Bill Stewart Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas Area

• Perform quality assurance auditing of software artifacts from the entire SDLC for the Texas Office of Attorney General, Child Services Division as part of a complete replacement of their legacy caseload processing system• Provide business analysis and UML modeling for the legacy system replacement and its software development processes• Subject matter expert for the underutilized IBM tools at the site, including Rational Quality Manager (RQM), Rational Publishing Engine (RPE), Rational Software Architect (RSA), RequisitePro, and Optim• Develop best practices and provide leadership for test automation

San Ramon, Ca

• Researched and evaluated IBM testing tools for use on the AT&T account (IBM Test Planning and Optimization Workbench, RQM)• Developed and supported application lifecycle management systems (RQM, RequisitePro, RTC, RPE, ClearQuest, HP Quality Center)• Used business process modeling to design and develop advanced testing metrics (Excel, SQL, PowerPoint, OPTIM, Quality Center, Cognos Insight)• Subject matter expert for legacy applications (Java, JavaScript, HTML, WebSphere, Oracle)• Off-shored of the maintenance of a complex Object Oriented software suite in only 6 weeks due to the high quality models I developed. Reduced maintenance expense by 30%.• Awarded GBS (Global Business Services) Global Technical Achievement Award

San Ramon, Ca

• Analysis, design, and implementation of databases and tools for the Directory Assistance group (UML, Java, J2EE, JDBC, WebSphere, HTML, CSS, RSA, JTEST, MS SQL Server)• Led the team’s use of UML and IBM Rational Software Architect (Eclipse) to keep the software and models in sync• Delivered evaluations, best practices, and reference implementations for software tools• Developed comprehensive software build systems using Ant and CVS• Formulated and deployed Software Configuration Management policies and procedures for VP-level organization

Mountain View, Ca

• Managed a staff of ten software developers and build engineers• Coordinated the interactions with the quality assurance, engineering, operations, information development, customer support, and localization (foreign language support) teams• Modeled, designed, and led the implementation of a fully automated, workflow-based software problem tracking system. Included automated builds and testing, along with status reporting for each change of state. (Action Request System, PERL, Unix)• Key Employee Award for outstanding performance

Livermore, Ca

• Implemented Client / Server applications and system-level services (C, Visual Basic, Unix shells)• Software analysis, design, coding, and testing for retail-oriented business applications and custom operating system (C, Z80 assembly language)• UNIX platform and operating system software development • Wrote internal tools including source code control, software build systems, and automated testing tools • UNIX system administration• Formed a quality assurance department. Defined test strategies, methodologies, and test tools. Set standards for entrance and exit criteria.• President’s Club Award for outstanding performance • President’s Club Award for a breakthrough design and implementation of a disk drive data-mapping algorithm. Reduced an implementation time from three months to one-half day.