SUMMARY

• Blends education in Engineering, Physics, and Programming with extensive experience in communications, manufacturing, and defense industries.
• Designs, assembles, and programs automated test equipment for software, hardware, and systems test.
• Perform system design analysis to determine compliance with design goals and requirements; discover and mitigate problems before production.
• Performs field failure analysis to determine root cause, and recommends optimal solutions for noted problems.
• Prepare and present documentation for test planning, execution, and results.
• Available for travel worldwide, and accepts short - term contracts
• Interpersonal: Exceptional leadership and teamwork ability, customer interaction skills, strong organizational skills, supervision, multi-tasking
• Computer Programming (Both Embedded and Application): Microsoft Visual Studio, C#, C, C++, SQL, Visual Basic, Visual Basic.Net, Basic, FORTRAN, PASCAL, Access Basic, UNIX Sun/HP/Linux, Labwindows/CVI, LabView, TestStand, Measurement Studio, Microsoft Windows, Xwindows, Java, JavaScript, J++, HTML, PERL, Expect, TCL/TK, Assembler, PLC/Ladder Logic, Safety Systems, Motion control programming and Machine Vision, Machine interaction with social media: Twitter, Instagram, Vine
• Hardware and Software: Extensive, including simulation, system integration, programming and troubleshooting, design and setup of network systems, routers/switches, CAN, TCP, UDP, 1553, I2C, SPI, JTAG communications interfaces, USB, GPIB, RS232 and Ethernet instrument control interfaces, RF cellular and fiber optic telecommunications systems. Machine vision systems, image processing, motion control, data acquisition and analysis, statistical process control, hardware and software testing, HIL (Hardware In the Loop) testing, report generation, failure analysis, statistical analysis with Minitab. Word processing, spreadsheet and database programming, AutoCAD, Space Claim and SolidEdge drafting/3D modeling software, Mentor Graphics and Altium schematic capture software, Pro-E (beginner), Remedy and Bugzilla defect databases, ClearCase configuration management suite, DOORS requirements database.
• Military: United States Army, Active Duty 1981-1984 Track vehicle Mechanic/Small Arms Specialist, Assignments both Stateside and Overseas at Schweinfurt (West) Germany 2 yrs, Honorable Discharge 1993, No current military obligation
• Defense Industry: General Dynamics Amphibious Systems from January 2008 to March 2011, GDLS January-March 2015

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Define, execute, and create documentation for test cases and reports, and store them in TeamCenter
• Update, recompile, and test reticle module using C/C++, Python, ClearCase, ClearQuest in LINUX/UNIX environment
• Automate test execution
• Develop unit testers
• Manage software configuration on the tools
• Coordinate software deliverables from multiple software teams
• Design and Execute test plans for the tools
• Create and Participate in code, test, and documentation reviews using Code Collaborator
• Execute test cases on hardware platforms in the following software test environments
  • DevBench: SW test environment which is entirely simulated
  • TestBench: SW test environment which includes a server-based control computer and card cage boards representing highest level of electronics from the actual product
  • TestRig: SW test environment comprised of the major hardware subsystem under test from the actual product
  • Proto: SW test environment comprised of an actual full product machine
• Enter defects discovered in testing into an issue-tracking database titled AIR

Confidential

Sr Software Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Pull software requirements from DOORS database to prepare test procedures
• Log software defects into database
• Update, recompile, and test vehicle hardware emulator application using C++ in LINUX environment

Confidential

Sr Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supervised a team of 3 engineers on the RSTS project
• Liaison to General Dynamics team
• Design multi-server automated software regression testing application.
• Used Subversion for software version control
• Used Enterprise Architect for software project planning
• Used Bugzilla for software defect tracking
• Lead test engineering team in developing a multi-server automated software regression testing application in Visual C++.
• Create automated regression test scripts using the tool “SQUISH”
• Manage SIL, schedule access time on SIL for developers, maintain SIL, update SIL software
• Develop automated SIL control software in Visual C++, including a user interface created with the UI tool “Qt”
• Use software requirements documentation to create test plans and test procedures
• Maximize test coverage of software requirements within the limitations of SIL hardware
• Schedule and perform testing, process results, and prepare test reports
• Identify software defects revealed in testing and enter them into software defect database
• Retest defect corrected software drops
• Conduct ready for release review meetings
• Prepare release notes containing known defects and limitations of the software version
• Prepare design documents and present them to the customer during preliminary design review (PDR) and critical design review (CDR)
• Most resent active security clearance in 2011, should be easily reactivated

