Experience

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  Sonic Manufacturing Technologies

  • Fremont, California

  • Manufacturing Technician

    • Jul 2019 - Present
    • Fremont, California

    Test and debug a variety of products with minimal documentation.

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  Private Consulting

  • Fort Wayne, Indiana, Santa Clara, California, and Sunnyvale, California

  • Audio Engineer/Consultant

    • Nov 2002 - Present
    • Fort Wayne, Indiana, Santa Clara, California, and Sunnyvale, California

    Provide training in recording and production: equipment selection and integration, tracking and mixing, mic selection and placement, acoustic treatment and use of software plug-ins, voice over and music production.

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  Mutant Donkey Lab

  • Sunnyvale, California

  • Researcher

    • Apr 2016 - Aug 2017
    • Sunnyvale, California

    Electronics projects included control, audio synthesis and amplification.Audio Software Plug-in project - New equalizer paradigmIOT - Remote reporting and automation for the home.

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  Brocade

  • United States
  • Computer Networking Products
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Material Planner (engineering lab asset procurement)

    • Nov 2009 - Apr 2016

    - Engaged with multiple vendors for RFPs, resulting in 11% savings and vastly improved delivery times for materials. Identified excellent vendors and maintained productive relationships.- Capital asset management for large engineering organization (>70k items), plan through retirement.- Inventory planning, management, and reporting using Excel (Pivot Tables, Graphing) and Oracle apps. - Reduced cabling costs by 50% via careful planning, vendor selection, and containment by aggregation of requests—preventing individual organizations from silo’d purchases.- Implemented and managed technical material vending machines. Cables and adapters.- Qualification and purchase of infrastructure equipment with improved capability (PDUs, Console Servers and Remote KVM) for development and test labs across multiple sites.

  • Engineering Technician III—Engineering Lab Services

    • May 2007 - Nov 2009

    Anti-virus for Engineering Labs with McAfee EPOL~10,000 Windows servers.Managed Microsoft Volume and Developer Licensing for Engineering.Fibre Channel patch routing to support extended testing/development.

  • Engineering Technician III

    • Nov 2005 - May 2007

    Cycle counts for SOX compliance.Created system to track and manage prototype materials.

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  Sweetwater

  • Fort Wayne, Indiana

  • Sales Engineer - Pro Audio

    • Feb 2002 - Oct 2002
    • Fort Wayne, Indiana

    Online and telephone sales and consulting for professional music and audio equipment.

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  Microsoft

  • Mountain View, California

  • Software Quality Assurance Engineer

    • Nov 1999 - Jul 2001
    • Mountain View, California

    License Compliance Group for Microsoft TVSole inventor - Aggregation of streaming media to improve network performance. Patent application # 20030005455Wrote registration test plan and cases.Bug/Defect reporting using RAID system.Instituted audio testing for set-top boxes.

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  Magellan Network Systems

  • Sunnyvale, CA

  • Software Quality Assurance

    • Oct 1998 - May 1999
    • Sunnyvale, CA

    Tested Windows NT-based telecommunications processor with SQL backend.

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  Pinnacle Systems (via Oxford Associates)

  • Sunnyvale, CA

  • Software Quality Assurance

    • Oct 1997 - Aug 1998
    • Sunnyvale, CA

    Tested: DV300, first full motion FireWire video transfer product.Tested: Lightning and Flash still store products.Build engineer: Lightning and DVExtreme products.Authored: Windows help system for Lightning product.

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  Apple Computer via Oxford Associates

  • Cupertino, CA

  • Software Quality Assurance

    • Feb 1996 - Oct 1997
    • Cupertino, CA

    Wrote test plans/designs/cases for Apple Guide, AG Visual Authoring Tool, and Navigation Services. Manual testing of Apple Guide and AGVAT at UI level. Bug/Defect reporting using RADAR. Corrected broken automation script (Apple proprietary scripting language), added additional test cases. Operated/Maintained/Extended “C” based API test tool. All of the above allowed one tester to accomplish what required three testers before.