SUMMARY:

• Leadership - oriented and experienced QA professional with more than 9 years of experience in a variety of entertainment platforms. A constant professional who has been entrusted to act as a liaison working not only around the U.S but also internationally to ensure a proper and accurate release.
• A creative profession with an Art Animation degree and an in-depth understanding of the development process. Able to evaluate and understand the time and limitations of tasks to accurately predict deliverables.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential,CA

Production Artist

• Graphic Design - Created graphic designs for e-mails, case studies, and banner ads to be used on the company website. This consisted of prototyping multiple designs and color schemes for the marketing team to choose for use.
• QA Web Testing - Testing new web pages for functionality across all supported formats. This testing included web, ipad, and mobile formats and insuring a consistency in layout between the different sizes.
• Video Design - Prototyped animated video gifs for future ad banners. There was 2 types created, a 3 image animated swap and an animated text message.

Confidential,Irvine, CA

Quality Assurance Levels Specialist

• Test Lead - QA lead for all levels and environment testing. The test teams consist of 8 on-site testers and 12-15 outsourced testers located in Europe. Levels testing involves checking collision, lighting, textures, environment audio, and environment SFX. We also perform early map playtest to assess new levels playability as well as provide feedback for problem areas. As a lead i'm in charge of managing issues being submitted into our bug database as well as follow up with developers on the progress of critical issues.
• Functional Testing - This consists of multiple different aspects of testing. Some testing is high level feedback on new prototype changes being made to the game. Other testing focused playtests to asses bug fixes being made before pushing the new code out to the rest of the company. The final section of test is general testing and helping to fill in on the normal test team when we are short on personnel.

Confidential,Los Angeles, CA

Quality Assurance Lead

• Test Lead - QA lead on a 14 product business center with a test team of 6 testers. Our team accomplished testing and launching the entire interactive in a 2 month timeframe. Traveled onsite to assist and ensured proper installation of all application in the live environment. Co-developed and implemented a test plan and test case template to be used throughout QA for all future projects.
• Functionality Testing - Testing of ipad applications and mobile pages, multi-station interactive game apps, as well as giant 3-15 screen touchscreen interactive walls. Ensured bug-free projects are used for a variety of clients and purposes from investor presentations, tradeshow exhibits, and a traveling education display for the Smithsonian Museum. Developed skills and have been able to become familiar with HTML, CSS, and working with CMS units to assist the programmers and production coordinators with pinpointing particular issues.
• Localization Testing - Assessing the application for correct localization translations being used for multiple different languages. Delivered accurate builds of the application for a traveling display show in Dubai, D.C, London, and China.
• Hardware Installation - Troubleshooting and configuring multiple different hardware displays setups including multi-screen video walls and pc upgrades. I’ve also used command prompt dashboard to make changes needed for our testing applications.
• Concept Testing - Evaluated pre-Alpha concept designs/wireframes for upcoming projects to minimize potential QA issues. Conducted evaluations of 14 product displays and included suggestions to design aspect changes and noted possible problem areas to Producer/UI Designer in order to make the application more user friendly.

Confidential,Los Angeles, CA

Technical Artist

• Video compositing with After Effects - As Technical Artist I completed animations, compositing, keying (taking out green screen), rotoscoping, file conversion, music edits, and any other additional art clean-up as needed. As a Tech Artist I completed dozens of videos used for company websites and national broadcasts. Working with Adobe After Effects I composited and edited animation pieces together into completed videos used for the company website or for national broadcasts. Completed videos posted ranged from simple kids book animation pages for the ipad, to sing-a-long kid songs for the kids learning website, as well as national holiday ecards that could be edited to have your face while the character sings. Completed a remaster of 30 book ipad library using Photoshop and Illustrator to update typography as well as improving animation quality. All completed videos was thoroughly tested to check the video uploaded to ensure it was technically sound.
• Video upload / testing - Completed video files conversions to a variety of formats as needed by our different application demands. Uploaded files for Youtube, Starring You Storybooks ipad app, Confidential main site, Storybots site, and multiple ipad applications (coinflip, santa twerkshop, storybots holloween, and abc videos) Completed videos rendering, uploading, and testing to ensure new design methods kept correct alignment and functioned properly.
• Rendering for press releases, T.V spots, and Award shows. - Maintained and crafted custom video edits and renders to be used for press releases and national broadcasts. These edits included inserting the hosts, anchors, or famous celebrities into the video and ensuring the video was at the highest quality possible for broadcast. A few shows I made video edits for was The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Ellen Show, Rachel Ray and Good Morning America.