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Deep experience in full-cycle technical recruiting, sourcing, talent acquisition, and cross-functional staffing for evolving technologies – from innovative startups to tech leaders that include Amazon, eBay Labs, and Dolby. Deep technical search background, recruiting SWE engineers at all levels to Engineering Leadership, Product Management, and Solution Architects. In addition to core software technical recruiting; solid experience in Executive, Corporate Strategy, and M&A recruitment. Built out cross-functional teams and have ramped up several B/C funded start-ups.
Strong Industry experience in:
- Startups and New Technology
- Cloud
- Fintech
- Augmented Reality and Machine Learning
- AR/VR
- eCommerce 
I'm the CEO of eDNA Explorer, a startup that integrates eDNA, geospatial data, and AI to help nautral resource managers make smarter data-driven decisions about land and water management, conservation and ecosystem health.
eDNA Explorer transforms natural resource management by revealing the hidden world of biodiversity through environmental DNA. Our innovative platform weaves together genetic data with rich geospatial information, using advanced machine learning to uncover meaningful patterns and relationships that humans have never previously had the technology to understand.
For the past 25 years, I've been the Principal of Sliced Bread Design, a user experience design agency that has successfully launched products for 60+ clients and counting. I specialize in rigorously applying the design thinking process to help clients redefine the problem they are solving and design the right solution. From needfinding and ideation to prototyping, user testing, and rapid experimentation, I've developed a design toolbox that's kick ass for creating modern apps that solve modern problems.
And finally, I also work for CS Department at Stanford, where I am a human computer interaction (HCI) lecturer, teaching students all the tools in my toolkit.
Specialties: Design thinking, Needfinding, User-centered interface design, information architecture, ethnographic user study, usability testing, product conceptualization, out there brainstorming, visual design, working with in-house teams. 
• 13+ years of diverse experience of Software QA Automation with various test automation tools such as Selenium Webdriver with JAVA, Carina Open-Source Framework, OATS (OpenScript) and AQ Test Complete
• Hand-on experience in Performance Testing and Monitoring Tools like Blazemeter, Jmeter and NewRelic
• Experience in designing and implementing test automation framework using Selenium Webdriver, TestNG, Java, Maven, Testrail, Jenkins
• REST API testing experience using Postman and automation using RestAssured
• Experience in test framework design and implementation from ground-up
• Having around 5+ years of experience in Selenium Webdriver with Java and TestNG/ JUnit
• Well-versed in Datadriven and Hybrid frameworks using various test tools
• Having 4+ years of experience in TestComplete and VBScript
• Having 3+ years of experience in Oracle Application Testing Suite Open Script and Oracle Test Manager
• Experience in Agile Management tool like JIRA, Rally and Liquid Planner
• Experience in GIT, Perforce and VSS
• Experience in various other tools like Optimizely, Heap, Splunk
• Software QA Lead experience handling Onsite and off-shore teams for more than 5 years. (2009 – 2014)
• Hands-on experience as a Scrum Master (Daily Scrum, Product Backlog Grooming, Iteration Planning, Demo, Retro)
• UI Automation, Functionality testing, System testing, Backend testing, Data driven testing, Regression testing, Accessibility Testing, Integration testing and End-To-End Testing etc.
• Excellent understanding of Software Development Life Cycle methodology like Agile and Waterfall
• Experience in Manual Testing that includes Design Test Plan, Test Strategy and Test cases based on Business Requirement Document, System Requirement Specifications and Functional Specifications
• Proficient in the tasks of Bug tracking and Reporting using JIRA, Teamtrack, Bugzilla and Rally
• Strong interpersonal communication skills, Self-motivated, organized energetic and strong analytical skills 
