Beau Nelford

Senior Developer Engineer in Test at Attensity www.linkedin.com/in/beaunelford

Summary
Specialties: Team Leadership, Project Management, Testing Strategy, Test Planning, Vendor Management, Agile Coaching, Quality Assurance Coaching, Software Risk Assessment, Software Defect Analysis, Test Automation. Scripting, Virtual Machine Management & Architecture (VMWare, Microsoft Hyper-V & SCVMM, Xen Linux Hypervisor), Test Environment Deltas, Web Services Testing, Business Process Management Application Testing, Visual Studio 2010, Brazilian Portuguese.

Experience
Senior Developer Engineer in Test at Attensity March 2014 - Present (2 months) As an engineer in test, I write test automation that will test the suite of products Attensity offers including real-time social media analytics, semantic analysis, natural language processing and other analytics tools. Software QA Manager at Cricut July 2012 - February 2014 (1 year 8 months) Managing a small internal team of testers along with an offshore group of testers, I'm responsible for continually improving the quality of the software developed & released by Provo Craft to our worldwide customers. This includes creating an overall test strategy using the resources available, installing Application Lifecycle Management software and training others on its use, creating and maintaining a test lab, implementing continuous integration and automated testing as well as managing the software deployments that go to our customers. Since our software integrates with our consumer electronics, working with the hardware engineering team is of great worth. In addition to the technical leadership required, I lead my team & other teams through coaching and mentoring on Agile Scrum methodology, Continuous Delivery & other Lean principles. Quality Assurance Team Lead at Data2Logistics September 2011 - July 2012 (11 months) Installed build automation, created Coded UI & data-layer test automation, set up Team Foundation Server infrastructure. Spearheaded installation and setup of Continuous Integration, Development, QA and Staging environments for proper Software Development Lifecycle Management. Developed scheduled, nightly UI testing & reporting. Set up test case management with Microsoft Test Manager. Set up Lab Management with MS Lab Center. Started, grew and managed the Quality Assurance team. Senior Software Quality Assurance Analyst at HealthCare Insight August 2010 - September 2011 (1 year 2 months) Built test automation for an ASP.NET web solution. Created and maintained automated build, set up automated deployments, led off-shore test automation team using Selenium to create automated User

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Interface tests. Set up System Center Virtual Machine Manager & Hyper-V for in-house use of desktop and server virtualization technology. IT Software Quality Assurance Engineer II at MonaVie September 2009 - January 2011 (1 year 5 months) Directly responsible for the testing of three separate products from three different teams of developers. Excellent ability to see the big picture of the overall IT ecosystem & its weaknesses. Developed 2000+ lines of C# automation for Web Application testing, programmatic database access for verification, Business Process Management testing. Used in-house automation tool alongside VMWare VMs to generate test data. Also used Hyper-V VMs and System Center Virtual Machine Manager. 1 recommendation available upon request QA Tester, Support Team Lead, Systems Administrator at TrueNorthLogic July 2008 - September 2009 (1 year 3 months) Led customer and operational support teams, beginning initial tracking of telephone support calls. Transitioned team to Salesforce.com for tracking of support tickets. Manually tested LAMP stack Web application for team of 10 developers. Transitioned internal network IP schema. Installed and provisioned a number of Xen Linux Hypervisor hosts for server virtualization and QA deployment. Quality Assurance Engineer - Development at Henry Schein Practice Solutions November 2006 - June 2008 (1 year 8 months) -Supervised training of new test resources; member of software design review teams -Wrote and executed 300+ test cases on 5 different products, personally finding 640+ defects -Tested client-server apps, web services and web-based apps using Apache Tomcat -Assigned by test lead to create project test plan, including scope, risk, etc, conduct reviews -Trained in SQL for database testing & manipulation 5 recommendations available upon request Quality Assurance Engineer at Dentrix Dental Systems Inc. 2006 - 2008 (2 years) Lead the testing effort on our eBilling application which integrated with the main Dentrix Practice Management Suite. Additionally tested the web syncing software. Worked in an Agile - Feature Teams environment using Team Foundation Server to track the work. Financial Analyst at CR England June 2006 - November 2006 (6 months) Provided Corporate Controllers weekly financial reports in MS Excel Voluntarily automated reports with the use of MS Excel macros (Visual Basic for Applications) Quality Assurance Engineer - Development at NextPage April 2005 - August 2005 (5 months) Assisted in editing and updating of test cases Found 100+ software defects in 3 months

