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Using my experience and drive to improve operations

San Francisco, California, Us

San Rafael, Ca, Us

HireMojo, a patented SaaS, relentlessly pursues connecting the two people that matter: the hiring manager & the person-perfectly-fit-for-the-job. Guess what! We solved the problem -- now scaling up. We developed a proven way to fill most jobs with fantastic people within a few weeks without breaking the bank. Our BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) is to drop unemployment in the United States by 10% in 2016. With enthusiastic user feedback & revenue growing 100% Q-over-Q our mission is clear. Let's make a dent in the universe!“The easiest way I’ve ever filled a job… goes way beyond Craigslist & LinkedIn.” - Todd Vaughn, Franchise Owner, Home Instead Senior Care “It's so worth a try and can revolutionize your recruitment. Short staffed small business will also love how much easier and more manageable your hiring will be.” - Bill Gallagher, CEO of Lori Bonn “WHAT A RECRUITING BLESSING! HireMojo is your own personal admin that scores candidates, sorts and tracks next steps in all one area. I like the direct contact with the applicant from the HireMojo site versus my work email account. I would recommend HireMojo to ANY company big or small.” - Cristina Murphy, Recruitment and Retention Coordinator “… cuts through a lot of weak candidates and brings the strongest candidates into focus quickly.” - Pierre Rodrigue, Director of HR, Berkshire Blanket “I want to thank you for helping me with my hiring distress! I was advertising on Craig’s List, spending a lot of time with hiring efforts and having very poor success with the result. I would estimate only 1 in 4 hires was what I would consider a successful hire. After learning your process and using your HireMojo software system I am ecstatic! To date I have used your software 3 times and have 3 success stories to tell.” - Kent Brown, President of Pacific Marine & Industrial

Métier offers cutting-edge project portfolio management (PPM) solutions to help organizations realize the full potential of their ideas. An extensive portfolio of industry-enhancing patents sets Métier apart as the global leader in PPM innovation. In addition to numerous awards for innovative company culture, Métier has been ranked five times as one of the fastest growing companies in the U.S. by Inc. Magazine. Métier’s philanthropic program, Protectors to Project Managers, was named Community Involvement Program of the Year by the American Business Awards. Métier has also been honored by the North Bay Business Journal as one of the Best Places to Work in the North Bay, and has received recognition for being Most Customer Friendly Company of the Year by Best in Biz. For more information about how Métier can help your organization workforward®, please visit www.metier.com or call 1.877.965.9501.Developed standard test plan, requirements analysis, test plans, hands on manual testing of web SaaS application, filing detailed problem reports, regression testing.

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 team working from locations across the globe, I received direct client feedback for all of the test plans and defect reports. Knowing that I could not personally review every test plan and defect report while keeping up with my other assigned tasks, I sought the input from the team on the best approach to improve test plans and defect reports. The remote team chose to add “peer review” steps to check their work. I continued to review some test plans and defect reports and providing the team with suggestions for improvements. The level of quality for test plans and defect reports improved greatly within a few weeks and remained high throughout the rest of the project.

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 some test plans, while technically correct, used English expressions that sounded “awkward” to the client staff. In order to improve the test plans, I formulated and employed a three-part program: (1) As a team, we regularly reviewed pitfalls and suggestions in the “Improving Communication” blog entries from the company’s education group (2) I provided the team with formulas for the common written English sentences used in the test plans and provided suggestions for proper written English usage(3) I employed an electronic whiteboard during team phone calls so that the entire team could view information together The team’s efforts to improve the written test plans soon eliminated the client feedback about “awkward” English and generally improved test plans and defect reports.

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 Impact, as a hosted web-based application to eliminate installing software on the client’s desktop and permits the use of larger databases.As QA Engineering manager, I was responsible for all product testing including the software quality engineering activities that I had been engaged elsewhere and packaged product quality control when we received a media shipments. My role included development of the QA team members as well as my own hands on work as a software quality engineer:o I designed and executed test plans and validated requirements, working across departments with and collaborating in specifications, design, and documentation to improve quality. I developed testing automation for Windows applications using SILK.o I designed and executed test plans and validating requirements for web hosted applications.o I designed and performed testing for function, performance, load, volume, and security.

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 results reporting.

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 obvious as possible. Using the “Windows” version of the product and conversations with the client staff, I created test plans for the new version of the product; allowing for the differences between the “Windows” and “browser-based” environments at that time. I executed the test plans and uncovered defects as well as un anticipated differences between the two versions.

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 and achieving the system requirements milestones for volume, load, performance, and security. The project manager then selected me to lead the team of business analysts with department representatives in the end-to-end acceptance testing process.

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 efficiently and successfully. The vendor for the test automation tool (Segue QAPartner) was impressed by our approach and invited me to speak about our project at their next sales conference.

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 in several environments from a single test suite.

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 in the debugging of disk drive failures.

_ 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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