David Chiappone Email & Phone Number

Greater Sacramento

Sacramento, California Area

Mentor and coach kids aged 7-14 on coding activities while working through provided curriculum.Provide feedback to parents on progress.Work with kids to determine their skill sets and leverage them to provide learning opportunities

• Managed team of tool support technicians and test automation engineers responsible for process and tool standardization across IT. Led the Validation Technical Work Group, a cross-geo team of test managers across IT.
• Managed team that provided test tools environment uptime and support within Service Level Agreement for global validation teams across Intel. Met all uptime and support SLAs
• Curated test practices documentation for IT DevOps maturity model.
• Developed process for open source test tool evaluation and use.
• Created standardized test metrics and indicators program that was used IT wide.
• Trained team on test tools, change management and software development lifecycles that supported stakeholders.

• Planned product and execution throughout the product lifecycle, including gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements and defining product vision for manual and automated test tools.
• Created and successfully executed strategic implementation plan to standardize test management tool use. Increased user base from under 1,000 to over 5,000 users. Expanded use from IT department to multiple product.
• Strategically grew tool capabilities for manual and automated testing for SAP and product team test management tools, vendor management, utilization, license renewals.
• Managed integration of test team tools and process from several acquisitions into standardized test management environment. Enabled smooth integration of testing process into standard environments without impact to.
• Program Manager for Small Form Factor Device Depot. Program consisted of seven global depots to provide devices for application development and testing.
• Developed and managed test automation lab for use in SAP automation testing, increasing velocity and reliability of testing process.

• Managed charter, direction, project prioritization, and facilitation of the IT Quality Assurance Community of Practice. Represented department in coordinating software quality initiatives across IT.
• Developed measures and indicators used as project status indicators for SAP test automation.
• Provided simple and effective method for the program manager to keep senior management and stakeholders apprised of the project status. Improved reporting compliance while reducing effort needed to complete reporting

• Responsible for stakeholder management, performance management, training and development, resource and budget management, adherence to quality guidelines, indicators, and continuous improvement of processes in the QA.
• IT Quality Assurance Community of Practice.
• Supported Software Quality Analyst career path and actively encouraged mentoring and idea sharing among test managers in IT.

• Stakeholder management, training development, indicators and continuous improvement of processes in the QA environment. Managed team of 13 Software Quality Analysts and three contract workers located globally.
• Created test validation process Resulted in consistent release practices, better quality of release
• Established Change Control Board process and procedures. Chaired department CCB.

• Process development for external services offered by Online Services Data Center.
• Created software release process to be used by teams releasing services offered to customers of the Intel Data Center Operation. Produced a consistent release process across all department development teams to ensure.
• Validated processes before they were released to customers as external service offerings

Sunnyvale, CA

• Production Manager responsible for multiple managing network equipment production lines to meet daily production schedules for second shift production
• Directed production labor across multiple product lines ensuring product schedule was met on a daily basis
• Ensured material availability to meet daily schedule
• Directed test engineers schedules between production and customer returns area
• Developed production line training material, conducted training for assembly workers

Master’S Degree, Ms In Global Technology Management

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Electrical Engineering Technologies/Technicians