Experiences at Client - Hightower

Parachute in to pinch-hit for the suddenly departed QA Director, to secure first successful demo clients before company went for next round funding. Managed test engineers, SDETs and build / CM in rapidly iterative life cycle.

"The Next Release" which needed to happen to secure a few demo customers to get the next round of funding . . . in about a month. Multiple previous demo attempts all failed.
With the whole company watching, the QA team demonstrated every product feature to the CEO without a glitch - 31 days later. 3 demo sites within the next month. We needed 2....

Despite having been hands-off of coding for many years, my intuition about what's going on is still pretty good, including design. These days I'm coding again - for fun, not for money - so getting spun is less of a concern. Still, it's nice to know the spidey sense still works.

A colleague of mine works there. We were talking about getting me in the pipeline when their QA Director quit right before a critical release. Two phone calls later, I'm on an airplane.
"QA Director quit . . ." is a hint. Yes, it was an adventure. That's what I do.

I'd like to have them in Seattle. I might be working for them permanant / direct if they were.

CEO is a very intersting guy. Retired 2-star Admiral, former fighter jock.