PMI - Houston sponsored the Houston Galleria and the North Houston Project Management Toastmasters clubs to provide a venue and the training to help Project Managers become stronger leaders and communicators within their profession and the community. As PMI - Houston recognized the strength in the Toastmasters' program, they worked with the club so that PMs could gain PDUs through participating in these two club. HGPMT - Improving Project Management One Presentation At A Time

C/S Solutions, Inc. is a Houston, Texas based provider of application and network services. We are a Microsoft Certified Solution Provider and as such cover all of the Microsoft platforms, development products and tools.

Developed and executed manual and automated test plans and test cases that assured our customers a smooth operating product. Liaison between multiple company departments, and across multiple sites, that secured the allocation of IT and lab resources for my team, allowing them to meet their testing schedule.• Boosted quality through increasing test time approximately 20% by improving delivery time of applications to validation team• Successfully delivered the most complicated application ever produced ensuring the highest quality by partnering with the project team• Increased regression functional test coverage 50% by writing automated tests involving 18 modules, 55 classes, and over 500 methods• Strengthened department efficiency by leading initiative to implement procedures for distributed team

Testing Lead successfully managing work load, staff development, skills, and talents of an internationally-distributed team on 9-month-long projects. This included training of remote team members, reviewing test plans and test cases from all members of the team to assure coverage of the features they were assigned, developing & executing my own test plans & test cases, and reporting progress of the team to management.• Lowered testing cost by Mentoring and Training Off-shore Interns in a few months till they were productive members of the test team• Assured customer compliance with multiple regulatory procedures such as: -- HIPAA – Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act -- DISA – Defense Information Systems Agency -- NIST – National Institute of Standards and Technology -- SOX – Sarbanes–Oxley Act -- PCI DSS – Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard• Successfully delivered multi-million dollar products assuming key leadership role: -- Oversaw initiative and drove resolution of defects to assure high level of quality delivered to customer -- Lead testing team to meet all milestones and time-lines through the transition of key project members -- Identifying & developing team members’ strengths so that assignments would best utilize their abilities

First Quality Engineer brought into the 2-year-old startup company to assist management in building a formal test engineering group and to improve the quality of the AS/400 product line.• Instrumental in setting up formal software test group, improving the product’s quality and removing test responsibilities from developers• Improved Product quality by writing and performing manual and automated functional & system tests• Collaborated with technical writers on User manuals assuring clear description of functionality

First test engineer to validate the development of a new Windows NT 3.5.1 based C++ down-hole tool management package. Performed manual and automated acceptance, functional, & system-level testing. • Promoted test plan layout and reporting mechanisms adopted by rest of team• Developed WinRunner libraries used by the rest of the test engineers to write their test cases