Quality Assurance Engineer

John Delorey

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PROFILE

Award winning computer systems professional offering 26 years of

technical, operating and support experience. Comprehensive knowledge and

capabilities in UNIX and Linux. Impeccable work ethic and contagious

enthusiasm, supported by history of company recognition and steady career

progression. Recognized strengths in maintaining, supporting, and

troubleshooting a diverse networked computing environment. Willing and

eager to participate in new technical or mechanical projects, individually

or as a productive team member. Seeking UNIX/IT administration or hands-on

lab position. Computer and systems proficiencies include:

Hardware

SUN 4/110 thru SUN FIRE HP 700 thru J5600

Switches, Terminal Servers PC - 486 to current

IBM Plotters

Dell Printers

Software

UNIX (SunOS 4.1.1 - 4.1.4, Solaris 10,11, HPUX 9* - 11.00, Red Hat 3 -

5 );

Windows, Windows XP TCP/IP, NIS, DNS, NFS

Stratus VOS, Stratus FTX Working knowledge of HTML, basic

Perl

ClearCase Legato

Backup Exec Synopsys

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sepaton, Marlboro, Massachusetts

Oct 2009 - June 2010

Lab Manager Oct 2009 -

June 2010

Was responsible for all levels of Hardware in the Engineering Lab. Dailey

would be deploying

New hardware, and repairing or replacing failed. Installed and diagnose

failures on DotHill, and

Hitachi fiber attached storage. Supported the following Hardware, and

Software, HP G4 - G6,

Dell 1850 - 2850, Sun sunfire, X86, and Solaris. Qlogic 5600 Fiber switch,

and Dell Ethernet

switches

SiCortex, Maynard, Massachusetts

Jan 2009 - May 2009

SQA Engineer

Jan 2009 - May 2009

Software Quality Assurance Engineer: Contract to provide expertise in the

formation of a QA Engineering team responsible for testing the transition

of Gentoo Linux to Red Hat EL 5.2 on the SiCortex platforms.

. Assisted in design of quality assurance policies, procedures, and

process flow.

. Installed and configured TestLink test case manager on an Apache web

server.

. Designed and implemented the test infrastructure within the Test Case

Manager.

. Write test plans based on the product requirements document.

. Create test cases based on documentation, bug data, and interaction

with developers.

. Test all aspects of installation and configuration of SiCortex

hardware and software.

. Test the SiCortex suite of custom optimized program compilers.

. Exercise scientific test libraries which are used to showcase

performance.

. Create, track, verify and close bug tickets in a Bugzilla database.

. Submit detailed test results both in the TCM and report format.

Egenera, Marlboro, Massachusetts

June 2006 - Nov 2008

Senior HQA Engineer June 2006 -

Nov 2008

From design I am involved with the Hardware Team. Design and layout test

plans for large sku'd

blades. Testing BMC, BIOS, and CLPD, create tests specific to the needs of

the Hardware. Fault insertion, Media Installs, and running high stress on

cpu, memory, network, and disk. Create and deploy new test cases, either by

writing them, or third party . Responsible for off shore Engineers running

tests. Bug tracking and reporting failures with a large amount of data,

Sun Microsystems, Burlington, Massachusetts Sept 2005 -

June 2006

Senior Network Administrator 2005 - 2006

Install, Debug, and support of all infrastructure including servers

(V240, V880, Ent. 220), as

well as terminal servers, and network switchs (Cisco 3600, 6500 and

3750). I am the primary

contact for all desktops, Sun Ultra's, W1100's, W2100's and Sun Blade

1000 and 2000. PC's

running Windows 2003 and XP, as well as Linux on both platforms. I have

been working with

Sun Solaris 10 and 11 as well as support of several different flavors of

Linux.

Stratus Technologies, Maynard Massachusetts Dec 1984 -

Sept 2005

Designer, manufacturer, marketer and supporter of computer systems,

communications products, peripherals and software for critical online

applications.

Network Administrator III 2000 - 2005

Install and maintain all third party CAD and regression tools; provide

primary support for engineering offsite/home-based PC's for home use and

all Hardware and Software. Maintain 2 UNIX and 5 Windows-based backup

servers utilizing Legato and Backup Exec. Oversee and provide guidance and

instruction to 3 junior administrators.

. Participated in team successfully finalizing company relocation by

duplicating work environment and having system up and running in the new

location in 2 days.

. Contributed to significant cost savings or avoidance due to the

following actions:

. Saved the company thousands annually by tool license, and backup seat

reduction.

. Installed a power switch, allowing servers to power cycle from a

remote web-based interface, saving staff countless hours of traveling

to company during off hours to cycle hung systems.

. Suggested an adopted practice to re-use LTO-2 tape media, realizing

substantial savings.

. Repeatedly cited by management for dedication and off-hour support of

various projects, including Linux/LSF implementation and hardware

engineering during chip builds.

. Implemented 12 HP Proliant servers running Linux Red Hat 8.0, as an LSF

regression cluster.

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UNIX Network Administrator II 1995 - 2000

Furnished primary support, installing and troubleshooting of 30 third

party applications, such as Cadence, Signalscan, Compass, ICX, Synopsys,

LSF. Supply second level support for all third party tools.

. Received recognition after serving as key person in company's "Year

2000" evaluation team, duplicating the engineering environment and

testing/verifying all tools and products.

. Received award after serving as primary contact for major project -

building of two offsite engineering/manufacturing sites - one each in

Ohio and Ireland, consisting of 12 Suns and 4 servers.

. Operating and network systems support for a large and diverse

engineering network.

. Furnished secondary support for over 100 Sun's, and over 40 Sun/HP

servers.

. Major contributor in tool compiles and script building for engineering

environment.

Prior Positions in support of engineering, systems development and testing;

troubleshooting, database management, hardware and software installations

and upgrades.

UNIX Administrator 1994 - 1995

System Administrator 1990 - 1994

Manufacturing Support 1988 - 1990

Lead Systems Technician 1986 - 1988

System Test Technician 1984 - 1986

CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

Sun Microsystems

Solaris 1.X System Administration

Solaris 2.X System Administration

Microsoft University

Microsoft NT 3.5 Administration

Assabet Valley

Basic PC Maintenance

Sylvania

Tech Course, Waltham MA - Graduated 6th in class

Rational University

ClearCase Fundamentals and Administration

In House Training/Courses

Korn Shell programming

Shell Environment Programming

UNIX System Maintenance

Strata LINK & Strata-NET Administrator

Advanced Customer Maintenance

HTML 4.0

References furnished upon request

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