Arturo Saracho

**** ********** **. **** ** the Hills, IL 60156

Phone 847-***-****

abl2n5@r.postjobfree.com

www.software-engineering-research.com

EDUCATION.

Master of Science in Computer Science - (In progress)

University of Texas at Dallas - Richardson, TX. (3.42 GPA) Emphasis in

Software Processes and Distributed Systems. Transferred to Northern

Illinois University - DeKalb, IL.

Project Management Course (PMBOK 2004) - Fall 2006

Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering.

Instituto Tecnol gico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO). -

Guadalajara, M xico.

CONTINUING EDUCATION.

Agile Development

August 2010 - Learn Quest, Hoffman Estates, IL, USA.

BeMicro FPGA Workshop

October 2009 - Arrow Electronics, Itasca, IL, USA.

Dynamic Team Leadership

September 2008 - Norb Slowikowski, Harper College. Palatine, IL, USA.

The Art of Public Speaking

September 2008 - M. Rowe-Dimas, Harper College. Palatine, IL, USA.

Marketing your Products and Services

October 2008 - Harper College. Palatine, IL, USA.

7 habits of Highly Effective People

July 2006 - Siemens Corporation. Troy, MI USA.

CMMI V1.1 Staged and Continuous

March 2006, Sree Yellali - Carnegie Mellon University/Siemens Corporate

Research, Princeton, NJ USA.

Design for Six Sigma

October 2005, Bob Rock - PACCAR. Denton, TX USA.

Safer C

October 2002, Les Hatton - Oakwood Computing/Siemens VDO, Troy, MI USA.

Software Development Cycle

November 2000, Siemens VDO, Troy, MI USA.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE.

6 years of project team management.

4 years of customer support and sales.

14 years in embedded software development and software quality assurance.

4 years of software development for test and instrumentation.

4 years of design and development of hardware for instrumentation and test

equipment.

SIEMENS

Siemens Healthcare - Molecular Imaging Division

Senior Software Project Manager.

October 2007 - Present. - Hoffman Estates, IL. USA.

. Embedded Software Project Manager/Software Quality Assurance (SQA)

Lead and developer for the embedded software of the acquisition unit

for a PET system. Team in IL and TN - USA.

. Manage and participate in the software quality assurance activities;

verification and validation plan, test specification, traceability,

develop test tools in visual studio (C#) to automate the testing

activities.

. Manage the release process of embedded software and write the release

notes for 2008 and 2009 SPECT Projects. Give presentations to the

project team on related embedded software activities and status.

. Embedded software development for the SPECT system. The software

controls the movement of the different parts of the system according

to a specific task.

. Created a "Firmware Development Guidelines" document with information

about the development process that is used by the embedded software

team in HES. This document is used by new members to have a quick

access to the information they need to start working on projects.

. Created and released "Hardware Design Specification" template to use

by the engineering department, as well as a training document.

Siemens VDO Automotive - Commercial Vehicles Division

Senior Technical Engineer / Sales Engineer.

April 2004 - September 2007. - Denton, TX. USA.

. On-site customer support at Peterbilt Motors. Team in TX and WA -

USA, Mexico and Germany.

. Lead engineer for the design of a data acquisition test box to verify

the correct functionality of the instrument gauges in a truck.

. Developed CANoe test applications using the tool's scripting language

to verify the product's functionality according to the test

documentation.

. Siemens representative. Initial point of contact for the customer for

any activity.

. Support of quotation development based on RFQ from the customer.

. Presentation of quotation to customer.

. Research of competitor's products and technology; comparing their

features to ours and proposing changes and strategies based on

findings.

. Development and presentation of technical sales information about our

products.

. Development and presentation of technical training on our products,

and other tools.

. Creation of demonstration tools for customer's shows.

. Creation of demonstration versions of our systems.

. Participated in customer's sales shows and exhibitions.

. Coordination of development activities with Mexico and Germany based

on customer's feedback on our products, and out of daily discussions.

. Regular visits to customer's manufacturing locations to provide

support.

. Worked out a system with the customer where I was able to provide a

quick response to failures achieving a zero return rate, which located

us at the top as number one supplier in terms of quality.

Siemens VDO Automotive - Driver Information Systems, R&D Department

Senior Software Developer / Quality Assurance Engineer

January 2003 - March 2004. - Auburn Hills, MI. USA

. As a Software Quality Engineer I developed our internal Software

Quality Method based on former VDO's method and adding improvements

based on previous Siemens' experience. The methods and processes are

based on CMMI. I was in charge of scheduling, directing and reporting

code and document reviews, maintaining the process documents, process

improvement, metrics definition, collection and interpretation,

configuration management, definition and tailoring of the document's

templates (requirements, design, testing), definition of testing

methodologies for functional and unit testing for the project,

participation in the development of test tools, as well as attending

and presenting our status and strategy at customer's technical design

reviews.

. I developed embedded software for an Instrument Gauge Cluster. Team

in MI - USA, Mexico and Romania.

