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I’m a QA leader and applied AI solution architect with 20+ years shaping quality, automation, and workflow design in media and technology-driven organisations. I bridge editorial operations and engineering—rapidly prototyping Python/JavaScript and n8n automations that mature into reliable production workflows, delivering measurable gains in productivity, error reduction, and project velocity.…I’m a QA leader and applied AI solution architect with 20+ years shaping quality, automation, and workflow design in media and technology-driven organisations. I bridge editorial operations and engineering—rapidly prototyping Python/JavaScript and n8n automations that mature into reliable production workflows, delivering measurable gains in productivity, error reduction, and project velocity.

Richard Aston

QA Engineer, AI Engineer, Data Scientist, +2

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I’m a QA leader and applied AI solution architect with 20+ years shaping quality, automation, and workflow design in media and technology-driven organisations. I bridge editorial operations and engineering—rapidly prototyping Python/JavaScript and n8n automations that mature into reliable production workflows, delivering measurable gains in productivity, error reduction, and project velocity.…I’m a QA leader and applied AI solution architect with 20+ years shaping quality, automation, and workflow design in media and technology-driven organisations. I bridge editorial operations and engineering—rapidly prototyping Python/JavaScript and n8n automations that mature into reliable production workflows, delivering measurable gains in productivity, error reduction, and project velocity.

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I’m a QA leader and applied AI solution architect with 20+ years shaping quality, automation, and workflow design in media and technology-driven organisations.

I bridge editorial operations and engineering—rapidly prototyping Python/JavaScript and n8n automations that mature into reliable production workflows, delivering measurable gains in productivity, error reduction, and project velocity.

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Work Experience

Quality Assurance Director / Applied AI Solution Architect at Early Morning Media

September 1, 2012 - September 1, 2025

Designed and led QA strategy across high-volume editorial products; implemented an error-reduction framework that lowered defects by 25% within six months. Architected AI-enabled production (Python/JS + n8n), streamlining sourcing, deduplication, summarisation, QC, and publishing; increased team productivity by ~30%. Introduced risk-based testing, coverage dashboards, and release gates that improved on-time delivery and cut project timelines by ~20%. Built KPI suite (accuracy, turnaround, stability) and an incident/postmortem loop that raised testing pass rates to ~95%.

Quality Assurance Manager at Precise Media

September 1, 2002 - January 1, 2012

Led QA for large-scale media monitoring operations; introduced process controls and training that improved throughput and reduced rework. Partnered with product and engineering to codify acceptance criteria and test plans for complex ingestion and reporting systems.

Analyst at Clipserver

October 1, 2000 - January 1, 2002

Delivered time-sensitive media analysis to enterprise clients; standardised checks that enhanced delivery consistency.

Analyst at Prominent Pages Limited

October 1, 1997 - January 1, 2000

Produced editorial abstracts and metadata at scale; contributed to early process documentation and QA checklists.