SUMMARY:

• As an excellent strategist who transforms concepts into practical solutions, I achieve superior performance by motivating and mentoring strong focus teams. I am a dedicated leader and loyal advocate, committed to the highest ethical and professional standards while helping people, teams and organizations succeed.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: Smartbits Packet Generators, Sigtek RF sniffers, Agilent Vector Signal Analyzer, IP Routers, Frame Relay FRADs, Multimedia PCs (construct/install from scratch), DOCSIS Cable Modem and CMTS Products, Linux, Windows servers and workstations, RAID Storage Area Networks (SANs), Storage HBAs

Software/Systems: Microsoft Office applications, MS Access databases, Internet client/server applications, Linux, Windows, UNIX, C#, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, PERL, TCL - TK, VOIP, Visual Basic, Fortran, Cobol, Python, and Various Assembler Languages, Windows Clusters, Linux Clusters, SNMP, SMI-S

Protocols: VISA I, TCP-IP, DHCP, DNS, HTML, XML, IPX, SCSI, Token Ring, Ethernet, DOCSIS Cable Protocols, BSC 3270, SDLC, ASYNC,BSC 3780, X.25, Frame Relay, ISO 8583 (Credit Card). 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Contract Consultant

Confidential

• Functionally tested new tape storage products for OEM customers and documented problems in their bug tracking system.
• Utilized Linux & Windows servers, Storage networking devices (FC HBAs, FC Switches), and storage management protocols (SCSI, FC, SNMP, SMI-S),
• Test Automation scripting with Perl, BASH, Python, and Visual Basic
• Created Web interface and DB application for inventorying lab assets.

Senior Staff Engineer 

Confidential

• As Test Lead Engineer, lead teams of test engineers for fault tolerant RAID and Storage Area Networks. Plan Tests from Customer & Development requirements or SOW (Statement of Work). Write Project Test Design Documents for review with Development and Test Departments for new projects. Develop Test Plans, Test Cases, Status, and Reporting for large multi-terabyte fault tolerant RAID Storage Systems interfacing with Windows, Linux, Solaris, and other Server Operating Systems. White and Black Box Testing of new RAID Storage and SAN Products. Provided entrance/exit criteria for product releases and Test Matrixes of test coverage.
• Wrote Specifications Parser applications in Perl, VBA, and MS Access from specifications documents. In seconds, it can analyze an IETF specification and can input individual requirements and cross references into a Database. Can parse other specifications documents by key words.
• Created Data Mining Test Database for analyzing present and past test results for any past or present project.
• Initiated MS Access Databases in minutes for my own or other’s special requirements. Expert with 15 years experience with MS Access and can create new DB applications with Forms and reports while requestor is standing beside me and telling me what he wants.
• Installed and tested Windows and 8 node Red Hat Linux Clusters and RAID Storage Networks.
• Installed and tested with the latest Windows, Linux, Unix, AIX OSes and Storage Area Networks.
• Installed and Tested 8 Cluster Nodes Windows Clusters and Storage for Windows 2000, 2003, and 2008 Servers.
• Proficient with SAS, Fiber Channel, iSCSI, Virtual SANs, and SATA Storage protocols and applications since LSI is a major OEM provider of storage systems.
• Worked with enhanced security, data compression, data encryption, and authorization zoning for SAN products.
• Tested and verified new and existing Storage Management products for LSI and their OEMs (IBM, Dell, SUN, SGI). Including automated storage provisioning and tiering.
• Worked with development toward implementing T10 DIF standard for end-to-end Data Integrity between Server Application and RAID data on drives.
• Expert with IBM’s new TPC LiC (Launch in Context) datacenter management software, worked with LSI and IBM developers on LiC (Launch in Context) testing.
• VMware Server and Virtual Box applications with RAID Storage Networks - Installed and Tested Linux, Unix, and Windows VM Clients on Linux and Windows VM servers.
• Wrote MS Office VBA applications for automatically creating Visio Diagrams from Excel spreadsheet or MS Access Database information.
• Wrote Test Automation scripts for a JAVA based Test environment.

