David C. Mounts Email & Phone Number

Greater Pittsburgh Region

I am re-entering the workforce after being retired for the last 4 years, available in contract and/or part-time positions.

Pittsburgh, Pa

For the Quality discipline, collaborated with project teams to ensure that established quality goals are being incorporated into the business solution. Provided consistent and regular feedback to application and process owners with recommendations for continuous improvement on both intranet and internet applications, including host and provider along with rebranding. Documented and communicated deliverables including functional specifications, test plan, test procedures, test cases. Participated in and/or conducted problem solving sessions and user acceptance. Provided support and guidance in relation to software artifacts and processes supported across the enterprise. I retired from Gateway Health in June, 2018.

Fox Chapel Area

At a remote location from our headquarters, managed a team of onshore/offshore testing resources; mentored team members in testing methodologies, practices and techniques; worked with project teams through the user requirements, design and test stages to ensure strict adherence to business requirements; served as a resource to the development team in the resolution of business or technical issues; designed and documented test plans, procedures and scripts which encompass the business and design requirements; recorded detailed test results and produced accurate detailed metric reports on testing performed on cloud, web, desktop, mid-tier and back office applications; tracked defects from creation through closure; performed deployment testing in the production environment (intranet/internet); prepared time estimates to project/product management for projects involving quality assurance; provided yearly objectives to upper senior management. Worked remotely 3-4 days a week and in office as-needed.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Prepared detailed business requirements, functional and design specifications and manuals; prepared overall test plan and test procedures for various tests such as performance, load, stress, regression, functional, smoke, parallel, user acceptance testing; produced audit reports for clients in the healthcare industry based on the tests performed and results

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Lead Business Analyst 2000-2002Experience with being the go-between with non-IT departments and the IT design team; preparation of detailed requirements, functional specifications; maintain and monitor quality assurance of applications; configuration management on providing archival of all documentation, specifications, plans, and software source codeQA Manager/Coordinator 1998 to 2000In charge of Year 2000 software compliance….developing detailed project plans and monitored progress, prepared test plans and procedures, and conducting functional testing for applications (in-house, Internet, interface with vendors), manage, schedule and monitor all interface testing and coordinated the involvement of the interfacing applications personnel, perform installation of programs and setting up ghost pc’s, direct, monitor, and supervise work of other department’s team members, prepare audit reports for all departments, configuration management by providing archival of all documentation, specifications, plans, and software source code, perform testing of applications (in-house and Internet).

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Lead Analyst/Developer 1997 to 1998For a foreign Steel producer on a supervisory control computer system for a Continuous Caster. Areas of responsibility included managing a group of software developers and performing software development and implementation including QA test plans.Senior Application Team Lead 1994-1996In the areas of Production Scheduling, Tracking, Interfacing, and Inventory Management for a Steel Producer Business Computer System. Responsibilities included customer requirements, functional and system design specifications, database design/generation and support, test plans and procedures.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

- In charge of preparation of the Automation Test Plan for all control level and supervisory control level hardware/software, preparation of supervisory control level test procedures, coordination of the tests and associated personnel, and chairman of the committee for testing.- In charge of all the Automation division's projects. Responsibilities included analyzing and reviewing all projects for ISO 9001 compliance and for preparing corrective actions to all internal audit reports.- In charge of a major corporate effort designed to create Automation and Quality Assurance Systems to client companies that must comply with ISO 9000 and similar standards. Designed, tested and documented a wide range of factory automation procedures at system control level, supervisory control level, and business systems level.• Achieved ISO 9001 certification for quality assurance within 18 months. This project was planned for 24 months, at best.• Developed in-house test plan and procedures that saved the excess cost of discovering and resolving problems in the field during start-up and commissioning operations. Savings amounted to 66 percent of planned cost.• Created testing standards and procedures that assured timely completion of projects.- As a Lead Systems Engineer...Responsibilities included development of the supervisory control level functional specifications for continuous annealing lines and an automated warehousing system, design and implementation, using FORTRAN, of a coil tracking system, supervision of a major vendors, and preparation of user manuals.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Responsible for all operations of the company: staffing, product development, training for in-house and customer employees, purchasing and configuration of hardware, customer service for clients involved in automated manufacturing systems and warehousing, upgrade and standardize systems and application code that were developed for individual clients, in order to reduce the cost of customer service and maintenance.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

... Responsible for all operations of the company: Staffing, Product Development, Training for in-house and customer employees, purchasing and configuration of hardware, and customer service for clients involved in automated manufacturing systems and warehousing. Also, upgraded and standardized systems. ... Conversion of a Air Quality Monitoring and Data Handling system. Included replacing the existing VAX 11/750 computer system with a MicroVAX 3100, business analysis, preparing functional specification, converting existing routines from FORTRAN-77 and COBOL to VAX FORTRAN, incorporating FMS instead of command procedures, system test, preparation of user manuals and training....Developed a RS 232 interface between a stacker crane supervisory computer and a host supervisory control computer. Produced all file handler and interfacing software that automated a warehouse and permitted automated stacking and retrieval of inventory....Created a disk drive subsystem for a CAD/DNC control computer that enabled the company to accept numerical control data and integrate and reformat the information for various controllers of machines....Software design and implementation for a major steel producer. At their Electric Furnace Meltshop facility: in the areas of inventory control, scrap charge calculations using "least cost" solutions and bucket loading procedures, railroad car/material selection and placement, alternate heat searches. At their Information Services facility: in the areas of material forecasting and purchasing....Software design, implementation, and documentation on various energy management projects, specifically in the areas of software application interfaces, operator functions, alarm and event processing, program-generated displays, database generation, and energy monitoring and control

B.S., Business, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Delta Sigma Pi, professional business fraternity

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Business Systems Analysis