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Using my experience and drive to improve operations

San Francisco, California, US

San Rafael, CA, US

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Charlotte, NC, US

Plastic Card processing migration projectDesigned test plans and validated specifications for payment card processing system. Advised Quality Management group on improving software testing processes in their SDLC.

ERP system enhancements for digital media distribution projectPrepared testing project plan and monitored team performance to while keeping an eye on release management. Designed and executed test plans and validated specifications. Led a team including engineers who designed and executed test plans remotely. As the on-site software quality engineer for a.

Aliso Viejo, CA, US

Logic Modeling (requirements to test plans) leadSuccessfully coordinated onshore and offshore test engineering resources by forming coherent teams that delivered results. My role included training team members (India) in applying cause-effect graphing to real-world projects and assisting project manager with software testing planning and tracking.

San Antonio, TX, US

Product Management system enhancements projectDetermined test strategy for project. Designed and executed test plans and validated specifications. Led team of remote engineers in designing test plans, performing testing, and creating test automation using Quality Test Pro. This team of software quality engineers included some based in India. We found that.

San Francisco, California, US

Revenue Recognition update projectDesigned test plans from new requirements that sped comprehension of impacts and enabled the client to reach their schedule goals

Houston, Texas, US

Payment Card Processing system enhancements projectReduced cost to deliver changes in payment card processing system by designing and executing effective test plans and validating specifications using cause-effect graphing.

San Francisco, California, US

HRIS vendor implementation projectCreated test plans from functional requirements that increased effectiveness in gathering, communicating, and integrating requirements by facilitating JAD sessions with business stakeholders.

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ERP Membership management migration projectRequirements gathering across many operations departments as well as IT SME experts with knowledge of the legacy applicationBusiness process re-engineeringReverse engineering of business processesWriting software specificationsCreating test plans

Marketing support projectsResearched and designed methods for improving data quality and employment of data mining to enhance their marketing function. Developed applications in VBA to better integrate database feeds to eliminate future data quality issues.

KnowledgePoint developed and sold software products that supported the human resources function including performance appraisal and policy manuals. These were delivered as desktop applications on Windows as well as web-based tools in a software-as-a service mode through HRTools.COM. KP delivered a performance appraisal management product, Performance.

San Francisco, California, US

Y2K Audit projectWorking with the Y2K program office of the bank, I performed audits of the Y2K related software mitigation and testing efforts. The audits reviewed their plans as well as the results of the Y2K efforts across all systems in the bank to ensure that each development team had been thorough in their efforts and had demonstrated that in their.

Y2K software testing standards and evaluation projectWorking with Dick Bender and Peter Becker, I co-authored the draft Y2K Software Testing Standard for the Software Productivity Consortium.

Assessment product migration to web-based projectAcumen asked us to ensure that the newly developed “browser-based” software product performed with the same high quality as the “Windows” version. We faced a challenge because the only documentation for the software product consisted of the online help – minimal since the user interface was created to be as.

Designed and performed testing for the SoftTest product including functional testing, load, volume, and performance testing. I contributed to the specifications, design, documentation, and training for the product in collaboration with other teams.

San Mateo, California, US

Investment program management enhancements projectsDesigned and executed test plans. Incorporated better software test activity definitions into their SDLC process framework (adding processes where needed) in consultation with Bender and FT management.

Emeryville, California, US

HRIS replacement (CHRIS) projectThis project was supposed to be a simple “off-the-shelf” deployment. Unfortunately, the vendor delivered code that failed when asked to perform the HR functions needed. I managed a defect tracking and communications process with the lead Chiron developer and the vendor contact which soon had the software function stabilized.

El Segundo, California, US

Order Management system replacement projectAssigned as the software quality engineer responsible for testing a large order management system, I selected the best approaches and tools for the effort, designed and executed test plans, developed key-word test automation to support software releases, and supported other team functions. Testing was completed.

software test engineering, port UUCP to QNX, release management.

Designed & implemented automated tests plans for TEN/PLUS and other products on UNIX (IS/3, IN/ix, PC/ix, IX/370, AIX) and on a few non-UNIX environments (e.g., PRIMOS). I automated test plans using UNIX shell and other available tools (AWK, PERL). I received recognition for my contributions to automating the TEN/PLUS testing and facilitating the testing.

Rochester, New York, US

US DoD ADMAPS Publishing programPerformed program-level requirements audit for program of projects. Found requirements missing in proposed solution and outlined the steps needed to address them. Designed and executed test plans for the software that fulfilled the missing requirements.

Santa Clara, California, US

TCP/IP & NFS projectsDesigned & implemented automated tests for the TCP/IP and NFS packages for Hitachi mainframe UNIX. Testing included command line tool functionality, system libraries functionality, and stress testing these package elements with high loads and traffic volumes.

OSF/1 projectDesigned and executed test plans for the OSF/1 UNIX variant command line tool functionality. Led a team of engineers that added the automation for these test plans to the client’s automated test framework.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

AIX release 3Migrated BSD UNIX commands and libraries to AIX v3. Led a team that developed and delivered Internationalization and Localization support libraries for AIX and implemented these support layers in the AIX UNIX commands and libraries. Assisted IBM Austin team with troubleshooting releases by debugging programs.

Los Angeles, California, US

Developed courses for UNIX and C Programming for School of Business & Management.Taught UNIX and C programming concepts (including system programming) for several quarters.

Test engineering group (Barton Phillips) -- SCSI & EDSI disk drivesDesigned and developed an extensible automated system testing executive for SCSI devices in C. Using the test executive tool, I deployed automatedd system testing for SCSI and ESDI disk drive products. I supported the product engineering efforts in the improvement of production by assisting.

_ Hospital IT -- support, operations & troubleshooting_ Designed & developed software for the Engineering department, Dietary department, and Nursing Administration_ Completed Nursing Administration project for staff forecasting based on patient acuity as as an independent study effort at UCLA (Dr. Thelma Estrin in the Computer Science Department)

Bachelor Of Science In Engineering (Bse), Engineering / Computer Science

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