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Boston, MA, US

London, GB

Provide leadership for multiple quality engineering teams delivering into the high volume Higher Education portfolio of products. Web, Mobile, Services components enabling digital content for Learners and Educators via the AWS Cloud infrastructure.Improve organizational alignment through building team relationships, establishing quality improvement.

London, GB

Manage software quality assurance organization responsible for delivery of several products and services for the Pearson Higher Education portfolio including two of Pearson's flagship math and science learning platforms. Delivered improved team performance through quality metrics and alignment of automation strategies across teams for earlier issue.

Billerica, MA, US

Technical hands on leader delivering voice/video testing and monitoring services for global Internet Service Providers and large enterprise customers. * Increased efficiency through improved tools, process and acceleration of automation testing. * Shifted organization from Waterfall to Agile Scrum delivery methods for more frequent delivery.* Performed as.

• Manage the Data Collection/Backup Applications QA team responsible for delivery of complex, highly scalable, high availability SQL Server platforms with Windows and Macintosh client products (licensed and SaaS) to.
• Full personnel management responsibility for 9 team members locally, plus hiring/training of new offshore team members in India, as the company transitioned from an outsource vendor to a badged-employee model.
• Drove quality standards across manual and automation quality engineering team members responsible for 3 key applications from the backup/recovery Enterprise SaaS solutions portfolio for Windows/Macintosh systems.
• New infrastructure, process and approach, including a VM based computing environment to support scalable client testing, with increased automation coverage to about 80% of main feature tests executed
• As Certified Scrum Master transition QA team from Waterfall to Agile/Scrum approach increasing transparency and efficiency in delivery of project requirement

Greenwich, CT, US

* Experienced technical individual contributor and team leader with increasing levels of responsibility. * Hands on manual/automation engineer, project leader, team leader and strategic/tactical organizational leader improving projects, evolving teams and establishing direction. * Passionate about learning how things work, and adapting to improve.

• Product Quality Assurance/System Verification Test Organization / VoIP Infrastructure
• Managed 5 product test teams with 40+ team members (individual contributors, leads and Managers)
• Led IP Communications product deliverables meeting quality and business requirements relative toresource, schedules, budgets and achievement of quality milestones
• Engaged cross-functional leaders to implement quality actions and improvements throughout the product lifecycle, in support of internal assessments and corporate ISO 9001 and CMM initiatives.
• Identified and implemented process improvements based on engineering metrics and field reports
• Managed and implemented capital equipment budget of about one million dollars

Marlborough, MA, US

• Voice Systems Group (Software/Hardware/Firmware)Manager - Product Quality Assurance
• Developed/directed multi-location team (MA, IL and India) to implement methodologies for application, network security and voice/data converged product testing.
• Implemented testing infrastructure for Unified Communications and Contact Center testing.
• Established integrated telephone-based automation infrastructure for 3Com and 3rd party products.
• Defined and managed team quarterly budget and equipment requirements to meet guidelines,
• Established remote test team (India) in support of VoIP product qualification objectives,

Master Of Science (Ms), Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Mathematics / Concentration: Computer Science