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Greater Seattle Area

I led a dynamic team of up to 9 XR QA engineers of different seniority levels, ensuring the quality of various XR devices and hardware, some of which were confidential and under NDA. I established and maintained quality-focused relationships with key XR partners such as Sony, Microsoft, and Magic Leap, as well as other XR stakeholders like Meta and Google..

Seattle, Washington, United States

I helped the SmartCast mobile group strategize to automate builds of SmartCast for Android and iOS against the lineup of TVs and Sound Bars. The multidimensional matrix of mobile devices, screen geometries, device endpoints, and variations of the firmware on those endpoints made this challenging when additionally constrained with infrastructure.

Greater Seattle Area

Remote

I was brought in to assist Geneia in managing the Quality Assurance team and to outline future work. The team consisted of contract and full-time employees spread between several time zones, including international workers. I migrated the Test Case Management system they were using from Service-Now to Xblend's (now Idera's) Xray to integrate tightly with.

Greater Seattle Area

Embedded on the GeoMx DSP team, I helped with updating the technical stack and framework their products are built upon, helped guide adoption of telemetry for tracing execution and performance across their multitiered microservice architecture, and built a middleware library to ease adoption of logging with Microsoft.Extensions.Logging while maintaining.

Greater Seattle Area

Redmond, WA

Moved to the Office group to build the Windows Get Help app. In my short time I contributed to the planning and future design of the application, as well as some work on the telemetry data to ensure the application adhered to Next Generation Privacy policies and practices.

Redmond, WA

Under DLUX, I joined the team building the Language Community app. Aside from the UWP store app, the team was also responsible for building the Language Community tab in the Feedback Hub. Both of these public tools allowed global users to submit translation bugs or suggestions for Windows applications, which added them to the translation pipeline for.

Redmond, WA

Xbox Localization was moved to the Windows group, DLUX. Deeply Local User Experience was the team that handled localization for Windows, Xbox, and Content. For about a year I worked on generating PowerBI reports and data mining to identify business opportunities and to track growth and adoption of Windows in our translated markets.

Redmond, WA

Software Engineer responsible for evaluating the testing methodology, processes, risks and mitigations for Localization Testing at Microsoft Games Studios, with the objective of ensuring the most efficient test coverage with minimal duplication and maximum coverage of the localized product.

Bellevue, WA

I took ownership of a build system that was severely crippled and was constantly failing.My first responsibility was to stabilize the existing infrastructure, until Agilysys could reach their first milestone, upgrading Gerrit, Jenkins, and Artifactory Pro servers, and writing custom scripts to monitor server health. I was able to do this with almost no.

Bellevue, WA

As a consultant, I worked with a number of clients, notably Comcast and Agilysys as my two most significant contracts. Depending on the project and the stage of the project I served in SDE, PM, QA, and Build roles. I really enjoyed my time at Intersource, and if not for the unexpected passing of our owner, I expect I would still be working with the company.

Bellevue, WA

Managed the conversion of a Drupal based version of their website into a WordPress version of their website with additional features. When this project was given to me, the client was behind schedule and at risk for missing their delivery.I was responsible for finding the talent to tackle this project. I set and maintained the schedule to complete the.

Bellevue, WA

Our team built a Java based, language agnostic SOA rules engine. Leveraging JSR-223 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scripting_for_the_Java_Platform) capabilities of Java, we constructed a service that could query external systems and execute different scripts based on these conditions. Comcast could use this engine as the glue between numerous services and.

Seattle, WA

I was a contributing developer of logistics service, used to find transportation solutions for commercial air, trains, and ground transportation. This service was written to comply with FDA restrictions for transporting specimens. I designed and developed Java Swing applications to integrate with and the transportation workflow, and to maintain the data.

Redmond, WA

I was part of the release management team for Windows SQL Server Denali (SQL Server 2012).I was responsible for tracking Microsoft's CEC (Common Engineering Criteria) compliance for release across 10 product units and 42 different metrics across each of those product units. I utilized the teams TFS server for tracking our progress and wrote SQL Server.

Seattle, WA

I was Swype's first tester and QA manager. I joined Swype before we launched on our first device, the Samsung Omnia II, and in my very first day helped track down memory leaks while running Swype on Windows Mobile 6.5.For the next 2 years, I helped build a team of dedicated testers and established practices for ensuring a high software quality level as we.

Seattle, WA

I was chiefly responsible for designing and implementing our test framework, written in C# and built around Silverlight 2 and InfoPath 2007 technologies.

Seattle, WA

Zillow's first full-time tester. I helped our Director of Test build the test team and have been involved with all but the most recent interviews and subsequent hires. Early in the company, I had to work across every component and feature of the website. When we started hiring more testers, I was able to focus most of my testing efforts at the platform and.

Bellevue, WA

Contract position filled through Volt Information Sciences.I was the primary tester for a new Web Services based ERD system. The system used InfoPath forms for processing data, and communicated with a SQL Server backend using C# Web Services.In my position with Lynx, I standardized their defect management by building and configuring a Bugzilla server. I.

Redmond, WA

Tester on the Office 11 Foundations team, working on Sharepoint Portal Server 2003 and Word 2003 performance profiling for proofing tools. For Office 12 I was a tester for the Longhorn Platform Team, working on OneNote for Smartphones.

Redmond, WA

Designed various test files to explore “skinning” in XP and helped track down the bugs this work revealed. Utilized various testing tools, creating test matrices and porting automation for use in Windows Me and XP.

Bs, Electrical Engineering Technology

Activities and Societies: Corps of Cadets (Company C-2)

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