Software Developement Engineer in Quality Assurance at Amazon.com
Sep 2011 – April 2012
● Coordinating and reviewing ads across multiple platforms and browsers
● Testing on mobile devices such as Kindle, Android, iPad and iPhone
● Tracking and following up on multiple issues in a fast moving environment
● Released to Amazon advertising properties such as Amazon.com
● designing and implementing test cases, running and reporting on quality
● Daily use of QA methodology and tools such as schedulers, frameworks, and harnesses
● Working with designers, traffickers, and account managers who provide a link to client feedback
● Provide design suggestions, fixing bugs and provide quick QA feedback on all changes
● Working with tight deadlines, fast turn-around times, fast productivity and balancing client’s needs
● Direct impact on one of Amazon.com’s sources of revenue through high-traffic website ad sales
Energy Island Smoothies, located in Bremerton and Silverdale, WA asked for a logo design, and neon sign: http://www.facebook.com/energyislandsmoothies
modifications. The prototype was designed in 3 hours with 3 feedback sessions and a total of 5 hours. I worked with the interior designer and company owners as well as the current employees to get a sense of what culture, theme and style was needed.
The idea and story behind the logo is: One of the owners (the wife) recently had breast cancer and overcame the obstacles of chemotherapy, fatigue etc and named the store “Energy” and wanted an island theme from her own parrot and years living in Hawaii “Island” The idea is to support Breast Cancer Awareness and a supporting atmosphere for anyone recovering from cancer, or other illnesses.
They particularly liked this logo because of the 3D affect of the island going into the background with a setting sun and sunset.
I’m working on both the private release and the open-source based Meego Tablet. This is a really exciting project for me. I finally get to write and own my own test cases, run the cases and test one of the most complicated projects yet. The tablet is mobile motion and gestural based device. I’m working with a great team at Intel, collaborating with other employees in China, London and Ukraine. https://meego.com/devices
● Managed software development improvements and communication between the 2 on-site developers, 6 London-based UI Designers, 3 Ukraine UX Designers and another set of 25 software testers in China
● QA owner of 3 software applications involving touch-based technologies
● Wrote test cases and updated daily as the software developed for 3 separate software applications. Test cases were used and feedback provided by 25 software testers in China as well as our own team of 15 with a focus on User Experience Testing and User Interfaces
● Combined test results from China and the US team for open-source publications
● Tested on 4 different platforms based on a linux operating system
● Provided feedback on wireframes and user experience to the design teams
● Acceptance Testing, Black Box Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Compatibility Test, GUI Testing, Synchronization Testing, Connectivity Testing, User Experience Testing
Worked in a 3D model WTT designed by a team at Microsoft, testing and adjusting the AI in a black box environment. http://www.xbox.com/kinect
● Test Associate for Kinect’s camera hardware and software
● Game Tester for Kinect’s Joy Ride, Java/Facebook games and Crackdown 2
● Usability research and User Experience Testing for the Kinect project
● Provided User Experience feedback on functionality, usability, accessabiilty and work-flow
● View Kinect video clips and determine if functions are performed correctly
● 3D modeling testing and adjusting in a black box environment
● User Interface, Game Mechanics, User experience, Databases, Test Cases
● Database management and contribution writing and entering found bugs using Product Studio
● SQL queries and information comparing team’s progress through SQL databases
● Worked on a wide variety of games testing new Xbox 360 Arcade Menus, Xbox
Live Wireframes
● Running test cases and following test pack deadlines as part of a team
● Usability Testing, Ad Hoc Testing, Black Box Testing, GUI Testing, Connectivity Testing, User Experience Testing
Consumer Service Representative in Quality Assurance through Nintendo/Parker Contract
Communicated solutions with consumer through telephone with a great variety of ages
Troubleshooting and Operational assistance for the Wii, DSi, DS Lite and DS systems
http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/
- Utilized internal Wikipedia called ELMO for troubleshooting information and walkthroughs
- Input repair and part orders relating to all Nintendo systems and products
- Assisted in console setup, game play, operational assistance and repair cost negotiation
- Two week training by Nintendo on the Wii, DSi, DS Lite and DS console systems
After my fixer upper I decided that I enjoyed working with roommates, so we expanded our business to include a larger house with two houses on the property in a higher-rent area of Redmond, WA.
Creating a community includes weekly yoga, daily or twice-daily dishes, garbage and chore coordinating, landscaping and paying the utility bills. As leader and landlord of the house I coordinate all of these things. The house is huge and houses 10 roommates with 4 roommates in the adjoining house on the same property.
I enjoy the teamwork, community building and socialization of living in a share household.
With the help of my father, I purchased a 1905 in old town Tumwater, WA in February 2007. The house was stripped of toliets, showers, interior doors, light fixtures, appliances, hot water heater, washer/dryer and even the breaker box. I completed this project in 3 months and had renters by April 2007. I personally learned basic plumbing and electrical on my own as well as painting the entire 2700 sq foot house and installing an old claw foot bathtub.
I hired a couple contractors, but the majority of the work was done by myself, and self-taught from books.
This website that earns up to $2,000/month in sales. http://www.swaps4less.com I created the website design, workflow, graphics and wireframes. I’m still training the employees on how to update the easy to use Joomla based Content Management System. In exchange, I’m allowed to host my portfolio on the server.
The entire design was done in face-to-face meetings, then the website was created offsite in 20 hours. Photos were pulled from the previous e-commerce store and the store was given an updated appearance.
