resume.json

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  "basics": {
    "firstName": "Brandon",
    "lastName": "Brown",
    "name": "Brandon Brown",
    "email": "resume@brandonb.ca",
    "phone": "",
    "picture": "https://dc1r9kxqg42ml.cloudfront.net/brandonb.ca/avatar20_512.jpg",
    "label": "QA Developer",
    "summary": "As a customer-experience product-focused QA Manager I question, document, and analyze every change and interaction made in a given user-facing product. Whenever I'm educating colleagues on testing practices, testing a new feature, or tweaking an existing process, I ask myself: does this change benefit the person who will be using this product in a positive and meaningful way? The customer _always_ comes first. I'm passionate about front-end technology and build systems, living on and for the web, helping to push it forward.",
    "location": {
      "city": "Duncan",
      "countryCode": "CAN",
      "region": "British Columbia"
    },
    "website": "https://brandonb.ca",
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "Github",
        "username": "brandonb927",
        "url": "https://github.com/brandonb927"
      },
      {
        "network": "Twitter",
        "username": "brandonb927",
        "url": "https://twitter.com/brandonb927"
      },
      {
        "network": "LinkedIn",
        "username": "brandonb927",
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonb927/"
      }
    ]
  },
  "work": [
    {
      "company": "Vancouver Island University",
      "position": "ITAS Instructor",
      "website": "https://itas.ca",
      "startDate": "2019-09-01",
      "endDate": "2022-04-30",
      "summary": "Taught classes 191, 192, and 186 in the ITAS program, mainly focused around web development, client- and server-side programming, and database integrations."
    },
    {
      "company": "Echosec Systems Ltd.",
      "position": "QA Manager",
      "website": "https://www.echosec.net",
      "startDate": "2022-02-01",
      "summary": "Managing a team like-minded folks who take user experience and product testing to the next level.",
      "highlights": [
        "Made my first successful Software Development Engineer in Test hire within my first 40 days of being a manager."
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Echosec Systems Ltd.",
      "position": "QA Developer",
      "website": "https://www.echosec.net",
      "startDate": "2019-05-27",
      "endDate": "2022-02-01",
      "summary": "Develop and maintain QA processes and automated acceptance testing for several high performing products.",
      "highlights": [
        "Maintain UI E2E testing framework for deployment pipeline to ensure bug-free user experience in several products",
        "Advise developers and product stakeholders on testing plans and patterns used throughout the product development lifecycle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Battlesnake Inc",
      "position": "Workshop Instructor",
      "website": "https://play.battlesnake.com",
      "startDate": "2018-05-01",
      "summary": "Teach new users how to develop a Battlesnake using Saas services, programmed in Javascript/Typescript programming languages.",
      "highlights": [
        "Provided live streamed video content for the Battlesnake Stay Home and Code Event (https://play.battlesnake.com/events/stay-home-and-code/#schedule)"
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Dyspatch",
      "position": "QA Developer",
      "website": "https://dyspatch.io",
      "startDate": "2017-06-30",
      "endDate": "2019-04-29",
      "summary": "Developed and maintained QA processes and automated acceptance testing for the Product and App teams.",
      "highlights": [
        "Assisted in the shipment of a new product in less than 90 days from project start to getting it into customer hands",
        "Maintained UI E2E testing framework for deployment pipeline to ensure bug-free user experience in the product",
        "Advised developers and product stakeholders on testing plans and patterns used throughout the product development lifecycle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Battlesnake Inc",
      "position": "Developer Evangelist",
      "website": "https://play.battlesnake.com",
      "startDate": "2016-01-01",
      "endDate": "2018-04-30",
      "summary": "Developed and maintained multiple versions of Battlesnake game server and administration tools",
      "highlights": [
        "Developed multiple versions of Battlesnake game server and administration tools over the years",
        "Assisted the open source team in building and launching the version of Play Battlesnake at https://play.battlesnake.io over the course of a year, in my spare time",
        "Live streamed the Victoria BC 2019 Battlesnake event on-location in Victoria BC on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/videos/390925734)",
        "Blogged about my experience live streaming the Victoria BC 2019 Battlesnake event (https://brandonb.ca/live-streaming-battlesnake-on-a-budget)"
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "sendwithus",
      "position": "Product Developer",
      "website": "https://sendwithus.com",
      "startDate": "2014-08-25",
      "endDate": "2017-06-30",
      "summary": "Developed and maintained a top-tier email dashboard and API for developers and marketers.",
      "highlights": [
        "Shipped many email template editing features in Sendwithus",
        "Implemented a feature that allows users to highlight clicked urls in email templates send through esp click tracking webhooks",
        "Built UI for multi-language localization for templates and versions",
        "Built and maintained several Gulp and Grunt-based build systems for a small team of developers"
