Bill Weingarz Email & Phone Number

Portland, Or, Us

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Accompished software technical leader seeking a career opportunity. Highly motivated with a record of developing effective global teams to deliver high quality enterprise software products. Looking to connect here on LinkedIn or by email at bweingarz@hotmail.com

Portland, Or, Us

•Key contributor on Agile team ensuring quality deliveries and exceptional consumer experiences.•Subject matter expert for our business domain and trained internal customer and team members.•Delivered New feature work as well as maintenance and production support.•Performed Lift and Shift migrations of two applications (CPS and EMS) with over 50 services from Legacy infrastructures on AWS. •Integrations with Salesforce Marketing Cloud, mPulse, CES and other internal systems.•Ensure compliance with HIPAA and other internal Security and Privacy policies.•Automation: AWS, EKS, Node, Mocha, Chai, Postman, shell scripting

Hanover, Md, Us

•Partner with our customers and DTS team members to deliver requested features to meet the needs of the business. •Performed Integration and Performance testing for CPS Email and SMS preferences features. •Provide customer support on CPS for internal teams and business partners. •Consumer Preference Service (CPS) API testing using Mocha and Chai.

•Support engineering teams implementing automation for multiple projects. •Validation of the LTL logistics system weekly deployment (Websphere/Tibco/zOS) using HP UFT and Quality Center. •Development of Rest API tests for a mobile project for feature and performance coverage using CA DevTest.•Working with management to help shape the QA organization after recent changes caused by an acquisition.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, Gb

• Produced Exceptional Customer experience in a hybrid Cloud solution.• Jointly developed testing strategies and led automation for Mobile applications communicating to Azure hosted Cloud components. Focused on integration points and quality of individual components. • Brought DevOps and R&D closer together in shared processes to improve reliability and speed of deployments.• Collaborated with development and senior management to focus on the Customer and deliver improvements in Quality and Customer Experiences. • Managed co-located and geographically distributed onshore resources and offshore team members to deliver successful projects. • Implemented processes to assess quality, performance and scalability improvements of platform changes. Working towards CI for integration testing and metrics visibility.

San Mateo, Ca, Us

• Improved quality by 10%, while moving our development processes to a release train delivery model, leading to more sales value and 6% year over year sales growth.• Provided IT Operations quality assurance for our SaaS rollout processes and deliverables to enable success of our cloud-hosted ITSM Solution, helping win the 2011 Pink Elephant Innovation of the Year Award.• Developed strategies and vision to enable delivery and launch of high quality products while staying under budget. • Helped develop revenue and build customer relationships by providing assistance to sales, support and marketing groups for pre and post-sale success contributing to 6% year over year growth in new license revenue, while competitors were experiencing negative growth. • Collaborated with development managers and senior managers to influence cultural change and improve the awareness of Quality resulting in improved customer Net Promoter score and customer satisfaction by 10%. • Enabled testing, deployment and demos for our Mobile platform offerings providing the team easy access to resources needed to work with our mobile ‘Review and Approve’ features, which has been a differentiator in our sales cycle.

San Mateo, Ca, Us

• Managed a centralized Performance and Scalability lab providing testing for all the Serena distributed product lines including .Net, Java, C, C# technologies and a variety of client interfaces to ensure a successful customer experience while reducing project costs.• Led team of software performance engineers focused on creating high performance, scalable and reliable enterprise software that led to over 20% improvements in several product lines.• Provided data, insights and recommendations to development teams, marketing and customers about our product’s performance and scalability, from architecture and hardware sizing to customer specific tuning, to produce holistic viewpoints of our product lines and solutions. • Managed critical customer escalations to quickly duplicate and resolve issues to ensure the success of our customer and the product lines.• Developed and managed Serena’s cross-site QA group to ensure cross product alignment with quality metrics and best practices to provide best in class experiences to our customers.• Managed enterprise data center lab to coordinate testing efforts of concurrent projects for both our on-premises and SaaS configurations.• Participated in business unit budgeting and planning to ensure team was enabled to meet objectives.• Enabled continuously improved products and solutions performance by focusing on the back end databases (MS SQL, Oracle), the front-end servers (IIS/Apache/Tomcat/JBoss) and the front end clients (IE, Firefox) in addition to our specific application processes. We utilized performance automation tools such as HP LoadRunner, custom Perl and Python frameworks, JMeter, VSTS, and other utilities.

San Mateo, Ca, Us

• Led development of a central automation framework (Perl, HP WinRunner) which was initially delivered by a local team of engineers and then successfully transferred maintenance and execution to our off shore development centers.• Created, defined, and published test metrics in a unified manner to provide a common way of looking at our various products during development and were used in assessing release readiness. • Created and managed centralized QA automation frameworks and Performance/Scalability activities that created efficiencies in the form of leveraged code and lab resources.• Provided ongoing training and guidance for development and quality teams to foster a quality mindset in efforts to increase the productivity of development and reduce the testing cycle time.

• Provided leadership for integration and currency testing to solidify the quality of PVCS Version Manager’s third party integrations which became a differentiator in the marketplace.• Mentored testers to transfer knowledge and created strategies and processes for more efficient testing of integrations. • Worked complex problems to ensure the quality of our date sensitive product through the Y2K timeframe.

• Designed, developed, and implemented cost-effective test processes for a new set of product features enabling repeatable test coverage and additional resources to assist in the testing.• Collaborated with development to design in test hooks for driving PVCS Version Manager integration testing which utilized SCC and COM technologies, allowing us the ability to log and automate easier. • Collected, monitored and analyzed various metrics throughout the development lifecycle helping improve performance and efficiency of test processes.

Santa Clara, California, Us

• Created custom reports for executives on as needed basis using a reporting tool called SQR by MITI to ensure budget and expense management.• As a team member, collaborated with all Intel sites to improve utilization of Maximo across the company, to build and execute best practices.• Provided database administration, application integration and support for a maintenance tracking application called Maximo, by PSDI, to ensure ISO 9000 compliance.

During this time, I held positions in Operations, Service and Technical Support at several companies.