Experience

Bretthauer Oil Company

• United States
• Oil and Gas
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Operations - Dispatch

  • Sep 2021 - Nov 2023

  - Truck route planning, optimization and load balancing across much of the pacific northwest. - Full stack developer creating desktop and web tools to automate & optimize all aspects of dispatch. - Tech: IIS, SQL, C#, .NET Framework/Core, ASP.NET Core, Razor, HTML/CSS/Javascript, Xamarin, GIT, etc.

• Transport Truck Driver

  • Jun 2021 - Nov 2021

  Portland, Oregon, United States CDL driver of 105,500 pound GVW fuel tanker transport truck. Hazmat endorsement with TWIC.



World Fuel Services

• United States
• Oil and Gas
• 700 & Above Employee

• Truck Trailer Fuel Driver

  • Aug 2019 - May 2021

  Portland, Oregon Area CDL driver of 105,500 pound GVW truck trailer fuel tanker. Hazmat endorsement with TWIC.



Voicebox Technologies Corporation

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of QA

  • Jul 2005 - Jul 2017

  Started, built, and manage entire QA team company wide. Define, implement and enforce company wide test practices and methodologies. Continual analyzing of resources, new test practices, team and test efficiency, product quality, and customer feedback. Plan, review and deploy new practices, methodologies, and tools to improve product quality and team effectiveness. Identify and remove/resolve resource constraints and blocking dependencies. Own a sub-team for audio capture, processing… Show more Started, built, and manage entire QA team company wide. Define, implement and enforce company wide test practices and methodologies. Continual analyzing of resources, new test practices, team and test efficiency, product quality, and customer feedback. Plan, review and deploy new practices, methodologies, and tools to improve product quality and team effectiveness. Identify and remove/resolve resource constraints and blocking dependencies. Own a sub-team for audio capture, processing, testing and analyzing. Manage entire bug tracking system, usage procedures, and work flow company wide. Identify, plan and build custom test tools/engines/utilities (primarily command line and GUI using C#, SQL, XML, HTML, with some java, perl, SSH, batch, etc). Show less



Microsoft

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• SDET

  • Aug 2004 - Jul 2005

  Software Development Engineer in Test. Owned all testing of the VBI data stream (the data stream found in analog TV) and the digital data stream in digital TV, as used by Media Center. Primarily Closed Captioning, Parental Ratings, and Macrovision. This was done by writing C++ test engines and test cases. Most of this was done via Direct Show filters and programmatic graph building and validation of the results.

• Test Lead

  • Feb 2000 - Aug 2004

  Built and managed a test team of just me to 18 people over 3.5 years. The entire stretch was testing video capture and then SDTV and HDTV on the PC.

• STE

  • Jun 1997 - Feb 2000

  Software Test Engineer. I started on Windows 98 before it was released testing applets (notepad, calc, etc) and was testing video capture devices in Windows XP when I tranisitioned to Test Lead.



Stream Global Services

• United States
• Outsourcing/Offshoring
• 700 & Above Employee

• Tech Support

  • Sep 1995 - Jun 1997

  Started my professional career in computers with this job as a tech support engineer for Windows 95 (Microsoft outsourced a bulk of their Windows 95 support).