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Marlborough, MA, US

St. Michael, MN, US

• Designed and maintained a multitude of in-house software solutions to aid in all facets of the product lifecycle from R&D, design, to manufacturing, by employing C# and Visual Basic solutions in a Microsoft Visual.
• Initiated project as sole designer and developer; deployed a robust and diverse manufacturing test platform utilizing.NET C# (WinForms) that increased efficiency, reduced defects, and provided full visibility for.
• Developed multiple desktop applications which aided engineers with design and testing tasks.
• Maintained and updated a variety of existing applications, already in use, that extended functionality and eliminated defects.
• Developed new/updated embedded/firmware for feature additions, optimizations, including memory and execution time, bug fixes, and other enhancements in an MPLAB environment (PIC16/32).
• Created documentation standards, processes, and structure which unified departments and reduced field escapes.

Palm Beach Gardens, FL, US

• Conceptualized, designed, integrated, and delivered test fixtures in house, to test a variety of home, commercial and industrial fire and security products such as smoke detectors, motion sensors, and security panels..
• Wrote automated test routines for testing, programming, and calibrating fire and security products while driving increased first pass yields (FPY) and reducing test time.
• Served as project manager on an international project featuring 18 new to market SKUs including development and delivery of eight test fixtures, working with three different wireless communication protocols, writing a.
• Provided remote and on-site support to engineering teams in three international plants and served as a mentor to junior engineers locally.
• Adapted a test hardware calibration algorithm to expand automation to five additional product lines, eliminating human error and reducing time-to-market by four hours per machine per month.
• Performed statistical analysis of tester data by working with relational databases to generate paretos and leverage those paretos to improve FPY by as much as 20%.

Hanover, Maryland, US

• Partnered with engineering teams to simultaneously drive multiple detailed phases of stagnant and delayed projects to full completion with accelerated timelines.
• Improved tester stability and accuracy and reduced test time by conducting time metering, fault injection analysis and repeatability testing.
• Conducted code review, found bugs and removed unnecessary delays to improve software quality.
• Utilized advanced troubleshooting, repair, and reverse engineering techniques to develop innovative, practical solutions to resolve complex problems.
• Coded and remotely deployed utilities and tester automation software with C# and VB using Visual Studio 2008.NET and Microsoft Access.
• Created specialized utilities, and interfaced and communicated with custom hardware using standard and non-standard communication protocols.

Quickly advanced to a leadership position as PC Field Technician, from customer service and cashier roles, because of demonstrated technical aptitude and ability to consistently meet company goals.

Master'S Degree, Software Engineering

Bachelors, Computer And Electrical Engineering

Associates, Arts With Emphasis In Mathematics