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Seattle, WA, US

AWS Control Tower

1) General CTO Responsibilities a. R&D / Operations Budgeting & Cost Reductions b. Technology Innovations Research and Strategy c. Product Research and Strategy2) Director – Sprint Management / Responsibility Assignments / Performance Manager3) Chief BDEX Platform Architect4) Recruiting & HR5) Operations Administrator (job and portal performance.

Redmond, Washington, US

Managed 13 SDET engineers; Project manager of Surface 2 deliverable; Coordinated SW / HW test initiatives between Windows division, Surface division, Office division, Intel corporation, and nVidia corporation. Reported weekly on test results of EV1, EV2, and PV1 and customer experience to Panos Panay (VP), and VP/directors in Windows & Office. Project.

Redmond, Washington, US

Managed 7 SDETs; Mentored Leads inside and outside the office division -- coordinated and led leadership meetings with managers to enable them to grow their leadership skills; Authored and drove the Office on ARM platform test strategy across the Office division ( directed 40+ test engineers across the Office division on the Office on ARM test strategy.

Redmond, Washington, US

Managed 3 SDETs; Authored and Executed test plan for Enterprise Search Relevance Neural Net and associated features (novel automated relevance test approach found 50% of all the defects in SharePoint Search with only 2 SDETs executing the approach -- out of a test organization team of 18; test efficiencies earned my team gold star awards). Drove test.

Redmond, Washington, US

Managed team of 5 SDETs; Architected the SharePoint Search test automation strategy (code architecture, test running, and analysis of results; authored WPF application for managing all automation investigations, ownership, and reporting across the test organization); Drove SharePoint Search customer engagement with Chevron (closed $3.5M purchase of.

Redmond, Washington, US

Managed team of 7 SDETs; Authored and executed teat plans for Security, Upgrade, Deployment features in Microsoft Search Server 2010; Project Manager and Test Manager for Microsoft Search Server 2008 (out of cycle deliverable; drove across Office division and international teams; earned gold star); Shipped Microsoft Search Server 2008

Redmond, Washington, US

Managed team of 5 SDETs; Authored and executed the test plan for the award winning Office Fluent UI (Ribbon UI) in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; Authored and executed an office division wide metric strategy( built data analysis system in SQL server SSDB, SSIS; Massive Excel Workbook automation to process all office-wide metrics and generate HTML reports.

Redmond, Washington, US

Managed team of 5 SDETs; Authored and executed master test plan for Office Lite; Authored and executed master test plan for.NET integration for Office User Experience testing across all office applications; Drove office-wide user accessibility test initiative -- responsible for creating Volunteer Product Accessibility Templates that are now the industry.

Redmond, Washington, US

Managed team of 5 SDETs; Authored and executed master test plans for all web imaging and security features on the Invo project; Architect for automation test plan for the Invo imaging test organization; architect and executor of the integration of the Office Automation System in the the Invo project's SNAP-based automation system.

Redmond, Washington, US

Managed team of 5 SDETs; Engineered and executed imaging algorithm test plans for PhotoDraw 3.0; Engineered and executed imaging graph analysis test plans for PhotoDraw 3.0; educated team on Imaging Graph Functionality in the Mix 3.0 file format and how to anticipate imaging issues in the product (mixing vector and raster imaging); Architect of the.

Redmond, Washington, US

Managed team of 9 SDETs; Engineered and executed master test plan for Picture It! 2000; Partnered with international team to deliver J, K, CHS, CHT, FIGS versions of Picture It! 2000; Reported to product unit manager; Engineered and executed master test plan for Magic School Bus -Space; Drove integration of imaging features between Great Greetings and.

Redmond, Washington, US

Managed team of 7 SDETs; Engineered and executed Master Test Plan for Picture It! 99 and authored test plans for imaging algorithms in PhotoDraw 1.0. Partnered with International teams to deliver J,K, CHS, CHT, FIGS versions of Picture It! 99; Architect of BVT, Acceptance, and Comprehensive test automation in Picture It! 99. Shipped Picture It! 99 and.

Redmond, Washington, US

Engineered and executed all imaging algorithm test plans; Engineered and executed the painting system test plans; Engineered and executed the color matching verification test plans; manager of team of 7 to deliver international versions of Picture It! 2.0 (JKFIGS); Code Architect of all BVT, Acceptance, and Comprehensive Test automation for my team's.

Redmond, Washington, US

Engineered and executed all imaging algorithm test plans; Co-authored the color management portion of the flashpix file format (.fpx) with Kodak, HP, and Microsoft; Designed and authored an image storage and retrieval database in Access 2.0; Top bug finder on the team; Shipped Scenes 2.0 and Picture It! 1.0 (US, A)

Calibrated medical imaging holographic systems (lasers, optics, detectors) and produced holographic images of CAT and MRI scans of human anatomy; Authored VBA software to run lab equipment, and collect and process spectral data

Measurement and 3D modeling for analysis of color printer color matching in CIELAB and CIELUV color spaces; coded printer dithering solution using C++ and Macintosh Toolbox; Completed OOP, Macintosh Toolbox, Think C, and C++ programming courses at Apple University

Authored color measurement protocols and analyzed spectral characteristics of fibrous materials; US Government Security Clearance.

Assistant Teacher of an inner-city computer science summer school program for at-risk or troubled youth (14-16 yo) -- sponsored by Henkles and McCoy.

Tutored various college students requiring assistance in 100 to 300 level mathematics courses; earned Paraprofessional Certificate to Educate.

Rochester, New York, US

Color calibration and analysis of Video Displays for Photo CD and Premier projects

Rochester, New York, US

Produced and analyzed Integrated Optical Devices; Presented research on Liquid Chrystal Cell stability on optical wafers and their effect on photonic polarization of 750 nm wavelength laser sources.