Fernando Corral

214-***-****

ac2uf5@r.postjobfree.com

**** ***** *****, ****** ** 75034

Qualifications Summary

Continuous Integration and Test Safe Agile methodology Wired & Wireless Networking

SME Technical Leadership Global Team Management Hardware & Software Lifecycle

Cloud and Open source technologies Network/Storage Solutions PMP PMBOK Processes

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrfcorral/

Lead our entire testing QA organization of over 60 engineers across multiple global sites and achieving 100% Pass Rate of a fully automated, continuous integration and test, scaled agile framework on a large cloud implementation

Lead many Testing areas such as Unit, Functional, Stress, Performance, Scalability, IOP, Security, Feature, Adhoc and others utilizing Python, Autotest Suite, Datacenter Simulators, mininet OVS, Ixia/Spirent physical and virtual switches and in-house test tool simulators and development.

Lead the quality release criteria of many 1.0 SDN Campus programs such as our proprietary SDN VAN Controller, SDN App Store, SDN Optimizer and Protector Applications, in addition to the networking upstream efforts of Openstack. Have also worked closely with our Sales Ambassadors and GPLM groups to drive feedback, back into HP R&D and help to integrate Aruba ClearPass into SDN Solution

Over my career at HP I have lead OEM partner engagement, business development and customer support/quality focus with a goal of simplicity. I believe that my well balanced HP technical and management career has helped me become one of the most effective leaders with the ability to provide results and mentor critical thinking amongst our engineering team while improving overall team synergy, and releasing products in both a waterfall and Scaled Agile.

Technical expertise in Wires and Wireless Layer 1-4 of HP Networking Products, 802.1x, 802.11, 802.3 and more including Software Defined Networking, Openstack, OpenDaylight, Public/Private Cloud Solutions, Storage Area Networks, Fibre Channel, SCSI protocol, protocol analyzers of Wireshark, Finisar, Omnipeek, RF Planner, RF Spectrum analyzers, Ekahau Site Survey, Aruba APs and Controllers, Storage array architecture, Oracle database implementations, Datacenter FCoE, Ethernet, IPv4 and IPv6, TCP/IP, GRE, VxLAN, OpenFlow, Netconf, RestAPIs, Robot Automation, Ixia, Spirent, Veriwave, Loadrunner traffic generators, Oracle Database Performance Tuning, Database Backup and Recovery, Array Performance Monitoring, Systems Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning, Infrastructure Analysis, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, proficient in Linux, VMware, HP-UX and Windows Operating Systems.

Employment History:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Network Functions Virtualization – Senior PMO Manager, HPE, Plano TX (09/15 - Present)

Leading cross functional delivery teams consisting of Supply chain, services, R&D, PLM and 3rd Party Products

Program Manager of VNF Onboarding Factory helping customers to onboard hundreds of different Virtual Network Functions across multiple HW & SW configurations

Work with Telefonica Account team to develop test coverage and test plans for POC

Lead Budget, Product Delivery and Schedule for T-Mobile POC of HPE Servers, Storage and Networking gear including Arista switches and Aruba wireless Access Points with Aruba Clearpass

Transitioned NFV programs from prototype to POC to operational model for deployments world wide

Enabled cohesive end-to-end solutions which built trust and confidence in HPE as a world-class NFV solution provider

Provide VPs and SVPs exec staff program updates on statues and get well plans

Execution of all PMP PMBOK processes and procedures

Software Defined Networking Cloud R&D – Section Manager, Hewlett Packard, Roseville CA (02/13 – 09/15)

Manager of Managers for 5 teams of over 60+ engineers across U.S and Bangalore India

Leader for Openstack and Windows Azure Clouds with focus on networking

Provide VPs and SVPs weekly exec staff program updates on quality statues and get well plans

Delivered upstream dev code to OpenStack community in the OVS vAPP, L2 GW and DVR features.

Lead both SDN Controller and Open Source SDN ODL Controller features, test and schedule.

