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Hauppauge, NY

• Supervised a team of 30 in all aspects of Configuration Management (CM), Quality Assurance (QA), and Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) departments in order to perform and certify official software releases.
• Created a corporate-wide Quality Management Plan based on ISO 9001:2008 and CMMI standards in order to increase access to international markets and government projects, maintain consistently dependable processes, and.
• Developed metrics used for ISO compliance across all departments to achieve ISO certification.
• Planned and executed the implementation of CMMI Level 3 for 2010 to lower software productivity costs and increase customer satisfaction. Reassessed and reapproved in 2013 for entire company across all locations and.
• Created a company-wide Development Process Plan (DPP) document that resulted in defining a corporate-wide methodology for software design and development.
• Wrote corporate implementation plan to include audits, metrics, UML diagrams, etc. and ensured compliance with IEEE 12207 lifecycle definitions.

Greater New York City Area

• Planned and coordinated all QA projects for a team of 8 to present the management team with project status reports and updated bug reports by developing and managing each the project plan, ensuring milestones and.
• Established best practices (process, procedures, standards, tools) to ensure a high level of quality into all phases of the software lifecycle.
• Defined, developed, analyzed, and interpreted QA policies and metrics for developers, testers, and technical writers.
• Performed Unified Modeling Language (UML), IEEE software specification and documentation standards, JUnit test harness development, Jtest white box software testing program with code coverage analysis, Pre and post.
• Implemented a company-wide bug tracking software running on a web-based platform enabling users of Windows and Linux OS to interface seamlessly.
• Developed testing methodology for functional (black-box) and unit (white-box) testing.

Greater New York City Area

• Successfully managed a team of 20 in-house engineering and support staff to implement a new multi-million dollar Automated Fare Collection hardware and software to the MetroCard system for the world’s largest transit.
• Managed the day-to-day project management activities including the technology selection, vendor negotiations, and installation.
• Directed the MetroCard Vending Machine software design effort using C++, Java, and Visual Basic.
• Served as the Lead Engineer on the Unified Ticket Format MetroCard software (i.e., Gold MetroCard) including the creation of a schedule and budget.
• Completed the redesign of the existing software on every system level, wrote functional and technical specifications, designed the new encoding (storage) format of MetroCard, and developed methods to implement new.
• Defined program management methodology for organization based on five phases: initiation, planning, executing, controlling and closing.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering