# Early career — 1998–2008

# Early career — 1998–2008

Before founding Proticom, Edward led QA automation at Intel, LPL Financial, Argent Mortgage, Western Asset Management, and Longs Drugs. This decade of work covered framework development, test-tool evaluation, and process optimization — the same discipline that later became the foundation of the Proticom practice.

Proticom was founded in 2000; every client engagement from 2000 onward has been contracted through Proticom. The pre-2000 work at Intel and the other early employers predates the practice. LPL Financial and Western Asset Management are the two financial-services names that also appear in the resume summary as proof of work outside healthcare.