PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Twenty years of progressive successes in both technical and managerial roles. A history of taking on projects in mid - stream and completing on time and within budget. Known for ability to communicate with and motivate peers, resulting in exemplary team performance under demanding conditions. Understand “big picture” of projects, which allows leadership and managerial skills to raise level of performance of all team members.

BACKGROUND SUMMARY:

• Full Life Cycle Software Development Leadership
• Quality Assurance
• Software test plans and testing
• Process Improvement
• Windows NT & UNIX Operating Systems
• Project Planning / Scheduling
• Software Change Management
• Software Design & Architecture
• Object Oriented Analysis & Design
• Procedures Development and Implementation
• Requirements Definition and Traceability
• Training / Demos of technical material / products
• Hardware Documentation
• Client Server Development
• Project Documentation Control
• System Administration
• System Integration / Test / Troubleshooting

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:

• C
• C++
• Java
• Ada 
• TCP/IP
• MS Project
• Unix
• Unix Scripting
• X-Motif
• Windows NT
• SQL
• Linux
• UML
• MS Access
• MS Office
• Sun Solaris
• Dec Alpha
• AIX

EMPLOYMENT SUMMARY:

Confidential, Houston, TX

Instrument Database Administrator

• Responsible for instrument database design and content.
• Development of scripts, queries, forms, and reports for numerous projects using Microsoft Access databases systems.
• MS Access programming, data integrity, and report generation for industrial equipment, process instrumentation, specification data, control system I/O, purchase order tracking.
• Generate custom views and reports.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Software QA and testing

• Responsible for Software testing and Quality assurance for Confidential employee benefits website software.
• Responsibilities included test plans and procedures, automated and manual test scripts.
• Software change request and configuration management, and user acceptance testing.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Systems Analyst / System Administrator

• Responsible for Client / Server software and hardware maintenance.
• Tasks included call center operations, problem troubleshooting, server maintenance, user account management, system monitoring and tuning.
• Responsible of daily system services and data analysis, procedures documentation and improvement.
• Coordination of vendor support, problem and trouble ticket response and resolution, system backup and recovery, system monitoring and tuning.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Integration Control Document Engineer

• Responsible for coordinating and documenting detailed hardware interface data for Space Station Payloads.
• Duties included coordination of engineering data and diagrams, database migration, managing and expediting change data, and coordinating approval and document delivery cycles for 4 ISS payloads.
• Monitored progress of subcontractors and customer engineering staff toward completion of responsible data.
• Expedited resolution of data and hardware interface issues and problems.
• Coordinated communication among participating entities to insure efficient resolution of problems and timely submission of required data.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Software Development Technical Lead

• Prepare and certify all testing procedures and scripts.
• This included QA reviews and coordination.
• Verify requirements to design mapping.
• Verify requirements to test procedure mapping.
• Prepare, present, and verify requirements reviews with system requirements and System QA
• Prepare, expedite, review, test, and close all anomaly or discrepancy reports.
• Complete test procedure and requirement verification signoff
• Collect, analyze and present software quality metrics.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Software Developer and Configuration Manager

• Software Developer and Configuration Manager for the Operations Configuration Management subsystem on the Mission Systems Contract.
• Responsible for requirement generation and documentation, code development, subsystem software configuration and build coordination, environment variable coordination, and global application coordination.
• Insure total quality of software, including quality process and metrics reporting.
• Wrote and/or maintained most of the project documentation including user handbooks, requirement documents, change logs and discrepancy report data.
• Served 2 years as unit representative on the division ISO 9000 process improvement team.
• Gained experience in Unix on Dec Alpha workstations writing scripts and coding in C with X-motif GUIs.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Senior Associate Programmer

• Subsystem Design Engineer for several contracts including the Flight Analysis and Design System,
• Space Station Control Center, and Close Combat Tactical Trainers for armored vehicle battalions.
• Responsibilities included negotiation and documentation of requirements, developing preliminary subsystem design, and maintaining / upgrading software test tools.
• Work closely with Quality Assurance, including process documentation and metrics collection and analysis.
• Experience on DEC Alpha workstations and Object Oriented design methodologies.