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San Antonio, Tx, Us

Freelance light truck owner operator specializing in freight/passenger transportation services as well as road side assistance.Primary Focus:* Gig economy based freight transport* Gig economy based passenger transport* Regional Hot Shot trucking or LTL loads* Regional passenger transport* Regional roadside assistanceRoutine Duties:* Retain & expand client base* Maintain safe driving record & high customer satisfaction ratings* Plan daily routes & delivery schedules* Inspect & maintain service trucks, passenger transports, etc...* Ensure safety & condition of all passengers or freight at all times* Freight Routes: Load, secure, transport & deliver various light cargo in a safe, efficient manner* Passenger Routes: Provide safe, reliable transportation/routine assistance for passengers from pick up to drop off location

New Hope, Pennsylvania, Us

Quality owner/driver for Tenna Online, Tenna Warehouse, Tenna Mobile applications and the Tenna backend systems which support those applications. Responsible for all software testing related processes, procedures, tools, test automation development, quality engineers, general software testing activities and software testing deliverables across Tenna.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Technical leader for both an SDET tiger team focused on various R&D projects and a software development team focused on building our next generation enterprise level test automation and CI/CD platform. Platform expands upon the previous iteration built by myself and the SDET tiger team, while being ala carte and test language agnostic. - Designed and led development of enterprise level test framework used in all of our automation efforts. Tightly integrated with various T-Mobile cloud resources, followed T-Mobile standard development practices and fully integrated with enterprise CI templates/process. Supported desktop browser UI, mobile, API and proprietary device testing. Provided secure tests in production owing to integration with enterprise secret store. Formed the basis of the next generation platform my development team is currently focused on delivering. Tech stack: Java, Maven, TestNG, Selenium, Appium, RestAssured, Sauce Labs, GitLab, Kubernetes, AWS.- Successfully mentored and grew SDET resources from manual testing resources to functional SDETs working in native Java. This formed the core of existing SDET tiger team, who consume the platform being built by the dev team.- Contributed code to open/inner source projects in a variety of languages frequently as a part of helping represent T-Mobile specific community interests integrated with our technology stack.- Lead an automation transformation effort using the SDET tiger team for a complex, cloud/in-home hardware based 1st generation video streaming solution. Effort transformed testing from 100% manual efforts to 95% automated in lower environments and 90% automated in production environment.- Delivered multiple tools instrumental in the production release of 2nd generation video streaming service. An example tool auto-generated hundreds of test cases in our framework that "watched" live video streams, detected video playback issues in any channel, in any market across the US, at any point in time.

Houston, Texas, Us

Director level Software Architecture position within the HPE Cloud business unit. Top level leader within area of expertise reporting to VP of Software Development. Did not manage other employees directly as a primary job function, however, was responsible for guiding/mentoring all SDET resources within the business unit. Required to independently leverage recognized domain expertise, business acumen and Director level experience to influence or guide decisions of engineering as well as business leaders.- Responsible for operating across all teams/disciplines within the Cloud BU to improve the overall quality, reliability and time to market of all developed products.- Key stakeholder in large, globally distributed, cross‐division functional teams and projects with significant business impact.- Primary owner for all enterprise level quality architectures, plans, proposals, and results as well as the overall voice of quality when negotiating options at both the business and engineering levels.- Primary driver for adoption of appropriate frameworks, test harnesses, automation methodologies, etc... within Cloud engineering designed to produce reliable software while meeting overall business goals.- Required to routinely exercise independent judgment in developing methods, techniques and criteria for achieving objectives as given by senior Cloud Engineering Leadership. - Independently reviewed and evaluated products, solution designs, and engineering processes to characterize the overall reliability level and delivered quality to customers.- Ensured the consistent application of defined quality practices across teams and ongoing upgrades of processes so that we were continuously improving based on metrics, results from root‐cause analysis, and project retrospectives.- Provided ongoing guidance and mentoring to less-experienced engineering leadership or IC staff members by setting an example of quality engineering design and development innovation and excellence.

