# Career timeline

# Career timeline

- **1998–2008:** QA automation leadership at Intel, LPL Financial, Argent Mortgage, Western Asset Management, and Longs Drugs.
- **2000–Present:** Founder & Principal, Proticom, Huntington Beach, CA. Every client engagement below from 2000 onward was contracted through Proticom. The practice refocused on AI enablement and transformation in 2024.
- **2006–2011:** Sony Pictures — QA Program Manager, global QA transition across 200+ entities.
- **2008–2014, 2017–2018:** City of Hope — QA Practice Lead, grew QA from 6 to 28.
- **2009–2010:** Cedars-Sinai Medical Center — Automation Architect.
- **2011–2013, 2016–2017:** Hoag Hospital — QA Strategy Lead.
- **2014–2018:** Avery Dennison — Enterprise QA Strategy.
- **2015–2016:** UC Irvine Health — QA Architect, Epic transition CoE.
- **2019-01–2025-11:** Wikimedia Foundation — Senior QA Engineering, expanded into AI Enablement & Agentic Systems (remote, part-time).
- **2024-01–2024-04:** Fannie Mae — AI Enablement & Testing Center of Excellence, via TEKsystems, Reston, VA.
- **2025–Present:** Shenouda & Associates, LLP — Local Document Agent, Huntington Beach, CA.
- **2026-05–2026-08:** Precision Digital Health — AI & Quality Enablement, Clinical-Trial SaaS (remote, part-time).

Edward founded Proticom in 2000 and has run it continuously since; Wikimedia Foundation and Precision Digital Health have both ended, while Proticom and Shenouda & Associates are current. He is not seeking full-time employment; he is engaged corp-to-corp / fractional / SOW through Proticom.