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Tucson, Az, Us

Designing and Developing C# .NET solutions to support test engineering applications. Develop NI TestStand sequences. Creating in-house applications, automated testing platforms and unit tests. Translate application storyboards, design requirements, and use cases into functional applications. Good understanding of driver development, DLLs creation and handling managed and un-managed code. Integrating individual software applications into workable test systems. Revising, Refactoring, Debugging and Maintaining software projects using C#, NI TestStand and other .Net libraries. Drive trade studies, prototype creation, simulation for critical design concepts. Develop verification and validation procedures for test software to ensure system will perform as specified to meet customer and system requirements. Review test engineering artifacts like design documents, test plan, user manual and related documents.Skill Sets:Hands on experience with NI TestStand sequence development.Skill for writing reusable C# (.NET 3.5 or higher) libraries and concurrency patterns in C# using Microsoft Visual Studio.Sound understanding of coding and development processes.Ability to Test and deploy test applications and test systems.Experience in usage of tools for requirements management, configuration control, project server, MS OFFICE.Hands on experience on various test and measurement equipment

Detroit, Michigan, Us

Software Developer/Innovation Owner- Order To Delivery for Global Finance IT Ty is responsible for new application programming in the GM Mexico, Central America and Caribbean market, testing and code debugging and will support estimation, analysis, design and automated delivery. • Own the architecture and design of the Local Credit and Collection System and required software components.• Integrate Azure DEV-OPS model for internal Global Local Credit and Collections System which includes operational support and resolving transactional issues in Mexico, Central America and Caribbean.• Implement code fixes for Cognos reports to assist dealer invoices which helps vehicles move between customs and allow GM dealers to receive payment or provide credit notes.• Migrate code from legacy codebase from Bitbucket to TFS for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery• Migrate code from using Struts framework into Java/Spring Application to improve performance and increase security of the application.• Implemented Oracle Transactional Database Encryption for the LCCS application to protect customer personal information• Develop shell scripts to start and stop tomcat servers to encrypt passwords, update configuration files and restart the server• Develop code changes and minor enhancements with Java/Spring Framework• Administrate database access and password rotation along with correct data permissions• Documented FAQ's and custom validation to reduce incidents & provide ticket management.• Lead,Mentor New College Hires on engineering job assessments with applications/tools with minimal supervision• Develop SAML changes to replace Header Based Authentication to maintain Security Star• Conduct Business Continuity to enable Switchovers from database to another.

Detroit, Michigan, Us

•Creating analytical and visual reports to answer complex business questions for business spaces such as Vehicle Safety•Maintaining and modifying Tableau reports for executive summaries of investigator performances for recall data•Creating Cognos reports to pull Transportation Recall enhancement accountability and documentation (TREAD) data for data analysis to provide to investigators•Integrating Transportation Recall enhancement accountability and documentation (TREAD)/Canadian Call Center data into a new analytics platform•Developing Custom JavaScript to expand particular field prompts and populate empty fields within Cognos platform•Developing small Python scripts to analyze and compare generated keys between two different environments to find data discrepancies•Developing shell scripts to increase work efficiency based on tedious command line entries to speed up deployment processes•Developing SQL in Teradata/Hadoop/Hive to create custom logic to account for EDW standards and build new data sources from multiple sources systems•Analyze Vehicle Safety Data to help build monitoring dashboards for data quality and open incidents on data issues•Working with relational and star schema data models•Creating documentation to move developed work through toll gates including IBOPS, technical report documents. Also create builds and releases within TFS to move code from development to production.•In-sourcing new data sources using Signafire platform while using Hailstorm, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch 4.0 to integrate data, mining data and performing data quality against Hive & Elasticsearch •Implementation of new system Automated Language Translation Service from Microsoft (MSFT) Machine Translation (MT) learning for Vehicle Safety providing new capability to enable translation of GM's verbatim data from native language to English in order to make the data consumable and actionable in Safety text analytics tools• Using TFS/Git for managing code repo

Warren, Michigan, Us

• Assisted over 20,000 students by phone and email being able to make sure their virtual learning environment is efficient.• Troubleshoot problems through various browsers such IE, Chrome, Firefox and Safari.• Tested different Learning Management Systems (LMS) amongst our team members to see which will be more efficient for our student body to improve their virtual learning.• Created new users accounts for new students and instructors, add students to orientation if needed, and notify student of access via email.• Provided information of Online Education at Macomb to requesting persons.• Collected and entered data, email addresses, course information, etc., of online students. • Reported email changes and correction in Footprints contact database. • Reported all support issues and inquiries in Footprints project database.

This product was an independently created web application which was created with Microsoft programming language Touch Develop. I've learn these tools from Microsoft Evangelist Jennifer Marsman within 6 hours. Afterwards, I developed and published a "SalesTaxCalculator" in the Finance category which help users with figure out the price items with/without discount included before the consumer reaches the cashier. The application is now available for Windows 8 desktops and Surface Pro's.

• Recommended computer systems with latest software and set up systems to improve office environments.• Trained employees in using latest operating systems to improve work efficiency.• Conducted operating system upgrades and anti-virus protection.• Created and managed business cards, stationaries, invoices and client information.• Communicated with customers via email and telephone regarding billing information.

State College, Pennsylvania, Us

Participated in collaborative technological innovation at a state-wide collegiate affair. Co-facilitated application development services granted for 24-hours. Evidence of work can be found at hackerleague.com under KoolKoders. Networking, learning new knacks, and strengthening critical thinking skills was an unforgettable takeaway from this professional experience.