Experience

Innovation Asset Group

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Contractor

  • 2013 - Present

  Evaluated existing QA methods and proposed strategies to increase code coverage, find defects earlier, and improve overall product quality.Researched new tools and prototyped user interfaces for new products. Evaluated existing QA methods and proposed strategies to increase code coverage, find defects earlier, and improve overall product quality.Researched new tools and prototyped user interfaces for new products.



Xerox

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software QA Manager

  • Jan 2000 - Aug 2012

  Led team of local and offshore engineers developing and executing test strategies to deliver high quality products requiring no maintenance releases. Identified early project budget, project staffing and prototype needs. Presented testing progress and quality status to program core teams and senior management at project milestones.Recruited and hired a talented team of project leads, QA engineers and developers to develop test plans, traceability matrices, test cases, manual and automation test procedures, defect reports, status reports, and quality metrics.Reduced the cost of software development and testing and improved product quality by working closely with product development to transition from Waterfall to Agile methods.Recognized by Xerox executive management as setting the “gold” quality standard by consistently delivering high quality products not requiring costly maintenance releases and significantly reducing warranty costs.Established the first offshore SQA team for Xerox in Bangalore, India. Provided coaching for offshore SQA managers, Leads and Test Engineers. Reduced SQA costs by 50%.



Tektronix

• United States
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Project Lead/SQA Manager

  • Jan 1996 - Dec 1999

  Led team of 8 software test engineers developing and executing test suites for product verification of color PostScript printers. Wrote SQA plans and implemented test strategies. Reviewed specifications and planned regression testing. Reported results to project management.Collaborated with software development team to redesign and rewrite product specification to improve traceability and quality of test cases resulting in 100% test coverage and significant quality improvements.Led the effort to define all product development milestones and deliverables for each milestone.



ADP

• United States
• Human Resources Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Engineering Manager

  • Sep 1993 - Dec 1995

  Managed a team of 10 software engineers designing products that convert raw automobile manufacturer data into an X Window application written in C++. Interface with marketing, field quality assurance, manufacturing, engineering, technical writers, trainers, and customers to achieve desired results.Developed several electronic parts catalogs through all phases of product development from definition through general release. The projects were completed on schedule, added many new features, and improved performance.Researched requirements, implemented and presented an electronic parts catalog demo for Jaguar North America resulting in an exclusive contract generating new business.