Samuel (Sam) Ray Email & Phone Number

Boulder, CO

NIST-CTL PSCR Division

Irving, Texas

• Served on feature teams to estimate, design, review and execute test plans covering new base station features and platforms, while executing manual regression on legacy areas. Identified test cases for automation, and.
• Consistently met deadlines for test plans, reviews and test execution milestones
• Identified and characterized passive intermodulation (PIM) issues in test benches resulting from dual-carrier implementation; worked with offshore hardware/software development to publish findings and mitigation.
• Increased efficiency and usability of test bench at no cost through collaboration (expertise and resource reallocation) with other Nokia teams
• Documented and published internal training procedures; developed platform-specific test methods for the local I&V team; propagated information to other team members
• Worked after hours and on weekends as needed to meet team commitments

• Oversaw business and team providing fee-based testing of pre-commercial mobiles against the NSN CDMA/LTE/MMS network in an accredited lab. Managed diverse team of 14-20 engineers, technicians and contractors covering.
• Updated IOT Agreement templates and secured approval from legal team to reflect current NSN standards
• Negotiated and maintained NDAs, IOT agreements and SOWs with corporate and customer legal teams; supported team as needed with customer interaction
• Maintained compliance and reporting requirements for ISO17025 lab accreditation
• Collaborated with designers in planning lab relocation from Fort Worth to Irving site
• Served on NSN Greater Dallas Technology Center Committee

• Oversaw business and team providing fee-based testing of pre-commercial mobiles against the Motorola CDMA/LTE/MMS network in an accredited lab. Managed diverse team of 14-20 engineers, technicians and contractors.
• Updated obsolete IOT Agreement templates and secured approval from legal team to reflect current practices and working relationships with customers
• Negotiated and maintained NDAs, IOT agreements and SOWs with corporate and customer legal teams; supported team as needed with customer interaction
• Led team through completion of ISO17025 accreditation (A2LA) in 2009. Scope expanded in 2010. Maintained compliance and reporting
• Collaborated with designers and managed lab relocation (facility move) with minimal downtime
• Served on Motorola Principal Staff Engineer Review Board

• Supervised, managed and provided technical leadership for system test teams of 7 to 21 engineers (local and remote) in CDMA and EV-DO technologies; reviewed/approved system test plans
• Coordinated feature test work between teams in two domestic locations and one international location
• Monitored and reported test metrics to Program Management using customized tools and reports and Rational ClearQuest
• Directed activities of system test labs in Fort Worth--lab planning, capital acquisition, scheduling, configuration management
• Directed personnel activities of department (recruitment, dismissal, scheduling, performance evaluations, salary adjustments)
• Principal Staff Engineer Review Board member, 2004-2011

• Designed, authored and executed requirements-based and regression test plans on analog/CDMA cellular systems in cabled rf lab environment. Automated ELT and call load capacity testing with extensive background load.
• Employed testing tools and scripts on UNIX platforms using GUI applications, KSH and Perl or using third party equipment (Tekelec, Ameritech, Motorola tools)
• Worked directly with software development teams to evaluate problems, capture diagnostic logs and verify software fixes
• Authored System Level Evaluation Plans, Deployment Plans and other documents used with customer engineers for First Office Application (FOA) of system releases and features
• Deployed and demonstrated system software in United States, Argentina, Peru and Israel commercial markets. Activities included extensive drive testing and monitoring of system performance data
• Interface directly with customers for problems encountered in markets; obtained software acceptance signatures

M.S. Systems Engineering (24 Of 36 Hours Completed), 4.0

• Completed 24 of 36 hours, including SE Core, Statistics, Linear Programming, Regression Analysis, Operations Research • SE Core included.

Bsee, Electrical Engineering, 3.71

Activities and Societies: IEEE (Chapter President), Eta Kappa Nu, Hybrid Electric Vehicle Competition

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Music/Accounting, 3.79