● Produced marketing material, logo and layered CSS layouts in Illustrator and PhotoShop
● Self-taught installation and setup of e-commerce component using CMS databases
● Trained other employees to maintain Joomla’s databases and update content
● Organizing database and Content Management System to empower business
owners for continual use
● Designed user experience from start to finish using wireframes, work-flow studies and usability studies
● Web Programming using Joomla, mySQL, HTML, CSS, SQL, Javascript, PHP and CMS databases
● Use of open-source systems and databases to fit small business budgets
● Designing content creation strategy to include timeline and deadlines
for content updating
● Creation of prototypes in Illustrator and PhotoShop
● Designed site using site maps, wireframes, sketching of task flows Illustrator, ImageReady, PhotoShop
● Testing on multiple platforms including IE, Firefox, Opera, and various mobile devices
● Usability testing based on culture, user-needs and localization
Contributed to the new Kinect Project and worked on Microsoft’s various game dev projects
Database management and contribution writing and entering found bugs
Learned Microsoft’s method of contributing bugs to the database, working with Product Studio and test cases.
Worked on a wide variety of games testing new Kinect Menu systyems, Kinect’s Joy Ride and Crackdown 2 as well as Java/Facebook games http://www.xbox.com/en-US/Kinect/Serious-Fun
Running test cases and following test pack deadlines as part of a six-person team in a black box environment
Contributions to internal Wikipedia for expedited testing on game achievements and missions
This is a freelance Joomla CMS site with custom templates, RSS feeds, blogs, e-commerce/store, comments and photo galleries by members, photographers and the company.
I’m Project Manager and User Experience Designer and a leader of a great team of programmers, photographers, models, writers and graphic designers. As User Experience Designer I designed prototypes in PhotoShop, created slices in ImageReady and assisted in programming the website. I set up the Content Mangement System and designed the user experience to work with the flow of their audience, community and strong model/photographer relationships so the content could be updated on an hourly basis by the community itself.
We modified the SQL database for easier photography uploads. This company has decided to not continue with their name/website and the website was taken down in 2011.
One of my favorite things is typography. Although I admittedly lack in book-knowledge about the pieces and Sans of fonts, I know what looks best inside a composition. This is a ticket I designed for my high school of 200 students in Rota, Spain. The photo is actually of a snow-fallen mountain train tracks, but I was able to crop the train tracks just right to show a winter wonderland. This is one of my first projects with Illustrator, although I’d been using PageMaker for a few years previously.
Vector graphics are by far my favorite skill. I’m able to transform this disco ball to a width of 3 feet without losing any quality. This proved a very useful skill during Olympic College’s biggest event of the year, Student Appreciation Day. This graphic served the marketing through flyers, posters and banners in many different sizes, from 4 inches wide to 6 feet wide.
The examples shown include my wireframes created for the vector graphics from the disco ball and burst background I created along with wireframe/vector-based text.
All flyers, banners, posters and more, were created in Adobe Illustrator from
stratch and independently with input from my campus clients who varied from the Multicultural, Athletic, Student Programs, engineering/art departments, the college administration and the Associated Students of Olympic College.
During my employment with Olympic College I made flyers for all sorts of different groups working with the Student Government, Athletics, Student Programs, Veterans, and all the different clubs sponsored by the Multicultural Services, including Break-dancing (Rock-C), Polynesian dance, and Black Student Union. In each individual club I gathered materials from the club members or leaders and always attempted to incorporated a skill among them such as photography or drawing. Almost every club had something to contribute and they felt proud to have a piece of their own work published to represent themselves.
These are just a few flyers and posters I would create in Illustrator on a weekly basis.
Event attendance heavily relies on marketing, such as advertisements, posters, flyers, sidewalk chalks, handouts, and other very visual printed materials.
This particular event, Olympic College Car and Bike Show involved the Student Programs, Campus Security, Automotive Department and the Car Club to make it happen. All of the prizes were donated by businesses who wanted to promote their products, including the trophies.
The newspaper was published starting in 1995 and when I joined the team as a Page Editor, they asked if I could transfer the newpaper content into a website. This was in 1997 and all the HTML was coded by hand. You can still see the original website from 2001 at www.angelfire.com/ks2/screamingeagle Since 2001, they switched to simply exporting the newspaper from InDesign/PageMaker into a PDF and publishing it online.
I worked with Adobe Creative Suite from 1997-2003 using all the programs: InDesign/PageMaker for the newspaper page layout itself, importing stories from word documents. Illustrator for marketing, posters and sometimes our ads were sent in .AI format and were edited and imported into PageMaker. Photoshop for cartoons, photos and other media was also used before importing. The newspaper was then packaged up and sent to a professional printer.
● Page Editor for the features page for 3 years, then promoted to
● Taught staff page layout, design theory, and PageMaker
● Edited stories, pages and page layout using PageMaker
● Worked with PhotoShop to edit/crop photos, cartoons and graphics
● Wrote content, journalist stories and newbriefs, and designed advertisements
● Formulated budget plans and coordinated donations to self-published newspaper
● Hand-coded HTML, modified JavaScript code and Frames
● FrontPage for rapid prototyping and content editing
My skills do include hand-drawing and hand-drafting along with photography. These are skills that I use to help formulate ideas, sketch a client’s idea during a meeting or visualize a preferred page layout, website design and flow charts.
This sketch is from my Design I course my sophomore year. This particular drawing took about 3 weeks and 1 week to study the still life setup.
