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Mary C. Webb |
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954-554-2740 |
9301 Avondale Rd NE K2057 Redmond, Washington 98052 |
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Objective |
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A full-time position which allows for the
utilization of my background skills in photography, digital imaging and
consumer electronics testing. |
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Summary |
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The past decade of my professional career, has encompassed a few
different companies with the same processes applied towards job functionality
and performance. A majority of the
work has been product development testing and general testing cross the life
of a product. Streamlining testing
procedures and also covering the basics in testing from outsourced or second
party vendors. While at Concord Camera, the main job function was to put into place a
set of testing procedures to cover the basics of the products functionality.
This testing covered both in-house manufactured products and outsourced
products. Product testing covers many
different arenas, from electrical, mechanical, software to general usage
testing. Developing procedures in
conjunction with the different departments to cover the basics. Including streamlining of the testing that
would provide secondary information about the product to not only the project
development team, but the individual departments. From the secondary information, patterns
emerged to allow for project management and departments to have vendors fix
repeating problems and required the vendor to submit product testing results
with their samples. Working across departments and cultures is always challenging at
first, but after a few weeks the cross departmental skill matrix results
start to build an overall effective communication system not only between
departments but between vendors, engineering departments and test
engineers. This allows for problems
to be identified and fixed quickly and also allows for more comparison
product sampling and testing results to be provided to project management and
other team members, providing competitor product information in a non
intrusive manner. The most important challenge in any system is providing good
communication and testing results to everyone involved and tracking of the
information so everything is supplied in the projects timeline. While at Concord and NASA, a major part of
getting things in place was to first develop and maintain a good
secondary-tracking system just for testing, and making sure all the appropriate
departments and personal had access to the information. At
Microsoft’s Zune 3rd Party Accessories Group, I have utilized my
background skills in developing testing procedures, product specifications
and an Approval Process Gating System for incoming products. Working with over two dozen vendors,
assuring their products are tested to meet the requirements for their
approval to ship a branded “Designed for Zune” product. I’ve also brought on board a secondary
testing house, qualifying them with the testing procedures and specifications
to perform a specific set of qualification tests for various products. |
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Technical Skills |
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Imaging: |
Photonics, Remote Sensing, Electronic
Sensitometry, Digital Image Processing, Scanning Electron Photomicrography, Non-Conventional
Imaging, Optics, High Speed/Time Lapse Photography, Photographic
Sensitometry, Special Effects Photography, Photographic Chemistry and Color
Measurement. |
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Computer: |
Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office
Products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access), Lotus Notes, Imatest, DPEx, Matlab and ArcView GIS |
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Professional
Experience |
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Technical Program Manager
Microsoft Corp. Seattle, WA. (2007) |
Technical
Program Manager: Zune 3rd Party Accessories Microsoft Corp. Seattle, WA.(2007) û Comparison testing of accessories for portable music players û Development of test plans and procedures û Qualification of testing house to meet the programs standards and
technical specifications û Development of Product Specifications û Development of Approval Process and Gating system for the various stages
of bringing a product from concept, through testing and into Approval for
Shipment. û Knowledge of SharePoint, MS Connect and Product Studio |
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Imaging Science Consultant
Microsoft Corp. Seattle, WA. (2005) |
Imaging
Science Consultant Microsoft Corp. Seattle, WA.(2005) Imaging
Science consulting for camera product in development stages, worked with
firmware, hardware and electrical engineers to define the image path parameters
within the guidelines of the products design. û Comparison testing of cameras and software similar to products in
development stages. û Image Quality evaluation of cameras photographic response. û Detailed report of status of camera and stages to finalize image
quality. û Development of Testing and Procedures to assure the photographic
parameters are retained during the manufacturing process. |
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Photographic Engineer and R&D Quality Manager
Concord Camera Hollywood, FL (2001‑2004) |
Photographic Engineer and R&D Quality Manager Concord Camera Corp. Hollywood, FL (2001‑2004) Imaging Science
testing and development for camera product in development stages, production
and troubleshooting any returned camera issues pertaining to the photographic
response. û Applied scientific test methodologies to verify the design intent,
substantiate the conformance and reliability of the photographic system and
user-related functionality. û Worked with firmware, mechanical and electrical engineers to define
the image path parameters within the guidelines of the products design. û Provided photographic expertise to the company through training and
product-project management development through Quality Assurance and Control
practices. û Evaluation of image quality, image tuning and classification of
photographic results for products in development, competitor products and the
lead photographic resource for the company. û Authored Photographic Parameters and Standardization and Customization Guide
for Outsourced Cameras. û Auditing, testing and benchmarking of products in development and
production by Concord and other companies to monitor and verify feature
implementation, corrective actions, feature operation and photographic
parameter integrity. û Internal recruiting and training of firmware, electrical and
mechanical engineers for cross-disciplinary image
quality assurance and photographic development teams. û Provided
leadership and help directing corrective actions required to correct product
non-conformance or implement best practices or specific marketing
requirements in the product. û Worked across cultures, stationed in the US R&D Office, but spent
time traveling between the US, Hong Kong and China Offices and Facilities. û Providing training and support to the Engineering Teams and Marketing
globally. |
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Imaging Specialist and Photographic Tech III
DynCorp Aerospace. NASA, JSC Houston, TX (1998- 2001) |
Digital Imaging Specialist and Photographic Technician III DynCorp
Aerospace. NASA, JSC - Houston, TX (1998-
2001) Worked across the Digital Imaging, Photographic
and Motion Picture Departments at the Johnson Space Center in Houston,
Texas. Hired as a multi-tasked person,
who could fill in where needed between the departments, responsibilities have
included the following: Photographers Group: û Photographic support for activities within the JSC community,
including technical photography for engineering studies of space suit design,
coverage of on site events for the JSC community newspaper and backup support
for emergency news coverage. Digital Imaging
Laboratory: û High-resolution image scanning of onboard mission imagery for the
Shuttle missions for the NASA digital imagery archive. û Image preparation for engineering groups within the NASA community for
photogrammic study. û Digital image restoration and repair of damaged original NASA
negatives, writing the repaired and restored images to film. û Digital scanning and image file conversion support for the
International Space Station hardware, shuttle mission and engineering support
groups. Photography
Laboratory: û Scanning master
positives and negatives from the NASA image collection, writing the digital
images in 35mm, 46mm and 4x5 image format to film. û Calibration of the
4x5 format Solitaire film writer to match the density and color balance of
the workstations within the photo lab.
û Transfer of
negative images to positive images in 35mm, 46mm and 4x5 format using
traditional photo lab techniques. û Custom digital
printing with Durst Lambda 131, Fuji Frontier 370 and 375 series, Sienna
Mileca HSP, Kodak LED II Printers. û Printer
calibration and color testing of prints for specific ICC profile development.
û Custom scanning,
image correction and enhancement of various NASA images in collaboration with
the Earth observation group at NASA. |
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Floral Shop Manager
1981-1995 |
Floral Shop Manager 1981-1995 û Professional work experience within the floral industry, including
both retail sales and management. û Demonstrated consistent ability to rapidly comprehend customer needs,
to promote loyalty and to obtain repeat sales. û Managed total budget, personnel and finances including profit margin
and pricing analyses |
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Education |
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Bachelor of Science in Imaging and Photographic
Technology Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY (Nov 1998) Concentrations: Technical Photography and Photo
Instrumentation |
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