About Me

Hi I'm Jason, a lifelong learner with a sense for adventure. I have a dog named Sheba and we enjoy hitting the beach, and the dog parks. I built an Arduino bot, and would love to do more electronics projects. I have my PADI certification for recreational SCUBA diving and am trying to go on enough dives to volunteer at my local aquarium. Sometimes I like to get behind a camera, but I'm still learning how to properly edit and display my work. I like to play around with game concepts, but I have yet to publish a game, something I hope to complete some day. Cosplay at cons is fun when I find the time. I've been learning to cook and finding it an excellent way to lose and maintain weight. Hiking is a passion of mine, recently completed the Trans Catalina Trail, next want to hit the 6 largest peaks in the Los Angeles region. I ride a motorcycle, it recently suffered a structural failure, so I am learning how to fix it. I love flying, some day I want to get a pilots license.

Contact Details

Jason Messinger
622 B Lime Ave.
Long Beach, CA 90802
(949)872-3976
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Work

Freelance

Consulting/Web Development• June 2017 - December 2018

Worked with various clients for their software product needs

  • Advised clients on bugs, errors, improvements, compliance issues, and social media integration with their products on web/mobile
  • Created simple 1-5 page small business web pages using wix, wordpress, django, flask. Some with simple forms/databases
  • Tutored students in web development and android/iOS app creation

Freelancer

Freelance/Consulting• March 2017 - Present

Spent time traveling and working in different fields.

  • Managed a self employed business using upwork and other tools
  • Learned new technologies and methodologies (e.g. cucumber testing, node.js fullstack).

Facebook

Search Rank Analyst• May 2016 - March 2017

Work at home data analyst for the search team of facebook. Maintains expertise on human judgment guidelines and helps assure data quality through auditing, user feedback, and creation of gold standards. Works with the metrics teams and product teams to improve guidelines and identify edge cases and gray areas.

  • Curated relevant links and other data for the Trending News topics.
  • Audited human judging results for the Search team’s machine learning algorithms.

DirecTV

Software Test Engineer• November 2012 - January 2016

Tested and ran analytics with a team on internal test builds of DirecTV’s iPad and Android Tablet/Phone companion apps that integrated heavily with content servers and several types of proprietary hardware devices.

  • Diagnosed bugs/compliance issues in JIRA and managed reported issues from internal teams.
  • Authored SPIRA/Qmetry QA test cases, ran detailed testing from design/requirement documents.
  • Analysed event logs and packets and parsed relevant information to development.
  • Ran inventory control/management of the various test device platforms e.g. ipads

Blizzard Entertainment

QA Analyst II• October 2005 - January 2011

Team lead for Tech QA: Working with production and development teams, I developed and implemented testing plans for a team of 4 on web/mobile and internal tools. Key aspects of my role were communication, documentation, problem solving, and project management. Projects were organized under the Waterfall and Agile Software Development cycles.

  • Wrote automation scripts that would test our products overnight and log human readable results.
  • Worked closely with developers as we deployed new technologies from online paypal payments to the mobile Authenticator for iPhone and Android.
  • Developed and maintained a wiki system to document projects for the long term and wrote detailed documentation allowing new team members to quickly get up to speed.
  • Initiated mobile testing for our websites, smartphone applications, and sms services.

Education

Rising Stack Bootcamp

Node.js full stack development• Currently Enrolled

California Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo

Electrical Engineering• 116 credits DNF

Skills

-Skills (not complete)

  • HTML/CSS/JS
  • SQL
  • Excel
  • Linux
  • Jira
  • Selenium