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SENIOR TEST MANAGER

Confidential, Los Angeles, California

Responsibilities:

18 month consulting role on UAT COE (User Acceptance Test Center of Excellence) team.
Valued team member on the following three Programs:
Mortgage Servicing Platform (MSP) - three assignments:
COVID-19: UAT data management and oversight;
Monthly Statements: UAT certification of statement data fields;
MUDOT: UAT data management and oversight.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Confidential Technology provides state-of-the-art Cyber Security solutions. This was a short term consulting opportunity to fill a Project Management resource gap and ensure important projects and initiatives continued without disruption.
Played an important role in helping to successfully deliver six (6) software releases, two (2) agile sprints, three (3) proof-of-concepts, and a merger acquisition. For the Customer Center Redesign project filled roles as Project Manager, UAT Test Lead and SQA Tester.
As part of the Project Management Office (PMO) helped with Confidential ’s transition from Waterfall to Agile, and Quality Center (ALM) to JIRA. Helped to develop standard metrics, schedules, and issue/risk procedures.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Successfully helped to negotiate business case and budget approval ($1M) with the Client Sponsor and IT organization (closed Decision Gate 2).
Drove the requirements definition process with the Business Team, Architects and IT application teams (closed Milestone 3 on target).
Worked with the application teams to get “release commitment” for February/March 2018 (closed Milestone 5 ahead of target).
Only able to complete about 50% of the project due to company wide down sizing in preparation for the Time Warner merger.

Project Manager & Test Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Managed $19.4M budget and 90 impacted applications and test teams (7,904 test cases).
Uncovered $1M of funding allocated to unnecessary teams, and implemented change requests to remove $800K of unnecessary scope (total savings of $1.8M, 9% of budget).

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Reduced the Confidential amp;T tri-annual deployment window for the Unified Platform by 2 hours with 120 critical U-verse and DTV applications.
Collaborated with a key project teams to identify additional cost savings of $1.2M (reduced the $3.5M budget by 34%)
100% of the code was deployed to production environment on schedule with zero (0) defects.
Earned recognition from Leadership for project success and budget savings.

Project Manager & Test Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Co-Project Manager and Primary Test Manager for the initial release of ‘DTV Now’ -- an OTT (Over-The-Top) cable TV streaming, subscription service; $9.2M budget.
Authored the TechDev Test Strategy/Plan, and performed on-boarding of 70 test teams.
Responsible for QA/testing of functional areas: Vendor interfaces, Big Data / Data Warehouse, Reporting, Analytics, Onlines (web), Dashboards, Financials, Commissions, Customer Care.

Program Test Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Influential role with ensuring high quality of 18 major releases (100+ projects, $500M+).
Responsible for 220+ applications, 330+ test environments, 675 personnel, and 45 test tracks.
Responsible for requirements definition, successful setup and testing of Confidential amp;T’s Test Lab (about 150 network devices with a value of $5M).
Conservatively saved Confidential amp;T $150K annually due to process improvements.
Program/Product list (partial): IP Aggregation, Optical Ethernet Metro Area Networks, Confidential amp;T Switched Ethernet, ASE over U-Verse, Ethernet over Fiber, Network On Demand, Backhaul.

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Managed 20 software releases for Confidential amp;T’s U-Verse program (residential service).
$5M combined budget for applications: FEI, LCAT, NIDS, and WFM.
Earned recognition from Leadership as one of the top Project Managers in the PMO.