Strategic Planning and ExecutionResource ManagementDefine, Standardize and Implement Project Management ProcessesRisk Management and Problem SolvingStakeholder Communication and Reporting

Custom Power, a division of solid State, builds technologically advanced custom battery packs for industries throughout the world.

 Support the Software Engineering Director and its QA Department. Provide forecast and allocation of +200 resources across five geographic areas. Proactively identify risks, propose and implement mitigation plans and strategies. Assess testing progress, track budget and remove hurdles to ensure timely delivery. Drive change management processes, manage stakeholder expectations, communicate impact and execute changes if applicable.

► Completed Project Management (PMI) Course and passed PMP exam.► Completed Six Sigma Courses and passed Green Belt Certification► Working towards Six Sigma Black Belt Certification► Currently enrolled in Scrum Master courses, working towards ScrumMaster Certification (CSM).► Working towards ScrumMaster (CSM) and ITIL Certifications.

Senior Performance Analyst and Project Manager:Managed projects from requirement gathering to lessons learned. Led performance teams to test functionality and assess performance for Relational Database Management Software(RDBMS) and its underlying components. Managed test system pool for software life cycle. Known for meeting tight testing schedules, maintaining pristine testing environment, and “going the extra mile” to meet commitments. • Improved test system schedule and lowered defects during unit testing by getting involved with feature managers during requirement and design phases. • Delivered excellence in troubleshooting, testing and reporting to provide software release on schedule without major performance issues.• Teamed with Product Managers to gather early performance requirements and feature characteristics to create test plans with accurate schedules.• Characterized new features, verified interaction between RDBMS and its diverse utility applications to validate design requirements and verify feature functionality. • Tested and assessed software to provide key performance characteristics to marketing and pre-sale organizations. • Represented performance team at inter-department level to negotiate resources, provided performance recommendation, reported on defects and presented performance release level.• Reduced test submission, monitoring, testing and analysis times 25% with automated web base testing tool.• Increased the expertise of the team by training and mentoring junior analysts.

Promoted to Senior Analyst based on contribution in automated tool improvement, hardware testing and software integration. Known for detailed and accurate performance reports. • Supervised and verified test platform move to Unix environment ensuring better hardware scheduling, easy test creation, efficient monitoring , more accurate results and faster analysis. • Tested new hardware in distributed environment providing hardware characterization to product management.• Modified and created new tests to validate functionality and assess performance of new features.• Executed tests and analyzed results to document discrepancies and performance improvement.• Collaborated with network engineering team to proactively upgrade servers / clients minimizing test systems downtime.

Systems Engineer for the Guidance and Navigation of the Space Shuttleo Analyzed Space Shuttle Mission constraints to generate the avionics requirements. o Designed, implemented, and verified avionics software changes on an off-line simulation. o Tested avionics software, hardware and operating procedures in a real time simulator. o Evaluated overall system performance and documented results. o Executed load and stress testing on offline and real-time simulatorso Reproduced and analyzed flight anomalies to recommend solutions.