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Atlanta, Ga

• Over two years of experience using Agile/SCRUM methodology to build and test the company's next generation practice management system. We conduct daily Scrums, as well as release planning, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospective meetings.• Our team sets the standard for productivity in the Development department, and was recently selected to pilot the adoption of Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) techniques.• Create and execute rigorous tests for the integration of a comprehensive patient scheduling module that was built with NextGen technology into a legacy practice management system, with hundreds of integration points between them.• Develop SQL queries for database testing.• Interact with end-users during the beta testing phase, connecting remotely to their systems to gain an understanding of their problems, then communicating the issues to the technical team.• Examination of user stories, functional documentation, prototypes, and acceptance criteria to develop detailed and thorough test cases, resulting in frequently finding shortcomings that require rework.• Manage and update test plans and test cases as requirements are modified.• Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD) including creation of workflow scenarios and decision tables.• Perform root cause analysis on particularly troublesome defects.• Demonstrate completed features to the Product Owner for formal acceptance.• Considered by the team manager/scrum master to be the team's quality leader, and function as a mentor in quality efforts for the other QEs in the R&D department.• Customer-focused results, with constructive feedback to the design team and Product Owner.• Coordinate QA efforts with remote personnel (Baltimore, Philadelphia, London, Shanghai, California).• Certified Quality Advocate.• Independent reviewer for regulatory compliance on the continued development of an application classified by the FDA as a Class III Medical Device.

Atlanta, Ga

• Two years of experience as a Test Automation Engineer writing automated test scripts in QuickTest Pro and VB Script.• Conducted an analysis of the existing manual tests and convinced upper management to shift the direction from automating tests one by one to building a test automation framework with modular components for flexibility, reusability, and maintainability.• The standard for success upon launching the test automation effort was to have one-third of the test cases automated; I greatly exceeded this by fully automating over 60% of the tests and partially automating another 25%.• Identified inherent need to proceed with test automation in a manner that would withstand regulatory scrutiny, met with the Regulatory Affairs Officer, and created a series of goals, customer requirements, and functional requirements for the project - each linked in a traceability matrix.• Developed guidelines for the QA staff on how to prepare their manual test cases in a manner that would facilitate test automation.

Atlanta, Ga

In 2007, Eastman Kodak sold the Kodak Health Group to Onex Corporation; Kodak Health Group was renamed as Carestream Health, and Kodak Dental Systems was renamed as Carestream Dental.• Responsible for the R&D budget (25 people) including analysis, monitoring, and reporting to the VP of R&D.• Managed software licenses for the R&D department (approximately 30 licensed tools and products).• Analyzed the existing databases of the company's four premier practice management applications to create a unified database schema that served as the basis for the database of the new global NextGen database.• Effective management of the developers in the Vancouver, BC office for the company’s imaging development needs (projects included PW DICOM, Trophy Cosmetic, Trophy Slideshow, Thumbnail Viewer, and the Image Presenter and Image Database Manager modules).• Coordinated the entire development department’s interactions with the R&D group of our Trophy France team.• Recruited and managed several .NET developers and architects for the creation of the NextGen Core architecture.• Managed the .NET teams that used the initial version of the core architecture for a pilot project, and co-managed two .NET development teams who used the refined core architecture to create modules for the next generation application.• Conducted an exhaustive project retrospective (post-mortem analysis).

Atlanta, Ga

In 2003, Eastman Kodak Company purchased PracticeWorks to form Kodak Dental Systems.• Continued management of the company’s dental imaging development efforts.• Selected by the CEO to sit in on the company's first FDA audit of our Class III Medical Device practice management application; provided comprehensive notes for the executive leadership team.

Sacramento, California Area; Atlanta, Ga

After exponential growth through the acquisition of dozens more small companies, InfoCure spun off its dental division to form PracticeWorks.• Took over the development of several different dental practice management system applications as the company acquired over a dozen smaller companies and consolidated resources. • This required the ability to pick up diverse languages, database systems, and platforms (MS Access 97 with VBA; VB 4.0 and proprietary database; PowerBuilder; Borland Pascal; Delphi; and Code Warrior on Apple Macintosh OS X).

Sacramento, California Area

InfoCure was formed in July 1997 upon the acquisition of KComp Systems and five other medical software development companies.• After a period of attrition, I was once again the sole developer for the KComp dental practice management application, and brought the product to maturity, successfully adding comprehensive new features and maintaining the entire code base.• Wrapped up the KComp application by conducting a Y2K retrofit that was delivered on time and without any defects encountered by our customers.

Glendale, Ca

• Led team of five developers as a "player/manager" in the continued development of our ground-breaking dental practice management application.

Canoga Park, Ca

• Continued development of the dental practice management application (KComp, Inc. went through bankruptcy and reformed as Songbird Data Systems (DBA KComp Systems) with the infusion of venture capital.• Began taking on team management responsibilities as additional developers were hired.

Glendale, Ca

• Conducted full SDLC development process with the company that pioneered the development of practice management software for the general dental market.