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Director level software architect position reporting to VP of Software Engineering. Responsible for direction at the enterprise level for Quality Engineering organization. Quality Engineering tooling, Quality Engineering infrastructure and Quality Engineering testing best practices across OpenStack® based public/private Rackspace® Cloud implementations as well as all Rackspace® internal applications.- Directed the overall strategy, architecture and process improvements for the Quality Engineering organization's automation and infrastructure. - Drove the implementation of best practices; assessment of new technologies; implementation of POCs; capacity planning; performance tuning.- Maintained an organization-wide view of business and application architecture in support of Quality Engineering goals and objectives.- Provided leadership and expertise in the development of standards, architectural governance, and software design patterns within Quality Engineering.- Collaborated with internal and external partners to ensure that technology decisions and blueprints align with the overall Quality Engineering Enterprise Architecture. - Assisted and guided open source initiatives generated from Quality Engineering tools and solutions.- Managed multiple Development teams focused on Enterprise level QE applications as well as OpenStack upstream involvement.- Assessed and re-invigorated individual projects that were not on track from a Quality Engineering perspective.- Provided executive level communication, presentations and quarterly progress reports on all Quality Engineering development activities.

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Quality Engineering and Reliability Director for company critical projects and systems including event based cloud infrastructure billing, revenue assurance, internal audit, HR and legal systems. Additional governance included key OpenStack quality involvement direction as well as assistance with key customer facing cloud projects which were under high levels of scrutiny or experiencing challenges to success within Quality Engineering.- Direct the overall strategy, architecture and process improvements for the entire Foundations organization comprising multiple business units. - Quality Engineering chair of the Billing Governance Team answerable directly to the CFO as well as the COO.- Foundations Quality Engineering representative to both the Rackspace internal review and audit boards.- Maintained an organization-wide view of business and application architecture in support of Quality Engineering goals and objectives.- Directed technical partner and primary Quality Engineering interface to the CFO revenue groups.- Provided leadership and expertise in the development of standards, architectural governance, and software design patterns within Foundations Quality Engineering.- Collaborated with internal and external partners to ensure that technology decisions and business directives were delivered with the highest quality within the shortest possible time frame.- Transformed organization from an 80% contractor staffed, manual testing based group to a highly technical, FTE heavy, engineering based modernized Quality Engineering practice. - Assessed and re-invigorated individual projects outside of Foundations that were not on track from a Quality Engineering perspective.- Provided C-level communication, presentations and quarterly progress reports on all Quality Engineering development activities within Foundations.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Quality Leader/Architect for a growing networking and encryption company reporting to VP of Software Engineering. Responsible for Enterprise level test automation, software build and packaging direction. Design, develop and deploy easy-to-use and effective test automation JIGs capable of automated testing for both hardware and software products; direct test resources distributed across the U.S. and in India on unit and system test development to compliment software development; work with engineering team to manage delivery and integration of features, bug fixes, and ensure that deliveries meet quality requirements; assist in the development of lightweight, effective and scalable processes and assist in testing for certification programs such as FIPS and Common Criteria.- Designed/implemented a test harness reporting and test bed management system (FIREpit) written in Python/Twisted Matrix. System was distributed across global geographic locations, could automatically select appropriate hardware configuration (by geographic location) to execute test cases that were matched directly to the type of hardware architecture being tested.- Designed and built a custom continuous integration server (FORGE) written in Python/Twisted Matrix, integrated with GIT and FIREpit that could build and deploy automated builds of the Applications Under Test to custom hardware distributed across global geographic locations. Builds could be queued within the FORGE system directly from a developer’s sandbox, from anywhere in the world where the new software would be built and automatically smoke tested. - Directed Test Engineers, performed planning, test execution, build and release certification for Certes Variable Speed Encryption Devices covering multiple chassis running Linux on MIPS32 and MIPS64 architectures during the release of a major control plane re-write.- Directed Test Engineers, performed planning, test execution for first of its kind Certes Virtual Encryption Devices.

Primary Automation Architect for Enterprise Search company later purchased by IBM Watson. Provided vision and scope for Enterprise level internal testing applications. Architected and developed overall test automation infrastructures and test harness systems. Designed and developed internal performance automation tools/systems as well as plan and execute performance, load and stress testing. Provided leadership and guidance on the role of automation within the engineering group.- Designed and developed a C# ASPX web application (Gauge) utilizing a MySQL database backend and a REST services layer that served as a reporting system and co-ordinated delivery system for the existing test automation. Gauge was capable of performing Big Data analytics of test data across all historical automated executions.- Prototyped performance testing framework using the open source Grinder tool as an engine- Conducted S.O.W. specific performance testing for high dollar customer projects.- Conducted Application Server Benchmarking testing for the selection of a new open source application server.

