Project Manager at AKQA
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Sales Engineer at Symantec Corporation
- Sr QA Analyst, OnSite Analyst at Symantec Corporation
- QA Manager at Listen.com
- QA Manager at BuyDirect
- Software Test Engineer at Apple
- Education
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- Towson State University
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Paul Liszewski’s Summary
A twelve year industry veteran with a background in Quality Assurance and customer facing positions. A driven professional with a background spanning the internet, personal security software for PCs and Mobile Devices, operating systems and customer facing technical sales-related positions.
My objective is to focus my career path on Program and Project Management to allow me to grow with a team and to best utilize my skillset and to bring innovative software and new technology into people's lives in a practical and relevant ways.
Paul Liszewski’s Specialties:
Black Box Testing, Process Development, Internet, Team Management, Customer Relations, Software Development
Paul Liszewski’s Experience
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Project Manager
AKQA
(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)
May 2009 — Present (3 months)
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Quality Assurance Manager
AKQA
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry)
October 2006 — Present (2 years 10 months)
Led the Quality Assurance Department and Policies for an award winning, Interactive Advertising Agency. Oversaw the team’s testing efforts for all projects that included test planning, defect tracking and website maintenance of on-going projects.
Clients: Visa, Xbox, Nike, Kraft, Target, McDonalds and Microsoft.
• Opened channels of communication with the Project Management Department that led to more
efficient reporting of projects within the Creative and Technology Development Teams.
• Created and implemented standards for the company’s website. Reduced the required development and release time from weeks to days.
• Developed initial testing strategies for the testing of Mobile Sites.
• Successfully managed over 200 projects, which included banner campaigns, CRM emails and rich interactive websites, while maintaining strict quality standards and meeting rigorous deadlines. -
Sales Engineer
Symantec Corporation
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; symc; Computer Software industry)
April 2005 — January 2006 (10 months)
Served as the initial point of technical contact to OEM Computer Vendors, for OEM Consumer and Enterprise Security Software. Presented technical presentations for Technical Product Managers and Corporate Executives to influence decisions on pre-installed security software solutions.
Client: Gateway
• Created and delivered product demonstrations to Call Center Representatives to troubleshoot
consumer issues and to improve upgrade sales of the pre-installed security solution. -
Sr QA Analyst, OnSite Analyst
Symantec Corporation
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; SYMC; Computer Software industry)
January 2003 — April 2005 (2 years 4 months)
Framed the initial job description and responsibilities for On-Site Analysts. Performed testing and research for defects and performance. Maintained a close relationship with the Sales and Marketing Team, the OEM-SQA and Development teams and the partner while onsite to provide a smooth flow of information.
Client: HP Consumer Products Division
• Conducted on-site research in conjunction with the client Engineering Department to reduce high- profile defects that confirmed Symantec’s customer-focused vision for the client. Led to the continuation of the $150M contract and Symantec’s default position on the desktop of consumer desktops, laptops and Media Center PC’s.
• Defined and scoped internal-tools to allow client to create and maintain firewall rules, which
reduced the number of customer service calls and increased profitability for the client.
• Received two A++ Awards for outstanding efforts made to strengthen the Symantec-HP OEM
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QA Manager
Listen.com
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
June 1999 — April 2001 (1 year 11 months)
Managed the release of new computer code including bug fixes and feature releases for a syndicated music website. Coordinated final implementation of projects between various teams and supervised the product release for customer use. Maintained release schedule of all software engineering projects. Documented various processes for increased development efficiency, maximum flexibility and high levels of quality.
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QA Manager
BuyDirect
(Internet industry)
1998 — 1999 (1 year)
Managed the quality assurance program for an e-commerce site for downloadable software products.
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Software Test Engineer
Apple
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; aapl; Computer Software industry)
June 1996 — January 1998 (1 year 8 months)
Executed Software Quality Assurance for various projects. Identified, isolated and reported defects to the engineering teams. Regression tested the fixes for verification.
Paul Liszewski’s Education
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Towson State University
BS , Psychology , January 1996
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Paul Liszewski’s Interests:
Personal: motorcycles, travel, writing, music, books, new technology, hiking, 2006 Baja 1000 Race Support, 2007 Baja 250 and Baja 500 Mag7 Pit Crew, four cross country trips, once by motorcycle Professional: Customer Relations, QA, Process Development, Team Development, Management
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