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Building solutions to help grow Uber's Freight business.Focused on Facilities, Appointment Scheduling, and Shipper business profiles

Greater Denver Area

Building solutions to help grow Uber's Freight business.Focused on Facilities, Appointment Scheduling, and Shipper business profilesSite lead for Uber's Colorado engineering office focused on growth and culture.

Greater Denver Area

Manage a team of 60+ engineers focused on improving maps to help make the Uber experience better for both riders and drivers.Site lead for Uber's Colorado engineering office focused on growth and culture.

Greater Denver Area

Bing MapsWorked on the Bing Maps Imagery Team building imagery and data products that are visible via maps.bing.com and the Windows Map Apps.Defined feature scope, quality bar, and production tools and editing workflows of Aerial 2D Imagery and Aerial 3D Imagery as well as other map data information.Designed and drove implementation of ArcGIS-based production systems and workflows.

Greater Denver Area

Windows PhoneFocus on improving the overall testing approach in Windows Phone from multiple angles such as: efficiency and productivity, better cross-team collaboration, better design, better use of metrics.Drive design and requirements for a variety of different metrics pages that give better views into the state of the quality of the product and the tests. These systems include application crashes, test code quality, complexity of various different pieces of the test collateral.Use data to drive improvements across the team. Take a practical, hands-on approach to prioritizing and fixing the issues with the biggest impact.Own a v-team of senior testers who focus on tackling some of the hard test problems and areas of improvement and on building a strong community of senior testers within Windows Phone.Performed countless hours of self-host testing on the latest builds of Windows Phone to help identify issues in real-world scenarios.

Redmond, Wa

Windows PhoneManaged a team of program managers who: designed and implemented the engineering systems that supported the processes and policies of the team; championed key device health metrics; and owned overall device telemetry.Owned the design, implementation and rollout of engineering systems including the latest build tools, compilers, code quality tools, test execution tools, device deployment tools, branch integration tools, and engineering system software metrics.Performed hands-on design and architecture work on multiple aspects of the infrastructure system specializing in the areas of device telemetry and metrics & reporting.Worked with key stakeholders on the team to define the processes and policies of how software development was done across the entire team.Performed countless hours of self-host testing on the latest builds of Windows Phone to help identify issues in real-world scenarios.

Redmond, Wa

Exchange ServerFocused on Engineering Excellence, developer and tester productivity, and improving the overall software development process.Worked with key stakeholders on the team to define the processes and policies of how software development was done across the entire team. This included both defining new processes and improving existing processes.Managed a team of 20+ software developers who designed and implemented the engineering systems that supported the processes and policies of the team. These systems included the latest compilers, code quality tools, test tools, topology deployment tools, code coverage, test impact analysis, and software metrics.Performed hands-on design and architecture work on many aspects of the infrastructure systems.Worked to build a strong infrastructure community with Exchange through partnering with individuals across the team ranging from individuals to managers.Shared knowledge and ideas about engineering excellence with other teams across the company on a regular basis.

Redmond, Wa

Exchange ServerFocused on solving tough test problems encountered by the test teams and on driving improvements in the testing discipline.Conducted test reviews for all areas of the product to review testing and automation plans, look for gaps, and make recommendations for improvements.Owned software engineering areas of code coverage and fault injection and drove the system implementations, as well as defining the guidelines for how the team should use them.Acted as a role model for other testers in Exchange for what types of work high level individual contributors should be doing.Participated as a panel member in multiple “Exploring Management” training sessions where I shared my views of being a manager, as well as an individual contributor.

Redmond, Wa

Exchange ServerManaged multiple component teams responsible for testing messaging transports (SMTP, X.400), Defense Messaging System, clustering, directory access, migration, foreign system interoperability. Responsible for all aspects of testing, planning and scheduling of the team across major and minor releases, and ensuring high quality releases.Partnered with other test managers across the team to help drive test process improvements and coordination between different component teams.Drove improvements in the quantity and quality of the test automation that existed for the areas I owned.Helped design and implement a topology deployment and test automation system that was used across the Exchange team to facilitate topology testing and test execution.Actively participated in the recruiting process of the team, ensuring a high bar was held to all candidates from college through industry. Acted as the point person for all interns and mentors in Exchange to make sure appropriate goals were set and that interns had a good experience during their internship.

Redmond, Wa

Exchange ServerLed multiple component teams responsible for testing messaging transports (SMTP, X.400), Defense Messaging System, clustering and directory access. Responsible for oversight of all aspects of testing to ensure high quality releases.Participated hands-on in driving key testing initiatives.Helped drive creation of test automation for key areas of the product.Actively participated in the recruiting process of the team, ensuring a high bar was held to all candidates from college through industry.

Redmond, Wa

Exchange ServerResponsible for hands-on testing of the Exchange Message Transfer Agent and the X.400 messaging protocol.Responsibilities included: test plan authoring, feature testing, low level protocol validation, X.25 hardware testing, and third-party X.400 interoperability.

Hartford, Connecticut, United States

CIGNA SystemsDesigned and implemented the messaging system for the entire company of 30,000+ employees spread over 400+ locations across the country. Responsibilities included: software design, coding, testing, hardware planning, network design, and customer support. One key project was designing and implementing a distributed e-mail directory replication system that synchronized e-mail directories nightly across all 400+ locations.