Robert M. Stagmier Jr.
Livermore, CA H: 925-***-**** M: 925-***-****
********@*******.***
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Senior Software Engineer with over 20 years experience in application
design and development for numerous Fortune 500 companies and
government agencies. Excellent designer, developer, and
troubleshooter. Very efficient and quick learner. Consistently rated
a Nortel Top Contributor, delivering zero-defect solutions ahead of
schedule and under-budget. Key skills include:
. Application design and delivery ? Troubleshooting
. Team Leadership ? Customer-facing
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Orchestration Designer, Experience Portal, UNIX/Linux, MPS Developer, SQL,
SIP, Java
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Avaya -- (Home Based) Livermore, CA
Senior Application Consultant Avaya Professional Services - 2010 - Present
Designed Interactive Voice Response solutions for numerous Fortune 500
customers, in charge of the full lifecycle of design specification, test
plan, coding, testing, implementation and support.
. Lead Designer of speech-enabled application for major Utility
delivering code ahead of schedule with zero defects, among many
other projects
. Developed and presented training courses on Experience Portal and
Orchestration Designer remotely and on-site to end-users, receiving
many unsolicited comments of praise
. Avaya 3305 Certified on Avaya Aura Experience Portal with POM
Implementation and Maintenance
Avaya / Nortel - San Ramon, CA
UM2000 - Senior Project Leader - 2008 - 2010
Designed, installed, configured and supported unified voice mail systems,
using Nortel's UM2000 application, for several Fortune 200 companies and
state and federal agencies, involving 10,000+ subscribers at each site
and replacing up to 80 separate voice mail servers with a single system.
. Managed an internationally dispersed team's job assignments and
workload to maximize utilization, profitability and employee
satisfaction. Also provided mentoring to new team members.
. Diagnosed product issues on live, production systems in areas
including SIP, SQL and MPS developer.
. Developed and presented multiple training courses remotely, on-site
and internationally to end-users, customers and internal support
staff on troubleshooting and administering the UM2000 product.
. Consistently recognized as a Nortel Top Contributor (top 5% of all
employees based on quality, efficiency, adherence to core values,
etc.)
Nortel (Periphonics) - Pleasanton and San Ramon, CA
Implementation - Senior Project Leader - 2000 - 2008
Developed Interactive Voice Response solutions for numerous Fortune 500
customers, performing the full design lifecycle of design specification,
test plan, coding, testing, implementation and support.
. Lead Designer of speech-enabled application for major Utility and
major US Wireless carrier, delivering code ahead of schedule with
zero defects, leading to many years of continued contracts.
. Rescued several highly escalated projects from the brink of
cancellation and/or suit
. Proactively developed reusable "template" application to speed
development, promote accepted coding standards, aid
maintainability. Developed supporting WEB pages using Perl, HTML
and CGI.
. Consistently a Nortel Top Contributor.
Robert M. Stagmier ********@*******.***
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Nortel (Northern Telecom) / BNR -- Mtn. View and Santa Clara, CA
IVR Solutions Team / Customer Application Team -- 1994 - 2000
Interactive Voice Response application developer, trainer and consultant
to external customers and technical support to marketing, including
tradeshow demo creation and booth duty.
. Created the concept of Unified Messaging and Multimedia Resource
server, turning it into an award-winning demo application.
. Designed and developed applications using C, inter-process
communications (sockets, semaphores, etc.), CTI, HTML, CGI (using C
and Perl) and Visual C++ using SDK and MFC
. Developed and provided training on Nortel's Open IVR to an
international audience.
Tech Trial and Field Trial Support -- 1994
Twenty-four hour, on-call first contact for problems discovered during
verification and beta testing of Northern Telecom's new software
releases. Diagnosed and resolved problems in as little time as possible,
so that the resolution could make the next issue of software and not
threaten the trial schedule.
EuroISDN and Advice of Charge Testing -- 1993 (Marne-La-Vallee, France)
Supported the Northern Telecom Basic Rate offering during the French Type
Approvals for S0 and T0, diagnosing and resolving problems and defending
implementation.
. Developed the country specific test plan for Nortel's EuroISDN
development by identifying differences between the ETSI and the
individual countries'specifications.
. Developed the test plan for the EuroISDN Advice of Charge
Supplementary Service offering and wrote automated testcases in C,
which were subsequently adopted by the KTL lab in England for
European Advice of Charge Type Approval, with no significant
changes.
ISDN Basic Rate Development -- 1990 - 1993
Implemented the Layer 2 of Northern Telecom's ISDN Basic Rate offering,
using C running on an embedded 68020 processor running psos+ operating
system.
. Analyzed and modified Telenetworks layer 2 network-side code to
work in our application. Added user-side and French protocol
support into the layer 2 code.
. Designed and developed the administration and maintenance entities
of the application.
Emergency Field Support -- 1987 - 1990
Dealt directly with the customer in diagnosing and resolving emergency
customer problems on live, production Northern Telecom Meridian 1
telephone switches.
. Created diagnostic and work-around machine language patches.
. Designed and developed features to aid debugging that run in a time-
sharing, real-time environment.
. Developed and presented classes on debugging techniques and
mentored new developers and acted as consultant to all developers
in the lab. In spare time, designed and developed a Sunview window
application to aid in debugging.
. Team Leader, 1989 - 1990: In addition to the duties listed above:
managed and distributed the workload for the group and dealt with
product management and customer service representatives
EDUCATION
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, BS, Computer
Science, cum laude
University of California, Santa Cruz - Certificate in UNIX System
Management and Administration
Professional Sequence Award in Microsoft Windows Programming, Certificate
in Microsoft Windows Programming