Principle/Visiting Engineer

Confidential

• Cablemodem (DOCSIS 1.1) Standards Core Team Member. Wrote and reviewed acceptance test procedures relating to Cablemodem MAC, Service Flow, and MAC-PHY protocols and SNMP V1,2,3 MIBs. Developed and maintained automated procedures and scripts for parsing requirements from specifications and generating detailed requirement reports. Developed and implemented an industry wide Cablemodem multi-user database for adding, updating and retrieving requirements, requirement-test traceability, and acceptance test documents. Trained test engineers, visiting engineers.
• Researched and recommended OPEN Software based Test Automation tools to CL based on Open TCL/TK, Ethereal, WireShark, UCD-SNMP, and interfaces to Test Equipment.
• Helped create and trained Cablelab’s Test Automation Staff.
• Developed and enhanced Test Automation Scripts using SNMP, Packet Generators, Cablemodem RF Sniffers, and Ethernet Sniffers.
• Wrote automated test scripts to verify security key exchanges for Cablemodem’s Security and Encryption protocol (Baseline Privacy). Donated test scripts to Cablelabs for their Certification Testing.
• Created/maintained Cablemodem 1.1 & 2.0 requirements database from parsed requirements in IETF. For new Specifications the parsing tool provided feedback to IETF specification writers.
• Created/maintained CableHome requirements/test coverage database, loaded all requirements from Specifications, provided feedback to spec writers.
• Developed Cablemodem 2.0 Downstream RF Sniffer. Used at CL and in development LABs at Confidential .

DOCSIS Principle/Visiting Engineer

Confidential

• Developed and implemented industry-wide Cablemodem multi-user database for adding, updating and retrieving requirements, requirement-test traceability, and acceptance test documents. Trained test engineers and Cablelabs visiting engineers. Cablemodem (DOCSIS 1.1) Standards Core Team Member.
• Wrote and reviewed acceptance test procedures relating to Cablemodem MAC, Service Flow, and MAC-PHY protocols and SNMP V1,2,3 MIBs
• Developed and maintained automated procedures and scripts for parsing requirements from specifications and generating detailed requirement reports
• Developed and implemented an industry wide Cablemodem multi-user database for adding, updating and retrieving requirements, requirement-test traceability, and acceptance test documents.
• Trained test engineers, visiting engineers, and specifications leaders to use the DOCSIS Cable protocol decoder that I created and developed. Answered questions and assisted Sigtek in their early development of a commercially available Cablemodem RF Sniffer.

Group Integration Test Leader

Confidential

• Consulted, developed tests, and tested Cablemodem CMTSs (headends) and Cablemodems. Wrote Visual Basic, SNMP scripts, WEB pages, and MS Access Database multi-user applications for trouble tracking, automated testing, and specifications test coverage. Created popular Confidential internal WEB page with Cablemodem documentation, tutorials, and test software. Initiated, researched, and wrote test scripts for SNMP automated testing.
• Contributing Engineer for Cablelabs (Boulder, CO) for DOCSIS 1.0 and 1.1 standards.
• Provided weekly Confidential DOCSIS 1.1 training Seminars for Confidential ’s developers and testers.
• Created first Cablemodem upstream and downstream RF protocol decoder which decodes raw hex protocol to understandable text per specification.
• Initiated, researched, and wrote test scripts for SNMP automated testing. Contributed test scripts to Cablelabs for Encryption/Security, MAC, and SNMP testing.
• Contributed Acceptance Test Procedures for Cablemodem 1.0 and 1.1 specifications.
• Initiated and coordinated Cablemodem interoperability testing with Georgia Tech University and University of New Hampshire.

Consulting Engineer

Confidential

• Developed tests and test environments for new Internet/Intranet (TCP/IP), and Frame Relay products. Wrote specification and Test plan for Frame Relay product’s BSC/SDLC interface. Initiated, created, and developed first database with full traceability between specifications and test procedures. Initiated, created, and developed multi-user database for storing R&D’s test and customer problem reports. SEI CMM (Capability Maturity Model) trained and analysis of company processes.

Senior Staff Coordinator

Confidential

• Confidential Refining and Marketing Operations Manager for point of sale applications and retail network. There were more than 2800 locations, which authorized and collected over $4.5B/yr in credit card purchases. Planned, consulted, developed communications solutions, negotiated contracts, and managed projects.
• Confidential Information and Technology Division, 1985 to 1989. Project leader who consulted, preparing the business case, designed, ordered, and implemented all Voice and Data communications requirements for Chemicals, Lubricants and refining and marketing divisions of Confidential .