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Skills & Expertise

Test Automation Testing Visual Studio Test Planning Linux C# SQL Manual Testing XML TFS System Testing Quality Assurance Web Applications Software Quality Assurance Scrum Software Development Business Analysis Process Improvement Software Design Agile Methodologies Vendor Management Leadership Virtualization Google Analytics Data Mining Requirements Analysis Regression Testing Test Cases User Acceptance Testing Software Deployment Performance Testing Stress Testing Business Management Systems Analysis Windows & Mac operating systems Test Management IIS Selenium Tableau Weka Google Adwords Social Media Marketing Java SQL Server PL/SQL .NET

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SDLC Brazilian Portuguese Data Classification JavaScript

Education
University of Utah - David Eccles School of Business MBA, 2011 - 2012 Activities and Societies: Project Management, Financial Accounting, Technology Strategy, Data-Driven Strategy, Data Mining, Golden Key International Honor Society member. Brigham Young University B.A., Linguistics, 2000 - 2006 Activities and Societies: Portuguese minor, MSA & Egyptian Arabic studies, Programming courses

Interests
Management training, Continual Improvement & Disruptive Innovation, New Technology, Aviation, Basketball, Tennis, Golf, Electronics, Apple

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Beau Nelford
Senior Developer Engineer in Test at Attensity

6 people have recommended Beau

"I had the pleasure of working directly with Beau on a software development team that was instrumental in executing some key business initiatives for MonaVie. Beau is a meticulous QA Engineer and takes pride in and ownership of his projects. Beau has an outstanding work ethic, is fun to be around and has a friendly and approachable personality. I really enjoyed working with Beau and would do so again any day." John G., Lead Analyst/Software Engineer, Xennsoft, worked directly with Beau at MonaVie "Beau was great to work with. He had an exceptionally positive attitude, and was very reliable. I found that I could count on him if I had a question, and he would even go the extra mile when he was asked to help our team. I am confident he will do well wherever he is employed." Jason Judd, Software Quality Assurance Engineer, Henry Schein, worked directly with Beau at Henry Schein Practice Solutions "Beau is a detailed and well organized software tester. He is highly motivated and always looking for ways to enhance his effectiveness and help those around him." Deric H., Software Quality Assurance Engineer, Henry Schein Practice Solutions, worked directly with Beau at Henry Schein Practice Solutions "Beau is a fantastic resource that will serve as an invaluable asset to any team. Beau is extremely intelligent, learns knew concepts very quickly and has superior problem solving skills. He thinks in a circumspect manner and does a great job of pointing out potential pitfalls in technical projects before they become an issue. He has terrific IT skills and an eye for detail (especially when it comes to quality testing). He also has a great sense of humor and is very easy to work with. Beaus most striking characteristic, in my opinion, is his drive toward excellence and continuous improvement. Beau seems to always be looking for a better way to do things and has no appetite for mediocrity. It is important to note that he also has a willingness to defer to authority and accept decisions if his suggestions for improvement are not accepted. I would readily recommend Beau to any company or organization, and am envious of those who have the opportunity of working with him. He is an exceptional individual and an extraordinary team member." James G., Director of eServices Development, Henry Schein Practice Solutions, managed Beau indirectly at Henry Schein Practice Solutions "As a Manager I worked with Beau from 2005 - 2008. During that time Beau was an excellent employee. Beau is hard working and dedicated to doing a very thorough job. Beau is easy going as a coworker as well,
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pleasant in outlook on life and willing to get along with all personality types, even the difficult ones that tend to want everything for free. I would re-hire Beau should he choose to work at HSPS again at some point in his future. Feel free to contact me personally should you have any questions. Thanks, John Somerville" John S., QA Team Lead/Manager, Henry Schein Practice Solutions, managed Beau at Henry Schein Practice Solutions "Beau thinks out side the box. Beau pays attention to detail and would often go the extra mile when testing and uncover issues that most others would not find. Beau was easy to get along with and patient while working toward a common understanding." Suzanne B., Software Engineer, HSPS, worked with Beau at Henry Schein Practice Solutions

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