Resume

• 2006

  English

  MBA

  Business Administration

• 1999

  AS

  Computer Graphics and Animation

  Wake Technical Community College

• 1989

  BA

  Sociology / Criminology

• Elephant Mouse: Little games with big heart – Little games with big heart

  Company Website for Elephant Mouse

  Online Gaming

  Agile

  Software Quality Assurance

  Database Administration

  Agile Project Management

  Software Documentation

  3D

  Certified Scrum Master

  Agile Methodologies

  Scrum

  Software Project Management

  Testing

  HR Policies

  Quality Assurance

  Project Management

  Test Planning

  Game Development

  Mobile Games

  Game Design

  Video Games

  Judgmental Shooting Simulator

  A training simulator for the Intelligence Community (FBI

  CIA

  etc.). Some of the scenarios we developed included arrest procedures of an armed and dangerous suspect (FBI)

  and doing a surveillance detection run (CIA). I contributed in all areas of design

  but was primarily focused on QA and subject matter expertise and accuracy.

  Turner

  Ken

  Turner

  Elephant Mouse

  Southern New Hampshire University

  Keystone Systems

  Atomic Games

  Wake Technical Community College

  Red Storm Entertainment

  Wake Technical Community College

  Wake Technical Community College

  Raleigh

  NC

  Assistant Professor in Simulation and Game Development

  Keystone Systems

  Elephant Mouse

  Cary

  NC

  •\tCoordinated the entirety of QA assets among different projects including Lil Birds and Archetype\n•\tResponsible for the evaluation

  set up

  and approval of bug tracking databases. The use of Jira was the preferred database\n•\tDevelop all test documents for multiple ongoing projects; these included test plans

  schedules

  budgets\n•\tResponsible for the payment of all testing assets and review of QA budget

  Quality Assurance Team Lead

  Red Storm Entertainment

  Adjunct Professor

  Within this role I have helped shape the curriculum by updating and doing course development to help align the classes with the current needs within the game development industry. I have taught six different courses at this institution.

  Southern New Hampshire University

  Atomic Games

  Raleigh-Durham

  North Carolina Area

  •\tDesigned and built the company QA testing lab from the ground up while keeping the department within the established budgets. \n•\tDeveloped all guidelines and protocols for the electronic bug tracking database.\n•\tHired

  managed and performed all bi-annual performance reviews of the current QA staff professionals; reported results to both Human Resources and upper management.\n•\tScheduled and hosted QA training sessions for the entire company. \n•\tEstablished Standard Operating Procedures and protocols for the workings of the QA Department in conjunction with all other departments within the company.\n•\tWorked with programmers to develop testing tools and testing automation scripts.\n•\tHosted daily SCRUM checkpoint meetings with the Producer and management to make sure that the SCRUM team was on track with the current sprint.\n•\tWorked closely with producers and end users to ensure the best support and testing options for our government contracts within the federal guidelines presented to us; including hard copy and web based reporting.

  QA Manager

  Raleigh-Durham

  North Carolina Area

  •\tDeveloped and implemented various types of technical documentation for testing including a comprehensive test plan to ensure a complete test case for the test team.\n•\tResponsible for the hiring of contract testers for the staffing of projects; managed multiple teams of various sizes (4-38) that worked on different projects simultaneously.\n•\tOrganized and hosted meetings with management

  producers

  project leads and members of the engineering and art teams to discuss status of the project(s)

  with specific focus on testing status.\n•\tOrganized and hosted meetings with directors and other management to ascertain the status and issues of the current project.\n•\tEvaluated competitors’ products to help improve the current design on the project.

  Quality Assurance Analyst

  Red Storm Entertainment

  Faculty Senate

  Wake Technical Community College Advisory Board