Quality Assurance Project

Morgan McCurdy

* ******** *****, ******* *****, ME 03905

207-***-****//*************@***.***

SUMMARY

Proficient at gathering and organizing ideas into cogent, logical wholes.

Comfortable communicating with inter and intra departmental organizations.

Effective oral and written communication skills. Significant background in

project management. Thorough knowledge of the software development

lifecycle (SDLC). Experience with diverse populations within higher

education administration and business.

SALIENT SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

SOFTWARE BUSINESS ANALYST at Orbis, Inc., Portsmouth, NH 2008 - May 2013

Facilitated Requirement and Design initiatives for vertical application

encompassing enterprise resource planning for U.S. Navy ship maintenance

Monitored and managed milestone initiatives

Managed multiple collaborative development initiatives, process development

and continuous improvement.

Managed customer expectations

Experience with Quality Assurance and Quality Control

Security clearance

Business process modeling

Expertise in Microsoft Office suite and proficiency with Toad for Oracle

(SQL), IBM Rational ClearQuest, SnagIt, FileMaker Pro, Adobe RoboHelp 7,

Microsoft Visual Source Safe and Adobe Photoshop. Basic HTML and JavaScript

skills.

HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL, Boston, MA 1991 - 2003

Staff Assistant, Initiative on Social Enterprise (ISE) (1998 - 2003)

. Acted as first point of contact for international pool of on- and off-

campus constituencies, including faculty, staff, alumni, students, and

nonprofit and government organizations

. Coordinated logistics on an annual basis for growing set of programs and

events

. Researched and wrote articles for ISE publications

. Created and maintained databases, including contact database of 3,000

entries

. Executed and improved billing process for office and student project

expenses

Faculty Assistant, Technology and Operations Management Department (1996 -

1998)

Faculty Assistant, Marketing Department (1991 - 1994)

. Managed faculty members in their teaching, research, and professional

duties

. Created grading sheets and mailing system for programs of 800+ students

. Maintained course-specific web-based teaching tool, and created website

for research paper downloads

. Collected, proofread, and edited cases for department curriculum

textbook

EDITOR/WRITER/RESEARCHER

. Free-lance editor 2013 -

present

. As independent contractor, assisted in the editing and translation of

German-language scholarly texts for publication in English by European

scholars

. Edited academic articles and books written by Harvard Business School

faculty

. Created music appreciation course from scratch for junior high students,

collecting material and writing lectures outlining the history of

American popular music.

. Researched and wrote program notes for New England Conservatory concerts

CLASS ROOM TEACHER AND VOICE TEACHER

. Created and taught Music Appreciation and Music History to middle school

students at Sacred Heart School,

Hampton, NH 2004 - 2005

. Teach private voice lessons and adult education voice classes, and opera

overview class (Brookline, MA and Kittery Point, ME)

CHOIR DIRECTOR

. Youth Choir Director, Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Church, Hampton,

NH 2004 - 2007

. Interim Choir Director, St. George's Episcopal Church, York, ME 2003

- 2004

OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE

Sole operator of an animal care service in the Kittery/York, Maine area

2006 - 2008

EDUCATION

NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC, Boston, MA, M.A. Music in Voice

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle, WA, B.A. Music, B.F.A. Voice

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Knowledge of French, German, and Italian

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES

Board President, Kittery Art Association 2008 - 2011: Conducted board

meetings, coordinated new art shows, planned yearly schedule, collaborated

in writing association newsletter, created publicity, event planning.

Former Executive Director, Portsmouth Men's Chorus

Photographer

Concert Soloist, Soprano

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