SUMMARY
I am passionate about technology, music & audio, video, multimedia & the Internet. My other passion is for positive social change via music, the arts, cultural understanding & technology. I own an audio & video project studio. My corporate work continues to strengthen my experience dealing successfully with deadlines & budgets.
I enjoy being a hands-on leader with extensive experience in product & strategic marketing, business, technical program/project management & Software Quality Assurance. I enjoy doing creative & strategic work the most. I effectively use the tools at hand to analyze a problem from a high-level perspective, brainstorm & map possible solutions, implement & program manage the solution. My additional experience includes hardware design, contract negotiations, budget creation, training & team building (including outsourced/offshore teams,) & also internationalization & localization teams. I have led successfully multiple teams simultaneously to meet & surpass cost, quality & project schedule objectives. Motivating & systematically increasing the responsibilities of those working with & for me are the keys.
I am also multi-cultural, born in Lima, Peru, raised in Puerto Rico & the USA, as well as multi-language: English & Spanish. It is this multi-cultural perspective that has proven very effective in helping others excel under my management, independent of their backgrounds or ethnicity. I forge genuine connections with those I work with as people with real interests, dreams & goals, no matter where they reside. I would enjoy working in a progressive, creative, fun & forward-thinking organization that needs my extensive business & technical expertise to achieve their goals, wherever the resources are located in the world. I am willing to relocate for the right opportunity, including outside of the U.S.A. I have dual citizenships: U.S.A. citizen (with valid USA passport), Peruvian citizen (with valid Peruvian passport).
Specialties: Creativity, team & leadership development; Seven Habits of Highly Effective People trainer; Brainstorming, mind mapping & project management, Software Quality Assurance, both Manual QA & QA Automation (SilkTest); Product & Marketing Management; Agile/Scrum & Waterfall SDLC Methodologies; contract negotiations, Statement of Work & Product Requirement Document generation, review & negotiations; offshore/outsourced engineering team creation, hiring, training & management; software internationalization, translation & localization; bilingual: Spanish, English, multicultural; iOS (iPhone, iPad & iPod) & Android device testing; Apple Developer Connection member; music & video production, original music composition, music studio creation & management.
EXPERIENCE
Nuance Communications, Burlington, MA October 2009 – April 2013
Principal Quality Assurance Lead
I led a team working on an advanced, long-term, next-generation speech-recognition product family, called Genie or Dragon Assistant. This product family will be deployed in tablets, ultra books & All-In-One PCs with the next generation processors:
Hired, trained & mentor new team members. Team composed of both on-site as well as off-site/offshore team members.
Set up both our Manual QA as well as our Automation QA strategy & team infrastructure, with the support of the QA Automation Team. Automation QA presently uses SilkTest.
Set up the larger team to start using our defect tracking system, Test Track Pro.
Completed evaluations of our Dragon Assistant product in conjunction with our other existing NaturallySpeaking product line, as well as with Windows 8.
As a QA professional at Nuance, I've had the opportunity to work on a variety of successful past projects.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking PC & Mac/Apple speech-recognition projects:
• Non-medical & medical products from version 11 through version 12.
• Led Spanish V11 QA testing activities.
• Led Rich Internet Applications feature QA testing activities for English Version 12.
• Exploratory testing with our Mac product, Dragon Dictate.
Mobile applications used with Dragon NaturallySpeaking:
Led Apple iPhone/iOS Dragon Remote Microphone Application QA testing activities.
Led Apple iPhone/iOS Dragon Recorder Application QA testing activities.
Led Google Android Dragon Remote Microphone Application QA testing activities, with offshore QA team effort.
EM Media Ventures LLC, New Smyrna Beach, FL 1994 -Present
Owner, Composer, Musician; Sales & Marketing Consultant/Trainer
Mindfulness & T’ai Chi Instructor
I create soundscapes, music & art for relaxation, personal growth & entertainment. There exists inside each of us a place of complete harmony & beauty. It is in this place that we stand in complete balance. My music & artwork are my contribution to help us reach that place more often. As a musician & artist, I enjoy both the creative & the business aspects. I stay on top of & use the current (internet) technologies.
Mindfulness Training: I work with individuals, groups & organizations to promote health & relaxation through movement, sound & music. I use a combination of tools in my T'ai Chi classes, as well as in my sound/drum circles (The Sound Gathering ™) & workshops, including: toning, chanting, mantras, crystal bowls, tuning forks, drumming, physical movement & technology.
Compose, record & publish original music, soundscapes, video & multimedia for general release, TV & the Internet.
I currently own, & have owned & managed various private & commercial music studios.
Voice over work in Spanish & English. I can record professionally in my own studio or the client's studio.
Music & sound research: animal sounds & frequency spectra, underwater recordings, Lambdoma Harmonic Matrix & Musical Keyboard (co-presented with Barbara Hero a research paper in the KIMAS 2005 conference in Waltham, MA), crystal bowl frequency spectra research, sound healing (past member of the Sound Healing Network & the Sound Healers Association).
Composed & recorded original music for two Westford (MA) Local Cable Access channel programs, ‘The Making of Amazing Grace – Documentary’ (1998) & ‘Mysterious Westford’ (1999). Also shot the video, recorded all the audio, composed & recorded all original music, directed, edited & produced ‘Healing Arts Festival Promotional Video’ for the Westford Roudenbush Center (2002).
Worked extensively (camera & audio work) with Westford Local Cable in filming a series of health lectures in conjunction with Emerson Hospital, Westford, as well as multiple local field events (1998-1999).
• Released OM Sound Healing Chant CD in 2002.
Designed & taught marketing courses in Lawrence, MA, through the Small Business Development Center in Salem State University (associated with the SBA), The Lawrence Minority Business Council, & the Catholic Charities.
Authored & published various health-related articles including: Joy Through Breath, Movement & Sound (Spirit of Change magazine, March/April 1997), Mental Health Group Homes (The Natick TAB 12/10/96), Preventing Back Injuries (The Natick TAB 01/07/97), Summer Camps (The Natick TAB 01/96).
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