Aggregate Knowledge, Inc., San Mateo, CA, Nov. 2006 - Jan. 2009
Quality Assurance Engineer - Planned, wrote and tested monthly releases and deployed daily builds for the front end administration UI that surfaces the reporting and customer configuration data associated with the Aggregate Knowledge Discovery Window service and associated API. Filed, tracked and resolved over 1200 bugs in monthly releases that provided support and new business direction for a new online space called Discovery. Filed daily status reports for the offshore development team. Created sample SQL data for reporting views in the administration application's reporting section prior to the data being populated in production. Investigated, modified and verified configuration files, MySQL migration scripts and reported bugs when appropriate to resolve issues with HQL, iBatis and database inconsistencies.

Tribe Networks, Inc., San Francisco, CA, 2004 - 2006
Quality Assurance Engineer - Discussed, planned and executed test procedures against all new features in small releases and contributed guidance and product flow feedback for larger releases that encompassed complete site overhauls on several occasions. Filed over 500 concise, "recipe"-like bugs with step by step instructions for reproduction and verification. Worked with developers, product managers, and engineers to plan and scope features and minor back-end changes; Executed tests to verify the changes made were acceptable for release to production. Tailed appropriate java application, mail and access log files scanning for errors introduced by engineering code syntax mistakes, precedence issues, and other developer code anomalies that typically result in user interface display problems or functional issues across multiple platforms and browsers, or data corruption in any of the MySQL databases.

Topica, Inc., San Francisco, CA, 1999 - 2003
Quality Assurance Engineer - Assured quality for all Topica products including the free Topica mailing list service web site and the paid Topica Email Publisher web application. Also assisted with Quality Assurance of Topica's high-end, third-party e-mail delivery services. Created smoke test documents for "quick look" basic site functionality tests after application design change pushes were completed. 24/7 "on-call" status for all issues related to Quality Assurance and site changes. Created a basic set of critical test items and related scripts for the implementation of a test automation suite for all relevant Topica products.

Opcode Systems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, 1990 - 1996 and from 1997 - 1999
Title 1: Product Manager - Managed all development phases of Opcode’s Galaxy and Galaxy Plus Editors packages. Worked closely with engineers to design, develop, implement, test and release Opcode’s Galaxy and Galaxy Plus Editors products. Served as Opcode’s evangelist to third-party manufacturers coordinating synthesizer acquisitions and loan tracking for Galaxy’s plug-in librarian and editor modules. Assisted in design and implementation of the Galaxy area on Opcode’s web site including layout and design of the product market research CGI script and web site FAQ items.

Title 2: Lead Quality Assurance Engineer - Integrated and maintained new quality assurance procedures, databases and test scripts. Managed computer and operating system integration for the Galaxy product line on the Macintosh platform. Implemented, tested and assisted in design of all new Galaxy and Galaxy Plus Editors librarian and editor modules. Developed an in-depth knowledge of all major synthesizer manufacturer’s products including Alesis, DigiTech, E-mu, Ensoniq, Kawai, Korg, Kurzweil, Lexicon, Roland, Sony, Waldorf, and Yamaha synths, effects and MIDI devices.
Oversight and testing for the Studio Vision 4.51 release incorporating a list of features collected while working at Opcode Systems. The majority of the features listed in that document were implemented in the 4.51 version of Studio Vision.

Belief Systems Recordings, Oakland, CA, 1994 - Present
Founder and Recording Artist - Founded Belief Systems Recordings. Recorded, mastered and produced songs under the pseudonym Robbers of Antiquity on the Nocturnal EP and as Darin Marshall on the Belief Systems Recordings Swivel EP. Designed artwork, wrote, engineered and produced tracks for four of the six Belief Systems releases. Completed all the ancillary tasks associated with the release of four of the six Belief Systems 12-inch vinyl recordings. Recorded the song "Prolix" as IBID in 2001. In 2003, produced and released the Transistor Abuse CD and 12-inch vinyl recording with remixes by Volsoc and DiViD [Vic "Chandra" Shukla and Darin Marshall are DiViD].

