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Persona Usage Quality Engineering Manager.

Drove the test planning and reporting for Files App redesign. Ran local automation for Quick Look on macOS, took on integration duties for Quick Look, Lookup, & Data Detectors. Continued to mentor interns & colleagues and served on the candidate interview team. DRI’d the macOS redesign qualification efforts , drove qualification of M1 Mac for team areas. Drove the early efforts and demo runs for Universal Control. Sole QA for roughly 30 macOS projects

Served as a team generalist providing coverage for Spotlight, Finder, Contacts/DualSim. DRI’d Mac System Experience and own the efforts of Quick Look, Lookup, DataDetectors, and Files App. Drove Dark mode, multi- window support, and the upbringing of initial documentation on previously uncovered areas. Performed audits on existing testing to ensure proper coverage and organization. Ran daily WWDC demo flows, reporting findings to Director & VPs. Filed 1342 radars leading to 305 software changes in the release.

Quality Assurance Lead for the Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, & Accounts & Authentication Team. Owned black box efforts for the Internet Accounts Pref Pane and helped get automation off the ground. Drove the qualifications of cross-functional server driven features such as Phone Number as Apple ID and iCloud Storage Upsell. Served as the point person for China based teams. Worked with Project Management and Engineering to properly identify criteria for our QFA while driving manual testing efforts. Conducted intern interviews, onboarded them, and served as a mentor. Conducted workshops for the team to teach Charles Proxy. Backfilled for coverage gaps on Contacts, Calendars, & Reminders.

Quality Assurance Engineer on the iCloud Drive team. Tasked with running various levels of test suites through out the product development life cycle to ensure a stable and high quality product is shipped without regressing core functionality or introducing data loss.

Responsible for troubleshooting and repairing all iOS and macOS devices; in addition, position includes conducting personal training sessions on various topics.

Responsible for troubleshooting and repairing all iOS devices; in addition, position includes conducting personal training sessions on various topics.

Responsible for finding technological solutions for customers based on their needs and teaching consumer workshops enabling the customer to get the full usage out of the entire Apple product line.