PACKETEER
Sr Manager - Automation and Tools, Manufacturing Test and Engineering Lab Support - July 2006 - June 2008
Manage a diverse set of teams providing support for Product Development, QA and Operations.
• Automation Tools Team,
  As below with manager of Automation team reporting to me.
• Internal Tools and Engineering Lab Team
  Provide general infrastructure support and services for Product development and QA teams.
• Responsible for overseeing all purchases of hardware and software for engineering lab
• Oversee the development of internal bug tracking, project and document management tools.
• Manufacturing Test Team
  Work closely with Operations and Engineering to develop test procedures and deployment processes for Fulfillment house to install software and verify final assembly of all Packeteer products.
• Manage small team to create and maintain the final manufacturing and verification processes for all Packeteer products
• Developed Restore to Factory Default application for iShaper and iShared products.
Principal Engineer June 2003 - June 2006
Automation Tools Team Lead. Build the Automation and Tools support team. Create test automation systems and tools for all of Packeteer's PacketShaper, iShared, SkyX and Centeral Management tools.
• Manage a team of 6 people responsible for developing automated testing tools and general infrastructure support for PacketWise and PolicyCenter QA
• Design an automated testing system for PacketShaper products
• Developed automaticaly re-configurable network test system using programmable level 1 network switches. Written in Perl, Python, MySQL, Visual C++ .Net and Segue Silk with a PHP based web Interface

BROADCOM BROADBAND PROCESSOR BUSINESS UNIT
Sr QA and Release Engineer June 2002 - May 2003
Create automated build and test system for the Sytems Groups software development team.
• Created nightly build and test system for testing compiler changes
• Developed regression analysis reporting tool in Perl and Tcl/Expect, for comparing DejaGnu test results

RED HAT INC.
Applications Developer Jan 2001 - April 2002
Developed and maintained database synchronization tools.

• Worked with Oracle databases, applications and Perl scripts.
• Resolved data corruption issues and added code to prevent future corruption
• Wrote utilties in Perl and SQL to fix most common data problems
• Provided application support for users in the Sunnyvale office

Manager Quality Engineering Aug 1999 - Jan 2001
Managed a team of up to 6 quality engineers in 3 locations around North America supporting:

• GNU Pro Tools
• Source Navigator
• Cygwin
• Code Fusion
• Embedded Developers Kit (EDK)
Designed and built a new testing lab.
Continued work started as the Technical Lead listed below


CYGNUS SOLUTIONS (Acquired by Red Hat Inc in Jan 2000)
Technical Lead Jan 1999 - Aug 1999
Created tools and processes to improve the quality of all cygnus products.

• Created continuous build and test system in perl with web interface for reporting results.
• Defined general testing strategy for Cygnus' products
• Built a Q.E. team from the ground up

NETSCAPE COMMUNICATIONS
Technical Lead - Internal Tools and Automation Group May 1996 - Jan 1999
Designed, developed and implemented automated testing tools for Netscape's browses and servers.

• Designed and implemented a mutli-platform automated testing system to queue, execute and track results of automated test scripts. The system included an interface to the test case management system, allowing users to access all the data through one interface..
• Lead of development team for web based test case management system using CGI/Perl with an Oracle 7 back end.
• Oracle database administration
• Develop Utilities in C/C++ and Java to aid the Q.A. groups in doing their job.
• Setup and administrate the automated testing lab.

BORLAND INTERNATIONAL
Contractor: SR. Q.A. Engineer - Internet Products Group Jan 1996 - May 1996
Evaluate design and implement Q.A. Automation tools using java.
• Developed automated testing harness in java for doing unit testing of Borland's java class library


TALIGENT
SR. Q.A. Engineer - Functional Verification Test Aug 1995 - Jan 1996
Responsibilities include developing and maintaining internal tools written in C++ running under AIX. Additionally responsibilities for creating test plans and developing tests in C++ for the CommonPoint application development framework.
• Redesigned HTML report generator C++ to improve accuracy and readability of data.
• Created preliminary design for automated distributed testing system.


ORACLE
Contractor : Q.A. Engineer - Client Server Systems Div. Feb 95 - July 1995
Wrote test plan and automated test scripts using Q.A. Partner for the local database, Query By Form and unbound control subsystems of ORACLE Power Objects. Additional duties included attending bug council.

BORLAND INTERNATIONAL
R&D Engineer II - Team lead for Internal Tools team. 1992 - 1995
Team leadership responsibilities include the implementation and design of tools for Windows, DOS and UNIX using C/C++, dBASE, Paradox, UNIX shell scripts and DOS batch files. Other duties included reviewing team member designs, guiding the development process and setting team priorities.
• Redesigned the disk cutting tools for integration, to work under Windows 3.1 using C++. The new design allowed for faster installs and greater flexibility in specifying disk contents.
• Designed prototype for an automated multi user test system that reduced the amount of time required to do network certifications from 1 week to 2 days.
• Ported the control software written in C from a Pyramid super mini computer to Sun SPARCstations, giving Borland greater flexibility and reducing operating expenses.
• Wrote test automation guide lines for use by Q.A. Specifying methods and techniques to use for designing automated tests.

Associate Engineer - Automated Test System Administrator 1991 - 1992
Continued responsibilities after acquisition of Ashton-Tate by Borland.
• Designed new lab requirements for relocation of the Automated Test System from Ashton-Tate to Borland.
• Developed serial communications tool in C under Windows 3.1 to allow the Automated Test System to work with Windows Applications, allowing Borland to automate the testing of their new Windows products.


ASHTON-TATE
Member Technical Staff I - Engineering Support 1990 - 1991
Responsible for developing tools for and the administration of Ashton- Tate's automated test system and bug tracking database. Assisted in the administration of the R&D UNIX servers (Pyramid, Sun SPARCstations and NeXTs).
• Ported bug tracking system from Clipper to dBASE IV for UNIX resulting in increased speed. Reliability and easier maintenance.
• Developed tools and processes allowing remote administration of the Automated Test System, Including the ability to completely rebuild a corrupted test machine.

Q.A. Engineer II 1989 - 1990
Responsible for testing approximately one half of the dBASE IV 1.1 language elements. This included the creation of test plans, doing code reviews on test suites, and the development of automated tests.
• Worked closely with the developers to track down and isolate problems as well as give input on the design and functionality of new features.
• Wrote the 'Testing Standards' document that was then used as the guideline and training manual for all new hires. An updated version of this document is still being used by the International Q.A. department at Borland.


XXCAL
Consultant to Ashton-Tate 1988 - 1989
Worked as a Q.A. Engineer on dBASE IV 1.0 Developed tests plans for areas assigned to me and created semi automated tests. Setup OS/2 Lan for testing client server edition.

SANTA MONICA SCHOOL DISTRICT
Student Lab Technician 1987 -1988
Ran the student lab for Santa Monica School district from 2/87 to 3/88, maintained 30 IBM PCs and provided general technical support for the school staff.

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