Pat Loughery 🌻

Bakke Graduate University

Gonzaga University

software quality engineering manager; grad school instructor; transformational leader

North Bend, Washington

I lead the software qa teams for Starbucks' retail software projects, primarily focusing on point-of-sale systems.  We deliver test automation infrastructure (self-service tools and systems) to client agile teams. We also perform exploratory and system integration testing in a hardware lab. As a leader of our organization's DevOps and Lean transformation journey, I learn and coach the CALMS model (Culture, Automation, Lean, Measurement, Sharing) using transformational leadership.

Starbucks

manager, software quality assurance

I teach masters level courses in Spiritual Formation and Direction: "Prayer, Practice and Presence"; "Celtic Spirituality"; "Spirituality of Place"; "Theology of Spiritual Formation"; "Way of the Artist;" "Readings in Christian Spirituality"; and "From The Heart:  A Contemplative And Active Approach To Ministry"

The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology

Affiliate Professor

I coordinate gatherings with members of our contemporary Celtic Christian community, and work on our website and social network systems.

Community of Aidan and Hilda

Community member; Northwest US Regional Guardian; Webservant

I teach a course in "Spirituality, Culture and Social Justice" in the Master of Arts program in International Community Development(MAICD).

Northwest University

Adjunct Faculty

I led data import and export quality assurance, then the test automation and test infrastructure teams.

quality assurance analyst lead

I teach on-site and eLearning courses in transformational leadership and Christian spirituality.

Design and implement social media strategy for <a href="http://BGU.edu">BGU.edu</a>, building the university's brand with current and prospective students and staff by extending its network into social media including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, blogs and web forums.

Social Media Consultant

I perform software QA planning and execution for in-store software systems, and focus mainly on data import from mainframe systems into Point-of-Sale systems.

Q Analysts LLC

Senior QA Analyst

Senior Consultant, Senior Software Design Engineer in Test LeadDesign Labs Inc is a business and software consulting firm providing onsite consultants to client projects.  I do performance testing on two projects in the Zune Social ecosystem.•	Senior SDET Lead on Microsoft’s Zune Social system and an exploratory project in online entertainment hosted in Windows Azure. •	Responsible for leading stress, performance, load and capacity testing•	Responsible for performance test planning, test specifications, and driving performance testability through the engineering team•	Writing test cases in C#, and Web + Load test cases•	C#, .Net, Visual Studio Team System, Load Agent

Design Laboratory Inc.

Senior Consultant, contracted as Senior SDET Lead

Equiom is an intellectual property development firm. We deliver innovation through an integral set of services that include Project Outsourcing, Business Technology Consulting, and Application and Infrastructure Security. I manage a team of software testers, including SDETs and STEs, for a globalization and localization project on an enterprise healthcare system.I also am the project manager for an internal development effort in the healthcare communication field.

Equiom

Director of Quality Assurance

DeepRockDrive provides live, interactive broadcasts of music and other entertainment events.  The engineering team developed a fast-scaling website and Facebook application for users to browse a show calendar and attend live shows with groundbreaking interactivity between artists and fans during events.    * Wrote PHP, HTML, CSS and maintained early version of the site in Drupal    * Created test architecture for functionality testing, load and capacity testing using shareware and internally developed tools    * Wrote project plans and schedules for major and minor releases    * Created weekly development milestones with associated tasks for engineering team's short and long term planning    * Created usability feedback surveys for customers of live events; summarized results after each event    * Managed customer service communication     * Load testing using Ruby, Amazon EC2 and S3    * Linux (Fedora Core), Apache 2, PHP 5, MySQL 5.1 site

DeepRockDrive

Project Manager and Test Architect

Quardev is one of Puget Sound’s fastest growing companies, providing software testing, technical writing and project consulting to companies who outsource domestically.     * Added SDET capabilities to company through hiring in addition to providing training path for internal STEs to grow SDET skill set    * Primary SDET interviewer for code skill evaluation    * Managed the company’s SDETs and most technically skilled STEs      * Plan and execute test projects using a combination of automated test scripts, exploratory session-based test management and test cases, crafted to client and project needs    *  Managed projects by leading test team to meet daily, weekly and project goals

Quardev Laboratories

Managing Test Lead

Mt. Si Vineyard was an entrepreneurial, cutting-edge faith community begun from a small group and seeking to express authentic Christian faith in a way that impacts personal, local and global relationships.      * Responsible for vision, team building, leadership development     * Organized volunteer partnerships between church members and local community service organizations     * Led marriage and relationship communication workshops as free service to community    * Participated in local community festivals with inventive, free service projects designed to meet real needs and transform public perception of the Christian church    * Joined partnership with Anuak Baare Hope Ministry, a nonprofit agency providing freshwater wells and literacy education for Anuak refugees in Ethiopia and Sudan    *  Emphasized virtual online community by acting as webmaster for Content Management System-driven website in Postnuke and Drupal; blogger on WordPress and Moveable Type sites

Mt. Si Vineyard Church

Pastor

Mountain Vineyard is the second longest-lived and largest church in the Vineyard movement in Washington state. Worked within a team environment to support a variety of volunteer leaders across multiple ministry areas. Focused specifically on engaging young adults and encouraging them to find their place of leadership.    * Organized regular, recurring leadership development training for volunteer staff    * Created leadership organization structure to meet goals of regular feedback, hands-on mentoring and lightweight structure for leaders    * Oversaw and communicated with volunteer leaders in a wide variety of ministry teams for musicians, youth, children, small groups, prayer    * Grew active involvement in small groups from 40 to 130 by recruiting, training, mentoring and releasing leaders

Mountain Vineyard Christian Fellowship

Associate Pastor

Contributions:    * Hired and managed a 70-member test team from starting team size of three.    * Integrated overseas product team from a company Microsoft acquired into Redmond    * Led test teams to develop industry-first test automation strategy for speech synthesis system    * Scoped and scaled test effort on MSN 1.0 release from initial team creation    * Oversaw development project effort for web stress test tool code named ‘Homer’ to perform throttle-able web stress hits, tracking, reporting, logging    * Developed manual and automated test cases for wide variety of product types and scopesProjects:    * Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis System    * MSN Internet Data Center    * MSN 1.0    * Visual C/C++    * Product Support for Development Tools

Microsoft

Test Manager

Developer of software and hardware for online banking, banking kiosks and call center applications.    * Developed setup and installation scripts for banking software and kiosks    * Developed SMS agents for remote system management    * Developed and maintain various utilities in Visual Basic and Visual C/C++

D. Pat Loughery

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