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Jared Jonas

@jaredjonas

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🌀 Software Development Professional 🌐 Inspiring People, Projects & Products 🌀

Germany

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What I'm looking for

I seek leadership roles in QA/release management where I can scale teams, improve release cadence, ensure compliance, and mentor engineers in a collaborative, quality-focused culture.

🔹Articulate, versatile, and detail-driven leader with 15 years of proven success in software development🔹
◆ Passion for managing people, projects, and product quality.
◆ Expertise in high availability medical systems with critical safety implications, as well as mobile and web apps.
◆ Agile and adaptable, with a strong record of delivering reliable, compliant, and high-quality software products.

❖CORE PROFICIENCIES❖
◆People Management◆
Natural leader. Empathetic approach to motivate employees, promote effective communication, and build resilient teams. Experience managing teams of 10 directly and up to 50 in a matrix structure.
◆Project Management◆
Excellent organizational and planning abilities. Tenacious follow-through to allocate resources, synchronize activities of multiple groups, and consistently meet aggressive timelines.
◆Software Release Management & Quality Assurance◆
Orchestrated the timely completion and ensured highest quality of more than 600 software releases over 10 years at Medsphere, a vendor of enterprise-level electronic health records solutions.

❖CORE BELIEFS❖
➤ People first
➤ Preparation pays off
➤ Quality is key
➤ Embrace positivity!

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Head of QA

Current

Korro AI GmbH

Aug 2024 - Present (1 year 5 months)

Established and scaled an internal QA team, implemented standardized release and test-case processes, and delivered 10 major releases in one year while reducing post-release hotfixes threefold.

Release Management Test Automation Process Improvement CI CD Cross Functional Collaboration

Tech Lead Quality Assurance

Tipico Technology Services GmbH

Feb 2024 - Jul 2024 (5 months)

Directed weekly release cycles coordinating automated and manual testing across a 50-member organization, supervised 18 QA engineers, and ensured seamless production deployments for large feature campaigns.

Test Automation Manual Testing Team Leadership CI CD QA Strategy

VP, QA & Release Management

Medsphere Systems Corporation

Jan 2022 - Jun 2023 (1 year 5 months)

Led release cycle for five flagship EHR products and 30+ ancillary packages, orchestrating over 600 releases across tenure and implementing rapid regulatory and pandemic-related updates.

Release Management Quality Assurance Regulatory Compliance EHR Cross Product Integration Risk Management

Director, Senior Director QA

Medsphere Systems Corporation

Feb 2019 - Jan 2022 (2 years 11 months)

Managed QA teams for commercial development, improved release processes, and coordinated cross-functional efforts to maintain product quality and delivery cadence.

QA Management Process Improvement Team Leadership Cross Functional Collaboration Test Strategy

QA Manager / Team Lead

Medsphere Systems Corporation

Mar 2013 - Feb 2019 (5 years 11 months)

Served in engineering and QA roles driving testing, release execution, and quality processes across products, contributing to sustained product reliability and frequent release cadence.

Software Testing Test Planning Manual Testing Mentoring Defect Triage Agile Practices

Systems Analyst

Silver Hill Hospital

Jun 2006 - Feb 2013 (6 years 8 months)

Provided systems analysis, IT support, MIS training, and data analysis to support clinical and administrative operations across the hospital.

Systems Analysis IT Support MIS Data Analysis Healthcare IT User Support Documentation Process Improvement

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Western Connecticut State University

Bachelor of Business Administration, Management Information Systems

Grade: GPA 3.98/4.00

Activities and societies: MIS Department Award; First in class of 850; Summa Cum Laude

Bachelor of Business Administration in Management Information Systems with an Information Security option; graduated summa cum laude and MIS Department Award recipient.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science (partial coursework), Mechanical Engineering

Grade: GPA 4.3/5.0

Activities and societies: Senior Project Assistant, MIT Media Laboratory (SmartCar); Phi Delta Theta

Completed two semesters of Bachelor of Science coursework in Mechanical Engineering and served as Senior Project Assistant at the MIT Media Lab (SmartCar project).