Dave Humbles Email & Phone Number

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

• Trimble Inc (previously Manhattan Software, previously Atrium Software) October 2006 – October 2020Software Testing CoordinatorJoined Atrium Software (a producer of Oracle and.NET property management solutions largely.
• determining test strategies, including assisting with writing the overall company testing policy
• producing test plans and test scripts
• executing test scripts
• system wide tests after Oracle version changes or migration to AWS
• reporting, motivating, tracking and escalating bugs and issues initially using an in-house incident management system and then subsequently Jira

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

During this period I was self employed, working from home, making and engraving corporate awards and trophies. I also did a short contract as a project manager for a desktop refresh roll out.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

• Our team distributed and managed software across about 13 000 PCs countrywide using a system called Electronic Desktop Management (EDM)Job functions:
• testing regular releases of new software specifically packaged for EDM for function and checking for clashes with other software
• making changes on the administration system
• liaise with support and developers nationally
• assist with call centre roll outs
• testing applications on Windows Terminal server both manually and using WinRunner and LoadRunner

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

• I was seconded to the company's marketing division for about eighteen months to help with the development and roll out of a sales automation and financial system for the sales reps, controllers and management staff.
• manual testing including bug tracking and liaising with the developers
• establish pilot projects with sales representatives countrywide
• application and general support of the pilot users
• ‘train the trainer’ sessions and supporting the trainers and users

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

• I moved to IT support and was later made a team leader in charge of about five people and then later an acting manager with about twelve staff. I was responsible for the software support of several thousand internal PC.
• company internal software support
• referring some issues to appropriate outside contractors and monitoring their work
• some employee management functions but not performance appraisal
• regular feedback sessions with senior management

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

During this period I worked in an electronics workshop repairing digital / micro-processor controlled equipment from electronic telephone exchanges. (Telkom is the South African equivalent of BT in the UK)