SUMMARY:

To obtain a challenging and versatile position within a high - tech industry which utilizes my experience with testing, test group management, and the development of automated test tools

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Protocols: DS1, DS3, SONET, ATM, GPIB, SNMP, ADSL, 802.3, Ethernet, X.25, ISO, SCPI, SNTP/NTP, RADIUS, RFC2544, TACACS, TCP/IP, SCPI

Industry Specs: ANSI T1.xxx, Bellcore/Telcordia, IETF RFCs, ATM Forum, Frame Relay Forum, ISO, ITU-T

Oss/Apps: UNIX, SunOS, Solaris, Linux, DOS, Windows 95/98/ME/XP/Vista/7, MacOS, Excel, MS Word, Powerpoint

Languages: Tcl/Tk, C, Visual Basic, Pascal, HTML, 80xxx Assembly, REXX, Pipeline, PERL, TL1, Shell Scripting

Equipment: HP, Digital Lightwave, Cerjac, 802.3/X.25 Protocol Analyzers (HP, Network General, W&G, Telenex), Xyplex Terminal Servers and X.25 Gateways, DigiPort Terminal Servers, CODEX X.25 Packet Switches, Spirent AX40000, SmartBits, ANUE impairment generator, Ixia N2X, GNUBI protocol testers, Acterna protocol analyzers, T-Berd protocol analyzers

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Senior Manager

Responsibilities:

• Continued responsibility for all activities associated with my responsibilities
• Responsible for line management of 14 employees in three countries
• Management of a testing automation development team in India to enhance automation to include Spirent, Ixia, and Anue test equipment drivers
• Development and deployment of an automation tool, adopted as the company-wide choice for automation activities world-wide
• Creation, organization, and management of test cases using HP-Quality Center

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for line management of seven employees in three countries
• Responsible for interfacing with PLM, Project Management, Tech Support, Documentation, and SW development on all product lines
• Responsible for reviewing requirements specifications on all product lines
• Test planning, execution, and reporting in a fast-paced environment with multiple concurrent projects

Confidential, Richardson, TX

System Integration & Test Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for creating and executing test plans and reporting results to management
• Responsible for creating testing automation tools - achieved an orders of magnitude increase in test execution speed
• Created a test automation environment facilitating TL1, SNMP, TCP, and GPIB protocols
• Tested all functional aspects of the Adva product line including TL1, SNMP, SONET Interfaces, 10/100/100fx/Gigabit Ethernet, T1, T3, RADIUS, TACACS, SNTP, Performance Monitoring, Alarms, OAM, User Security
• Responsible for Network analysis and throughput & latency testing including proprietary and RFC2544 protocols.
• UI testing of CLI, Menu, EMS, & NMS interfaces
• Assisted with Customer documentation, defining requirements, system engineering

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Engineering Manager/Project Management

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of six Software & Test engineers performing enhancements on the Confidential and Soneplex product lines
• Performed Project Management duties including forecasting, tracking, scheduling, budgeting
• Worked as an individual contributor, providing SNMP, TL1 and HDLC testing and automation tools to both the Richardson and Tustin California facilities
• Responsible for planning and scheduling workloads between the two projects
• Responsible for budgeting and forecasting
• Responsible for asset disposal and transfer following budget cuts
• Responsible for maintaining the lines of communication between Engineering, Upper Management, Field Services, and the Customer

Confidential, Frisco, TX

Contract Developer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for specification, development, test, documentation of Automated tools for Confidential and the Confidential

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Engineering Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing all aspects of the Confidential project
• Managed a group of 12 engineers (1 hardware, 3 testers, 1 layout, 6 SW developers, 1 technician) and one project manager in order to deliver new features to customers
• Interfaced directly with Customers, the Sales Team, Product Marketing, and Project Management in order to determine and implement customer requirements
• Achieved the first ever on-time delivery of Confidential software

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Principle Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overseeing all System Architecture aspects of Network Management, Configuration Management, and Fault Management
• Interfaced regularly with Product Management, Design, Field Services, outside development organizations, and various customers on all aspects of Confidential Network Management
• Responsible for ensuring that all SNMP MIB development consistent with industry standards
• Responsible for answering customer RFPs as related to standards organizations documents
• Familiarity with various standards documents ISO, ITU-T, ANSI-T1, ATM-Forum, IETF, Bellcore (Telcordia), Frame Relay Forum

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Engineering Manager of System Integration

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for hiring and directing ten engineers in System Integration activities
• Developed tools for automatic Correction Report statistical analysis
• Improved integration process through automation
• Led a performance enhancement team, achieving a 4x increase in system performance
• Decreased test case creation time through better organization of test areas
• Developed numerous automation tools for the purpose of system configuration, system performance tracking, and system monitoring
• Improved software dev/integration cycles through implementation of various design documents
• Developed various SNMP-based tools for customer use

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Project Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for overseeing six developers in the development of the Confidential GUI
• Developed embedded debug facilities for real-time debugging of a SAR driver
• Redesigned several areas of the GUI for a 5x improvement in performance
• Responsible for Linux System Administration on the Network Management Interface Card

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Senior Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Enabled Network Management testing through the development of simulation tools
• Developed various SNMP-based automated test tools dealing with connection management, performance monitoring and NE recovery and provisioning
• Responsible for the development of an SNMP API used for Network Management control
• Responsible for coding and execution of test scripts
• Responsible for design and enhancement of the Network Management GUI

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Technical Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for automating all aspects of System Verification and Test
• Developed various SNMP tools to automate test environment configuration
• Created a Tcl/Tk-based automated testing tool for use throughout the company
• Created and maintained HTML-based documents for training and reference
• Developed C-based Tcl extensions dealing with serial, GPIB, and TCP/IP communication
• Developed an NE Offline Config tool, used to restore NE configuration following catastrophic failure
• Created “front ends” for test equipment and Network Access products
• Developed a TL1 syntactical and database test tool
• Awarded several bonuses and Quality Cups for greatly improving testing capacity

Confidential, Plano, TX

Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed automated test tools for the Confidential group within the ATM product division
• Created Tcl/Tk GUIs for configuration management and testing automation
• Developed SNMP based automated testing tools
• Created SS7 test configuration tool for simulating SS7 networks within a Catapult simulator
• Responsible for UNIX System Administration of the lab network

Confidential, Richardson, TX

System Verification and Test

Responsibilities:

• Development and implementation of Confidential test procedures and special projects
• Awarded a bonus for the development of an automated TL1 test tool
• Responsible for testing all network interfaces (TL1, RS232, 802.3, X.25)
• Responsible for all 7-layer stack conformance testing
• Responsible for assisting in Mercury WinRunner script development to test the mgmt system
• Responsible for implementing LabView programs for automated testing

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Senior Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Production and distribution of Confidential software
• Increased production in various departments through tools development
• Created tools for sale to customers

Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead production, distribution, and integration of Confidential CP/SP software
• Automated compilation and distribution of SP systems
• Awarded several bonuses for greatly increasing productivity

Junior Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Production, distribution, and testing of Confidential software
• Improved efficiency of processes through tool development on PCs and mainframes