Resume of Quality Assurance Engineer

Title
Quality Assurance Engineer

Primary Skills
Attain full time position in high-tech industry in order to utilize my follow...

Location
US-CA-Mountain View

Posted
Sep-10-07


SUMMARY

Passionate quality engineer with 9 years of experience in a fast-paced high-tech company. Extensive knowledge on Roman, double byte, complex script fonts and typographic issues, as well as with PostScript, GDI printing and Adobe PDF. Experienced with pre-release Operating System testing. Experienced in both US and international program management. Fluent in Japanese. US permanent resident.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Adobe Systems, Inc., San Jose, California 03/98 - 5/98 and 01/99 - 06/07
Quality Engineer, CoolType Library in Core Technology Group 01/ 01 - 06/07
* Worked in component library central development department and helped to deliver quality components to client application teams in fast paced and multitasking environment
* Responsible for writing test plans and conducting tests for the company shared type library CoolType used in most of products, including Acrobat, InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator on Mac and Windows. Test areas include double byte, Roman, and complex script typography, JIS 2004, Unicode, OTF Feature, Composite Fonts, PostScript and GDI printing, PDF and EPS generation/rasterization and font enumeration and rasterization
* Wrote test plans, conducted CoolType and pre-release Mac OS X compatibility tests from Mac OS X 10.0 to 10.5.
* Conducted compatibility tests between CoolType and CoreTech component libraries and pre-release Windows Vista.
* Wrote test plan and conduct tests for Windows Presentation Foundation CFF rasterizer in Vista and XP Service Pack and communicated with Microsoft
* Served as the main point of contact for CoolType on Mac and Windows Platform issues and drove them to resolution
* Tested for Acrobat font device dependent rasterization
* Provided program management for Adobe SING Gaiji solution (glyph management), as well as wrote test plan, conducted tests, provided beta site support, localization, and some strings translation
* Communicated with Japanese font vendors regarding fonts and SING to resolve their technical issues
* Wrote Illustrator AppleScript workflow tests

Quality Engineer, Adobe Type Manager (ATM), ATM Light and ATM Deluxe and Adobe Type Reunion (ATR) in Type Department 03/99 - 12/00
* Tested ATM and ATR against variety of language Mac OSes, including Japanese, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Korean, English and other Roman languages and compatibility with variety of font formats, especially Asian font formats, applications, printers and printer drivers
* Responsible for supporting localization and some string translation
* Responsible for Beta site support for Japanese customers and communicated with Japanese companies to support developments

Quality Engineer, PageMakerPlus 6.5 Japanese 01/99 - 03/99
* Wrote Japanese templates specification and tested the templates

Quality Engineer, Adobe PhotoDeluxe Business Edition 1.0 03/98 - 05/98
* Tested Windows application and its 200 Japanese templates for internationalization and localization for Japanese

Web Page Designer and Bilingual Public Affairs, IGRA Institute Inc., Tokyo, Japan 09/98 - 12/98
Marketing and Design firm
* Designed, translated, edited and handled bilingual public affairs work on the internet website, Bridgestone Online and NTT 100th anniversary special web page

Database Application and Manual Translator, PeopleSoft, Inc., Pleasanton California 12/97 -03/98
* Translated and participated in localization of Enterprise Resource Planning database application, PeopleSoft 7.5, from English to Japanese

Web Page Designer and Editor, I.C.I. Inc. Japanese Network Division, Palo Alto, California 07/97 - 12/97
* Designed and edited commercial Japanese Internet web site for Japanese people living overseas.

Web Page Designer, Lucent Technology - Tokyo, Japan 1996
* Designed and edited English intranet web page of Lucent Technology Asia Pacific Region

Event Producer, NEUX Inc. - Tokyo, Japan 1995 - 1996
Advertising production company, specializing in the computer and telecommunication industry
* Planned, coordinated, assisted producing, wrote presentation scripts and copy work for Novell, Compaq and Sun Microsystems convention booth in Japan
* Edited, translated, coordinated translation and assisted to produce 31st Tokyo Motor Show Official Home Page (the biggest bilingual web site at the time in Japan, sponsored by Fujitsu) and Fujitsu's internet magazine

Event Planner , Hakuhodo Inc. (Advertising Agency) - Tokyo, Japan 1991 - 1994
Advertising agency, worked specifically for computer and telecommunication industry
* Planned and assisted in producing sales promotion events (clients including NTT, Microsoft, Silicon Graphics, Panasonic)
* Planned and assisted in producing the George Coates Performance Works show in Tokyo - Translated playbill, worked as a bilingual correspondent between US and Japan production and interpreter and bilingual assistant

Video Engineer, Omnibus Japan Inc. - Tokyo Japan 1989 - 1990
TV technology company, worked for professional video shooting and editing department
* Shot videos, mixed audio and maintained professional video cameras for TV program shooting, especially electronic news gathering

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY EXTENSION, Berkeley, CA
Marketing Professional Diploma Certificate

TAMA ART UNIVERSITY, Tokyo, Japan
Bachelor of Arts, Visual Arts, Graphic Arts, Photography, Video, Film, and Curatorship

SKILLS

Computer:
* Extensive knowledge of Roman, double byte, complex scripting fonts and typographic issues
* Extensive knowledge of PostScript, GDI printing and Adobe PDF
* Familiarity with Software development and quality processes
* Programming Languages: AppleScript, C, C++
* Environments: Windows 2000, XP, Vista; Mac OS X; UNIX; bash

Certifications
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