Jay Everett Email & Phone Number

Cary, NC

Cary, NC

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.

Cary, NC

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Certificate, Computer Programming

Bs, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Pi Kappa AlphaCoop rotations at IBM and Ericsson