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Initially hired as Test Engineering Manager, however, functioned as the Director of Engineering reporting to VP of Engineering for a small Pittsburgh e-commerce start-up. Responsible for in-house and off shore development teams. Key engineering stake holder for all phases of the software development life cycle. Ensured that both development and testing were on track to meet set production release schedules. Participated in all architecture, software design and testing efforts. Drove coding standards, testing standards, overall development process and overall testing process. Managed software source branches, merges, and releases using Microsoft Team Foundation Server. Oversaw all production software releases. - Designed and implemented a major architecture overhaul of the Enterprise level release, build and deployment systems.- Drove major architecture overhaul of the web site to conform to standard design patterns.- Designed and implemented complete overhaul of the back end systems. - Recruited and managed engineering teams following a complete engineering staffing change.

Genova, Italy, It

Automation Architect reporting to Director of Test Engineering. Drove overall team objective of creating multi-platform based test engineering tools specifically geared towards the functional and load testing of next generation train based Computer Aided Dispatching systems. Drove ideas for new test engineering tools. Performed statistical application feasibility studies. Generated baseline application requirements documentation. Generated detailed application design specifications. Coded various Test Engineering applications primarily written in C# and JavaScript. Evaluated and incorporated existing automation into an integrated lab-wide tool kit. Generated and maintained project schedules using the Scrum process. Provided technical reviews for developers within TE Applications Development group on their generated documentation. Provided code reviews for developers within TE Applications Development group. Provided coaching to Product Development on automation friendly software development. Worked with product development to build invasive automation with hooks where needed to accomplish automation goals. Hosted monthly sprint demos to senior management. - Designed and implemented a test harness server in C# using removable, task-based server processes, multiple ASPX portals, a web services integration layer and an Oracle back end.- Designed and built a manual test procedure source control and execution tracking system capable of providing up to the minute details down to the test procedure step level.- Designed and built a keyword based language tailored to translate manual CAD test procedures into automated test scripts. Heavily customized BDD design pattern.- Designed and implemented the official USS automation development process, configuration management process and the enterprise level USS C# Coding Standards.

Stamford, Ct, Us

Manager/Architect of Quality Engineering team reporting to the VP of business system development. Drove overall team objective of creating multi-platform Quality Engineering tools specifically geared towards the functional and load testing of banking web services. Interviewed and hired for QE Testing and QE Development staff starting with 0 direct reports. Provided growth opportunities and leadership to staff. Drove ideas for new QE tools. Performed statistical application feasibility studies. Generated baseline application requirements documentation. Generated detailed application design specifications. Coded various QE applications primarily written in C# (UI) and Java (backend). Generated and maintained project schedules. Provided technical reviews for developers within QE applications development group on their generated documentation. Provided code reviews for developers within QE applications development group. Provided coaching to product development on automation friendly software development.- Architected, developed and implemented a first of it’s kind, distributed SOAP testing harness using XML, Java and C#.- Designed and built a production server monitoring tool for the testing lab as a C# Windows service capable of constant monitoring/reporting on server and individual web service transaction availability. Leveraged core Java code from the custom SOAP testing harness.- Designed a first of it's kind hybrid performance solution with LoadRunner and the custom Java infrastructure from the SOAP testing harness. Solution was so advanced that it resulted in a revolutionary sit down meeting with Mercury Interactive's lead LoadRunner architect, development/test managers and Webster Bank QE team. Designs from Webster were incorporated into the next release of the LoadRunner product. - Designed and implemented the official Webster automation development process.- Designed and implemented the official Webster SOAP testing process.

Detroit, Mi, Us

Manager/Architect of software development team reporting to the Director of Quality Assurance. Drove overall team objective of creating multi-platform based Quality Assurance Tools. Evaluated, interviewed and hired team resources for development staff. Drove ideas for new Quality Assurance Tools. Performed statistical application feasibility studies. Generated baseline application requirements documentation. Generated detailed application design specifications. Coded various Quality Assurance Applications in C#, VB.Net, C, C++, Java, ASP, ASP.Net and VBA. Generated and maintained project schedules. Provided technical reviews for developers within QA applications development group on their generated documentation. Provided code reviews for developers within QA Applications Development Group.- Architected and implemented a first of its kind, lab wide Client Server test harness fully integrated with VMWare GSX Server to create product specific automation virtual machines.- Designed and built a one of a kind tool that was fully integrated with Compuware's TestPartner IDE and could automate regression testing for TestPartner’s own record/replay functionality. Application could overwrite the windows hardware interrupts and messaging subsystem inserting it’s own interrupts/messages 100% simulating a live user at the keyboard/mouse.- Mentored QA and Development managers on automation best practices.- Aided development managers in writing automation friendly software.- Designed and implemented CMM automation development process up to CMM level 2.