High School Graduate - San Dieguito High School, 1987
Paul Tydelsky’s Audio Engineering School - San Diego, 1988

• Wrote and produced “Tesseract” - Released on the Natural Music Head Travel CD compilation
• Wrote and produced “The 7th Hour” - Remixed by Jim Hopkins. Released on Twitch Records’ “San Francisco Sound Spectrum” compilation
• Wrote, produced and released the four track 12-inch, The Robbers of Antiquity - Nocturnal EP on Belief Systems Recordings
• Wrote and produced the “Phosphene Dream” single released on MixMan Records Spin Control CD+ compilation
• Wrote, and produced MixMan promotional split 12-inch song “Phosphene Dream” released on Mephisto Records/UltraViolet Recordings
• Wrote, produced and engineered the 12-inch single “BeatBox” on the Belief Systems Recordings Swivel EP compilation released in Jan. 1996
• Co-wrote, co-produced and co-engineered the single “No Status” for the XLR8R Tracks Kick compilation released in March 1997
• Co-wrote, co-produced and co-engineered two singles “Constant” and “Not From Here” released on the Organised Noise Combine compilation - ON1 May 1997
• Co-wrote, co-produced and co-engineered all tracks on the Habit Form EP on Organised Noise - ON2 released in October of 1997
• Wrote, produced and engineered the track “Prolix” under the pseudonym IBID on Exact-Science Recordings' S.F. Bass Volume 1 compilation released 2001
• Released, produced, mastered and co-wrote the Cybrid "Abstract Power" remix as one half of the DiViD duo appearing on the Belief Systems Cybrid Transistor Abuse EP
• Wrote, produced, engineered and released three eight-song, Internet albums called "EPROMs," "Eponyms" and "Epigrams" that are currently for sale or license on the Magnatune.com website here (Epigrams and the extra songs for EPROMs and Eponyms are available now)
• Licensed and received Music By credit in the film for the songs "Doorbells in Your Mind" from the EPROMs album and a variation of the originally licensed "Doorbells in Your Mind" track titled "Patience" for the short film "Somebody's Watching Me" filmed, edited and produced by Ryan Archibald. The short has screened at short film festivals including the San Diego International Film Festival, in the U.S. and abroad
• Produced and uploaded to the net three new songs in 2005, 2006 and 2007 titled "Unfurnished House," "Glitch_Mod," and "Sibilance"

Computer
Experience:

Extensive knowledge of and experience with Mac OS X and Windows 98/NT4/XP/2000/Vista operating systems; over twelve years of internet application design environment, feature scoping and browser testing experience with desktop and cell phone-based browser applications including Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Firefox, Camino, SeaMonkey, Shiira, Opera, Flock, Apple's Safari browser and Charles as well as productivity applications like Microsoft's Office Suite including Entourage, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Mac OS X applications like OS X's Mail.app, Parallels, VMWare, Graphic Converter, Skitch, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat for CS4, OmniGraffle, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, Still Life, Toast, MySQL Query Browser, BBEdit, TextMate, Smultron, MySQL and Oracle databases, FileMaker Pro, Unix, BSD and related terminal applications as well as command line application experience with apps like Vi, Vim, less, cat, touch, more, tail, screen and many others; extensive knowledge of basic HTML coding, as well as basic Javascript and CSS experience; Proficient technical documentation review and creation skills including Word processing and PDF document creation with programs such as Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat, Apple's Pages and OS X's TextEdit; Experience with configuration and troubleshooting of hardware and software for all of the listed operating systems. Familiarity with wiki markup languages such as Wikipedia, MoinMoin and Atlassian's Confluence Wiki and the Jira bug tracking software, Mozilla's Bugzilla and the open source bug tracking software application Roundup.

Hands-on, real-world experience with ProTools and associated hardware and software, as well as Sound Designer, Sound Designer II, Sample Cell II, Native Instruments plug-ins and effects, ProSoniq plug-ins and effects, Sound Edit Pro, Audition, Sound Forge, Alchemy, Peak, Deck, Recycle, Reason, Live, Logic 8, Digital Performer, Cubase, Audacity, Soundtrack and GarageBand; experience with audio batching and editing applications like SonicWORX, Barbabatch, and MetaSynth sound editing apps as well as experience with and installation of hundreds of VST, VSTi, TDM, RTAS, MAS and Audio Units plug-ins including Native Instruments, ProSoniq, TC|Works suite, SFX Machine RT and hundreds of others; extensive exposure to and experience with various hardware synthesizer and sampler interfaces from the larger manufacturers like Yamaha, Roland, Korg and Kurzweil and the many specialty manufacturers such as Clavia, Access and Studio Electronics.