Interac

Assistant Language Teacher                                                                                                                                   03/2024 - Present

• Teaching English to Middle school children, grades 1 - 3.

• Taught as both the main and assistant teacher.

• Created lesson plans, both from textbook source material as well as original lessons of my own design, often utilizing American pop culture to introduce them to more advanced concepts.

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Blizzard Entertainment

Associate Historian – Creative Development                                                                                                    06/2022 - 09/2023

• Reviewed various media for lore/story errors and inconsistencies: game content, novels,
  cinematics, comic books, etc.

• Created visual and text based resources and documentation to be utilized by both our in and out of house artists, designers and writers.

• Involved in early stage brainstorming and content iteration as a story consultant.

• Drove efforts to gain access to and better utilize development tools to improve turn around times.

 

Interac

Assistant Language Teacher                                                                                                                                   03/2020 - 06/2022

• Taught English to Elementary school children, grades 2-6.

• Taught as both the main and assistant teacher.

• Created lesson plans, both from textbook source material as well as original lessons of my own design, often utilizing American pop culture to introduce them to more advanced concepts.

• Created materials and instructions for students who spoke neither Japanese or English.

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Blizzard Entertainment

Associate QA Analyst - World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth                                                                          01/2019 - 03/2020

• Took ownership of various minor features, acting as the prime point of contact, principal tester, and creator of the test plan.

• Took on the role of embedded QA Analyst for the Gameplay Engineering team.

  • Maintained and was first point of contact for internal help desk mailing list.

  • Was responsible for directing and prioritizing various triage requests within the team.

  • Worked toward streamlining/automating our exceptions confirmation process.

• Created a mount type filter for the 2019 hackathon and did some minor UI work on a coworker's project.

 

Associate Historian – Creative Development                                                                                                    08/2018 - 01/2019

• Reviewed various media for lore/story errors and inconsistencies: game content, novels,
  cinematics, comic books, etc.

• Created visual resources to be utilized by both our in and out of house artists and writers.

• Involved in early stage brainstorming and content iteration as a story consultant.

• Helped familiarize other team members with various tools such as the World of Warcraft game editor and photoshop.

• Led efforts to bring the Historian team in closer cooperation with both the development and QA teams, allowing for knowledge to be more easily shared and issues to be caught sooner or avoided entirely.

 

Associate QA Analyst - World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth                                                                          12/2017 - 08/2018

• In charge of test planning and documentation for a major feature: the zone/player city of Zuldazar and the content it contains.

• Created confluence templates for documenting quest content in an easily searchable way.

• Streamlined testing by utilizing database pulls with SQL to look for data anomalies in excel.

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Associate QA Analyst - World of Warcraft: Legion                                                                                              07/2016 - 12/2017

• In charge of test planning for 7.1.5 Brawler's Guild, 7.2.5 Heirloom updates, 7.3.0 Missions and Followers.

• Executed testing on most features in Legion.

• Helped plan and create materials for team parties.

 

Contract QA Analyst - World of Warcraft: Legion                                                                                                01/2016 - 07/2016

• Took part in both exploratory and test case based testing.

• Conducted installer testing.

• Created and maintained an addon (Easy Legion) to reduce the time required to test world quests and Artifact weapon acquisition. This tool was used by both our local office as well as our regional offices.

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Contract QA Analyst - Heroes of the Storm                                                                                                          11/2015 - 01/2016

• Primarily provided qualitative feedback.​

 

Contract QA Analyst - Starcraft: Legacy of the Void                                                                                           09/2015 - 11/2015

• Primarily provided qualitative feedback and some performance testing.​