SUMMARY

Hands - on experience in several phases of the product life cycle with roles in software development, software sustaining, automation, and sales. I am very strong in C/ C++, work well in team and solo environments, and have great people skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Private Contract

Responsibilities:

• Software developer on an embedded system executing on a Controllino micro controller (Arduino compatible) targeted for the semi-conductor industry.
• The product enables temperature control and monitoring of disparate chilling entities (i.e. Peltier and liquid chillers) via a single computer program using custom protocols running over RS232 and RS485.
• I am responsible for designing, developing, testing and documenting the software portion of the project.
• This work is being done in C.

Confidential

Account Representative

Responsibilities:

• Trying something completely different, I took an outside sales position with SMC.
• SMC's product line up is a vast array of pneumatic and electric valves, actuators, chillers, sensors and switches, and are used in industry automation in semi-conductor, life sciences, and food and packaging.
• I have a territory of customers.

Confidential

Sales Rep

Responsibilities:

• Trying something completely different, I invested in Confidential (GSB).
• Golden Sate Brewery has produced fine craft beer in Santa Clara, CA since 2015.
• I traveled to San Diego to drive beer sales and to be a liaison between the main brewery and our satellite tap room in San Diego.

Ericsson IP Routers - Dev Support, Continuous Integration Engineer

Responsibilities:

• CI infrastructure used GIT repositories hosted in Gerrit and used the Jenkins script engine to provided an efficient work flow for submitting software into a shared repository.
• developed all of the CI infrastructure used by my group as well as the training and reference material - this work is done using Bash, Perl, and Python script languages
• Unit-test framework was a tool written in Python script language that compiled into some core product libraries enabled engineers to use Python scripts to unit-test their software changes prior to committing code

Confidential

Software Development, Tools Development, Load Test Lead

Responsibilities:

• RCS mobile client and server side products for client discovery and configuration High availability carrier grade products in the FMC space
• Software Development - C / C++
• POSIX thread synchronization, state machine and control plane development, socket programming
• Involved in core product design and implementation - done in C/C++ for the 2.5G/3G product, and Java for the RCS server products
• Ported SCTP stack in the Linux kernel from Linux 2.5 to Linux 2.4
• Responsible for resolving software defects found by QA and customers (trials)
• Tools Development Lead - C / C++
• RCS Products - Responsible for the design, implementation, maintenance of software programs that simulated client activation with configuration and discovery services
• 2.5G & 3G Products - Responsible for the design, implementation, maintenance of real time software programs that simulated the core network (MSC / SGSN), Femto-Cell, Home-NodeB access points, and thousands of UEs.
• The programs were used for load testing of the gateway control plane, were real-time, massively scale-able, written in OOP C/C++
• Bulk call simulator - state-full CS and PS access network traffic
• SGSN simulator - Gb over Frame Relay and Gb over IP - simulated the 2.5G SGSN in the CN
• MGCP and MEGACO simulators
• Created and maintained state machines simulating core network functionality at the M3UA, SCCP and RANAP or BSSAP layers (using an MGTS i3000 product )
• Built lab environments for load testing, router and switch configurations, test bed creation

Confidential

Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and executed PC based 802.11 end-to-end packet testing
• Developed test automation and test data analysis tools using Perl/Expect

Confidential

Sustaining Engineer, Test Automation

Responsibilities:

• Jetstream produced a voice over broadband gateway converging class V PBX and packet switched networks.
• Sustaining Engineer - C / C++
• Debugged and resolved software defects found at trial sites
• Worked with field engineers to resolve software defects
• Debugging and resolved software defects found during QA cycles, QA Staff, Test Automation
• Created and maintained an automated load test framework using Tcl/Expect

Confidential

Sustaining Engineer and Test Automation

Responsibilities:

• Resolved software defects found at customer sites
• Interfaced with product support personnel to do root-cause-analysis of defects
• Implemented software customization to existing product per customer requests
• Work was done using C maps and porting their assembly output to patches that applied to live systems Member of staff
• Developed automated system provisioning and bulk call load testing
• Created and executed QA test plans

Confidential

Database Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented a multi-user database used to track engineering lab assets
• Responsible for database user training ng I and II, CSU Extension 1999
• Java Programming I, CSU Extension 2002