First in HPN employee to lead and deliver our organization from Waterfall to true SAFe agile methodology

Lead 100% Full Test Automation strategy of Python, TCL, Robot Framework, Jenkins and Auto test

Automated Daily Reports with JIRA, Launchpad, Quality Center, ALM (Agile Lifecycle Manager) and more

Lead our upstream Continuous Integration environments for HP Networking into the open source communities.

Tested and released HP first SDN VAN controller, SDN Optimizer App, SDN Net Protector App, on Helion OS, upstream Openstack, Windows Azure, and Amazon AWS

Collaborated with many 3rd Party App vendors for HP AppStore with an emphasis on DNS blacklist/whitelist REP DB detection, MS Lync/Skype Voice Priority and many others…

Develop Quarterly and Yearly Goals and Objectives for direct reports. Responsible for annual focal point reviews, salary adjustments, performance evaluations, ratings, retention programs and our organizations goals.

Oversee ALL HPN SDN product test strategies, schedules, infrastructure investments and utilization

Wireless Edge Networking R&D –Engineering Manager, Hewlett Packard, R&D, Roseville CA (02/11 –02/13)

Radio Hardware Performance and Stress Lead on HP Wireless Aps/Controllers NPIs.

Focused of finding RF Chip and Antenna HW issues on our Access Points, and performance of controller

Lead Testing of Wifi alliance certification logo enablement

Lead Testing of RF Bands/Channels of 2.4 and 5 GHz, a/b/g/n and ac phase 1

DFS Channels, QoS, Roaming, Mesh, Power Control, PoE, and Performance Range Testing

Air Frames/Packet Capture with Omnipeek, site surveys with Ekahau and validation to standards

Develop Quarterly and Yearly Goals and Objectives for direct reports. Responsible for annual focal point reviews, salary adjustments, performance evaluations, ratings and the organizations goals.

ProCurve Networking Performance Architect, Hewlett Packard, Roseville CA (08/08 – 02/11)

Technical Lean of global engineering teams across US and India under my technical supervision

Responsible for ProCurve ASIC architectural reviews around new ASIC and Fabric Hardware and Software Product code. Managing Performance testing, Marketing of CPE and NPIs, resource allocation, budget, schedule and customer escalation hot sites

Work with 3rd party test houses such as Tolly, Network World, and Miercom to perform external competitive performance analysis testing, documentations, certification.

Lead for many areas as well, PoE, Switch Interoperability Wireless Interoperability, L2, Ipv4 and IPv6 performance, Ixia, Spirent, Veriwave, APs, controllers, SDN Performance, RF chips and Transceivers etc…

Storage Engineering Manager, Hewlett Packard, Colorado Springs CO (04/06 – 08/08)

Successfully manage CFT presentations while supporting CFT Technical Forums. Contributions at technical forum include introductory presentations, overview and technical presentations, white board sessions, event management, and event feedback to Business Development. Presented to customers on an average of 3 times per month, ~ 40 presentations per year in Americas and EMEA.

20 CFT Engineering direct reports, Technical Leads, and Lab Engineers.

Managed FPR/TCP performance to promote individuals, and establish a sound hands on working knowledge of HP policy on resolving performance issues. Successfully completed engineering promotions for Master Level

Worked with HP University recruiting for college new hire and intern candidates.

Storage Solutions Engineer, Hewlett Packard, Roseville CA (09/99 – 04/06)

Serve as Technical lead on post-sales escalations. Perform engineering feasibility assessments / risk analysis. Developed test cases for engineering team to duplicate issue and run experiments in an effort to root cause.

As the VMware/Veritas Lead, owned HP engineering partnership. Worked closely with VMware, and Veritas complete certification testing and support on storage arrays.

Brocade /McData/Ancor Fibre Channel switch lead. Lead all test efforts directly with Brocade, McData, and Ancor. Own coexistence of testing where HP and OEM each owned half of the qualification testing. Executed Hazard testing and scripts on HP-UX and Windows

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