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Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Remote

Provide consulting on multiple projects including:• Tool selection for SwitchThink• Process improvement for conversions

Remote

Oversaw all software testing and quality engineering activities within CUS for all twelve products which included development, review and execution of smoke test and UAT test plans and test cases to ensure product quality. Led an organization of 150 QA analysts.• Created the Quality Assurance organization within CUS by moving all Quality Assurance Analysts from individual products into a single functional group at the division level.• Implemented a common toolset and processes across all QA within CUS in order to quickly move QA staff between various products depending on resource demands.• Negotiated with vendors to receive the best tool pricing.• Developed quality standards, best practices, documentation and process flows for all manual testing tools, automated testing tools and each business process.• Developed standard metrics for all CUS products using the new tools for executive dashboard reporting to demonstrate product quality.• Utilized data-driven metrics to make process improvements and improve operational excellence in automation and regression testing.• Integrated test automation into the devops CI/CD pipeline for each product.• Provided leadership in automating 50% of all CUS test cases which reduced the regression test time per iteration from weeks to days.• Conducted training and migrated 15 QA positions off-shore saving $750K annually.

Remote

Orchestrated all business requirements within CUS.• Created the Business Analysis organization with in CUS by moving all Business Analysts from individual products into a single functional group at the division level.

King Of Prussia, Pennsylvania, United States

Led all software engineering, IT strategy, enterprise architecture and compliance within the DataSafe credit union financial services product.• Developed the vision for the DataSafe product.• Delivered each release on-time according to schedule to meet customer expectations.• Improved the quality of each release over the prior year’s same release, 2012 annual release had a 46% reduction in customer reported defects and the first release of 2013 had a 35% reduction in customer reported defects.• Improved client satisfaction scores by 10% between 2011 and 2012 by delivering releases on-time with a high level of quality.• Automated the DataSafe regression test of 400 test cases and reduced the execution time from 5 weeks to 4 days.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

Led strategy, software engineering teams and all projects within the four CUSD Mid-Tier Segment products which included Advantage, CUBE, DataSafe and Galaxy.• Provided leadership in technology, vendor selection and deployment to impact cost reductions and improve efficiencies.• Initiated and led process development and implementation to improve processes.• In Advantage and DataSafe, built a product release schedule with interim milestones and delivered all planned releases on schedule to meet customer expectations.• In DataSafe, “right sized” the organization in order to reduce the number of developers and increase the number of QA staff which reduced staffing bottlenecks while completing projects.• In DataSafe, significantly improved the quality of releases by achieving a 21% reduction in customer reported defects between the first release of 2011 and 2012.• Provided leadership to select a common QA toolset for the segment, Microsoft TFS, Test Manager for manual test cases and Coded UI Test for automated testing and implemented the tool suite in Advantage, DataSafe and Galaxy.

Lake Mary, Florida, United States

Oversaw IT strategy, software engineering, compliance and financials for one of four credit union financial services systems within Fiserv/IntegraSys. Developed and implemented a 5 year strategic business plan which included directing all projects in support of the plan.• Set the vision and strategic direction for the product.• Developed two sets of 5 year strategic plans with annual objectives and associated financials and implemented the one selected by management in 2003.• Provided leadership to set the technical direction and application design of the product.• Created a project management organization to manage all projects and provide organizational reporting.• Created a Professional Services group assigned to provide consulting and custom work for customers. The group’s impact to revenue and profit increased each year.• Moved a portion of the development team off-shore and saved $1.1 million in 2006.• Implemented Mercury Quality Center and reduced development rework by 20%.• Implemented CMMi processes within CUBE in 2009.