Brian Saxon Email & Phone Number

Texas, United States

Richardson, Texas

Richardson, Texas

• Senior Quality Assurance | BNEW – Product System Verification & New Product Introduction Large Office System Integration & Verification
• Primarily manage System/Nodal capacity, performance, upgrade and maintenance testing in the Packet/VoIP CDMA labs.
• Developed and executed testcases for testing software updates resolving customer field issues as well as new feature requests.
• Leveraged Waterfall and Agile methodology.
• Function in a Cloud Ecosystem Environment (CEE) that is prime for development of installation procedures on the Hyperscale Datacenter System (HDS8000) hardware platform which includes Juniper EX3300, Cisco ASR 9001.
• Certified OpenStack Administrator.

Richardson, Texas

• Senior Quality Assurance Engineer GPRS Core Network Robustness
• Prime for GPRS4.0 Core Network Robustness testing. Responsible for test plan development, creation of test execution strategies, and providing feedback to management for improvements of testing efficiency and coverage.
• GPRS test nodes include Passport based SGSN, HP-SIG, and GGSN (Shasta/Contivity).

Richardson, Texas

• Strategic Platform XAC/SPM Quality Assurance
• Performed and reported the results for capacity benchmarking of the UCS DMS-250 & DMS-500 XA-Core platform based on strict call mixes and configuration requirements from our customers.
• Performed and reported the results for nodal capacity of series three (3) peripherals such as SPM, LIM and LIU7.
• Installed, maintained, and operated traffic generation test equipment necessary for benchmarking and large office systems testing.
• Provided guidance for the engineering of traffic for the large office SPM lab (56 SPM) as well as the ATM succession and IP succession large office labs.
• Integrated specific telecom products and services on the DMS250/500 toll switch market for customers such as MCI, Qwest, Sprint, and Williams Communications Group.

Richardson, Texas

• Senior Software Support Engineer, MCI Support
• Generated software patches to resolve issues gating the VO of MCI DMS-250 and DMS-ACD product deliverables.
• Achieved 100% reliability rate for my patches (0 defects out of 58 patches).
• Software prime for MCI/Concert/Avantel VO activities.

Richardson, Texas

• Verification Office QA Engineer, MCI Support
• Performed and reported the results from benchmarking/capacity testing for MCI DMS-250 product deliverables.
• Performed setup and maintenance of traffic generation test equipment (MGTS/INET/TRES).
• Responsible for executing and reporting results for MCI Large Systems Test effort in the FAST Office (First Applications Systems Test).
• Responsible for tracking all issues encountered during testing to successful resolution.

West Monroe, LA

Supervised my squads/platoon for assigned construction projects as well as disaster mitigation and relief efforts.