SUMMARY:

I am problem solver with 27 years of experience in Software Engineering. My background is Test and it drives everything I do. I have architected and written software at almost every layer, from GUIs clear down to embedded boot ROMs, and everything in between. My core passion, and biggest value, is in helping engineering organizations to identify areas of deficiency and take action to turn those deficiencies into competitive advantages. I love to collaborate.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

Communications Protocols: BSC, SDLC, SNA, 3270DS, 3270 Coax, Confidential, ETR Interconnect, Fibre Channel (FC2, FC - SB2 and FC-SW), TCP/IP, LLDP, CPRI, RF

Languages: C#, C/C++, WPF, Perl, Python, 68040, 8344

Operating Systems/APIs: Windows, McK, Confidential, Linux

Libraries: MFC, GNU, Qt

Embedded Processors: 8344, i960, PPC 405GP, 68040

Tools: NUnit, TeamCity, Subversion, Code Collaborator

Methodologies: Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration Testing, Code Coverage Analysis, Agile, Scrum

Misc Technologies: NAS, SAN, RF, Mobile Telecom

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Confidential

Software Architect

Responsibilities:

• Confidential was acquired by Confidential in November of 2016 for the IP that we had developed.
• Continued my role as a Software Architect.
• Collaborate with Confidential Engineering to provide training and handoff of the IP.

Confidential

Senior Software Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architected leading edge mobile telecom applications that provided for troubleshooting and installation of cellular sites.
• Led a team in developing and delivering the solutions to cellular providers.
• C#/WPF/C++ solution used by cellular providers to simulate a cell cite base station and validate cell site installations.
• C#/WPF/C++ solution used by cellular providers to passively monitor cellular traffic on a cell site and help in detection and correction of RF interference issues that constantly occur at cell sites.
• Create a C#/C++ based test harness and develop a CPRI test suite using that test harness.. he primary purpose of our group was to work with engineering, in the early stages of development, to provide

Confidential, Durham, NC

Principal Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• The primary purpose of our group was to work with engineering, in the early stages of development, to provide the tools and tests necessary for unit testing and nightly, build / sanity testing of the product.
• Designed and developed, from scratch, the Perl based, Object Oriented, test framework used for all of our Perl based testing.
• Using the Perl framework, led a team in developing test suites used for unit testing and continuous integration testing of the product.
• Implemented a MySQL database that was used to track and report internal faults that were implemented by engineering to inject errors into the product. These faults (Fault Insertion Framework - FIF) were used for unit testing and error injection.
• Developed a Perl based tool (FifCvsMon) that performed a daily scan of all source code to document additions and changes to the FIF framework. The updated information was stored into the MySQL database.
• Developed a C++/MFC Windows GUI that provided an interface for viewing and modifying the FIF database.
• Developed a C++/MFC, OS independent, multi-client, multi-platform, file I/O generator used to validate and debug our target product.
• Spent two years as part of the Central Test Tools group. Over the course of 30 years (and many different test groups) Confidential had developed, and was using, 5 unique test development and execution frameworks. We took the knowledge, gained from using those five frameworks and designed, developed and delivered a new single, common framework. The new framework replaced everything before it and was used by all test groups.
• A large part of my time was used to mentor junior engineers located at our various offices in the US and China.

Confidential, Westminster, CO

Staff Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for architecting and implementing the automated test systems that were used to validate Confidential ’s iGrid ( Confidential ) product.
• Using Qt, designed and implemented the Confidential Performance Tester (CPT). CPT is a cross-platform, client-server based, file I/O test system used to test/validate the file I/O performance characteristics of iGrid product using both CIFS and NFS file systems.

Confidential, Broomfield, CO

Senior Advisory Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Architected and developed Confidential ’s Multi Protocol Tester ( Confidential ) which combined the functionality of a Fibre Channel protocol tester and a Fibre Channel load tester. Wrote the Windows GUI, and all embedded PPC 405 specific code including the Boot ROM, HW diagnostics, and Confidential based firmware.
• Lead the Automated Test Team in developing test suites for the product.
• Mentor junior engineers.

Confidential, Broomfield, CO

Advisory Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed and delivered Confidential ’s Fibre Channel Simulator ( Confidential ) which included a proprietary C/C++ compiler back end and linker, a symbolic debugger, editor, protocol trace and associated i960 embedded application.
• Wrote the Fibre Channel FC2, FC-AL, FC-SB2 and FC-SW stacks that were used to develop approximately 12,000 Confidential based FC test cases. Also developed a number of the actual test cases.
• Architected, and led delivery of, Confidential ’s Fibre Channel traffic generator (FCLoad).

Staff Software Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed RAMROD which was a tool that used specially developed hardware to verify the functionally of Confidential ’s External Time Reference platform.
• Tool included a Windows 3.1 based GUI and i960 embedded firmware. Led the ensuing test development effort.

Senior Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Architected and developed Confidential 's Confidential Simulation Tool ( Confidential ). Confidential included a User interface, proprietary assembler compiler, editor, symbolic debugger, protocol tracer and an embedded application that provided the business logic.
• Using Confidential, led an effort to develop over 10,000 Confidential specific test cases.
• Developed Confidential ’s Cross Point Tool (XPT) which was an Confidential specific traffic generation tool used to verify hardware switching capabilities. Tool included a DOS based UI, with protocol tracing, and an i960 embedded application that generated the traffic and reported results.

Test Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed SNA, Non-SNA, SDLC, 3270 DS test suites for Confidential 3270 cluster controllers.
• Wrote an ISA/8344 based embedded application and GUI that emulated either a single 3270 terminal, or 8 multiplexed 3270 terminals over a single coax.
• This tool allowed us to replace hundreds of physical terminals with approximately 20 test platforms. It also substantially accelerated our test cycles.