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Austin, TX, US

Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas Area

• Responsible for ensuring the production quality of Xeon Server CPUs and the data center ecosystem
• Developed validation strategies and plans, balancing customer needs, quality, time to market, headcount and engineering cost through all stages of the product life cycle
• Led a cross-functional engineering team across multiple geos to validate a platform of 34 hardware, firmware, and software components
• Incorporated manufacturing constraints including schedule, yield, and defects into the overall product validation strategy
• Coached a scrum team as a Scrum Master in the Scaled Agile Framework to adhere to LEAN principles and processes including waste elimination and continuous improvement
• Certified as an Intel Facilitator, working to increase employee training and development opportunities

Seneca, SC

- Performed technical writing and editing for a lab management database application

Columbia, South Carolina Area

• Responsible for ensuring the production quality of the integrated graphics for 4 first generation mobile chipsets
• Developed multi-site validation plans for both pre- and post-silicon
• Performed project management functions including resource identification and allocation, schedule development, status communication, and customer engagement
• Performed all aspects of people management including hiring, employee development, performance management, and compensation
• Created and led the Great Place to Work team, focused on increasing employee satisfaction and team building

Columbia, South Carolina Area

• Performed low-level chipset debug on multiple Intel-based desktop and mobile platforms
• Developed test plans and wrote software test suites for the memory interface and 3D portions of the integrated graphics chipset design
• Developed a standard test plan template used for all graphics functional areas across multiple projects

• Developed and tested database interface functionality using C++ for NCR’s Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution
• Performed all aspects of the software development life cycle including design, design review, coding, code review, testing, integration and maintenance

Greenville, South Carolina Area

- Led the development team for Purchasing and Project Management modules of the MaterialManager software product (an end-to-end solution for controlling/tracking project materials).- Designed and implemented Warehousing module of MaterialManager using object-oriented methodologies.- Developed client/server applications using PowerBuilder against Oracle and.

• Diagnosed problems and developed solutions for NCR hardware platforms ranging from laptops to high-end servers for both domestic and international customers
• Served as lead debug engineer on the S10 Server product realization team and provided specialized hardware training to all engineers in global support operations

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

Emphasis in Artificial Intelligence/Neural Networks Graduate Teaching Assistantship teaching C Programming

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Science

Minor in Speech and Communications