Jira
Justin Price
Valley Village,CA
Summary
Dynamic hybrid technology and operations professional with a proven track record of rapidly advancing into leadership roles within 18 months. Recognized for reliability, technical expertise, and exceptional performance under pressure, supported by hands-on experience in live event production, equipment operations, and software quality assurance. Specializes in testing, preparation, and deployment of complex systems while overseeing workflows, leading loadouts, and managing responsibilities that enhance product quality through structured QA processes and cross-functional collaboration. Adept at translating requirements into actionable execution, strengthening operational processes, and ensuring timely delivery of productions and releases.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Quality Assurance Analyst
Ever Accountable
Remote
03.2025 - Current
- Part time QA contractor supporting product quality and release stability through smoke testing, bug reporting, and customer issue investigations. Collaborate closely with engineering and product teams using modern development workflows.
- Performs smoke testing across all platforms to cover new features and releases
- Reproduce customer reported issues and document them into actionable bug reports for our development team
- Track and manage tasks using Jira, including steps to reproduce, expected/actual behavior, and testing environments
- Verify issue context using Github to understand root causes.
Backline Technician (Keys & DJ) Acting Backline Manager/Load-out Lead
CenterStaging
Los Angeles, CA
07.2024 - Current
- Backline technician specializing in keyboard and DJ rigs, responsible for equipment maintenance and preparation for major live and broadcast events. Regularly trusted with acting management responsibilities, including warehouse department oversight and loadout leadership for high-profile productions.
- Maintain, test, and deploy keyboard and DJ rigs to meet clients production specs
- Serve as Acting backline Manager during managers absence, overseeing warehouse operations and workflow
- Led full backline loadouts for major events including GRAMMY'S 2026, and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2025.
- Demonstrated rapid advancement from driver to trusted leadership role within 18 months through reliability and performance under pressure.
Music Assistant
The Musical Source
Chantilly, VA
06.2017 - 03.2020
- Assistant at a sheet music distributor who ensured products were received thoroughly, organized and distributed to appropriate orders, and finally shipped out in a timely fashion. Entrusted to represent our company at national education/church conventions on the convention floor
- Performed a wide variety of key day-to-day functions including finance, administration, updating inventory using Microsoft Excel, Word, as well as our in-house systems on Drupal and Microsoft Access.
- Traveled to state conventions along the East Coast to handle sales and client relationships. Including NCMEA, NJMEA, VMEA and others.
Education
Bachelor's Degree - Vocal Performance
Shenandoah Conservatory
Winchester, VA01.2012
Skills
- Backline preparation & maintenance
- Quality assurance & equipment testing
- Inventory management
- Problem solving & critical thinking
- Attention to detail
- Collaborative work style
- Quality assurance
- Quality processes
- Data analysis
- Mentoring and training
Certification
- Certificate in Python Fundamentals, 2024 University of Toronto
- Certificate of Completion: Intro to Quality Assurance, 2024 Udemy; John McTiernan
Software
Slack
Google sheets
Python
Interests
- I write and create art rock music with a band
Timeline
Quality Assurance Analyst
Ever Accountable
03.2025 - Current
Backline Technician (Keys & DJ) Acting Backline Manager/Load-out Lead
CenterStaging
07.2024 - Current
Music Assistant
The Musical Source
06.2017 - 03.2020
Bachelor's Degree - Vocal Performance
Shenandoah Conservatory