Craig Hodge

Support cross-functional teams and tracking Project Milestones

• Communicating with Engineering stakeholders
• Acting ScrumMaster for 3 years on multiple Scrum/Kanban projects facilitating all Agile ceremonies
• Identify and make recommendations on process and team inefficiencies
• Working with teams to remove impediments
• Managing Government Incentive Programs SRED and IRAP while ensuring time tracking compliance by the Engineering department
• Identify and track project metrics
• Managed full company migration from JIRA Server to JIRA Cloud
• Creating consistent Jira strategies and Managing blockers
• Stakeholder management beyond engineering (Prod, UX, Docs, Marketing, Training, Examiners)
• Facilitate long-term team project goals by ensuring that priorities are clear
• Sending the Sprint Newsletter out to help connect teams where there will be impact
• Preparing release builds for live posting and build process strategizing to drive release efficiency

Teaching the sport of football to student athletes

• Improved player skills through personalized training sessions tailored to individual needs.
• Scouted opposing teams to help build effective gameplay strategies.
• Monitored students' academic progress and coordinated extra resources for any struggling with classes.
• Conducted film study sessions with players to review game footage for learning opportunities and improvements.

• Successfully released 9 applications across numerous platforms and operating systems
• Cross Platform testing across Game Consoles, mobile handsets, tablets and 10 foot devices
• Contribute to improvement of testing at You.i
• Create and maintain testing documentation and records
• Assist in recruiting and interviewing process
• Provided test team onboarding training to all new hires and co-ops
• Work in cross functional agile team and participate in daily scrums and planning meetings
• Collaborate with teammates and advocate quality throughout the software development lifecycle
• Use of Appium test automation software

• Cross Platform testing across Android, iOS, BlackBerry and Windows
• Facilitate daily scrums and planning meetings
• Create and execute acceptance, functional, regression, exploratory, and performance test cases
• Log defects and assist development staff in troubleshooting/resolving issues
• Work in cross functional agile team and participate in daily scrums and planning meetings
• Use of in house test automation software
• Running weekly triage meetings to manage software defects
• Create and maintain software metrics
• Providing weekly status reports on test case execution, results and bug tracking
• Lead and coordinate test management tools, structure and procedures
• Battery Performance Testing using Agilent 6705 Power Analyzer

• Creation and Roll out Ottawa IT Service Desk to provide support to internal employees
• Single-Point-of-Contact; receive calls, email and walk-up requests
• Administer Windows Active Directory and Microsoft Exchange
• BES 'BlackBerry Enterprise Server' Administration
• Install, upgrade and resolve both hardware and software issues
• Extensive troubleshooting with all VPN and Blackberry problems

• Monitor network and infrastructure using supplied monitoring tools and processes
• Work in a 24x7x365 rotation
• Virtual Private Network Administration
• Identify problem trends and possible solutions
• Record, track and update calls through internal incident tracking system