Release Project Manager, Quality Assurance Manager Resume Solvang, CA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Highly dedicated and customer - oriented with 10 plus years of increasing responsibilities and management positions.
Extensive experience in problem solving, team building, and people management in a fast-paced environment.
Able to interact and communicate effectively with all levels of an organization.
Capable of prioritizing to achieve project, client and company goals. Strengths include:
Strong problem solver
A project leader
Technologically innovative
Action and goal oriented, results-driven

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Solvang, CA

Release Project Manager, Quality Assurance Manager

Responsibilities:

Manage between 15-50 healthcare software projects and project plans at a time, delivering complete solutions on schedule for hundreds of nationwide hospital systems. Some projects included over 20 integration points across numerous healthcare/HIS systems, including Cerner EMR, EPIC EMR, GE Centricity EMR, McKesson (Relay Health) and various accounting and billing systems.
Projects spanned both acute care and ambulatory practices for Spectrum Health, Henry Ford Medical Center, and MedStar Health.
Resource management, over allocation monitoring and assignments, building new or expanded departments and project teams when needed to fit the needs of the project.
Strong communication, documentation and tracking across multiple locations and multiple teams.
Meeting facilitator, scheduler and coordinator, monitoring milestones and risks, standardizing and documenting processes and procedures across HIS vendors, IT and project teams.
Scrum/Agile processes.
Project plan budget and resource planning.

QA Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

Created the first test plan used in Quality Assurance that is now used company wide
Helped bring in the first automated test tool into QA
Designed the beginning of the first regression test network
Created a relationship between QA and IT that allows a better control of the lab.
Brought control of the test servers into QA.

Confidential, Goleta, CA

Manager, Inventory Control

Responsibilities:

Created the first inventory control and cost recovery system for the Product Unit. This system created an interface that is used locally as well as Globally.
Designed and implemented a billing system to more accurately track project costs. This succeeded in reducing capital spending and further lowering Confidential /ACC yearly depreciation.
Managed the disposition of inventory ($30 million) during plant closure, achieving a savings of $6 million.

Manager, System Test Engineering

Responsibilities:

Launched the first completely automated regression testing, which resulted in reduced regression time and increased reliability in the code.
Supervised between 12-30 software and hardware projects at a time. Delivered complete solutions on schedule.
Managed multiple projects across groups of up to 42 Managers and Test Engineers. This resulted in three test departments working together to release a solid complete product on schedule.
Coordinated Confidential /ACC Partnership with Santa Barbara City College. Organized all the equipment and for the first Confidential /ACC networking course.
Arranged the first Demo lab for Confidential in Santa Barbara. This included installing the first Confidential class-4 switch working with most of Confidential ’s networking products.

Systems Engineer I & II

Responsibilities:

Designed, maintained and improved the first regression network that would cover all supported protocols. This network transformed into the first demonstration network used in Santa Barbara.
Promoted a method to overcome a “Can’t be done” culture, by persuading local Senior Management and coordinating overseas engineers to develop essential software improvements that effectively increased customer satisfaction and recaptured staff time lost to slow processing speeds.
Designed, maintained and upgraded large networks using multiple platforms and hardware, while thoroughly testing routers in a high network load environment, which resulted in fewer customer complaints.
Created sessions to increase overall knowledge of concepts vital to efficient and thorough testing.