Charlie Hayward

Charlie Hayward has been working in the software industry since 2014. In 2015, they began working as a QA Tester for CollegeNET, where they were responsible for purposely breaking software to find and report bugs to a software development team, as well as writing, editing and performing tests to ensure the software was functioning correctly. In 2016, they continued working for CollegeNET as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer & Triage Specialist. From 2014-2019, they were also a student at the Maseeh College of Engineering & Computer Science at Portland State. In 2019, they began working for SightLine Applications, Inc. as a Software QA Team Lead, managing the time, productivity and priorities of the QA group. Charlie also leads SCRUM meetings twice per week, and weekly QA/Release Engineering ticket meetings, as well as writing automated tests for various customer-requested software features.

Charlie Hayward has an education history that includes a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Journalism - Public Relations from the University of Oregon, which they obtained between 2002 and 2005. Prior to this, they earned an Associate's degree from Portland Community College between 2000 and 2002. Charlie also holds four certifications from Coursera, which they obtained between 2018 and 2019. These include Using Databases with Python, Using Python to Access Web Data, Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python), and Python Data Structures.