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New York, NY, US

• Streamline efforts to uplift quality practices associated with the migration of Data Delivery and Technology platforms to the cloud, developing and enhancing metrics for value delivery
• Author the verification testing strategy by running quality/testing focused work stream, driving uplift activities across all Data Delivery engineering teams in support of our modernization efforts
• Influence and lead operations by developing technical Verification and Validation capabilities in support of AWS data migration

New York, NY, US

• Lead the Vulnerability Management and Application Security Team, focused on keeping company systems and organizations safe from both internal and external threats
• Dramatically improved the overall Vulnerability Management process as well as automating and scheduling required application scanning activities across all CCB
• Revitalized processes by successfully eliminating waste, partnering with CTC on a modified rating prioritization system for vulnerabilities, reducing the overall out of compliance Managed Vulnerabilities by 80%

New York, NY, US

• Successfully led the Performance Engineering organization within CCB (175 resources) through a Product Centric/Agile Transformation while delivering performance testing as a service for a large portfolio of the Bank’s.
• Significantly increased the autonomy of product teams through training, coaching and technical enablement by effectively leveraging modern practices and technology
• Generated additional velocity for more than 100 Scrum teams, while increasing efficiency by 40%

US

SQA Leader for Personal Lines Insurance. Lead an organizationof approximately 90 resources consisting of associates, and both onshore and offshore contractors. Responsible for Testing, Quality Assurance, Release Management, and Requirements for all personal lines applications suites as well as providing resources and consulting to the Personal Lines.

US

Led centralized capability area focused on the uplift of capabilities across an enterprise testing organization of over 900 resources. Highlights include the standardization and governance of the defect management process, successful development and deployment of a Service Virtualization capability, and the utilization of statistical standards for the.

New York, NY, US

• The PI Quality Assurance organization is a shared organization across most of Personal Insurance. In my role as Senior Director I was responsible for evolving several application centric QA teams into a Centralized QA.
• Set and communicated clear vision for the PIQA team
• Collaborated effectively with the PMO, Development, Architecture, and Business teams to integrate the evolution of testing practices across the SDLC
• Developed and deployed standard practices for Test Plan Documentation (Strategic as well as Test Execution)
• Adopted a standard set of Test Planning, Test Execution, and Defect Management processes utilizing a common tool (Quality Center)
• Introduce Risk Based Testing practices for prioritization of testing efforts

New York, NY, US

The Management Information Department for Personal Insurance at Travelers consists of a combination of our PI Data Warehouses, our Data Marts, and our Business Intelligence applications. The technologies in use range from DB2 – Teradata (on the database side), Cognos and MAS (for Data Marts and Reporting), and.Net & C# for the development of Business.

New York, NY, US

In this role I provided Quality Assurance Leadership as well as the practical application of Testing Skills for a specific project in the Personal Lines Management Information area. This was a high profile project and I was contracted to manage the testing effort in order to reduce risk to both the quality of the project as well as to the delivery.

US

Performant, a Bellevue, WA startup, was founded in June, 2000 to create sophisticated J2EE Deep Diagnostics tools based on an innovative application of Java bytecode rewriting. Mercury Interactive Corporation acquired Performant's technology and team in May, 2003 in order to accelerate Mercury's entry into the J2EE tools market.As the Manager of Quality.

US

In this role, I successfully led a Test Automation Team that was responsible for the execution of all automated test cases against CenturyTel’s new AmDocs based back office system. While continuing to provide full coverage of current automated tests, this team also re-engineered the test automation framework in order to provide ease of use, lower.

Hartford, Connecticut, US

I successfully led two task teams of 6-8 people. Each team was responsible for the creation of process and artifacts in support of Aetna’s Automation Life Cycle Process. My teams were responsible for the Analysis Phase, and the Review Phase. While leading both of those teams I was also responsible for the initial audit of current levels of test coverage..

Responsible for the creation of a Quality Assurance organization from the ground up. Responsibilities include performing a CMM audit on current software development practices, identifying opportunities for process improvement, creating QA Processes, recommending QA tools (Test Management, Defect Management, and Test Automation), creating QA environments.

Responsible for all QA activities associated with Cygent's leading edge eBSS software solutions. These applications featured an (n)tiered architecture utilizing BEA’s Weblogic and an Oracle database. This was a total java shop J2EE, EJBs, XML, and both HTML and JSP’s for content delivery. The applications supported functionality that ranges from order.

Oakland, California, US

Managed and directed the QA Testing Team for the NCIS Population Care Registry product. This is a client server based application that gives Practitioners the ability to proactively provide care and treatment for registry members. This application’s back end originally utilized a Sybase database and was converted to an oracle database. The database was.

Dallas, TX, US

Managed the Technical Test Team responsible for the environmental support of all Carrier Access Billing System (CABS) development and testing activities for Bell South. Responsibilities included resource management, scheduling, and budgeting for the team. Interfaced directly with the Functional Testing Managers providing for a seamless availability and.

Dallas, TX, US

Responsibilities included the creation, integration, and maintenance of all project plans associated with the Local Competition Initiative. Developed, maintained, and administered a project management database that integrated and automated best practice policies for the processing of issues, requirements, change management, testing, project scheduling, and.

The Hague, South Holland, NL

Aegon is a large life and annuities company. My primary responsibilities with this organization centered on the conversion of its Advanced Products Division administrations system. This was a very large product with work in both California and Florida. The conversion was from our customized system to a third party system (Vantage). My activities.

Bs, Computer Science

Bachelors Of Science In In Computer Science, Computer Science