Josh McCormack

Current

Owner at InteractiveQA.com

Past

Sr. Project Manager at Publicis-Dialog
Independent Consultant at Self employed (Self-employed)
Sr. Design Technologist at Zentropy Partners

Webmaster at ABC Radio Network
Programmer/Analyst at The Dreyfus Corporation
QA Supervisor at Scholastic Inc.

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Education

Boston University

Recommended

9 people have recommended Josh

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

Josh McCormack’s Summary

Josh runs InteractiveQA. We offer the following servcies:
- social network development working with Drupal and Facebook applications
- QA testing, including functional, accessibility, webload and unit testing
- technical oversight and project management

email: josh@interactiveqa.com
phone: 917.620.4902
Twitter: http://twitter.com/joshmccormack
Skype: joshmccormack
AIM: jmccormciti
Latest blog entry: Understanding what templates are in Drupal
(http://interactiveqa.com/content/understanding_templates)

Josh McCormack’s Specialties:

Functional, usability, compatibility and accessibility testing.
Development of social networks with Drupal.
Development of Facebook applications.
Technical oversight and project management.

Josh McCormack’s Experience

Owner

InteractiveQA.com

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

January 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)

InteractiveQA develops and tests websites.
InteractiveQA offers user-centric quality assurance testing and development. We're committed to helping our clients realize websites that work. Our experiential testing methods rely on a minimum of information and guidance from our clients, and we’re able to offer overnight turnaround on most requests, even without advance warning. Our thorough and critical QA testers combine functional, compatibiliy and usability testing principles as they engage websites in every way possible to uncover potential issues.

InteractiveQA also provides website development services, specifically focused on theming and custom development with Drupal.
Sr. Project Manager

Publicis-Dialog

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

December 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 1 month)

Manage design and development of websites for prominent brands. Develop project plans, identify risks, recruit freelancers and employees, monitor progress.
Independent Consultant
Self employed (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)

September 2000 — December 2005 (5 years 4 months)

Independent Consultant 9/00 – 12/05

Clients include: 321 Takeoff (branding), Big Spaceship (websites for movie marketing), d/g* (branding), Smith Barney Marketing Department, Citigroup Multimedia, Corsis Technologies, Rockefeller University, Morgan Stanley, Hofstra University

· Managed technology direction, freelancers and contractors in the US and abroad coordinating with goals of marketing departments.
· Gathered interface and technical requirements through analysis and whiteboarding sessions.
· Put together pitches, proposals and scope of work documents with marketing and design teams.
· Estimated costs and hours. Set project pricing.
· Negotiated rates with vendors, subcontractors and freelancers.
· Built schedules.
· Resource planning using Gantt tools such as MS Project.
· Monitored scope compliance & creep, cautioning clients and adding costs and shifting schedules as necessary.
Sr. Design Technologist

Zentropy Partners

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

December 1999 — September 2000 (10 months)

Conceptualized and led implementation of technology portions of development of games and websites for clients such as Popsicle.com, Coca-Cola and Dean & Deluca.
Webmaster

ABC Radio Network

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

January 1999 — August 1999 (8 months)

As part of a small team within ABC Radio Network we conceptualized, produced and developed streaming media, and websites.
Programmer/Analyst

The Dreyfus Corporation

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Investment Management industry)

January 1998 — January 1999 (1 year 1 month)

Programmed, tested and designed data reporting systems, kiosks and websites.
QA Supervisor

Scholastic Inc.

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

February 1997 — December 1997 (11 months)

Set presentation standards, wrote test scripts and supervised 4 QA testers.

Josh McCormack’s Education

Boston University

BA, History, September 1990 — May 1994

Additional Information

Josh McCormack’s Websites:

Josh McCormack’s Interests:

QA testing, social networks, start ups, Drupal, open source, operating systems, Linux, OpenBSD, military history, history, chess, Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)

Josh McCormack’s Groups:

Xing (https://www.xing.com/profile/Josh_McCormack/),
Ted (http://www.ted.com/index.php/profiles/view/id/11375),
WWWAC,
FastCompany's New York "Company of Friends",
NYLUG,
NYCBUG,
NYPHP,
Luhi, Redeemer Presbyterian Church