Experience

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  Altriva Solutions

  • Consultant

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  Altriva Solutions

  • Bellevue, Washington, United States

  • Consultant

    • Oct 2020 - Present
    • Bellevue, Washington, United States

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  Cascada LLC

  • Greater Seattle Area

  • Owner

    • Feb 2010 - Oct 2020
    • Greater Seattle Area

    Advancing my skill set beyond my deep dive into the Microsoft ecosystem to include open-source software and mobile app development within a non-corporate environment. - Co-developed, in collaboration with another developer, an iPhone application, that employed cutting-edge, open-source software to manage development. The product, Sessuru, is a location-based contact exchange tool available at the Apple App Store. - Continuously explore various technologies, including containerization with Docker and Kubernetes, machine learning, and responsive web development.

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  CoverCoin.io

  • Greater Seattle Area

  • Advisory Board Member

    • Dec 2016 - Feb 2018
    • Greater Seattle Area

    Technical advisor for a startup using cryptocurrency, IoT, and AI to offer a decentralized risk transfer product.

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  Colliers-International

  • Greater Seattle Area

  • QA Lead

    • Mar 2010 - Aug 2012
    • Greater Seattle Area

    Delivered projects on time and within budget for a "top three" commercial real estate firm. Served in multiple job roles throughout the project lifecycle, including Project Manager, QA/Test Lead, and Release Manager. Willingly took on new responsibilities and viewed them as an opportunity to learn and grow.- As a Project Manager, oversaw a portfolio of global projects while managing a 30-member team. Led throughout the challenges of a complex organizational structure that included a core team based in Seattle and affiliate offices all over the world.- Managed IT projects across multiple regions, including planning, communication, scheduling of development resources, training, testing, and coordination with the corporate financial team. Maximized the use of resources both onsite and offshore.- As a QA/Test Lead, owned the complete QA and test environment. Managed a QA team consisting of one onsite tester and one offshore tester in India.- Test responsibilities included: writing and executing test plans based on product requirements and specifications; analyzing test results; building and maintaining test cases (e.g., test data sets); tracking and reporting bugs and defects; and implementing testing techniques, including black box, white box, regression, stress, performance, etc.- Managing the weekly bug triage call with relevant stakeholders, ranging from the engineering team to upper management.- As a Release Manager, responsible for planning and communications during the final preparation for product launches. Met with all stakeholders (executives to operations) to identify problems; triaged and resolved issues to gain customer buy-in.- Served as the main point of contact for support issues throughout the development of a new system that delivered improved efficiencies. Communicated the project status both up and down the organization.- Formalized our QA practices to overcome the many challenges of providing disciplined and sound QA/testing practices.

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  Microsoft

  • Greater Seattle Area

  • SDET

    • Jan 2001 - Oct 2009
    • Greater Seattle Area

    Consistently recognized for determination and hard work; collaborate with team members to prove the validity of cutting edge software products. - Within a culture similar to startup environments, developed some of the most complex testing software imaginable; used Model Based Testing. - Worked on very early releases that were barely functioning; in one case, only the Common Prompt worked. Tested on through to product launch within fairly tight deadlines. - Designed and created tests in C# for features of the Entity SQL query language.- Planned and ran the CTP test pass for multiple teams, including offshore.- Streamlined the team’s high "test pass" cost through standardization and consolidation.

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  Bartlett's Farm

  • Nantucket, MA

  • Field Crew

    • May 1995 - Aug 1996
    • Nantucket, MA

    I worked here during the summers of 1995 and 1996. This was a great opportunity to work in a physically demanding environment with a diverse set of people.Received exposure to all aspects of field production, and maintenance through hands-on experience and training in planting, weeding, transplanting, soil preparation, setting irrigation, laying and pulling up ground cover, harvesting, cutting and washing herbs, vegetables and flowers.