Don Schminkey, Csm, Cspo Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, United States

Cedar Rapids, Iowa Area

•Managing projects, which involves determining project deliverables and timelines, developing a project plan and managing to the plan, coordinating and leading meetings, preparing meeting minutes and status reports. Working with team members to resolve issues. Coordinating activities of a project team which may include individuals from multiple teams, departments and locations.•Manage and deliver assigned projects to agreed timescales, budgets and quality standards•Maintaining an understanding of all services, operational processes and procedures•Developing relationships and expertise within the divisions to provide continued value-add services.•Assisting divisional clients with navigating service requests; providing escalations as necessary.•Supporting project teams in creating a business case, including cost benefit analysis.•Mentoring team members.•Supporting Project Management methodologies

Hiawatha, Ia

In my current position, I work with our internal business units and our clients to ensure continued success for our software applications. We collaborate on strategy to ensure client satisfaction, while growing our reach within our client’s solutions. I have successfully coordinated and managed over 200 new project implementations ranging in scope from a couple of days to over a year. To successfully implement these projects, I have coordinated with both our team here in the US and our team in India. This allows us to complete the SDLC more effectively & efficiently. This requires us to balance our budget, resource allocation, schedule, requirements, and stakeholder expectations.In our projects we have used many different approaches to Project Management methodologies, including Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, and hybrids/combinations of them all. I believe the best methodology to use is the one our client is most comfortable with and the one that can deliver the best results for all stakeholders.To successfully implement all our projects, I have worked closely with members of our team, ranging from Channel Support Specialists who are able to give us feedback directly from our end users, what they like or don’t like, to our Sales Team and Graphic Designers to ensure a robust user experience and well managed expectations, from first engagement with potential clients. Channel Fusion does not currently employ any Business Analysts, in turn our Project Management team is directly responsible for requirements gathering and documentation for project proposals and implementations.Tools used for project management include Microsoft Project, Basecamp, JIRA, Spira, and Team Foundation Server (TFS).

Hiawatha, Ia

In this role I was directly responsible for the Quality of our software implementations. To ensure a quality software release, I managed and coordinated the creation of Test Cases, Test Plans, and Test Runs. We always ensured our test case repository was up to date and in tune with our latest software releases. On top of Quality, I also managed the implementation of performance testing our applications. This was done to ensure Load, Endurance, Volume, Spike and Stress testing. These metrics are tweaked to encompass our client needs and anticipated usage to ensure the best performance and quality from our applications.In the final phase of Quality Assurance, I also facilitated and oversaw the User Acceptance Testing of our applications during the hardening phase. This included managing the expectations and coordinating the testing efforts of our clients to ensure an on-time delivery free of defects.In our processes we have used several tools including JIRA, Spira, and Team Foundation Server (TFS).

Hiawatha, Ia

• Acts as a technical adviser to other consultants and client personnel in areas of expertise• Creates test plans• Conducts testing for applications, software changes and new release• Evaluates and documents the performance of tested software and the quality of testing process to provide feedback to project team and management for current and future reference• Provides status updates to Project Managers• Maintains test case status in test case applications• Works with developers to trouble shoot issues• Evaluates processes and procedures and make recommendations for improvement • Facilitates translation of high-level business requirements into testable and measurable low-level business requirements• Executes system testing within QA environment(s) to validate incidents fixes and functional enhancements to the system -- using completed, comprehensive test procedures and supplemental test documentation.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa Area

• Facilitates translation of high-level business requirements into testable and measurable low-level business requirements• Participates in client and/or management meetings• Evaluates processes and procedures and make recommendations for improvement • Creates and maintains comprehensive test procedures for client server, web-based applications and standalone applications from formal, written business requirements and standards documentation• Designs comprehensive test cases for manual and automated testing• Executes UI, functional and end-user security testing following documented procedures/security standards.• Executes system testing within QA environment(s) to validate defects fixes and functional enhancements to the system -- using completed, comprehensive test procedures and supplemental test documentation.• Translate UI and business requirements standards to the system being tested.• Creates intermediate level SQL queries involving multiple tables within the database structure• Creates, updates and maintains detailed, automated test scripts for client server, web-based applications and standalone applications using automated test tool• Participates in design reviews with business analysts, development team and technical architects to ensure the design will meet business requirements and to understand and be able to identify any impacts the design may have on testing strategies• Analyzes, comprehends and verifies test metrics obtained from test procedures; communicates and defends these metrics to team lead, mentor and/or Project Management• Uses defect-tracking tool to analyze, report and track application defects and enhancement change requests• Follows unified processes within the organization and adheres to Quality Assurance standards and procedures• Provides leadership to the Quality Assurance team in the absence of the team lead• Mentors, leads and directs work for other quality assurance analysts on the team as needed