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Manager of development team reporting to Director of software development. Small R&D team focused on next generation automation development. Worked closely on design, analysis, documentation, code review and code development for all projects. Some project scopes included user driven automatic source code generation, click path analysis, 4th generation proprietary C++ language development through databases, transactional tree automation models, production monitoring hybrids, pre-DevOps operations automation systems. Responsible for direction, vision and scope of group. In addition, provided on-sight consulting services to premier Segue software clients. Services included but were not limited to: rapid prototyping, full-scale development and delivery, mentoring, code reviews and training.- Prototyped and helped design the online Run Results Repository for SilkTest.- Researched, designed, prototyped, developed, and performed internal training on the web-based Data Driven Administrator which allowed SilkTest to build it’s own data driven automation projects.- Re-worked designs of internal QA department’s test automation. - Mentored QA managers on automation best practices.- Aided other development leads in defect analysis and forward thinking product development. - Lectured at Quest 2001, Orlando, Florida on Data Driven Testing Methodologies. - Hosted one on one lab for the Data Driven Administrator during Quest 2001.

Managed software development team reporting to the Director of Quality Assurance. Drove overall team objective of creating multi-platform Quality Assurance tools. Evaluated, interviewed and hired team resources for development staff starting with 0 direct reports. Drove ideas for new Quality Assurance tools. Performed statistical application feasibility studies. Generated baseline application requirements documentation. Generated detailed application design specifications. Coded various applications in Python, UNIX Korn shell, C, C++ and 4Test (proprietary Segue Software C++ distro). Generated and maintained project schedules. Provided technical reviews for developers within QA applications development group on their generated documentation. Provided code reviews for developers within QA applications development group. Hosted one-hour training lectures on in house developed QA Applications as well as various S1 developed products and procedures.- Designed and instituted formal development process followed by QA applications development group.- Designed and developed five different UNIX test automation applications, including a testing harness which auto-generated UNIX Korn shell applications and drove unattended testing of back end processes.- Designed and developed Microsoft Visual C++ application for Windows 95/NT to generate 4Test test case data files based on a recorded parse map.- Designed, prototyped and led development efforts of sweeping object oriented 4Test application which encapsulated GUI, UNIX and Informix database system testing from a single testing control point.- Authored White Paper, July, 1999’s Segue.Com: Generic 4Test Architectures for E-Commerce Applications.

Analyzed customer requirements/software feature lists in order to develop design specifications for product testing based on an iterative development cycle. Designed test case summary matrix application to map requirements/features to testable criteria, generated actual test cases based on test case summary matrix, for network systems, software and web clients being developed by TEIR. Developed test schedules and software problem reports per iteration. Performed complete installation and configuration of custom client product per iteration including: business unit and Netscape enterprise servers, web product and SGML content. Supervised junior personnel and participated in day-to-day testing of product. Supervised all duties and activities of Jr. test personnel assigned to project. Interviewed prospective test analysts or Jr. test analysts for additions to QA team.- Automated regression testing of the RIA web UI with Segue's SilkTest IDE.- Conducted regular SGML Training courses for QA project teams and software developers.- Designed, implemented and administrated software problem reporting database used on the RIA project.- Supported RIA software developers by managing SGML data during startup through beta versions of online product. Assisted in creating data management process. Activities included: FTP between various server locations, compiled data in appropriate directory hierarchy, built and indexed SGML files within OpenText’s Livelink full text database, and created UNIX scripts to automate procedures where possible. DevOps before DevOps was a term.

Development lead working on the Physician's Medicare/Medicaid Library (PMML) CD based SGML newsletter. Responsible for all phases of document conversion from hardcopy --> ASCII --> SGML markup. Responsible for daily builds and oversaw testing including software packaging, build and testing of custom document browser. Responsible for generating monthly release candidate build of the software and producing the "Gold" CD used to generate the final product. Mentored local and offshore editors on SGML markup. Designed and developed multiple conversion programs to automate a significant portion of the ASCII --> SGML markup phase including:- PMML Title Tagging. Application that automatically reformatted and applied proper SGML markup to newsletter headers for all 50 U.S. States. Resulting in a 400% reduction in manual efforts for this task.- A generic table tagging algorithm that could recognize and apply proper SGML markup to most common ASCII tables resulting in a 200% reduction in manual efforts for this task.- Various Multi-Edit plug in macro applications written in C that automated significant portions of the manual ASCII --> SGML markup phase. Combined plug ins reduced over 300% the effort required to do these same tasks manually without the benefit of the plug ins.