Ian D. Snoeberger
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Fall City, WA 98024
ad5dwx@r.postjobfree.com
Professional Experience
University of Washington Feb 2022 to Jul 2023
Project Manager, EPMO Team Seattle, WA
Project management for Workday upgrade (Enterprise financial software)
Duties: Scrum mastering daily testing standup/stand downs, defect triages, and testing leadership meetings
Writing/reviewing documents covering: Kickoffs, Job Aids, Status Reports, Mentoring new team members, Per Cycle Exit Summaries, UAT narratives, and project reference documents
Troubleshooting metrics/project performance-based issues.
Freelance Consulting July 2019 to Feb 2022
Consultant WA/CA/Offshore
Performed QA management/architect coaching and consulting for established companies trying to rework or expand existing QA efforts with local or on/off-shore footprints.
Thomson Reuters (formerly Serengeti Law) Sept 2011 to July 2019
QA Manager Bellevue, WA
Expanded a 5-person QA team to test mid-market-sized SaaS legal billing software (C#/TSQL). Final QA head count: Onshore team: 14 Offshore team: 5
Encouraged inclusion within the team and in hiring to achieve strong diversity
Enhanced automated (C#, SELENIUM, TSQL) and manual testing as business grew from $19 million to $100 million per year in gross revenue
Managed SDET cross training and team assignments to optimize team resources for future projects
Project managed a cross-department, quarterly release process to deliver groups of iterations as major marketing events
Implemented SDLC best practices to improve feature stability in a multi feature-team, on and offshore AGILE environment
Set up and managed daily triages for existing and new bugs
Managed QA SOC2 audits with triages (7 years)
Microsoft Nov 2009 to Aug 2011
Contractor Kirkland, WA
Project manager tech for Exp group (.NET/TSQL: Agile with Scrum). Duties: client mgt and A/B advertising experiment setup with SQL data maintenance
Managed customer requirements and experiment scheduling
SDET duties: TSQL data mining and verification, SQL job maintenance and general SQL admin
SolutionsIQ Aug 2006 to Dec 2008
QA Manager Redmond, WA
Consultant, then QA Manager
Managed best practices and methodologies for in-house QA members (15)
Provided upper tier support/troubleshooting and wrote TSQL and STIQ (SELENIUM) automated harnesses for CICD builds
Managed QA efforts from black to white box testing to hand held emulator testing (Agile XP and Waterfall)
Safeco Feb 2005 to Aug 2006
SDET Contractor Seattle, WA
Verified porting an auto-insurance ratings, actuarial database from IBM mainframe to SQL Server transactional database:
Built a dynamic-TSQL test harness to verify stable content transfer with refreshable graph set to show pre/post divergence
Troubleshot migration code via parallel development of migration scripts
Created stored procedures, udf’s and scripts that verified migrated financial sums
Erosion Media Feb 2005 to Jun 2008
VP of IT for startup Puyallup, WA
Hired and project managed an offshore dev team; wrote tech and usage specifications
Managed construction of a multimedia sales web site with database (PHP/MYSQL)
Organized an iterative SDLC with Waterfall based specifications
Wrote database specifications and negotiated wages and payment schedules
CodeCorrect June 2002 to Feb 2005
QA Manager Issaquah, WA
Ran QA for medical coding website (Cold Fusion/MSSQL)
Built formal QA process for six-week release cycles for SaaS product
Converted SDLC methodology from Waterfall to Agile/Scrum
Created TSQL stored procs and views to validate govt. data updates
Lynx Medical Systems Nov 1998 to Sep 2001
QA Manager, then Jr Program Manager Bellevue, WA
Products: Medical coding/billing software, ER room triaging and document-tracking software
Wrote hospital patient report specifications, managed dev task lists and organized project time estimates
Designed and built a successful SDLC cycle designed for expansion
Established a technical support team and built and maintained a software and hardware test lab
RealNetworks Sep 1996 to Aug 1998
Test Lead for the QA group Seattle, WA
Supervised and tasked test teams (12 persons) for RealMedia client/server media streaming products
Presented executive layer with reports on product stability and market readiness
Scripted automated build verifications and feature tests across 14 operating systems in TCL, PERL, APPLETALK and various UNIX CGI shells.
United States Army, Military Intelligence Oct 1985 to Oct 1989
Squad leader, interpreter and paratrooper in the 313th MIBN, 82nd ABN Fort Bragg, NC
Education
Central Washington University 1993 to 1996
BS in Computer Science, specialization in software and compiler design
Defense Language Institute (Presidio of San Francisco) 1986 to 1986
Graduate with honors, LA Spanish. Won Martin Kellogg award for high academic achievement
Special Skills
Certified Scrum Master, Agile XP methodology, Top-Secret security clearance, 1986-1990