PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Senior Software Quality Assurance and Development Engineer with 15+ years experience, known for strong ability to cut costs through automation and innovation.
• An effective communicator, with a strong work ethic, and excellent attention to detail.
• Able to produce high quality, low cost, on schedule projects with six Sigma, and ISO9000 quality standards.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Standards: TIA/EIA - IS-95, TIA/EIA-IS-95-B, TIA/EIA-IS-2000-3, TIA/EIA-IS-707A2.10, TIA/EIA-IS-707A2.12. Also familiar with the following: TIA/EIA-IS-835, TIA/EIA-IS-2001, RFC2002.

Tools: Mercury WinRunner, TestDirector, Agilent/Tekelec Protocol Analysers.

Test Levels: Unit, Integration or Deliverable, Feature, Regression, Performance, Stress, and Load testing, under ISO9000 quality.

Test Methods: Functional or Black Box, Structural or White Box

Languages: C/C++, HTML, UNIX Shell, Korn Shell, PL/SQL, LEX, YACC, AWK, VM Basic, Fortran, PL1, Cobol, Pascal, Lisp, IBM & MC68 Assembler, JAVA.

Systems: Sun Solaris UNIX, Windows 2000, Informix RDBMS, Unify RDBMS, 3G-1X, MSC, BTS, ECP, PCF, PDSN, AAA, ISDN, 5ESS, Real Time Switch operating systems, T1/E1, DS1/DS3

Protocols: MUX3, MUX5, RLP3, RLP1, TCP/IP, PPP, FTP, HTTP, CDMA2000, GSM, L2TP, MIP, SIP, A10/A11, R-P, X.25, X.75, Q.931, LAPD, LAPB, and frame relay.

Applications: MS word, PowerPoint, Excel

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Naperville, IL

Senior 3G CDMA Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Completed core network 3G CDMA wireless data project testing, resulting in over 6 billion dollars in contracts from major wireless carriers, including Sprint, Verizon, China Unicom, New Zealand, Brazil, and Russia.Developed offline testing environment to automate some 600 out of approximately 1000 protocol tests using JAVA, HTML, WinRunner, and TestDirector.
• Formulated and executed processor performance test plans, which resulted in a high quality stable product.
• Formulated and executed handset testing, to monitor and debug protocol activity on the traffic channel, which resulted in significant increase in steady state throughputs.
• Rated in the top performance band.

Confidential

Senior 3G CDMA Development Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for architectural and requirements reviews, team leadership, and hands on design, development, and deliverable testing, on a UNIX based real-time operating system. Areas included call processing, call control, maintenance, fault recovery, call trace, database, and protocol development. Extensive development, design and/or testing in MAC Sublayers: Radio Link Protocol(RLP) type 1, RLP type 3, and MUX layers. s:
• Significantly reduced 3rd Generation Wireless high speed data processor cost by approximately half, with introduction of dynamic memory allocation.
• Lead an engineering effort to reduce data corruption problems on the forward and reverse links, resulting in detection of corruption problems being found much earlier in the testing process.
• Received vice presidental recognition s and bonuses; rated in the top performance band.

Confidential

Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Tester on the 2G IS95B wireless voice and data project. This project allowed wireless data transfers of up to 13Kpbs over the air, or up to 13Kpbs encoded voice over the air. Responsibilities: Confidential protocol design and development reviews, writing test plan from system requirements, test planning and scheduling, writing test casesrunning tests, debugging assistance, discovering critical problems, and generating/ presenting reports to management.

Confidential

Senior Development Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Integrated Services Digital Network protocol design/development/unit testing in Layer 2, Layer 3 protocols. These protocols control digital lines on customer premise equipment, and allowed for 64Kpbs or 16Kpbs voice and data. Responsibilities included design, development, and testing of ISDN protocols, call processing and call control interfaces. Validation test areas included protocols LAPB, LAPD, X.25, X.75 and Q.931, over 1 of 3 channels on a ISDN line - 2B + 1D. Required knowledge of ISDN protocol standards, UNIX tools, and TMS.

Confidential

OS Development Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design/Development/testing in the UNIX Real Time Reliability (RTR) operating system file management. Test and development areas included UNIX file systems( UNIX superblock, support of all UNIX real time operating system file types to suite application specific timing requirements - contiguous, extended, and regular files), and file partitions. Required knowledge of UNIX OS internals, operating system traps for I/O access, and UNIX system calls. s:
• Engineered, designed, developed and tested tools to decode UNIX file systems and file partitions on a offline processor. Used by entire user community including field support, systems test, and development, resulting in millions of dollars in cost savings.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Programmer Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for development and customized database applications development utilizing Informix, Unify DBMS systems, including database schema maintenance, database design, forms development with programming interface using PL/SQL and C language, report writing, database conversion, porting to new versions.