OBJECTIVE:

A challenging System Engineering, Development, or Test Management position with an innovative and inspiring company where I might effectively contribute in the success of the product and the company. Looking for a company where people are passionate about their work.

SUMMARY:

• Innovative results - oriented Engineer with over 25 years of Telecom, Datacom, Industrial, Embedded and Web Application Software Engineering experience with the capability and determination to successfully complete major challenges.
• Held key positions as a Tester, Developer, Team Lead, Scrum Master, Architect, and Senior Manager.
• Successful track record in creating productive SW Test, Development, and Intelligent Automation Teams.
• Established, trained, and managed development teams at DSC, Rapid5, Hatteras, Cisco, Confidential, and GIS.
• Successful record of development, integration, system test, and delivery of new products.
• Numerous successful demos, customer demos, trials and new product launches.
• Setup, utilized, maintained Development and Test Labs at DSC, Rapid5, Confidential, Cisco, Confidential .
• Established Energy Consulting firm and performed many energy audits of small and large industry sites.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chapin, SC

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Scrum Master for C#/.NET Development Team automating business processes and services with AWS Cloud based interface using AWS API, lambda and serverless step functions.
• Scrum Master for Automated Web Search Assistant Architecture and offshore Robot Factory Teams responsible for automating business processes using Kapow with a current reduction in operating costs of 43% with a projected target of 70%.
• Led Development Team in Scrum ceremonies and adopting Agile Principles and Values.
• Organized SW Release Management Group implementing primary goals of streamlining processes, increasing team efficiencies, and implementing regression test automation for three different divisions.
• Established regular, recurring release process and regression schedule.
• Goal Setting, Training, Mentoring, Coaching, and Managing team for optimal delivery of software with automated quality assurance regression testing.
• Established training and lunch time learning sessions to educate team on product lines, automation test tools (Kapow, Test Architect and Selenium Webdriver), configuration and build management tools.
• Managed Build Team to control build and release process and QA Test, Development, Production Environments, Servers, Load Balancers, Disaster Recovery Servers, Config Files, Stored Procedures, and Databases.

Confidential, Louisville, KY

SWQA Manager

Responsibilities:

• Created new SWQA Team - Recruiting, hiring, training, developing, mentoring, coaching, establishing strategies, processes, procedures.
• Worked with General Management to establish team goals, objectives, and budget.
• Managed 45 personnel and a budget of 2.7M.
• Validated Embedded Software Control Systems for five new product lines with Confidential Appliance Division with 12 new products introduced in first four years.
• Worked with HR, Recruiting, Buyers and Purchasing for recruiting, hiring, establishing working relationships with Contracting firms and finding and hiring the right team members.
• Created a Fully Automated Test System using National Instruments hardware and LabVIEW, TestStand, and VeriStand software.
• Created “Soft” Load boxes to emulate target platforms and facilitate testing earlier in the life cycle.
• Assisted in Agile process introduction and implementation to Confidential Appliance Park.

Confidential, RTP, NC

Manager Test Automation

Responsibilities:

• Successfully completed the end to end development and roll-out of an automated test harness for internal use by all Cisco employees involved in the development and release of High Availability IOS images.
• The completed test harness executes over 1600 test runs per month on over 12 different software development streams.
• The test harness automatically captures software defects earlier in the life cycle and thus saves Cisco revenues in lost productivity over late state defects and is effective in improving customer satisfaction.
• Project covered entire development life cycle from documenting customer needs and requirements, architecture, design, coding, development, integration, and system test.
• Created Documents for Engineering Commit, High Level and Architectural Design, Program/Project Plan, Lab Configuration Diagrams, System Test Plan.
• Setup new test platforms (C10K-PRE2, PRE3, 12K, 7300, 7500, 7600, 6500, 4500).
• Developed, coded, and tested configuration and test scripts.
• Led team in development of Web interface and Database using phpMyAdmin and MySql.
• Provided Project Management status for Release Ops, Program Mgrs, and Development and Test teams.
• Offered solutions to energy savings including Solar PV, lighting fixtures, lighting controllers, motor controllers, Phase saver/reactive power correction devices, and AC/Refrigeration oil additives.

Confidential, RTP, NC

System Test Manager

Responsibilities:

• Successfully completed Integration and System Test of the HN5000 and NIU functionality utilizing detailed system knowledge of the software subsystems, tasks, and overall system functionality.
• Used Sniffers, Ethereal, embedded tools, and VxWorks commands to isolate FPGA, network processor, and software subsystem issues.
• Developed working knowledge of MPLS and G. SHDSL.
• Developed System Documents, Test Plans, and manual and automated test scripts using Tcl and Expect.
• Planned, setup, and conducted initial demos for management, board members, and customers.
• Delivered a highly successful networking demonstration at SuperComm 2002 which was the key component in being able to close a $45 million round of funding.
• Staged and verified the first live office customer’s system.
• Managed budget and Installed, configured, and maintained over $1.5 million in Spirent, Riverstone, and Cisco test equipment.

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Lead/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Successfully implemented a functional interface to partner’s softswitches, which required interaction with Softswitch partners, Senior Management, Marketing, Sales, PLM, Platform and Network Management Team, and the Chief Architect. This required a detailed knowledge of the RCP-700 Hardware, Software, and our partner’s softswitches which included Westwave, ipVerse, Syndeo, Tekelec, Telcordia, and Inet.
• Defined the Requirements, Proposed the Design, Drafted HLDs, LLDs, Call Flows, and Integrated the Third Party MGCP stack into our existing embedded Call Control, Platform, and Network Management infrastructures. Developed a detailed knowledge of MGCP, SS7, and IMT-IMT, IMT-PRI Call Models.
• Created Provisioning and Database Tables, Initial Discovery Mechanisms, Heartbeats, Endpoint Status Notification and query procedures, Redundancy support, integrated the MGCP Stack, mapped MGCP messages into internal messaging structure, and used a proprietary PRI backhaul mechanism.
• Utilized the SLC-96, SLC-5, 5ESS, ABACUS, INET SS7, LAN Sniffers, and MaxTNT and 3COM RAS.