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Glendale, Az, Us

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

(Contractor through CorTech LLC)Participated on a three-developer team for the design and development of the External IO Results Checker (EIRC) tool, a tool to be qualified per DO-178B for verification of aircraft data. Wrote Perl script that automated qualification testing and qualification test status reporting for the EIRC tool. Wrote qualification tests and worked with the other developers to track and resolve issues discovered during testing. Became major contributor to documentation for requirements and testing.

Phoenix, Az, Us

(Contractor through Belcan TechServices Division)Designed and developed a C++ application for testing of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) software. The application performed black box testing by sending STANAG 4586 messages or Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Control Segment (UCS) Working Group messages to the software under test and verifying the resulting messages.Participated as lead on a two-developer team for the design, development, and unit testing of an application, written in C++ and C#, that successfully allowed a customer to interface with proprietary Kutta safe air volume (SAV) software.Worked in various phases of software development. For example, provided requirement improvements and code reviews for a project being developed per DO-178C standards, and helped new engineers learn to write tests.

Fairfax, Va, Us

Produced software requirements, software design documents, and software test plans for new test equipment for GD components of a government satellite.Designed, developed, reviewed, and tested C++ object-oriented test software to verify the flight software for a communication component of a satellite, all per government standards.Wrote and debugged extensions of in-house C++ software to enable more efficient testing, debugging, and problem isolation in a system that had new hardware, new software, and new test equipment.

Phoenix, Az, Us

Provided software requirements, software design, software development, debugging, and testing services for customers such as Honeywell and Smiths Aerospace using various platforms, development environments, tools, and languages, including C#, Java, Python, and Ada.Successfully jumped into projects at all phases of software development life cycle, with assignments varying in length from weeks to over a year. For example, got up to speed on a remote customer’s testing and operating environment and wrote low-level driver test code in C, all within a two-week period. Customer praised quality of work directly to our CEO and said that it addressed even unforeseen issues.

Designed, developed, reviewed, and tested C++ code in an object oriented development environment on a large team that developed a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) product. Received an award for cross-functional work on this team.Designed, developed, and tested Perl scripts for coordinating and administering various components of a large system. Within the three-month assignment to the project, was able to learn and contribute enough to receive an Individual Achievement Award.Participated on a small development team for a Windows-based caller ID and personal information management (PIM) hardware and software product and a Windows-based alphanumeric paging program. Contributed C database and import/export code, as well as all the online help text and software. Received an Individual Achievement Award. PC Computing magazine named the caller ID product a Most Valuable Product (MVP).