Project Manager Quality Assurance

DAVID B. SIGNOR

*** ********** **** *** ******, California 95005 408-***-**** *******@*****.***

SUMMARY

PROJECT MANAGER

• FIFTEEN YEARS’ PROJECT MANAGEMENT

EXPERIENCE

• MANAGED PROJECT TEAMS OF 10-20 WITH

SEVERAL MILLION DOLLAR BUDGET

• MASTER’S DEGREES IN MECHANICAL AND

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

• FOCUS AREAS: REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS,

PROJECT DELIVERY AND TEAM BUILDING

CAREER EXPERIENCE

ACCENTURE – Cisco, San Jose, California AUGUST 2012 – Present

Project Manager

• Delivering for IT Analysis and contract transition

• Provided triage support as war room analyst for point release of Relationship Management (uCRM)

• Mentoring for authoring and reviewing of xRM project process documents

OPALSOFT – Sunnyvale, California APRIL 2012 – August 2012

Project Manager (part time employment)

• Technical Team Lead for writing IT service proposals, including, requirements analysis, transition planning, contract

management approach, IT and network support requirements

• Provided recommendations to HR for hiring candidates

JACOBS TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED – Mt. View, California MAY 2008 – APRIL 2012

Facility Engineering Group Lead

• Managed projects including: HVAC design and install, fire detection and suppression system design and install, 35

and 75 ton crane refurbishment, 150 Hz Motor Generator replacement

• Lead efforts to improve project management practices, operating processes and procedures, resulted in improved test

acceptance and change request processes

• Program and project management for twenty simultaneous projects, per year

• Provided recommendations regarding prioritization of

several million dollars of annual funding

• Technical lead for procurement of services and hardware on

large projects

• Managed group of ten direct-report engineers. Completed

one-year Jacob’s leadership training.

SENSIS - SEAGULL TECHNOLOGY CENTER – Campbell, California NOVEMBER 2001 – MAY 2008

Systems Engineer

Contributed to several simultaneous contract projects. Responsible for; project management, development of software

requirements, software tool development for data processing and analysis, software testing and technical publications.

• Wrote winning proposals for Phase-I ($100k) and Phase-II

($600k) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracts to NASA

DAVID B. SIGNOR

205 Sweetwater Lane Ben Lomond, California 95005 408-***-**** *******@*****.***

• Principal Investigator responsible for requirements and

testing of scenario generation software prototype

• Conducted extensive UI testing, with focus on usability.

Data analysis and publication of results.

DAVID B. SIGNOR

205 Sweetwater Lane Ben Lomond, California 95005 408-***-**** *******@*****.***

ENSIM CORPORATION – Sunnyvale, California 2000 – 2001

Quality Assurance Engineer

Selected to direct quality assurance (QA) functions for a start-up company that manufactures software products for web

hosting companies. Scope of responsibilities includes writing and updating test plans, recording test results and

troubleshooting problems with GUI testing as well as installing server OS and configuring server network files.

• Authored the first quality assurance test plans under version

control

• Improved several QA processes that provided back-up

procedures, Control Center installations, test plans and operational processes

NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER – Moffett Field, California 1995 – 2000

Aerospace Engineer

Coordinated the development and research of a client-server application (Surface Movement Advisor at Atlanta Airport)

using an Oracle database which was a joint NASA/FAA Research and Development project.

• Conducted requirements analysis, writing specifications,

testing functions (with PL/SQL), tracking issues, communicating with developers, analyzing data, rewriting C++ code

• Utilized experience in aerodynamics, fluid dynamics,

acoustics and vibrations to contribute to the goal of reducing rotorcraft noise

• Acted as Assistant Branch Chief for one year, supervising 25

engineers and successfully maximizing job satisfaction and productivity

BRUNING COMPUTER GRAPHICS – Martinez, California 1988

Mechanical Engineer

Invited to join a spirited competitor of Hewlett Packard and other high powered pen-plotter manufacturers to redesign a

high speed pen-plotter mechanical control

• Successfully produced a fully functional prototype in less

than six months by determining a better design, fabricating prototype parts, testing and documenting specifications.

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EDUCATION

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Carnegie Mellon University Mt. View, CA

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Couluris, G.C., Hange, G.E., Wardell, D.A., Signor, D., Phillips, J., “A Potential Impact Analysis of ESTOL Aircraft on

Newark Airport Operations,” AIAA-2007-6700, Presented at AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference,

Marriott Hilton Head, South Carolina, Aug 19-23, 2007

Yamauchi, G.K., Signor, D.B., Watts, M.E., Hernandez, F.J., LeMasurier, P., “Flight Measurements of Blade-Vortex

Interaction Noise Including Comparison with Full-Scale Wind Tunnel Data”, American Helicopter Society 49th Forum,

St. Louis, Missouri, May, 1993. Published in the AHS Journal in 1996.

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