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Adaptable software professional focused on customer satisfaction through verified, maintainable easy to use software. Quality oriented focus with 20 years of visible achievements in software development, test automation and tools development, I have worked with various customer in support, quality assurance, design, development and maintenance roles.Selected Accomplishments:• Built tooling and training to allow customers to deploy and use open-source Cloud Foundry in production at extremely condensed timelines.• Supported some of the fastest growing Internet companies from incubation to world leaders at Engine Yard• Initiated and grew QA organizations as Newbridge/Alcatel and Engine Yard to significantly reduce defect exposure to our customers• Designed and developed custom web-based Test Case Management and Execution systems at Polycom Canada and Cray Canada• Co-designer and primary developer of Cray Canada's in-house test automation infrastructure• Designed and developed an automated scripting tool, which provided a consistent and quick way of generating almost complete Python test scripts from English test case documents• Conceptualized, designed and developed an object-oriented test system that provided a consistent and intuitive interface that increased script yield 200% (or higher for ported scripts) and decreased time and effort required for debugging and manual reproduction for Alcatel.• Significantly reduced capital investment for Alcatel in test equipment by initiating and developing a Tcl library that allowed company product to be used as test equipment.• Improved quality of the testing library by establishing mandatory two-tiered peer review process of other test designers code, and policed quality of files checked into the library by remote test designers.• Developed a flexible test development system which provided the in-house Alcatel test community an efficient, user-friendly tool for managing and utilizing their automated test library.

Listed skills include Testing, Test Automation, Ruby, Ruby On Rails, and 33 others.