Project Quality Assurance

Rory DaCosta

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Summary: Accomplished Software Engineering professional specializing in

Warehousing and Reporting Systems with a demonstrated track record to

handle all phases of Software Development from Requirements through

Support.

Technical SKILLS

OS/Platforms: Windows 2000/XP

Programming/Scripting Languages: C#, VB, C++, ASP, VBScript, HTML, DOS

Script

Tools: Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, SQL Server

EXPERIENCE

Jan 06 - Present Business Analyst at Citigroup Capital Markets & Banking

Technology

. Developed a Data Model and implemented through Business Objects, MS

Access, Excel and VBA a Project Health monitoring system that enabled

Senior Manager's to have transparency on leading and lagging

indicators of project health.

. QA Testing Planning and Execution of migration to in house project

management tool, writing all test scripts and helping co-ordinate and

perform testing to ensure a smooth transition.

. Designed and developed enhancements to web based tools to support

quality assurance in the project management space using SQL server and

ASP.

. Designed, developed and maintained a quality management system using

SQL Server 2000 and MS Access that supported analysis on various

critical business applications.

. Maintained and improved the reporting infrastructure that supports

Application Stability Reporting which is used to measure the entire

Capital Markets & Banking Technology against its goals for improving

stability and reliability. Improved automation as well as design and

present new metrics for management to make intelligent decisions.

. Lead efforts to improve the reporting in the current organization by

identifying key areas for optimization and coming up with actionable

items to make improvements

Graduate Fellowship

Sept 03 - Dec 05 Howard University, DC

. Helped develop the architecture of the Freedmen's Bureau research

project where records of freed slaves were digitalized and made

available for everyone on the internet with intelligent searches as

opposed to a regular string match search

. Led one of two teams that developed web clients and other applications

. Used C# and .NET Framework as well as XML to develop web services and

clients

. Used LISP to develop intelligent agents for querying the Freedmen's

Bureau Documents

. Met with teams from the U.S. National Archives to obtain and document

requirement specifications for various areas of project

. Maintained constant communication with the second team on the project

to extract the information gathered for the search agent

. Helped conduct presentations for updates on the research project

EDUCATION

Howard University GPA 3.8

Master of Science in Systems and Computer Science, May 2005

Polytechnic University GPA 3.2

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, May 2002

Nassau Community College GPA 3.4

Associates Degree in Mathematics, August 1999

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS & AWARDS

. Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honor Society (UPE), Howard University Chapter,

Corresponding Secretary

. National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), Polytechnic University

Chapter

. Dean's List, Polytechnic University

. Outstanding International Student Scholarship, Polytechnic University

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