Quality Assurance Manager

Joseph Saxe

QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY

Mr. Saxe has 25+ years of comprehensive quality assurance and software test

experience including 15 years at the management and project lead levels. He has

extensive and in-depth technical customer interaction skills. Emphasis on on-site

installations, configuration & debug, product training, demo setup & verification,

custom application evaluation and customer acceptance testing. Experienced and

effective at fully supporting all facets of the development/customer interface. He has

been responsible for design, implementation, installation, configuration and

maintenance, of a start up intranet site using SharePoint 2007 (MOSS 2007). He was

the technical lead for SharePoint 2007, with responsibilities for the intranet, including

design/look, functionality and training of end users.

INDUSTRY Experience

Financial Services

Health Care

Software Products and Services

Manufacturing

Employment Experience

Collaborative Technology Partners Quincy, Ma 03/2009-present

Senior Consultant- Responsible for building the SharePoint practice and QA initiatives within CTP

Novartis(Molecular Diagnostic) Cambridge Ma 09/2009-current

Molecular Diagnostic is a startup division within Novartis with 3 sites internationally. Mr. Saxe was

responsible for design and implementation of their Document Repositories using SharePoint 2007 (MOSS

2007) across 10 functional groups and 8 program groups. He was their SharePoint consultant for use with

their document repositories needs and built a process top meet the need of their business model.

• Technical Developer/Advisor of SharePoint 2007 Functional as needed for the

communication director, the function group leads and program groups leads.

• Trainer: For site owners and their contributors

• Wrote documentation that is used for training and setup of future sites

• Generated a HTML site for Molecular Diagnostic Weekly newsletter back to Novartis

Edgewater Technologies: American Student Assistance (ASA)

While at American Student Assistance Mr. Saxe was responsible for design, implementation, installation,

configuration and maintenance, of their intranet site using SharePoint 2007 (MOSS 2007). He was their

technical lead for SharePoint 2007 for use with their intranet, including all training of end users.

Responsibilities included:

• Technical Developer/Advisor of SharePoint 2007 Functional as needed for the

communication manager, the divisional communication managers, the governance team, and

IT.

• Trainer: For new contributors and ongoing training as contributors need more expertise

• Any work that is not ‘out of the box’ functionality that needs SharePoint Designer 2007

• Implemented all Divisional sites for the divisional communication mangers. Acted as the

point person on all functionality, questions, issues, design and training.

Employment Experience

• Wrote documentation that is used for training, governance, special cases.

Technical Management - the day to day director of the technical team. Specific responsibilities

include:

Design Management – assisting the system architect on system design, the data model, and tool

selection. Also responsible for coding standards for the project. Development Management -

designing, developing, and testing complex system components.

User Testing / Deployment – supports client testing and deployment of systems into production.

Issue Management – ensures that technical project issues are identified and resolved in an effective and

efficient manner.

Resource Management – working with the project manager, focuses on project staffing and resource

coordination among junior members of the technical team.

• Risk Management – identifies and communicates significant technical risks to the project.

• Communication Management – develops technical status reports for development progress,

issues, etc

Microsoft/Groove Networks

While at Groove Networks Mr. Saxe worked in the Core Quality Assurance, Solution and Concept

Development Groups. His responsibilities included:

• Development, execution and documentation of test plans and procedures

• Functional and system level testing

• Performance testing

• Specific customer environment and configuration setup/testing

• Multi-user testing

• On-site customer acceptance testing and training

• Regression test development

• Database testing via SQL

• Demo setup and verification

• Tool Sets (including custom and 3rd party)

• End-user support

• On-site customer level training

While at Microsoft Mr. Saxe worked in the Professional Services Group. His responsibilities included:

• Full field service engineering support

• Design problem resolution with development engineers

• Engineering liaison for qualification requirements

• Custom application evaluation

• Demo setup and verification

• On-site customer acceptance testing and training

KPMG

While at KPMG Mr. Saxe did a full complement of QA responsibilities in a consulting role for

Microsoft/Groove Networks. He designed and implemented performance and functionality

testing at KPMG on their custom Groove Virtual Office software (audit collaboration software).

He was part of the implementation team.

Siemen’s Medical Division

While at Siemens Mr. Saxe did a full complement of QA responsibilities in a consulting role for

Microsoft/Groove Networks. He designed and implemented performance and functionality

testing at Siemens on their custom Groove Virtual Office software (Order Entry software). He

was part of the implementation team.

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Employment Experience

Ernest and Young

While at Ernest and Young Mr. Saxe did a full complement of QA responsibilities in a consulting

role for Microsoft/Groove Networks. He designed and implemented performance and

functionality testing at Ernest and Young on their custom Groove Virtual Office software (audit

collaboration software). He was part of the implementation team.

Epicon, Inc

Mr. Saxe was manager of Quality Assurance. His responsibilities where in the Product

Assurance/Support Group client/NT-Server software which included:

• Set up QA process

• Participated in product release criteria

• Software Pilot support

• Demos

• Staffing of QA

• SQA Robot scripts-write/execute test scripts

• New bug database

• Training of internal employees

• Functional/system/regression testing

• Write and execute test-plans

• Perform end user support

• On-site product integration support

• Edit/Write documentation

Applied Data System

Mr. Saxe was Manager of the Product Assurance/Support Group for client/server imaging base

software. His responsibilities where included:

• Environment and Configuration setup/testing, Performance testing, Configuration testing and

multi-user testing internally and on-site

• On-site customer level training

• On-site support during product implementation

• Functional/system/regression testing

• Perform acceptance testing on-site with customer

• Write and execute test-plans

• Perform end user support

Write and execute automated test scripts using SQA Suite

• Write and edit documentation

Application Experience

Systems

Custom Application Development, Web Site Development, System Administration

Areas of Focus

Quality Assurance, System Integration, Software Deployment

technology Background

Databases:

SQL Server 2000/2005, MS Access, SQLServer, MySQL

Products / Tools / Platforms:

SharePoint 2007 (MOSS 2007), SharePoint 2003, SharePoint Designer 2007 Groove

Virtual Office 2007, MS SQLServer Manager, MySQL Query Browser, Visual Studio,

Rational Robot, MS: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook

Languages:

SQL, HTML

Operating Systems:

WIN/95/98/2000/XP/Vista, NT Sever/NT, WIN2000/2003 Sever, Unix

Education

Nasson College, Sanford, Maine

Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics

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