Objective

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

Experience

Confidential

Senior Manager of SIT

• Continued responsibility for all activities associated with my responsibilities as Manager of SIT
• 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

Manager of SIT/SVT

• Responsible for line management of seven employees in three countries
• Distributed and trained personnel on using my test automation system in Poland, China, Germany, Sweden, Atlanta, Washington D.C.
• 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

System Integration Test Team Lead

• 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

Engineering Manager/Project Management Cellworx/Soneplex Product Lines

• Managed a team of six Software Test engineers performing enhancements on the Cellworx 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

Contract Developer

Responsible for specification, development, test, documentation of Automated tools for ITT and the USAF

Confidential

Engineering Manager - Cellworx ATM Project Sustaining Team

• Responsible for managing all aspects of the Cellworx 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 Cellworx software

Confidential

Principle Engineer - System Architecture Team - Cellworx ATM project

• 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 Cellworx 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

Engineering Manager of System Integration - Cellworx ATM project

• 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

Project Engineer - Cellworx ATM project

• Responsible for overseeing six developers in the development of the Cellworx 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

Senior Design Engineer- Cellworx ATM project

• 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

TSM-IV, Technical Team Leader, Automation and Tools Lightwave Division

• 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

Design Engineer ATM /Cellular division

• Developed automated test tools for the SVT 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

TSM-III, System Verification and Test Lightwave Division

• Development and implementation of SVT 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

Senior Engineer

• Production and distribution of AXE software
• Increased production in various departments through tools development
• Created tools for sale to customers
• Engineer
• Lead production, distribution, and integration of AXE CP/SP software
• Automated compilation and distribution of SP systems
• Awarded several bonuses for greatly increasing productivity
• Junior Engineer
• Production, distribution, and testing of AXE software
• Improved efficiency of processes through tool development on PCs and mainframes