. I developed simulators of part of the cluster's functionality (Message

Center and Fuel Gauge) in Visual Basic to be able to model the

functionality based on the requirements from the customer that were

still under development.

Siemens VDO Automotive - Restraints Electronics, Electrical Design

Department

Software Project Lead Engineer

January 2000 - December 2002. - Auburn Hills, MI. USA

. The project I started working on was the first in the history of the

division to follow the software development process based on SW-CMM;

this helped us satisfy Ford's quality requirements and guidelines for

software development. Team in MI - USA, Mexico and Germany.

. Software Project Manager/SQA Lead for Ford Restraints Control System

second and third generations. I managed and was part of an

engineering team for the development of the software, assigned

workloads, created work breakdown structure, developed processes,

performed software reviews, performed functional and unit testing,

coordinated quality assurance efforts, reported the status of the

software project, coordinated development and testing efforts among

engineers in Germany and Mexico, released software for customer

milestones and production, presented software details at technical

design reviews with the customer, and evaluated components from

suppliers.

. I developed several of the software modules, performed the integration

of all software modules with the hardware and debugged hardware and

software issues.

During my stay at Siemens VDO I was a member of SV-OPAL (January 1997 -

December 2000), (Siemens VDO - Optimized Process and Architecture

Leadership) - This team was in charge of creating the standards for the

development, quality assurance and management of software, based on SW-CMM,

for all Siemens VDO design centers around the world.

Author of the following articles at Siemens VDO:

. "Method for Obtaining the Reliability of Software" - Proposes an approach

to calculate software reliability based on Software faults discovered and

the failures they cause in the system. - September 2001.

. "Reporting the Status of the Software Development" - Proposes and

explains a format to report the software development status based on actual

achieved versus planned. - December 2001.

Author of the following tools at Siemens VDO:

. "Software Reliability Predictor" - This tool generates graphic and

written reports of the software reliability based on the processes: "Method

for Obtaining the Reliability of Software", and "Reporting the Status of

the Software Development". - January 2002.

VI Technology

Software Engineer (Test and Measurement Equipment)

June 1999 - December 1999. - Austin, TX. USA

. Resident engineer developing test and measurement applications for

Applied Materials, using LabWindows/CVI.

. Projects that I developed:

. Automated tester for two different radio frequency generators; the

software controls a spectrum analyzer, a voltage and current meter, a

power supply and a RF generator; it reads data from these instruments

and sends control commands to them based on the processing of the data

received. The interface to them was developed using a computer

program in CVI and instrumentation hardware that communicates using

the GPIB protocol.

. Automated tester for mechanical valves used for Plasma flow control,

using a motion controller card.

. Driver for ThermoStream device, used by Lucent Technologies to test

their power supplies at different temperature levels.

SIEMENS

Siemens VDO Automotive, Mexico - Development Department (Body and

Restraints Electronics)

Software Engineer.

January 1997 - May 1999

. I was hired in Siemens Guadalajara as a start for a new development

center. From January 1997 to May 1999 I worked with the other

development centers in the US. Because of my outstanding performance,

and fast learning while working with the development centers in the

US, Siemens AG gave Siemens Guadalajara a budget to form a formal

development center which now holds several engineers that support the

design teams in USA and Germany and do some independent development as

well. Team in MI - USA, Mexico, Germany and Austria.

. Projects that I developed as a member of those teams:

. Side Restraints System for Ford Automobiles at Ford Electronics

Technical Center (now Visteon).

. Immobilizer Security System for Nissan Automobiles.

.Central Security Module for Ford Automobiles.

.Ford Cryptographic Transceiver Tester.

.Generic Window Lifter. (November 1998 - January 1999 - Vienna,

Austria)

. SQA Responsibilities:

. Software Quality Assurance Plan.

. Validation and Verification plan.

. Functional Test Specification.

Centro Medico de Occidente - Center for Biomedical Research

Electrical Engineer

July 1995 - December 1996. - Guadalajara, M xico.

. Technical support and maintenance of the medical equipment at the

hospital.

. Research support for the design of a device to provide electrical

stimulation to the nerves on handicapped people. Research was done on

the effects of applied electrical signals via the muscles using

different types of electrodes and different types of signals.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming: C, C++, C#, VB, VBA, HTML, UML, JAVA, Pascal, SQL,.

Operating Systems: MS Windows, SuSE Linux, UNIX, OSEK.

Tools: Several C compilers/IDEs, Quartus II, Codewright, PVCS Version

Manager, PVCS Tracker, Visio, Project, QAC, PC-Lint,

ClearCase, CharmNT, CANAlyzer, CANoe, LogiCAD, Multisim,

Frontpage, LabWindows/CVI, Visual Studio 2005, 2008,

Eclipse-based IDE.

Comm. Protocols: CAN, ISO9141, J1939, GPIB, RS232, TCP/IP.

Processes, Rules: Agile Development, CMMI, MISRA.

LANGUAGES:

Bilingual: English and Spanish. German II and I taken from Langua Tutor.

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