gregory c parsons resume

PARSONS

Gregory C. Parsons

250 Dunstable Road

N. Chelmsford
Massachusetts
01863

774.573.2212
findme@gregp.net
jobs.gregp.net
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Summary of Qualifications:

Launch Team Specialist

Experienced in fast-paced development environments of Internet startups.

Experienced in software application, and Web site/application development.

Experienced in both GUI and back-end testing of client/server dynamically driven products.

Team-oriented contributor (QA and cross-functional teams) with both customer experience and UI expertise.

Experience with:

Win/Mac/'NIX, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, VBScript, Perl, Shell Scripting, PHP, SQL, SilkTest, QTP, C#, Selenium, Scrum/Agile

Work History

QUALITY ASSURANCE (Web dev)

Sr QA Engineer

BlueFin Labs/Twitter

12-13

QA of Internal Tools

Analyzing the Big Data intersection of Social Media/SocialTV and Networks & Advertising
Manual integration testing of 3 internal webApp data analysis tools
(Mac/Linux/mySQL/AWS environment)
Scrum/Agile 2 week Sprint development process
GIT/Confluence/JIRA/TestRail

Sr QA Engineer

Warner Brothers/Turbine

09-12

QA of Game/Website/Billing Integration for Asherons Call, LOTRO and DDO MMOGs

Manual and automated integration testing of; Game Client/Store/Websites, and backend billing applications, & associated customer UI (C#/Selenium, SeleniumIDE, SoapUI)
All build installation and configuration for project area environments
(PC/Linux/mySQL/MSsql/Oracle combined environment)
Localization of Billing Application to add FR/DE/GB, language and currency
Upkeep of wiki knowledge base of projects
Scrum/Agile Sprints tracked with Version One

Contract QA

vlingo

QA of voice enabled Blackberry phones, backend server, and SDK.

Launch Team: Voice Recognition and Command Application for Mobile Phones
SDK development testing
Scrum/Agile methodology

Member Technical Team - QA

Kayak

04-08

Web site QA for a the Worlds first Online Travel Meta Search Engine

Launch of initial US AJAX site & subsequent UK/FR/DE/SP/mobile sites
Lead KN Adsense tool
Fast paced development cycle - (daily,) weekly, monthly releases
Manual GUI test, SQL back end tracking

Director Web Development & Marketing			03-04
Contract Web/IT Services		Karen Pryor's Clicker Training	00-02

Web development

Contract QA

StudentAdvantage

01-02

QA of Website and Billing Backend of Student Discount Card Service

Launch team initial site
Affiliate Web site testing/back end (database) testing
Feed testing: XML import & SQL/scripting of backend database loading of partner data

Senior QA Engineer

Soundbite

QA of customer Web & Automated Phone Interfaces Systems.

Corporate Web site testing, consumer Web address book
Phone based UI to Telemail regression testing
Integration of phone, Web site and Oracle database backend
Charged with the daily build process

Principal QA Integration Engineer

iCAST

99-01

QA of Personal Music Website w/ Online Social Media Music Player

iCASTER/iCAST.com, Lead QA launch team iCAST.com
Admin QA DB (TestTrack)
QA Lead: site redesign team

Manager QA Server Side
/Sr QA Engineer

JuniorNet

QA of DVD installation of Online Childerens Learning/Game Environment

Launch Team1.0/1.1/2.0 products
Designed/Built JuniorNet Web accessible QA Bugs Database in Cold Fusion (NT server/SQL 7)
Managed server-side testing group, interviewing, mentoring new hires and contractors

QA Engineer

IntraNetics

98-99

QA of Installation and use of Networked Intranet Application

v2.0 product team, English Swedish, Dutch
Helped automation lead to expand the modularity of the automation system (Silk)
Zero to MSCP certified in first two weeks on job
Backup Sys Admin for company, backup and maintenance of the department's QE & Lab machines

Member Technical Staff

AdSmart (Engage/CMGI)

97-98

QA of Internet based Ad serving client interface

Sole QA GUI Development
Redesign Project: moving from a Java to HTML interface
Built integrated bug/test case tracking system in FileMaker.

QA Engineer		America Online/NaviSite	95-98
Senior Support Engineer		CMGI/Booklink	94

Support and QA of Consumer facing SW and Internet Applications

Early Internet Browser - Pre-WWW Internet Online Service
Initial QA for AIM project
Evaluated and defined department automation direction, software and process
MSIE integration with AOL

Senior Support Specialist

Interleaf Inc. (BroadVision)

89-94

Customer Support for Technical/Desktop Publishing Systems

Original Team member for PC/Mac product
Sun Unix platform Support

Product Support Specialist		Nixdorf Computer Corp. (Siemens)	86-89
Customer Support for Data Entry Software	Built bug tracking system in DPEX II

WEB DEVELOPMENT (QA)

Director Web Development & Marketing	03-04
Contract Web/IT Services	00-02
Karen Pryor's Clicker Training

Developed web marketing strategies
Responsibilities: web site development, linux admin, DB admin, staff support, lan admin

tech pubs, photographer, videographer, video editor, e-mail/web marketing

trade show setup/sales/demo

Projects:
Site Redesign and rebirth of broken content site and e-commerce storefront

Prototype/Product Design/Production (i-Click)

National Event Technician (ClickerExpo.com)

CD product development (Bird Kit CD)

DVD product development (Videos of the inaugural Expo Seminars)
Domains/Sites:
clickertraining.com (multi-homed education/community site)

clickerpet.com (linked e-commerce site)

clickerexpo.com (national symposium info/registration site)

clickertraining.co.uk (UK version of site - since abandoned)

Designer/Developer	95-Now
WetDog Tech Web Design (side work/volunteer)

Aim: simplicity for a wide range of non-technical visitors Design, Develop, maintain Non Profit/Profit, Dog-related Sites examples: Mass Federation of Dog Owners * New England Dog Training Club * TACTdogs
FBP, Inc.	97-2005
Restaurant search site DeliverMe.com - PHP w/ Mysql backend

Education

BS CIS

AS EE