● Provided direct caregiving for my mother, managed her daily needs, coordinated with medical professionals, and worked alongside a paid caregiver to ensure comprehensive care.● Administering mother's estate.

● Assisted a master’s computer science student and a student group with class projects, provided guidance and algorithmic solutions to overcome obstacles, ensuring successful project completions.● Supported a master’s student’s AI thesis project, advised on model architecture and reviewed the thesis, resulting in a timely graduation.

● Designed, implemented, and socialized an innovative test automation framework.● Participated in Cisco NTD Hackathon; awarded first place for test automation framework toolset.● Assisted SW Development team to automate and integrate their unit tests into CI framework.● Authored multiple test plans and executed tests for new Security Business features.● Led beta test planning for a major software release and participated in daily bug triage.● Maintained team’s lab equipment, setup test beds, and debugged connectivity issues.● Implemented a disaster recovery tool for lab backbone switch configurations.

● Proposed and created common test plan template for QA team.● Created several software tools to improve productivity for HW/QA/SW teams.● Coordinated UL 924 certification tasks, authored test plan, led test rig design, setup, and dry run.● Led UL 924 testing at neutral certification site with successful completion on first pass.● Authored, reviewed, executed performance test plan for new lighting adapter.● Collaborated with SW development on required functionality of true path event generation tool.● Assisted customer advocacy and development to reproduce complex customer product issues.● Mentored graduate student and led effort to update fixture publishing library.

● Led testing efforts for a new ASIC product line switch, coordinated test efforts of 7 engineers.● Recognized for leadership and product quality of highly successful new ASIC product line switch.● Created a PHY inter-operability test framework, including a parallel execution scheduler.● Designed and implemented SNMP execution wrapper for IWL (InterWorking Labs) test suite.● Implemented parser to import IWL test suite test case step text.● Assisted escalation team to reproduce customer issues.● Championed evaluation of Conformiq Qtronics model-based automation tool.● Coordinated evaluation effort of four engineers from Conformiq and Cisco.● Authored evaluation report that became basis for presentation at Cisco Toolapalooza.