Sparky Chambers Email & Phone Number

Colorado Springs, Co, Us

Canal Winchester, Ohio, Us

Founding treasurer

Canal Winchester, Ohio, Us

Assisting the executive director

Colorado Springs, Co, Us

Experience with Workday Adaptive Planning and QuickBooks

Colorado Springs, Co, Us

Chandler, Arizona, Us

Green-field development of platform software primarily in Python 3 for a proprietary Linux cluster. Developed and tested software as member of an Agile (wagile?) Scrum team employing test-driven development (TDD) / software testing. Used Windows for corporate work and as a host for a Linux guest to do software development in Eclipse and Lisp-based personal productivity environment (Emacs platform customized by me). Other significant technologies: VMware, OpenStack, Docker, Ansible, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, ELK, Icinga.

Chandler, Arizona, Us

Executed and enhanced tests of performance, scalability, and benchmarking in Python 2. Executed and enhanced continuous hours of operation (CHO) test. Test environment consisted of virtual machines (VMware) for a System Manager, 100 Packet Routing Engines, and 10,000 simulated probes. Maintained various configurations of Windows virtual machines to simulate GUI sessions.

Chandler, Arizona, Us

New Product Introduction engineer for multiple software products. Configuration management of media for Viavi's Mobile Assurance software that helps ensure high quality of experience (QoE) for mobile voice, data, messaging, and multimedia services. Responsible for maintenance and improvements to software manufacturing and custom order fulfillment system that enabled R&D to bundle the software components uniquely for each customer order. Daily practice of UNIX (HP-UX and Linux) skills in a shell environment powered by my own custom emacs system. Perl and HTML expertise.

Entered on the ground floor of this startup as unpaid adviser. Curated news, wrote bitts (news summaries in fact-sized chunks), produced and narrated podcasts of the daily top stories, wrote tweets based on bitts.

Houston, Texas, Us

* Created a high-value, innovative reporting system that enabled first-of-its-kind measurement of business impact; value proven by piloting with the OSL Ambassador program; system then adopted by the rest of the Ambassador programs.* Led a groundbreaking technical gathering that blended virtual meeting technology with physical presence in 7 cities in North America (2008).* Led a virtual team to organize a week-long technical symposium in Fort Collins for 150 technical professionals (2006). Commended for doing the work single-handedly, with only token support for logistics.* Content lead on a virtual global team of over a dozen OSL Ambassadors and business unit representatives for the OSL track of week-long summits 2006-2008 for the Technical Ambassadors (Blade, OSL, and [server] Management). Virtual summit in 2009, delivering content over three months in ten half-day virtual sessions.* Program manager of HPedia, HPE's wiki encyclopedia. Founded the system and community. HPedia went online February 24, 2005, and has been growing steadily ever since. Over 5K individuals have contributed content to the project. By 2009 the site had over 1M hits per month.* Led OSL Profession's Discussion Infrastructure Working Group. As a member of OSL Profession leadership team, directed programs to promote OSL inside HPE.* Conceived and led linux.helpcustomers program, a virtual team focused on addressing questions and feedback from customers relating to OSL (primarily Linux).* Managed overall planning for a technical symposium in France and led an Americas / Europe virtual team to put on a one-week conference for about 70 technical professionals (2007).

Houston, Texas, Us

* Pioneered creation of documentation of test procedures and day-to-day operations. Authored and publicized a department web page containing the most relevant "tips & tricks," leading to recognition as a local expert.* Facilitated training for and taught selected modules to new hires, enabling optimal "ramp-up" to make them productive on the QA team.* Executed test suites, analyzed results, and submitted defects against Red Hat and SUSE distributions, which measurably improved the quality of HP's Itanium-based Integrity server products.

Santa Rosa, California, Us

* Recommended policies and procedures that improved the return on investment of QA processes. Software process engineering with Rational Software's ClearCase product on Unix and Microsoft Windows 2000 to support C++ product development.* Designed, implemented, tested, and deployed solutions in Perl that improved the productivity of engineers and managers, including (1) a comprehensive process layer on top of the ClearCase configuration management system; (2) detection, prevention, and analysis of problems in a complex, distributed system; and (3) software metrics collection, analysis, and presentation.* Developed strategy and tactics for large-scale software system builds and releases, contributing to the business unit's reputation for meeting schedules within one week of formal commitments. Earned commendation from company management.* Conceived, designed, implemented, tested, and deployed a sophisticated process automation tool called the Stepping Engine in object-oriented Perl for Unix and Microsoft Windows 2000, which improved quality and productivity so that only half as many days were needed to perform weekly software releases.* Designed, implemented, and tested a Perl CGI script that improved the quality and productivity of tasked engineers who interact with Agilent's defect management system.

Santa Rosa, California, Us

Résumé available upon request.