Qualifying key architectural components of Senet’s LoRaWAN network, including devices, gateways and cloud-based applications for both the network's management and customer portals. Automated and Manual Test Responsibilities include: • Compliant protocol implementation for both Devices and the Network Server • Alerting and Notification systems for the network's Base Stations and Applications • Internal and customer-facing REST APIs for onboarding and management of Devices • Customer Portal workflow access and functionality for numerous user-role amalgams • API Key generation and access context validation • Password Policy Functionality and enforcementAdditional Activities • Collaborative management of Jenkins Pipelines, Git integration, and Groovy scripts. • Contribute and review both Product Documentation and Release Notes • RF Assessment and facilitation of FCC Certification for in-house and customer devices • Member of the LoRa Alliance Certification Committee, contributor to the Certification Specification. • Inherited, improved and maintained manufacturing test harness.

Managed 8 CM engineers in service to software and firmware development teams across 3 sites, including:• Defect tracking system maintenance, feature development and basic integration with SFDC• Consensus-building and transition planning for inherited transition projects: o Black Duck to Protecode o ClearCase to Git o Centralized infrastructure purchasingCritical role in transitioning Extreme from Oracle-based defect tracking to Enterasys’ in-house solution:• Work-flow process and Data analysis• Contributed Migration tool’s core mapping logic (Java)• Generated and delivered workflow training across organization (Support, Program management, Engineering)

• Spearheaded conversion of Firmware Automation Test from Linux / Tcl infrastructure to Keyword driven-, Java-based App already used for automated NMS testing. • Conceptualized, designed, and built modular Keyword panels corresponding to the CLI syntax of numerous firmware features and protocols. • Enabled larger QA organization to author highly readable-, re-usable-, and scalable automated coverage.• Collaborated with QA leads in the implementation of test coverage management tools, integrated with automated tracking of known failures and expected fixes.• Facilitated team’s transition to Git from ClearCase; provided training, documentation, and support.• Managed part-time intern, overseeing their contribution to automated firmware coverage with Ixia’s ANVL conformance suite.

Managed 9 engineers responsible for automated regression service for firmware releases on nearly all shipping hardware products. Activities included: • Maintenance of automation infrastructure, test suite development, and priority-based resource allocation. • Interfacing with development, technical support, product management, and system test organizations. • Daily results tracking, -reporting, -investigation; customer escalation remediation; assessment of known issues’ impact to customers and release schedule.

• Design, author, document, execute, and sustain automated test coverage of various Layer 2-3 network protocols and features at unit and conformance level using object-oriented Tcl infrastructure. • Identify defects and verify corresponding fixes both for the product firmware releases under test and the automated infrastructure used to execute the tests.

• Evaluated SMS-distributed apps, internal web portals, and PC hardware for stability and compliance with the enterprise’s established standards.• Interfaced with Product Sponsors throughout markets, servicing varying severities of business need. • Evaluated and certified Infrastructure Engineering products for Enterprise-wide distribution (Gold Disk revisions, Security Bulletins, Application Upgrades, SMS Advanced Client). • Performed moderate root cause analysis and coordinated next steps among Desktop QA groups and Engineering resources.Achievements • Refined templates of hard / soft records and communications for better comprehension and flexibility in processing submissions. • Led integration of VM-Ware into entrant-processing workflow, resulting in major time-savings and capacity gains.

Firmware – Multiple HW Platforms • Performed packet-, unit-, performance-, stress-, limits-, integration- and system-level qualification of numerous protocols and security features. • Used MS backend and client systems, validated 1st-gen Multi-User Authentication Network Security solution on flagship distribution / core switch-router. Software - NetSight NMS • Completed both UI and functional verification of network-device management features, including statistics validation, capacity, stress and performance testing the suite’s various applications. • Validated O/S platform support and integration, with a focus on system resource utilization and capacity analysis.Common Responsibilities • Produced detailed Procedural Test plan & matrix authoring and maintenance • Generated audience-appropriate test documentation and tech presentation collateral from various source materials (formal RFCs, draft specifications, etc.). • Defect analysis, authoring, tracking, regression, reporting, as well as metrics development and presentation. • Worked closely with development to understand and validate defect resolution. • Test methodology development and planning, new technology feature training. • Organized best-effort-, priority-based strategy under ever-changing time and resource constraints.Achievements • Completed 3 evaluations (‘04, ‘07, ‘08) of HW product lines at US Department of the Army’s Technology Integration Center at FT Huachuca, AZ, earning purchasable status with the U.S. Army. • Presented crucial feature-enhancement information to Test-, Training-, Support-, Sales-, and Systems engineering personnel. • Streamlined defect trending and analysis; individual engineer performance tracking; and improved project status accuracy for management team. • Drove and implemented source control via MS VSS for over 80 engineers, all authoring or modifying test matrices, procedures, tech papers, presentations, and automation tool requests.