Quality Assurance Project Manager

Candace Ruiz y Lavery

**** ******** **. ** ***********, NM 87120

505-***-**** (Santa Fe #) *******@*******.***

Qualifications

. Well-organized, self motivated and able to work with minimal

direction

. Possess strong problem solving skills; very analytical thought

process

. Dynamic team member with consistent contributions

. Experienced in mission critical, data center and software

development environments

Professional Experience

Desktop Support Specialist/Assistant

Law Office of Andrew Ortiz - Albuquerque, NM

June 2008-Present (Part-time)

Maintain, repair, and install office computers, software and network.

Assist office personnel with computer related issues and/or training.

Assist with daily legal functions.

Work Study

University of New Mexico - Albuquerque, NM

Santa Fe Community College - Santa Fe, NM

May 2004 - May 2008 (Graduated)

Assist staff, students and alumnus with daily administrative activities.

Assist students and staff with various administrative assistant duties.

Administrative Project Manager

The Uptime Institute - Santa Fe, NM

October 2002-May 2004

Work with Program Manager and client to coordinate the daily recruiting

and follow-up activities for mission critical program/environment. Duties

include, but not limited to: recruit high-level potential attendees from

data centers across country, develop cooperative customer relationships,

report program status to customer and other members within company,

meeting planning and logistics execution, post meeting follow up, assist

with developing recruiting ideas and program enhancement, create HTML web

& Adobe based invitation and registration forms, creation and editing of

documentation used for user's councils including statistics,

accounting/record keeping of program and maintain database of information

for reports and spreadsheets.

Administrative Assistant

University of Colorado School of Nursing - Denver, CO

October 2001- September 2002 (Temporary)

General administrative and office duties.

Quality Assurance Engineer

Matchlogic - Westminster, CO

April 2000-October 2001 (Company Closed)

Responsible for quality assurance of large ad-serving software. Initially

product did not have solid requirements and/or documentation. Team

eventually grew to three members. Trained newer personnel. Created

templates for quality assurance standards. Reviewed software requirements

and provided lead quality assurance efforts in writing test plans, test

procedures and test execution. Blackbox and whitebox testing (GUI,

beginning UNIX and SQL) and use of Citrix. Defined and entered defects

through defect tracking system. Set up compatibility lab (includes

hardware, software and network connectivity).

Quality Assurance Specialist

Intelligent Programming, LLC. - Albuquerque, NM

September 1999-March 2000 (Company Closed)

Solely responsible for quality assurance of applications which included:

HTML/PDA/client server based application created for Los Alamos National

Laboratory for waste tracking; warehousing/inventory based applications

mainly using a Palm device. Applications based on scanning and downloading

(syncing) information to and from device to PC. Reviewed strict

government requirements and provided quality assurance efforts in writing

test plans, test procedures and test execution and making recommendations

on improving product. Created a software development lifecycle

environment. Set up compatibility lab (includes hardware and software).

Education

CNM (formerly TVI) - Albuquerque, NM

Currently enrolled - Systems Administration Certificate. Classes include:

Hardware and Software Administration, Intro to Networking, Microsoft Server

2008 Management (w/HyperV) Windows Client/Server Administration, Business

Interpersonal Skills, Integrating Business/Technology, Windows Server

Network, Windows 2008 Server Active Directory and Intro to UNIX.

Certificate to be completed August 2010. 4.0 GPA.

University of New Mexico - Albuquerque, NM

May 2008 - Bachelor of Arts - cum laude honors graduate

Santa Fe Community College - Santa Fe, NM

General studies 1990-2005 (part-time)

Deans List 2004-2005

Intertest.com - Bellevue, WA

Certified Basic & Internet Software Tester - August 1998

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