Engineer Active Directory

Software engineer with ** years’ experience in software quality shipping products in both enterprise and consumer markets. Broad technology experience across the Microsoft stack. Ability to align business and technical objectives, and the acumen to sit at both tables.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Professional development:

-Building OOP projects with Java and Android, expanding Java stack knowledge.

-Developing test automation with TestNG, JUnit, SoapUI, Mochito, and Selenium.

-Exploring infrastructure-as-code using AWS CloudFormation and Google Cloud Platform.

-Collaborator in AWS Architects & Engineers meetup group for AWS Solutions Architect certification.

Microsoft Advertising and Online, Sr SDET 4/2011 to 12/2014 (partner conversion from 7/2010)

Scope: Quality program implementation enabling custom display advertising across Microsoft properties.

Environment: Browsers, Windows OS, Hyper-V, Azure, Visual Studio, ASP.Net, JavaScript, C#, SQL, JSON, LINQ, Kanban.

-Established a Quality Program integrating sales, operations, design, and engineering teams.

-Coordinated remote ops team delivering simultaneous $600K to $1.5M short cycle projects (8-12 weeks).

-Delivered 98% flawless execution against established KPIs for 100+ yearly executions.

-Developed test strategies utilizing web proxy and performance tools.

-Designed and built a web application exposing test case execution to external vendor partners.

-Designed and built a demo system for remote client preview.

-Established engineering partnerships to integrate 3rd party ad formats and Microsoft advertising platforms.

-Enabled R&D business opportunities by providing on-demand test support of new Windows 8 ad formats.

Microsoft Mac Office, Infrastructure Engineer, agency partner 3/2010 to 7/2010

Scope: Infrastructure build-out and testing for MS Information Rights Management for Mac Office Suite.

Environment: Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V, Active Directory, AD RMS, Exchange 2010, ForeFront TMG, ForeFront UAG.

-Deployed an enterprise development environment inside MS corpnet for local and remote teams.

-Wrote installation Test Plan for Information Rights Management in Mac Office.

-Established cross-organizational relationships and negotiated SLA support for network requirement.

-Participated in weekly status meetings presenting progress and risk concerns.

Youth Eastside Services, Infrastructure Engineer volunteer 5/2009 to 12/2009, with ongoing Support.

Scope: Production Exchange upgrade and Active Directory migration to Hyper-V servers in a HIPAA compliant domain.

Environment: Windows Server 2k3 & 2k8, Hyper-V, Active Directory, SQL 2000, Access 2003, Exchange 2k3 & 2k7, JIRA.

-Autonomously planned an Exchange upgrade and Active Directory migration from physical to virtual servers.

-Communicated weekly to senior leadership on progress and risks.

-Managed validation schedules for remote engineers supporting legacy application HIPAA compliance.

-Delivered full documentation from project scope to maintenance best practice.

AVST Test Engineer 11/2007 to 5/2009.

Scope: Test and development support for CallXpress unified communication server.

Environment: Visual Studio, VMWare, MySQL, Windows Server, Active Directory, Exchange 2k3 & 2k7, JIRA, Agile.

-Created C# web service test automation for functionality exposed to resellers.

-Collaborated with India vendors to automate regression testing using Test Complete, VSS, Excel, and PowerShell.

-Performed complex manual SQL queries to verify data quality.

-Decreased feature GTM using VMWare solution for rapid enterprise environment deployment.

-Performed manual interoperability testing between call server and Microsoft Exchange topologies.

Microsoft ForeFront, SDET agency partner 10/2006 to 10/2007

Scope: Test and development support for Microsoft ForeFront enterprise security.

Environment: Windows Server, Active Directory, WTT, Product Studio, Virtual Server, Agile.

-Researched and developed rapid deployment lab solution with Virtual Server, Ghost, and WTT.

-Established internal partnerships and SLA for rapid enterprise deployment.

-Provided manual installation and configuration testing.

-Represented quality in triage meetings.

Primary Technical Review Team, .Net Test Automation Recipes, Apress, 2006

Scope: Technical editing for .Net automation text book using Visual Studio and C#.

Brightcove, SDET agency partner 7/2006 to 10/2006

Focus: Testing of a web-based Flash development platform for web multi-media publishing.

Environment: Windows Server 2003, IIS, Internet Explorer 6, Visual Studio 2005, Excel, JIRA, Kanban.

Microsoft ACE Team SDET agency partner 2/2006 to 7/2006

Scope: Testing of Microsoft’s threat modeling tool.

Environment: Windows XP, Product Studio, C#, JavaScript, Microsoft’s ACE Threat Modeler, Agile.

Microsoft CRM (Dynamics) SDET agency partner – 7/2005 to 1/2006

Scope: Test and test support for the CRM server product.

Environment: Windows Server 2003, SBS Server, Outlook, Ghost Imaging.

Microsoft Test agency partner – 4/2001 to 4/2005 on Internet Explorer, Exchange, MSN teams

Scope: Manual test with some automation support.

Environments: Internet Explorer, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript, CSS.

SafariDog, Inc. Test Lead of 4 manual testers 10/2000 to 4/2001.

Scope: Manual test lead for a streaming content plugin on Internet Explorer.

Microsoft Project Manager agency partner – 12/1999 to 10/2000

Scope: Schedule consolidation for documentation of Exchange, SBS, MMC, and the SBS-BOS SDK teams.

EDUCATION: MS CIS: Bellevue University, NE. Planned graduation 2017.

CompTIA IT Project+ Project Management certification since 2006.

Microsoft Office User Specialist since 2004.

BS Materials Engineering: CalPoly, SLO. 1996.

US Army enlisted 1987-1991. ROTC US Army Commission 2nd Lt. 1996.

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