Confidential

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design, build and program product development test station for a new family of 25 Gb/S (gigabit per second) multi-mode fiber AOC (active optical cables) and transceiver modules, using the following instruments: BERT (Bit error rate tester), High speed sampling oscilloscopes with digital serial analyzers, high frequency RF switching networks, optical fiber switches, optical attenuators, optical power meters, protocol analyzers, O to E converters (Optical to Electrical), multi-channel programmable power supplies and UPS power conditioning units, and VNA (vector network analyzer), optical and electrical spectrum analyzers, infrared thermal imagers, DUT temperature control system
• Develop an innovative test station control application which implements diagnostic capabilities for independently controlling every instrument in the system, as well as providing a flexible user friendly interface for running tests and recording results, using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 C# and National Instruments Measurement Studio
• Research, program, and optimize new algorithm for the rapid estimation of bit error rate calculations in order to reduce test cycle time
• Devise test plan to optimize operating parameters of a product experiencing low first-pass yield in manufacturing. Determine and isolate root cause and implement correction resulting in resolution of the low first pass yield issue.
• Conduct testing and collect data to characterize performance of VCSEL (Vertical Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser) Laser arrays in multi-lane transmitter assembly
• Perform receiver sensitivity testing in avalanche photo diode detector/trans-impedance amplifier receiver assemblies
• Create test plans to determine product compliance with hardware and software protocol standards and description documents such as FAST Ethernet, Fibre channel, InfiniBand, PCIe III, SFP, SFP+, QSFP, zHD, FDR, and others
• Conduct product performance characterization utilizing Eye-diagram analysis and bit error rate bathtub curve analysis, mask testing, and jitter decomposition analysis
• Participate in feasibility study for ultra-high bandwidth single mode fiber AOC using WDM (wavelength division multi-plexing)

Confidential

Subsystems Integration Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed design analysis, and researched component alternatives leading to design changes which directly improved the final product
• Implemented process improvement, and successfully conducted process review, resulting in the process change being approved and posted on the PAN (Process Asset Navigator)
• Participate in structured innovation teams and contribute to complex problem solutions
• Participate in review boards such as STRRB (System Trouble Report Review Board), FPRB (Failure Prevention Review Board), and IST (Incident Screening Team)
• Prepare and present to government reviewers, design artifact documentation for PDR (Preliminary Design Review), and CDR (Critical Design Review) milestone achievements
• Established environmental test lab for cold weather battery testing, including hardware design, fabrication, assembly, as well as control and data acquisition software programming in LabView, Participate in cold weather battery performance research, testing and data analysis
• Design a military vehicle battery warming subsystem, and integrate it into vehicle, including the preparation of CIS (Critical Item Specification), and ICD (Interface Control Document) documentation
• Lead/participate in team review and analysis of software requirement use-case and hardware subsystem design documents for correctness and impact on new and existing functionality to facilitate integration into the vehicle system
• Develop detailed test plans for software integration, system, and regression testing
• Analyze software test failures to determine severity and impact on system performance, and schedule their correction in a future software build
• Attend technology conferences to stay informed of the latest innovations, and how they may be used to improve products and processes

Confidential

Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Six Sigma Green Belt project: reduce new product development cycle time 5% by introducing production testing design efforts earlier in the design verification testing process to eliminate duplication of effort and capitalize on lessons learned in the design validation process
• Modernize testing capabilities for modular functional tests and final inspection stations from a largely manual paper-centric system, to user-friendly automated test systems with automatic electronic data collection allowing varied on-demand management reports in real time
• Design and program database client-server application for automatic data collection of all test results, and create end-user friendly application to display useful statistics based on Six Sigma analysis on those results in real time such as defect paredo chart, P chart, first time pass rate, total tests performed, passes and fails
• Facilitate quick device history record recovery to support FDA, QA and ISO audits by creating a database capable of accumulating and retrieving complete test history of product and all subassemblies by serial number on demand
  • Create machine vision system that inspects the power supply unit of the VersaCare Med Surge bed for assembly defects by comparing expected image parameters to real-time acquired image parameters
• Built an automated scale calibration system that both calibrates and verifies the accuracy and repeatability of patient weighing systems using servo motor controlled chain hoists, calibrated weights and proximity sensors under a safety-centered control program utilizing the latest in light curtain operator position detection technology
• Design, build and program an automated function and leak test system for medical air mattresses using National Instruments TestStand as the user interface and test executive. Test sequences interfacing with the control board via the CAN networking protocol were written in LabVIEW and LabWindows CVI. These short programs were used to configure air valves and pumps to establish proper conditions for each test, and to record measurements from pressure and flow transducers. TestStand was used to call each of these routines in sequence, and to compare readings with Pass / Fail limits and format test results.

Confidential

Manufacturing Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Process Engineering change requests and notices, (ECR, ECN) documentation for ISO9000 compliance
• Design and implement SQL server-based test data acquisition system which automatically collected data directly from automated test systems for statistical process control
• Program Machine control and data acquisition routines for product calibration and testing using Microsoft Visual C++, LabWindows CVI, through Ethernet, IEEE488 GPIB and Serial interfaces

Confidential

Software/Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed integration and regression testing of complex software products, Program automation system for software regression testing
• Analysis and purchasing of laboratory equipment, hardware and software systems.
• Setup and construction of new telecommunications laboratory incorporating a cable TV head end plant and a Telco central office switch

Confidential

Manufacturing Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Development of PLC Ladder logic code for Alan Bradley SLC500-based programmable logic controllers
• Development of custom motion-control programs for Parker Hannifin Compumotor, Ormec, and Delta Tau servo controller systems
• Develop and modify coil winding machine programs for transformer products

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Wrote and debugged complex real time interrupt driven control software involving motion control, PLC interface, data acquisition and processing, test data interpretation, and manufacturing database reporting for a series of hydraulic, pneumatic, mechanical, and electronic industrial testing and assembly machines.
• Consulted directly with customers to determine design parameters to meet their needs for software development and after-delivery on-site modifications to achieve additional productivity goals.
• Perform field service responsibilities for custom manufacturing test equipment

Confidential

ILTest Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed Microsoft Access databases, programmed in Access Basic
• Created training materials and conducted training courses on test system operation for manufacturing personnel
• Integrated new test systems into manufacturing process