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "Input Logic",
      "position": "Web Developer",
      "website": "http://inputlogic.ca",
      "startDate": "2013-01-21",
      "endDate": "2014-07-28",
      "summary": "Developed front/back-end code for multiple webapps.",
      "highlights": [
        "Developed and shipped multiple code releases for Postach.io and QuoteRobot.com",
        "Designed and implemented PDF rendering infrastructure used in QuoteRobot.com",
        "Sole developer for multiple products & salary increase after year of employment",
        "Implemented multiple metrics tracking platforms in web apps",
        "Received Gold award in Evernote Devcup",
        "Invited and participated in Evernote's first Accelerator in October 2013"
      ]
    },
    {
      "company": "RE/MAX of Nanaimo",
      "position": "IT Admin/Web Developer",
      "startDate": "2011-05-01",
      "endDate": "2013-01-20",
      "summary": "Maintained and improved office IT infrastructure, as well as maintained REALTOR® websites.",
      "highlights": []
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "School of Hard Knocks",
      "startDate": "2011-09-01",
      "endDate": "2049-12-31",
      "area": "Front-end Web Development",
      "studyType": "Free Form",
      "courses": ["WebDev 101 - Self-taught learning"]
    },
    {
      "institution": "Vancouver Island University",
      "startDate": "2009-09-01",
      "endDate": "2011-04-15",
      "area": "ITAS",
      "studyType": "Diploma",
      "courses": ["Information Technology & Applied Systems"]
    }
  ],
  "awards": [
    {
      "title": "CompTIA A+",
      "date": "2010-12-01",
      "awarder": "CompTIA",
      "summary": "Credential ID COMP001020160217"
    },
    {
      "title": "Gold Award in Evernote Devcup",
      "date": "2013-09-27",
      "awarder": "Evernote",
      "summary": "https://brandonb.ca/postach-io-won-gold-in-evernote-devcup"
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "Modern Web App Development",
      "level": "Intermediate/Advanced",
      "keywords": [
        "Visual Studio Code",
        "E2E Testing, Cypress.io", "Zephyr Scale",
        "HTML5, Structured Data, Schema.org",
        "Modern CSS",
        "JS, TypeScript",
        "Vue, React",
        "Node.js, Express",
        "Webpack, Gulp",
        "Python, Django/Flask",
        "PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB",
        "Heroku/AWS server management"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Photography",
      "level": "Amateur",
      "keywords": ["Nikon Z50", "Panasonic Lumix G85", "Flickr", "Peak Design"]
    }
  ],
  "references": [
    {
      "name": "Brad Van Vugt, Co-founder at Sendwithus, Dyspatch, Battlesnake",
      "reference": "Brandon is an excellent member of any development team. I've worked with him very closely over the past 4 years and seen him grow from a junior developer into an experienced and very capable QA Developer. He takes a very automation-first approach to QA tooling, and can work alongside or as part of a product development team. His commitment to his work, company objectives, and personal growth is extraordinary. I would be very glad to have the opportunity to work with him again!"
    },
    {
      "name": "Shawn Adrian, CEO of Input Logic Inc., shawn@inputlogic.ca",
      "reference": "I'm really happy to write a recommendation for Brandon - he's been an awesome teammate and developer to work with, and I believe he will make a positive impact wherever he ends up.\nBrandon came on board right after we raised our first seed round, and he's been instrumental in helping to execute our vision for Postach.io, the publishing platform we've been building. With him, we've grown Postach.io from an idea to a product with over 35,000 users, and he's helped with everything from developing new features, fixing bugs, and even doing email customer support. His dedication to the product has been real and very appreciated.\nI've personally benefited from Brandon's attention to detail in researching new ways to write efficient CSS and his willingness to experiment with new technologies. We're always looking to improve our products and methods, and Brandon's voice has been a major part of that ongoing improvement.\nFeel free to give me a call or email if you have any further questions. Consider this my glowing recommendation for Brandon."
    },
    {
      "name": "Gavin Vickery, CTO of Input Logic Inc., gavin@inputlogic.ca",
      "reference": "While working at Input Logic Inc, Brandon Brown took on a variety of tasks. During his internship he was trained on two client projects. One in PHP and the other Python. Brandon was able to grasp the concepts of both products and frameworks quickly and excelled at implementing fixes and features by the end of his first month.\nBrandon was then moved to our two primary projects, Postach.io (http://postach.io) and QuoteRobot (http://quoterobot.com). During the remainder of his time with us, Brandon helped manage the servers running both applications on Amazon AWS and Rackspace. He became the product lead for front-end development including HTML, CSS and Javascript (jQuery and Angular) and greatly assisted in back-end development including Python, Node.js, MongoDB, MySQL and Redis.\nWe found Brandon was able to adapt and learn quickly as well as provide valuable recommendations based on his research.\nUnfortunately due to financial reasons, we were unable to keep Brandon employed.\nI strongly believe he will be a valuable asset to your business, be that server maintenance, front-end or back-end development.\nIf you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to contact me."
    }
  ]
}