Christopher Downer Email & Phone Number

Westminster, Colorado, Us

• Led a department of three teams of eight Software Development and DevOps engineers to deliver products with high efficiency and low AWS infrastructure costs, across classified and unclassified environments for multiple DoD contracts totaling ~$20m USD.• Provided technical project management services for various clients. Including marshalling labor, coordinating project budgets, and facilitating executive leadership briefings.• Coordinated with product owners and various stakeholders to ensure all dependencies and risks between internal teams and external groups were tracked and/or mitigated throughout each Program Increment.• Aligned department in accordance with company goals and executive OKRs with a success rate of 90%.• Led efforts to support adoption of new technologies that improved product quality, performance, and sped up platform deployment time by 2 weeks.• Mentored junior and mid-level developers on all aspects of the Agile Software Development Lifecycle and best practices along each step in the process.

Arlington, Va, Us

• Managed platform environment configuration tasks to closely align our test environments to a live production environment.• Led manual and automated testing efforts on both physical and AWS environments using Agile testing methodologies.• Led requirement analysis and gathering tasks in support of complex product design.

Leesburg, Virginia, Us

As one of the Software Analyst Leads, I spearheaded efforts taking aging/outdated applications and converting them to suitable web-based applications, comparable to top tier commercial products, while continuing to keep legacy applications running. This effort required meticulous planning, effective direction and rigorous supervision of cross functional engineers throughout needs analysis, requirements gathering, design, risk identification & tracking, alpha testing and user acceptance testing for 5 concurrent software projects.• Led migration efforts to replace a legacy HR application, running on failing hardware components and aging technologies, to an easy-to-use Microsoft SharePoint application, resulting in 25% fewer trouble tickets.• Automated deployment process for legacy applications, allowing users to self-install applications, saving developers ~8 hours a month.• Facilitated Technical Exchange Meetings (TEMs) with fellow leads, to evaluate emerging technologies, to standardize technology offerings from the department, resulting in consistent look and feel across the application suite.

Chantilly, Va, Us

As the Software Engineer Tech Lead, I was entrusted with the management and supervision of the day-to-day technical operations for maintaining and improving our automated test framework. Leveraging my deep understanding of software development lifecycles, I was able to implement new processes for discovering and resolving defects and overall was able to reduce resolution time. My expertise in automated testing and software quality assurance enabled me to deliver superior results and ensure customer satisfaction.• Reduced automated user regression/functional testing efforts from the previous average of 2 weeks down to 3 days.• Led testing efforts for the system under test, maximizing test coverage while also ensuring adequate testing rigor.• Analyzed and reported test metrics and results to key stake holders while also operating as the primary point of technical contact.

Chantilly, Va, Us

In my dual role as National Imagery Transmission Format (NITF) Test Analyst and Software Engineer, I led efforts for the planning and execution of metadata analysis for several different imagery formats. Leveraging my deep understanding of software development and lifecycles, I was able to implement new tools and processes which automated many of the analysis functions and speed up our testing turnaround by weeks at a time. • Led requirements analysis, design validations, compliance assessments, and compliance tests in support of the National Imagery Transmission Format.• Led requirements gathering and needs analysis efforts in support of product design.• Developed analytical test tools to parse and decode standard NITF and tiff imagery metadata files reducing testing time by ~1 week.• Developed a one-of-a-kind Metadata parser, which took a custom encrypted metadata file, and parsed it into a human readable format reducing testing time by ~2 weeks.

Newark, California, Us

As a Test Consultant I led efforts for planning and execution of diverse types of testing such as integration, performance, end-user acceptance and regression testing. Leveraging my deep understanding of software development lifecycles, I was able to implement new tools and processes for discovering and resolving defects, reducing the time from discovery to resolution. • Advised the senior leadership and stakeholders on grave design flaws and missing customer/end user requirements which resulted in the complete redesign of the software project from the ground up.• Analyzed current testing processes and advocated for an agile approach to reduce testing times and increase defect resolution velocity by ~20%.• Led efforts to automate a significant portion of the UI testing, resulting in a reduction of time needed to test updates by ~30%

Chantilly, Va, Us

As an independent Test Engineer for multiple DoD applications, I was responsible for conducting integration and user acceptance tests at customer sites, both solo and as part of a larger group testing event. Proven expertise in ensuring performance & reliability of released software, software test case development & execution, test plan implementation and bug tracking.• Implemented System Usability Scale (SUS) methodologies to increase end user feedback accuracy by upwards of 20%.• Conducted end user acceptance testing and documented findings in critical test reports, which were sent to senior DoD leadership and stakeholders to inform and guide direction of the EProcurement program.• Developed and maintained ~100 Keyhole Markup Language (KML) files, to test an innovative DoD Command and Control (C2) information system for classified environments. • Briefed senior DoD officials on test findings and offered recommendations on resolutions to discovered defects.• Maintained Software Description Documents (SDDs), Version Description Documents (SVDs) and system architecture diagrams, which accurately tracked features and known bugs across multiple versions of software applications.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Mathematics And Computer Science

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), Mathematics