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.

●        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

●        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

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

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.

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

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.