Michael Custer Email & Phone Number

Redmond, WA, US

• Embedded Linux
• High latency satellite communications products, software and hardware
• Strategic and tactical test planning
• Agile focused shop
• JIRA/Jenkins/JAMA tools
• Mentoring

Seattle, Washington, US

• Principal responsibility for design, architecture, and implementation of test automation strategy f for F5 BIGIP vCMP virtual cloud provider product line.
• Automated test/design for dynamic resource allocation for virtual cloud provider products.
• Load Balance/Scale/Performance test automation
• Design and implementation of high volume network traffic test schemes
• Automated testing of network traffic disaggregation into clustered multi-processing chassis
• Test automation for protocol validation, Class of Service/Quality of Service, DoS protection

• SDETVirtualization (late binding hypervisor)DebuggingConcurrency
• Primary quality assurance responsibility for concurrency bug finding and reporting tool
• Testing of late binding thin hypervisor, kernel driver, Linux daemon/Windows service
• Extensive automated test coverage for Windows and Linux platforms
• Complex test coverage matrix for multiple platforms, compilers, and CPU models
• Test automation written in Python, C, C++, C#

Suwanee, Georgia, US

• Lead engineer responsible for test automaton for Cable TV DVR set top boxes
• Developed from scratch automated test harness and all automated tests
• Primary development responsibility for automated tests covering 7 device platforms
• Technologies included CableCard (one-way and two-way), QAM, HD, DAC configuration
• Responsible for daily test results reports distributed inter-department to set organizational development/sustaining priorities
• Primary automation language used was Ruby; work included significant C++ and C#

Buffalo, New York, US

• @Microsoft
• Responsible for test design and execution for scan feature of anti-malware software project
• 85% automated (C++), 15% manual testing
• Extensive development of C++ automation, including support framework, for automated testing
• Project involved significant inter- and intra-team communication responsibilities
• Development included file system filter device, thorough knowledge of file system security concepts

• Responsible for automated testing of IBM Host Emulation (Mainframe, AS/400 Terminal Emulation)
• Coded 95% of tests automated; test language and harnesses in C++
• Participated in design and coding of harnesses for automation
• Win32 API, COM, DLL API's
• API testing specialist (VB/A, VB, C, C++)
• Some in-house host administration responsibilities (multiple mainframes, AS/400s)

US

• Responsible for code implementation of distributed cache middleware for network cluster enablement; scalable to 20 nodes
• Software designed and tested to meet "five nines" reliability requirement.
• High performance/ultra-scalable implementation.
• Target distribution platform: Solaris 2.x. Maintained x-platform for Win32, Solaris, and Linux at all times.
• Full responsibility for all deliverables, including cross team integration, documentation, and API/usage dissemination across multiple development teams.
• Design and implementation of memory management schemes, including multi-gigabyte scalable, fast, shared memory manager