Michael Lamb Email & Phone Number

Ellicott City, Maryland, United States

Provide customized photography services on an individual basis. I photograph families, couples, seniors, individuals - branding/headshots, and products. http://www.freetimeportraits.com

Baltimore, Maryland Area

Vectorworks, Inc., is a wholly owned subsidiary of European software giant the Nemetschek Group. A global leader in design technologies, Vectorworks has been developing computer-aided design (CAD) software for the architecture, engineering, construction, entertainment, and landscape design industries since 1985. The Vectorworks product line is one of the world's best-selling cross-platform CAD applications and has won many industry awards. The Vectorworks family of software includes Vectorworks Designer, Architect, Landmark, Spotlight, Fundamentals, and Renderworks.

Columbia, Maryland, United States

Sparks, Md

Project Test Lead for a high throughput medical laboratory device designed to automate the streaking of agar plates. Assisted in design and specification, reviewed testing work of direct reports, created test summaries, regression test planning, defect management and risk assessment, and managed project release documentation.* Achieved increased reliability of product, MTBI went from 35 plates to 250 plates within one year.* Aggressive delivery schedule, completed six or more software releases per year.* Coordinated with project management on software, hardware, and tool requirements to ensure project milestones are met.* Worked closely with software developers and hardware engineers to create software specifications and test plans based on risk assessment.* Conducted feasibility testing studies to determine the effectiveness of proposed changes.* Mentored other members of the testing team by encouraging creative thinking and alternative approaches on testing techniques.

Sparks, Md

Placed at Becton Dickinson as a contractor by Vision Technologies Services for one year, then converted to a permanent employee at BD. Documented test plans, executed test plans, reported defects. Tested embedded GUI and hardware functionality of an automated plate streaker instrument using black box and gray box techniques.* Facilitated procedure to allow the addition of new specimen containers to the test instrument and validate the containers. This greatly expanded our potential customer base.* Participated in code and design review processes to identify system risks and issues.* Wrote test plans based on design documents and business requirements.* Maintained testing environment, including ordering supplies, configuration management, and instrument repair.

Glenwood, Md

Tested web based Virtualization Management Software in Firefox and IE. Application was a linux based VM that reported status, history, usage stats, downtime, baselines, and relationships for VM's, datastores, hosts, clusters, networks, and applications.* Performed manual testing of web based GUI Virtualization Management application on multiple browser platforms. Application developed using Java / JBoss, run on a Centos VM. * Maintained personal testing environment which consisted of Windows 2000, Server 2003, Server 2008, Red Hat 5.2 and 5.3 virtual machines on VMWare ESX and Ubuntu KVM servers. * Referred by management to serve as the sole customer support representative due to my positive attitude and attention to detail. Support duties included customer feature requests, license generation, upgrades, troubleshooting, case creation and management. * Facilitated working sessions between customers and engineers to resolve high priority defects, exceeding customer’s expectations.* Worked closely with architects and developers in an Agile environment to resolve 100+ defects.

Towson, Md

Placed at UPS Logistics Technologies as a contractor by Tech USA. Functional testing of a desktop application suite of logistics software designed to optimize delivery routes for small to medium sized business. Created test plans, executed test plans, and reported defects to management.* Certified logistics software suite used by small companies and large corporations to distribute and deliver their products to customers. Suite allowed users to analyze customer locations and delivery needs, develop territories, route orders, and track deliveries using mobile devices.* Software testing environment consisted of a suite of applications running on Windows XP and Vista, coded in C++ and Java, using server based Oracle 11g and SQL 08 databases.* Validated design improvements allowing customers to restrict roads by vehicle type and use historical travel speed data to calculate the most efficient delivery route.

St. Louis, Mo

As an integration tester on a high profile company project, created test plans from design flow documents, executed test plans, and tracked defects using Quality Center.* Integration tested a Service Delivery Platform used to create and modify customer’s accounts. Incoming XML orders were received on JMS queues, processed, and service requests were sent out to external interfaces. Data was stored and accessed using LDAP and WESM, and the application was developed using Websphere.* Oversaw regression testing strategy for Release 8 and Release 9 involving over 600 test cases.* Improved the defect triage process by generating a custom mailbox for defect assignments reducing triage time by 15% within a day.* Organized and maintained a knowledge sharing program which documented interfaces and encouraged individual team members to become subject matter experts in specific areas.* Trained six new team members on test design, execution, and validation.

St. Louis, Mo

Provided requirements, development, configuration, and testing support to meet the AT&T’s legal need comply with government requests for court order and subpoena data.* Developed and maintained applications used to provide required legal information to Police, FBI, ICE, and Dept. of Homeland Security using C, Informix 4gl, and Shell scripting in a UNIX client/server environment.* Resolved technical issues with external network connections and software compatibility for Law Enforcement Clients in 13 states.* Assigned responsibility for configuring and installing GUI software on Client’s PC’s.

Provided desktop support for 350+ onsite users, and some offsite support. Duties included lease rolls, hardware upgrades, software installs, network troubleshooting, and some breakfix support.

Responsbile for distributing AV equipment to classrooms and supporting telecommuncations classes.