Brad Derolf Email & Phone Number

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

Sunrise Florida

Plantation, Fl

Quality Assurance of SSDs and NVRAM

Quality Assurance of Mobile Devices.

Performed all tasks required to support release and/or sale of cell phone platforms to customers.- Developed GPIB driver for Keithley power supplies, creating faster battery phasing times for vendor.- Received Bravo Award for MXC300-30 Symbian, Linux and WinMobile customer demonstrations. - Performed nightly builds and built weekly packages, integrating the latest Change Requests for customers.- Spent 3 weeks in France working with team on release process. Trained Boca Raton team on new process.- Created Windows and Symbian build environments for rapid validation of software builds.- Synchronized internal and customer-facing defect reports utilizing ClearQuest and CRM.- Tested OneUI application and submitted defect reports resulting in improved quality of subsequent releases.- Performed 2G GCF compliance testing of MXC300-30 platform.- Created Quick Start Guide for customers installing prototype cellular platforms.

Managed team of 10 software developers and release engineers. Developed and maintained fault management and diagnostic software for SAN products. Managed five software releases per quarter. Coordinated project activities including schedules, documentation, internationalization, testing and meetings with stake holders.- Championed adoption of modern Java based Fault Management System that enabled Sun to run same code across platforms which resulted in cost savings and facilitated sales of storage devices in non-Solaris environments.- Organized StorADE product into feature releases, patches and software editions which resulted in meeting and exceeding all deadlines.- Created automated defect tracking notification system resulting in reduced time to problem resolution.- Mentored team leads.- Engaged in PLC and SDLC adaptation.- Created and presented product demonstrations.- Completed first year management training.

Led and actively participated with team of software and systems engineers in development of Sun's SAN fault management architecture. Coordinated project activities including meetings with stake holders, schedules, documentation, internationalization and testing. During project life-cycle, performed release engineering and quality assurance as well as developed portions of the application. - Involved in all aspects of release process, including active defect management and performance of weekly software builds with formal release notes. - Isolated failures to single component for 90% of detectable faults which reduced customer downtime and increased customer satisfaction.- Developed automated discovery with topology capabilities for SAN devices which enabled application to isolate failing components, display configurations graphically and reduce configuration complexity.- Developed node to node link test to diagnose SAN components which received US Patent 6,904,544.- Established Probable Cause and Recommended Action error messages for all s/w and h/w failures increasing serviceability.- Received Customer Focus award for technical training.- Established weekly “brown bag” lunches for peer-group professional skills development.

Developed and maintained diagnostics and diagnostic framework for PCI devices and storage arrays.- Recruited by Sun to launch new fault management system in Colorado.- Developed PCI diagnostics for Sun's 1st generation Fiber Channel Array to reduce GBIC escalations.- Enhanced Sun's FCAL diagnostic tool kit to support PCI cards and reduce MTTR.- Created diagnostics and maintained framework for seven PCI I/O cards which validated hardware designs.

Developed s/w for customer request. Responded to request and delivered solutions on time and under budget. S/W increased sales of computers.- Developed multiplatform Memory Channel diagnostic to validate h/w design.- Developed API, GUI and libraries for all PCI based diagnostics on Windows and UNIX variants which streamlined diagnostic development.- Team awarded 3 patents for h/w design. US Patents 6,256,722, 6,134,647 and 6,094,532- Added Memory Channel driver support for Ditial UNIX.- Developed API for VME based A-D and D-A converters for simulators.- Lockheed Skunk Works award for developing API for VME based IEEE-488 GPIB card for use on real-time computers which reduced time to plan Gulf War missions.- Developed diagnostic for Fiber Optic Reflective Memory System to validate h/w design and reduce MTTR.- Developed API for Digital I/O card to report CPU events.- Ported SCSI driver from little ENDIAN to big ENDIAN.- Ported VME ATM API to UMAX.

Software Engineer (MTS);Supervisor;Engineer Technician I-II; Computer Technician I-III