Assistant Engineer

RANDOLPH T. MARCHMAN (MA, CAPM)

San Jose, California 661-***-**** *************@*****.***

www.linkedin.com/in/randolph-marchman/ https://angel.co/u/randy-marchman

SUMMARY

A results-driven and versatile quality assurance engineer with a demonstrated track record of achievement in streaming services, test case writing, software/hardware, integration, resource management, troubleshooting, and implementations. I am a resourceful producer who enhances engineering operations and procedures for continued improvement meeting both short- and long-term objectives. Thank you for your time looking at my resume. Please, also visit my Linkedin to see a more diverse work history and have a laugh at my first job being Blockbuster Video.

EXPERIENCE

VUDU MOVIES, Sunnyvale, California

Quality Assurance Test Engineer Level II, 2012-2020

Wrote detailed test cases meeting both internal, Vudu, and eternal partner standards, to be utilized by team of internal manual testers. (Chromecast, Android, iOS, Living Room Devices, and more)

Worked closely with QA leadership and developers to resolve bugs, critical issues, or enhancements found in regression, certification, integration, or new feature implementation.

Revised, update, and maintained QA information resources: Confluence, How To’s, and Bugzilla.

Utilized Android Mobile, iOS Mobile, ChromeCast, Android TV platform, Lua platforms, Tizen platforms, Java platforms, HTML5 Living Room, LG, Samsung, Sony, Roku, Vizio, Hisense, Tivo, Xbox, PlayStation, home theater hardware and audio capability DD, DD+, ATMOS, and PCM for manual software testing.

Contributed to release of proprietary video streaming hardware. (Vudu Stick)

Maintained large QA resource inventory. (Over 1200 devices)

Contributed to integrating several features into Vudu landscape including but not limited to UHD, seamless resolution switching, closed captioning, kid’s mode, concurrent streaming limitation, free content, advertised movies on demand, pre-order purchase, Wal-Mart Integration, UHD Limitation, and more.

Updated and upgraded living room device software through various means.

Served on Community Involvement Committee.

SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY: COMMUNICATION STUDIES DEPARTMENT, San José, California

Graduate Teaching Associate,, 2010-2012

Created and navigated through fruition five unique 15-week public speaking courses totaling 125 students.

Developed workshops on visual rhetoric/ literacy, rhetoric in comic books/film, and media communication.

Helped integrate digital learning into SJSU communication studies with digital video, audio feedback, virtual grade book tools, and learning projects.

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EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

SAN JOSÉ STATE UNIVERSITY, San José, California

M.A., Communication Studies

Summa Cum Laude

Focus: Media Studies, Quantitative and Qualitative Research

Thesis: A new hue for heroism -or- a multi-method evolutionary analysis of the Green Lantern comic book series for insights on the changing cultural perspective of heroism"

Topics of Study: Visual Culture, Visual Rhetoric, Media Effects, Transmedia Studies, Brand Management/Identity, Marketing Campaigns, Comic Book History, and Mythology

B.A., Radio-Television-Film

Magna Cum Laude

Focus: Production, Research and Development

Minor: Communication Studies, Art

Project Management Institute

CAPM, Certified Associate in Project Management,(PMI) 2019

EXPERIENCE (CONTINUED)

SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY, San José, California

Teaching Assistant, and other various titles, 2007-2010

Teachers Assistant (Film Studies, Film Project Course, Acting/Directing Courses)

Assisted students with writing, directing, camera techniques, and theatre and film productions

Recorded and produced special guest lectures and interviews as well as onsite technical support

Secretarial and office duties

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Teacher's assistant for: Advanced Directing Project, Auditioning and Career Prep., Stage Directing, Art of Film, Advanced Acting and Directing for Camera, Special Topics in Cinema, Alternative Cinema, and more.

SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY, San José, California

Advisor/Ambassador Roles (Various), 2007-2010

Residential Advisor (2007-2009)

oHelped regulate University Housing Services rules to reflect San Jose State University in its best interest while assisting on-campus residents

oEvent Planning and Coordinated on-campus community building activities

oPresented at the Pacific Affiliate of College and University Residence Halls conference

Campus Movie Festival Ambassador (2009)

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Frosh Orientation Summer Advisor (2008-2009)

oHelped counselling services with summer Frosh Orientation.

oHelped students register for the first semester At SJSU

oAdvised Students on General Education and Degree requirements

SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY, San José, California

Living Learning Center Assistant Supervisor, 2007-2009

Maintain a team work schedule

Run daily activities of the Living Learning Center

Collaborated with counseling, academic advising, and other SJSU faculty to create degree accomplishment programming

Hosted academic and community building events.

FILM CREW WORK, (INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR), Bay Area, California

Production Assistant, 2009-2020

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4621200/

CreaTV, Indigo films, Lost In Time Films

Hobby Work (2011 - Current)

Hot Air Balloon Wedding Filmed 2-29-2020

BANDAI/NAMCO MOBILE, San José, California

Quality Assurance Specialist, 2009

Tested of Namco Mobile game products including Scene it? Movies, Scene it? TV, and Worst Case Scenario

Voice acted in TNA Wrestling, and Pirate Hamsters

Verified Software functionality of software on mobile products

Sideloaded software and updated phones

Reported on an internal bug tracking systems

Debugged customer issues

BLOCKBUSTER VIDEO, San José/Bakersfield, California

Shift Lead, 2007-2012

Shift Management

Helped open and operate a combo GameRush/Blockbuster store

New Release Merchandising: I would organize and rearrange merchandise in the store to support a weekly new release schedule.

Basic Management responsibilities tilling, bank drops, and independently opening and closing the store.

GREEN LANTERN GUITARS, San José/Bakersfield, California

Jr Luthier, self-employed, 2019-Current

Luthier: Noun: a maker of stringed instruments such as guitars

Super Nintendo Guitar – 6 string guitar- Lipstick-neck-pickup in the Game Slot, Piezo Bridge, Each pickup individually wired for Tone and Volume, three-way selector switch

Box Guitars: Three String “cigar” box guitars, American Folk Instrument.

(Jimi Hendrix infamously started his music journey on a cigar box guitar)

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