Kyle Butler Email & Phone Number

St. Catharines, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

- Managed an overall group of 60 software engineers, with 21 direct reports. - Primary areas of management responsibility include: DevOps, software verification, departmental processes, continuous improvement, defect tracking and metrics analysis, and software delivery including management of bugs during first article system integration. - Hands-on manager; supported DevOps, verification, and software development groups with code reviews, technical mentorship, and python scripting for task automation. - Proudly achieved year over year growth of 20% in our software delivery output. - Worked with direct reports to mentor and develop their skills and proudly helped them achieve a higher level of capability.- Responsible for interviewing and selecting all new hires in the software group. - Responsible for yearly performance reviews and goal setting and twice-yearly goal reviews.

Burlington, Ontario, Canada

- Founded and created the software verification group within Wescam’s software engineering team. - Helped grow the team by hiring and mentoring 7 new software verification designers. - Was responsible for deciding many key elements of the software verification group, including selecting testing tools and frameworks, developing departmental processes and practices and pushing for a culture of change and continuous improvement within software.- Helped to contribute to many other key areas of software, including administering our DevOps tools, server infrastructure, and other key tools within engineering including Jira, Confluence, and BitBucket - Significant impact on reshaping our software development process - Championed and deployed Polarion ALM to facilitate better requirements management and process adherence. - Increased code quality by automating CodeSonar static analysis checks. Added several utilities to improve user experience. - Containerized several environments into Docker images for use by developers and our CI system. - Vastly improved our CI pipeline by migrating to Jenkins, and adding many automated checks to the CI workflow to enforce code quality and process adherence.

Toronto, Canada Area

Projects: F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter, HTF7000 Honeywell Turbofan Engine, Airbus A350, Boeing NGS, Boeing P-8A/MMA, Gulfstream G280, Embraer, General Aviation Digital Controller II, Windriver MCPR, Safran DCU-V, Inmarsat Global Xpress In-Flight Wireless NetworkPrimary Role: Software Test Engineering Lead- Managed a team of up to 20 test engineers.- Mentored the test team to ensure any issues encountered were resolved promptly, either by direct intervention or with additional training.- Attended daily client meetings to report project status, discuss any bugs uncovered, and discuss any technical issues with the design team and any other stakeholders.- Developed software test plans and test strategies for formal validation of the software requirements and software design according to DO-178 rigor.- Created and executed automated tests cases against high level and low level design elements to ensure correct operation based on requirements. - Analyzed structural coverage and performance statistics (stack usage, worst case timing, etc).- Created formal verification reports to document all test results, including analysis of any test failures and classification of any defects uncovered as a result of test failures.Additional Role(s): Software Engineering (Design)- Conceptualized, planned and designed DO-178 certified software using a top-down design model based on customer requirements.- Conducted development bench testing to ensure robustness of code and confirm correct software behavior.- Developed an extremely strong knowledge of all aspects of the software development lifecycle; especially with respect to DO-178 requirements and required certification evidence.