Scrum Alliance - Profile: Aaron C. Jones

bio:

I've spent my entire career setting and achieving high standards for technology products. I gained firsthand experience creating superior user inte... Read More

work:

Quality Assurance Product Lead at Good Technology

Led Quality Assurance efforts.

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2011-Present

Engineering Manager at Roxio, Inc

Responsible for managing the product lifecycle of mobile and desktop applications, creating product / user interface (UI) mock-ups, and documenting product requirements and test plans.
• Revitalized Toast 10’s revenues by negotiating a partnership that bundled it into a MacUpdate software release at the highest average price per unit in the vendor's history, generating $500K of new revenue.
• Directed development and release of Toast 11 by documenting product and user experience (UX) requirements, implementing workflow schedule and test plans, and managing operations of a 20 person development team.
• Restructured QA process to increase quality bug detection by 400% and save $250K by managing and expanding Shanghai office from two to five engineers.
• Subjected Toast to a record number of test case scenarios by spearheading the use of test case management.

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2010-2011

iOS Quality Engineer at Apple, Inc

Successfully tested iPhone/iPad/iOS builds, developed software and regression test plans, tracked bug reports, processed documentation, and consistently delivered software in accordance with development deadlines.
• Isolated and initiated corrective actions to resolve an iTunes 9 launch bug affecting millions of customers by partnering with AppleCare and conducting personal outreach to affected customers.
• Oversaw QA through the successful transition from a custom compiler to a new shared resource library and open source compiler.
• Architected, developed, and integrated a diagnostic troubleshooting tool into iTunes which was released to millions of customers nationwide.
• Created a testing platform for rapid configuration deployment using virtualization technology to decrease testing preparation time by 91%.

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2007-2010

activity:

joined Silicon Valley Agile & Scrum User Group

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AJ
Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps. But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Gilroy, CA
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