and managed the engine QA team and the internal tools support QA team.
• Managed, packaged, documented, and released Unreal Engine builds to licensees.
• Coordinated engine testing efforts with IHV’s, ISV’s, publishers and licensees.
• Worked with creatives and programmers to produce artistic assets and programming scripts utilized in the testing, design, development, and marketing of technical improvements to the Unreal Engine.

Boise, Idaho, US

• Test Engineer, Product Lead
• Developed the 1st ever software at Micron capable of running back-end production tests on probe capable hardware providing internal signal strobing capability while running full production testing. This allowed defects.
• Developed electrical test software within the DRAM test group to assess quality and reliability of various products with lead responsibility over multiple part types. Product Engineer
• Responsible for all aspects of semiconductor memory product development including design verification and circuit debug, device characterization, test methodology, yield optimization, and cost reduction.
• Performed electrical analysis of failing devices and worked with other engineering teams to identify root cause and/or new testing methodologies.