Greg Howell Email & Phone Number

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Sole QA engineer over all software in company. Responsible for ensuring all checks and balances are in place for design engineers to adhere to all parts of our software development process. We incorporate processes to be compliant with CMMI level 3. Activities include the following:- Ensure requirements are written to be understandable and testable- Work.

Senior Software Verification Engineer in charge of protocol and system testing of Policy for 3GPP: - Write and perform testing on Gx, Gxa, Rx, and Sh interfaces of Diameter Protocol. - Help develop the performance and system test plan for the Policy product - Team Lead for Policy group. - Participated in demos of product to Verizon. - Lead engineer for.

Performed verification of call processing related protocols on several of Sony Ericsson's handset products. Was put in charge of specific tasks areas and was proficient ienough in 2 weeks to become independent at all tasks. Worked weekly deadlines and helped keep the project on schedule.

In charge of building an audio recording booth to test out conformance and situational tests for Wavecom's m2m products. Also handled various software validation activities. - Built a sound-proof chamber for conformance testing and automobile simulation. - Assembled all recording equipment and setup workstation for digital recording & editing..

Asked to move over to an integration test role due to specific lab skills and knowledge. Led the effort to run a suite of integration testcases. - Developed end to end tests to verify speech path on a new software package. - Constructed the only lab setup in the company capable of testing the end-to-end voice quality on the new software loads..

Joined team to help identify and fix customer issues related to DSP code interactions between Nortel code and Texas Instrument's code. Also in charge of developing a way to regress software loads for the DSP that came directly from TI. - Developed a DSP regressino testing lab that helped reduce the amount of customer visible problems by approximately 50%.

Hired into this group to bring into service several pieces of equipment sent to the group from Harlow, England. The design group needed several different configurations of the equipment along with a push-button traffic setup so anyone could easily test traffic on their software designs.

Asked to move over from design to the Product Verification group to help out with a product they were unfamiliar with. This was a new line gateway that required different knowledge and skills to setup and operate. Worked daily monitoring 6 different traffic generation devices where all other engineers had at most 3 to monitor.

Asked by manager to help out with driving the integration phase of the software development process, pulling in the pieces from 7 other engineers, and pushing the completion of the phase. - Managed weekly meetings with 4 local and 3 overseas engineers - Took control of integrating all of the test plan documentation. - Assigned test case areas to ensure.

Involved in all areas of the software design process over several different projects using different languages on different platforms. Languages utilized were Protel, Pascal, C and C++. - Development of Next Generation / Succession Network equipmen for performing voice over packet - both VoIP and VoATM. The design was all C++ in an embedded /.

Worked in a customer support role to field customer calls and perform initial troubleshooting of software related problems, identifying which design group to involve if necessary.