Line Manager of a diverse verification team that serves multiple segments and sites within Garmin. Actively manages the team to ensure a high level of software quality for the Fleet and Wearables segments and also supports Bluetooth and Wi-Fi certification.Work closely with Project teams to scope and plan verification activities across product development and maintenance cycles.Responsible for the daily activities of the Fleet Support team that provides technical support to Garmin’s Fleet partners around the world.Compliance Engineer for products that integrate cellular modems and plans and executes the activities that ensure products gain the necessary regulatory approvals as well as cellular operator approvals before launch.

Coordinated both HW and SW verification activities for smartphone projects across multiple sites. Established overall verification process after the creation of a new smartphone development unit.• Created verification schedules that captured and linked both HW and SW activities to reduce test gaps by 25%.• Interfaced with line management across multiple organizations to secure resources for verification activities.• Created and presented milestone and quality reports across multiple projects.• Composed weekly, overall verification status report for cross-functional, multi-site project team.

Line manager for eight person team which was responsible for RF transceiver verification, design reliability, and regulatory testing. Coordinated resources for multiple projects and conducted performance management and salary planning for individual team members.• Excelled as technical expert for regulatory activities within the business unit.• Collaborated with multiple project teams to resolve resource and technical issues in the best interest of project priorities.• Researched new-hire candidates, lead the interview process, and acted as the decision maker on new-hires, including contractors.• Acted as the main interface to our external regulatory test houses and negotiated and tracked four $1M projects through certification.• Developed and tracked a yearly capital budget of over $3M for my group.

Executed full system verification on multiple wireless modules. Optimized performance and added functionality to an existing test software suite used to perform design verification. Provided extensive environmental testing for all project teams.• Analyzed both internal and external specifications and created test plans, schedules, and resource allocations to meet multiple project deadlines.• Examined test data and created reports that detailed testing and emphasizing potential problem areas to reduce post-launch defects by 20%.• Researched equipment needs and provided solutions, with quotations, to management with technical recommendations in time to meet yearly budget planning deadline.• Tracked multiple equipment resources in MS Project which aided in project planning, priority resolution, and improved testing bandwidth by 33%.• Designed and implemented a stand-alone software package used to test multiple modules over temperature before shipment to key customers and reduced test time by 50%.

Maintained and developed software used to qualify multiple power components. Conducted full component verification and delivered data in a reproducible format that was made available by an internal website.• Implemented software test program in C (LabWindows/CVI) that automated a manual test process, thereby reducing test time up to 75%.• Improved data analysis time by 50% by designing a Visual Basic program that allowed users to pull multiple test runs from a large Access database and compare data in a graphical format.• Reduced test time by 35% by designing a power consumption test in LabVIEW that was incorporated into an existing test suite.