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1. Formed and led the cross-functional ADA engineering team that achieved WCAG 2.1 AA compliance within three quarters for our Customer Experience Management platform’s Node.js micro-frontends.2. Extensively refactored pre-existing slow and inextensible GitLab CI/CD pipelines for PHP & Node.js platforms, then extended them to run automated unit, functional, and accessibility tests. These changes reduced build, testing, and deployment time by 75%.3. Transformed underperforming teams into high-performing Scrum pods that achieved 100% of committed objectives quarterly through my mentorship, strategic planning, and cross-functional collaboration with product, design, and operations.4. Owned hiring and budgeting for my engineering team and the QA organization.

1. Founded a high performing QA organization and reduced escaped defects by 95% via embedding QA team members in scrum teams, left shifting automated testing, and establishing an org wide definition of done.2. Extensively refactored typescript based automated testing suites to bring them into compliance with SOLID principles and atomic testing standards. This reduced test flakiness by 80% while also significantly reducing the time needed for SDET's and developers to on-board and contribute tests.3. Implemented feature flagging and code freeze protocols to stabilize releases & provided time for QA to execute our extensive integration, functional, and exploratory testing suites.4. Provided hands-on training to expand QA & development team members skills in manual and automated API, UI and ADA testing.

1. Increased quarterly project timeline accuracy by >=45% in a dynamic environment across 7 Fintech product lines2. Developed & fully owned the L1 through L3 support process for the financials suite. This required significant cross functional collaboration with support & training across the engineering team.3. Managed the hiring, personnel, and engineering tooling budget for 3 engineering teams.4. Migrated a Windows-based, single-tenant, PHP financial management system to a multi-tenant cloud-based app on AWS.5. Designed & delivered new user interface across 4000 php screens: increasing ADA accessibility, ease of use, and overall speed of core user workflows.

Portland, Oregon Area

1. Built an exceptional team of SDET's across US, Central America, and Ukraine who delivered 95% functional UI coverage across 1500+ tests with <=2% run over run failures in the regression scope.2. Architected an automated Node.js API testing service in typescript that used Jest + Enzyme as its test runner and mock library. This API testing service was used by both developers & QA team members to perform functional and contract API testing for our platform services.3. Implemented parallelized test execution, reducing test suite execution time by 11X.4. Configured New Relic monitoring and alerts for apps/services owned by my team.5. Wrote a reusable QA onboarding guide, decreasing onboarding time for new hires by 70%

Portland, Oregon Area

1. Hired the first SDET intern for the Portland office, establishing a strong recruitment pipeline with local colleges and creating comprehensive interview and onboarding processes.2. Led over 20 training sessions for developers and QA on unit, integration, functional, system, and performance testing, significantly enhancing team skill sets and collaboration.3. Developed Docker images and Jenkins pipelines to run automated acceptance tests, reducing test execution time and increasing CI/CD efficiency.4. Created comprehensive test plans and automated unit and functional tests for embeddable report visualizations, improving test coverage and reliability for legacy and new implementations.

Portland, Oregon Area

1. Architected and successfully transitioned the entire organization from a legacy Ruby-based functional UI testing framework (Howitzer) to Nightwatch.js (TypeScript), empowering developers to write and maintain UI tests.2. Rewrote the regression scope & associated automated functional UI tests for the legacy reporting v1 platform. This increased the speed of hotfixes and scheduled deployments by 75% while simultaneously reducing the number of customer reported bugs by >40%

Vancouver, Washington

1. Started the QA department at Digital Domain Washougal office that tested imCapture: A VR platform that was developed in nodeJS and C++ and used for capturing, archiving, and exporting 360-degree stitched and non-stitched video from a variety of camera sources.2. Architected and developed a Python-based automated test library and framework for the imCapture VR platform. Designed the framework with an object-oriented, modular approach to enhance extendibility and maintainability, significantly improving collaboration between developers and QA team members.3. Eliminated manual entry of automated test results by developing a custom REST API Python package that seamless integrated with TestRail TCM. This innovation reduced test certification time by 30%, accelerating deployment cycles and improving team efficiency.

Washougal, Washington

1. Lead developer for the meteorJS front end of the imCapture multi tenant web portal used for remote capture and on the fly setting adjustments for supported 360 VR cameras.2. Developed Node.js services that interfaced with USB/IP camera firmware that was written in C++ by our in-house camera design & firmware team.3. Built Jenkins CI/CD pipelines from the ground up for imCapture. This initiative reduced the build, testing, & deployment time by 85%.4. Wrote Linux system services along with bash scripts for installing all libraries and dependencies required for running imCapture as a NodeJS process.

Washougal Wa

1. Lead Data Aggregation Specialist. Wrote automated web scraper programs to collect current "For Sale" information on homes across America 2. Used JavaScript and mySQL queries to insert the information my web scraper programs captured into our live database of "For Sale" homes 3. Responsible for creating and maintaining several ancillary sites that would point perspective clients towards our main real estate investment software website

Portland, Oregon Area

At TFG Card Solutions, our specialty is working with companies to streamline the payroll process with payroll debit cards. TFG Card Solutions eliminates the hassle and high costs of paper paychecks by providing unbanked employees a direct deposit payroll card option. Our Visa payroll cards provide unbanked employees a safe, secure, and convenient way to access their funds 24/7/365.As their IT Specialist, I oversaw the performance and security of TFG's network infrastructure. This includes the identification, diagnoses, and resolution of hardware and software issues across their mainframes, networking devices, and workstations. Salesforce management and optimization was also a critical part of my role.

Portland, Oregon Area

1. Primary level one help desk technician for 1300 desktops, severs across 30 enterprise clients.2. Primary technician for resolving issues on Apple workstations and iOS devices.3. Set up desktops, laptops, and mobile devices according to corporate and end user guidelines.4. Identified, diagnosed, and resolved hardware and software problems that would occur on mainframes, Windows domain networks, desktops, laptops, and mobile devices. Followed up with end-users regarding solutions.5. Performed preventive maintenance on corporate servers, workstations, laptops , and mobile devices.6. Maintained anti-virus database for both workstations and servers.7. Maintained patches for both workstations and servers.

Greater Seattle Area

• Top 10 financial internship in the nation• Top seller in the group through 2011• Promoted entire sales cycle alone• Meeting with clients was done one-on-one

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, English Literature With Minor In Business Administration

Activities and Societies: Deans List Scholar, University of Washington's Chorale, University of Washington's Men's Glee Club.- Dean’s List.

Full Stack Javascript Developer

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Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa, Vice Presidents List