John Sharp Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Virginia Beach, Virginia, Us

Continuing duties with NSWCPD via employment with The GBS Group.

- Co-founder of the Seger Park Tennis Club, a Community Tennis Association in downtown Philadelphia - Our mission is to promote the growth of tennis in the greater Center City Philadelphia area- Created & manage website to foster connection of and playing opportunities for tennis players in downtown Philadelphia, examples include Challenge Ladder Management & Seger Match page - resulting in a dynamic, communicative, community-based tennis population - Our website: http://www.segerparktennis.com

Charleston, Sc, Us

Test and QA Engineer & Scrum Master via contract at NSWCPD working on a cybersecurity modeling project; performing requirements management, Verification & Validation, manual & automated testing, and Automation via ATRT: https://idtus.com/atrt-automated-test-and-retest/ Scrum Master duties including but not limited to planning & leading daily scrums and Sprint Planning, Review, and Retrospective meetings, backlog management and staff guidance.

King Of Prussia, Pa, Us

Software Testing & Quality Assurance duties, including manual testing, automated testing using RIDE to employ back-end components created with Python, SoapUI and Postman & Newman for Restful API testing, HP QC, exploratory testing, regression testing, smoke (sanity) testing, writing test cases, reviewing documentation & specifications, etc. Used a bit of Postman & Newman.

Toronto, On, Ca

Accepted opportunity to apply my significant years of experience with and knowledge of the Thomson Baseline product family by filling a software tester position for the next release of the product (Baseline 8.0). This includes performing software testing duties for current & future version(s) of the Baseline product family - ad hoc testing, unit testing, performance testing, regression testing, smoke (sanity) testing, hardware & software setup/installation, writing test cases, reviewing documentation & specifications, manual & automated test duties, and other related work.

Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, Us

Networking Breakfast Meeting Committee MemberCoordinated business networking opportunities for local PMI chapter members; www.pmi-dvc.org

- Built the programming & QA teams from the ground-up to 20 programmers and 10 QA staff. Over 90% team member retention with two returning to the firm after leaving to pursue other positions.- Provided pro-active, bi-weekly project status reporting & prevented ‘fire fighting’ & resource demand conflicts via projecting resource needs & advanced scheduling tactics.- Created more efficient software development cycles & less re-work by working with the Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG) in defining the software development life cycle process, reviewing/approving software requirements & UI design specifications, testing software, and writing code (VB/VB.Net). - Established a comprehensive understanding of all teams’ roles in the software development process by directing the efforts of three teams both directly and via their managers: UI designers, Programmers, and QA Staff.- Provided on-site technical support as necessary & remote software product support as required. ... for more about Baseline, read "Undaunted" by Ed Zier; available on Amazon.com.

Programming & project management responsibilities for many projects, including Baseline Financial, which led to my Thomson Financial position. Development done via Visual Basic 3.0-6.0.

Ba, Computer Science

Associates, Computer Data Processing