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Folsom, Ca, Us

- Oversaw the development of test automation frameworks and methodologies decreasing time to market and increasing confidence in the quality of the software being released. - Drove the evolution from a quarterly release model that required site shutdown to a bi-weekly release model with no customer disruption.- Helped define and implement Agile best practices across 4 product lines.- Pushed for continuous improvement in a Lean-Agile culture.- Explored generative AI to assess whether it could help improve quality and save time by 10% or more.

Omaha, Ne, Us

- Oversaw the development of test automation frameworks and methodologies decreasing time to market and increasing confidence in the quality of the software being released. - Drove the evolution from a quarterly release model that required site shutdown to a bi-weekly release model with no customer disruption.- Helped define and implement Agile best practices across 4 product lines.- Pushed for continuous improvement in a Lean-Agile culture.

Omaha, Ne, Us

- Provided vision and clear direction in the evolution from an ad hoc testing model to a more clearly defined process and testing paradigm.- Functioned as scrum master and product manager for a dedicated test automation scrum team.- Drove the evolution from a quarterly release model that required site shutdown to a bi-weekly release model with no customer disruption.- Built, enhanced, and established best practices in the development of dozens of CI/CD pipelines leading to fast, consistent, and high quality delivery of software saving developers, testers, and product managers significant time.- Worked with team to lift live product stack from data centers into the AWS Cloud reducing maintenance overhead and improving scalability.

Omaha, Ne, Us

Primary tester overseeing the opening of a new site delivering SaaS platform into the AWS Cloud.Responsible for ensuring the quality of Android and iOS applications.

Austin, Texas, Us

Initially worked in this position for CodeGear who were acquired by Embarcadero in 2008.- Developed Sqlite and generic ODBC database drivers- Developed features such as API analytics for a middleware server that hosts loadable custom modules- Added support for new database features in database drivers that allowed connectivity to SQL Anywhere (ODBC), Sybase (Sybase Open Client Library), DB2 (DB2Cli), Firebird, InterBase, Informix (ESQL/C), MSSQL (SQL Native Client), MySql (MySql C), Oracle (OCI)- Enabled support for new platforms such as Mac OS X, iOS, and Android for runtime libraries and data access component frameworks that support relational databases, Amazon SQS, Amazon S3, Amazon SimpleDB and Azure cloud services- Perform code reviews and mentor other team members. Assist in coordinating tasks with international team. Provide leadership and drive infrastructure development. Task R&D, QA, and Documentation teams- Provide analytics information on product usage to different stakeholders across the organization- Integrate code from open source projects and send modifications back to open source project teams- Resolve customer escalations and construct custom hot fixes- Flew to Spain to train new QA hires in best practices and technologies- Manage code using Subversion primarily and acquire some source using Git. Participate in Agile Development SCRUMs and track work using Jira- Write unit tests to validate code using DUnit and DUnitX. Review QA team test plans- Create and maintain MSBuild scripts to build newly developed code- Create Jenkins, Hudson, and Cruise Control .NET jobs to run automated builds and unit tests which run on VMWare virtual machines. Frequently review results to ensure no regressions- Create demos for marketing- Document all APIs and provide information on new features to the documentation team on Confluence

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Initially worked in this position for Borland who launched Codegear in 2006.- Tested Delphi, C++Builder, and Delphi.NET debugger and database technologies- Testing included black box and white box testing- Maintained, extended, and added numerous suites of unit tests- Responsible for setting up and maintaining several continuous integration servers that ran a battery of unit tests against 9 different databases with every check-in- Investigated and evaluated numerous product quality issues- Wrote comprehensive test plans