Tim Armstrong Email & Phone Number

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Independent contractor for GPS doing project management work to supply aviation parts to the Honeywell Aviation Group. Primary job is to interface with part suppliers that are behind schedule in their deliveries to Honeywell Aviation and help expedite delivery of critically needed parts. I work with the vendor and the Honeywell team members to help facilitate delivery of those needed parts.I visit the vendor site multiple times a week and review issues that are preventing them from delivering to Honeywell on time and help them determine the best solution.I attend weekly status calls with Honeywell and the vendor and provide a daily status report to Honeywell on any improvements or blocking issues that are occurring. I'm in contact with the vendor's program managers and engineers daily by phone and email to ensure that any issue is addressed immediately.This ensures that the Honeywell Aviation production lines stay on schedule for the Boeing's 777x program.

Accolades and Accomplishments _________________________________✦ Superb design, collaborative testing, and redundant features ensured that Bell Atlantic's cell phone networks stayed online on 9/11 when all other NYC phone circuits in lower Manhattan failed due to the massive number of telephone calls that occurred during that horrific event.✦ Led the test and deployment teams that implemented Local Number Portability (LNP) for the entire United States permitting phone users to switch their phone company while retaining their phone number. Given an “Award of Excellence” from Bell Atlantic for this successful “on time” product deployment.✦ Led an Agile test team that developed and validated AT&T’s text messaging system which was used on the American Idol TV show to count the public’s text votes. Our team was given an Award from AT&T for the flawless operation of our messaging system during the 10+ years of the TV show.✦ The abilities Tim brought to the team with regard to handling customer situations and managing their expectations lead the team to a high standard. I consider Tim a great role model for the team, and I am glad to have been able to work with him in my career - Sean Hawkins, Director - Network Marketing LTE Services at AT&T.✦ It was a great pleasure to work with Tim, on multiple occasions stretching over a three-year span of time. I can recommend Tim for his knowledge, making things happen and persistence to get the job done - Henk Broekhuizen, Head Project Engineer for Royal Netherlands Navy. ✦ Tim's ability to analyze the scope of work is always very complete, and easily understood by the project team and management in case “what if” test schedules are required to support different business requirements and needs - Alvin Geiger, Sr. Program Manager at Oracle.

Rtp, Nc

✦ Proven experience in advanced applications, system, performance and load testing, and large database validation of cloud or bare metal systems in engineering and customer environments created a 20% reduction in customer detected issues.✦ Exceptional track record of helping to get the code right before it’s written, this requires deep knowledge of the product requirements and an intuitive understanding of real world customer logic. This is combined with strong critical thinking and business analysis skills which are applied during the design phase of the development cycle by utilizing peer technical reviews to reduce test cycles which save overall cost and allow many releases to be delivered ahead of schedule.✦ Hands-on testing professional with ability to use my skills to research, architect and execute manual test cases that discover defects early which shorted the test and development cycles helping to save overall development costs.✦ Collaborated with the product line’s subject matter experts (SME) and test leads to predict the level of effort, staffing, and tools required to validate the defined product requirements for each software release. This collaborative approach produced early buy-in by the leadership team of the test strategy, ensuring everyone was on the same page at the start of the test cycle. This helped to significantly reduce test team ramp up times.✦ Served as the level two subject matter expert (SME) to the Oracle professional service customer deployment teams, ensuring exceptional support to customers during new product introduction. I trained deployment teams on the newest software releases and procedures ensuring team members had the skills needed to provide excellent service to customers.

Morrisville, Nc

✦ Analyzed ten critical AT&T operational scenarios and produced automated performance tests which allowed collaboration with the agile test team to run endless test cycles ensuring the system could handle a million text messages at the same time during the voting phase of the American Idol TV show.✦ Utilized strong verbal and written communication skills to establish trusted working relationships with the development and project team members, including our external customers so that issues could be resolved quickly, ensuring that our customer was satisfied with the fix that we delivered.✦ Synthesized inputs from Project Management, Development, Test, New Product Engineering, Customer Service, and Professional Services teams plus the installed customer base to develop project schedules ensuring prompt delivery to customers while supporting company objectives.✦ Adeptly monitored test creation and execution progress of on-site/off-shore QA teams providing structure and direction through coaching, mentoring and personal leadership resulting in expeditious resolution of issues allowing the test effort to stay on or ahead of schedule on over 95% of product releases.

Electrical Engineering And Computer Science, 3.8

Study of analog and digital electronic theory, applied electronic practices, and computer science concepts for US Naval sonar systems.

Various

✦ IBM I2 Certified Data Analyst Training ✦ Duke University Leadership Development Program Level I & II ✦ SQL Advanced DB Training ✦ CCNA.