SUMMARY:

• Cloud DevOps and SQA professional with experience ranging from hands on testing of software and components to integration of complete end - to-end system technology solutions.
• Project Management experience leading engineering test teams in both domestic and off shore locations.
• Track record of designing and delivering solutions for enterprise level software, excellent communication skills, a keen attention to detail, a passion for building high quality scale-able software and learning new technologies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Burlington, MA

Principal DevOps Engineer

• Bridged the gap between application development and operations, driving cloud infrastructure deployments, continuous integration and production support.
• Developed bash scripts to automate server builds, OS patches, and deployment of applications to development, test and production environments.
• Used Virtual box to create Ubuntu docker io and Windows VM tools for coreos/docker.
• Created, deployed and maintained docker containers, such as Tanium clients for security services across all data centers.
• Pager duty service monitoring and responding to application issues for 10 large (1000 node) data centers we built out across the US.

Principal QA Lead Engineer

Confidential

• SQA test manager for the wireless SIP CP8831 conference phone we OEM to Confidential . It combines high definition (HD) audio performance and media encryption with wide band hands free speakers and DECT wireless microphones.
• SQA project lead for our next gen wireless audio unified communications solution incorporating USB audio and the new IEEE 802.1 Audio Video Bridging, AVB technology. This is a distributed architecture solution featuring HD audio quality and extremely high channel capacity with, AES256 encryption, cloud based system management, and integration with third party audio control systems.
• My roles were very hands and technical. I built the teams and implemented a discipline focused on quality. This included developing the test strategy, writing test plans, setting up test beds, scheduling, hiring, mentoring, task assignments, bug tracking and reporting bug trends, issue resolution and coordination with development, offshore test team and management and support for customer escalations.

Confidential

Video Systems Test and Program Manager

• I managed the operational aspects, scoping and project planning, scheduling and coordinated the execution of systems test engineering projects for major MSO's within the areas of cable TV and FiOS, IP Fiber To The Premises (FTTP) networks.
• Technical program management of On - Demand and Internet Protocol Video Systems (IPTV) and video services. Responsibilities included solutions execution and analysis of deployments and testing of customer requirements. Interfacing with the customer to establish and maintain technical relationships, enhancement and change requests and escalating any customer defects found.
• Systems integration and test of end to end FiOS deployment from Video head end to the Moca capable set top boxes Including all related access elements for the fiber to the premises (FTTP) network and, integration of Cisco video streamer and other 3rd party servers and components in the test environment. Google acquired Confidential.

Principal SQA Engineer

Confidential

• I was responsible for the engineering testing strategy including the scope, technical risks, methods, resources and objectives in support of the validation, verification and qualification of the product solution to confirm adequate test coverage that met the product marketing requirements and business goals.
• Motorola acquired Broadbus.

QA Engineer/Manager/Project Lead

Confidential

• Technical management responsibilities for systems integration testing of the first deployments of VoIP over the cable TV HFC infrastructure, compliant to the PacketCable standards. I verified and tested end - to-end first function and features as was eventually deployed, including 3rd party vendor components and PSTN interconnect.
• I was responsible for all technical marketing demonstrations of end-to-end VoIP at NCTA, SCTE, CableLabs and various other venues.
• Earlier, I worked in the voice test tools.development group. We created tools that ran on FreeBSD and Tcl/Tk which emulated a router serving to test hardware and software in advance of a router platform and ios availability. In addition to writing code, I was also responsible for project scheduling, problem solving, performance management, communication and resolution of engineering development and test dependencies and influencing various functional teams in the software development.

Confidential

Diagnostics Test

• Integration of multiprocessor SPARC simulator with the Verilog RTL models for the purposes of individual instruction cycle comparisons of code running on simulated asic design hardware and the software programmers model using Verilog PLI.
• Wrote JTAG scan vector applications that ran on the gate level model and on the actual silicon.
• Wrote online Unix systems level device driver exerciser and validation test suite for the Sun hardware by verifying the connectivity and functionality of all device drivers, hardware devices, controllers and peripherals.