Robert Dusek

Senior Software Developer

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Schertz, TX 78154 acg797@r.postjobfree.com

Summary:

Software developer with over twenty years industry experience in software quality assurance,

software tools development, applications porting, and embedded applications.

Technologies familiarity:

Highly experienced with: System V UNIX, C, sh/ksh scripting, Perl, and Tcl. Familiar with: Java,

Linux, XML, XSLT, PHP, SQL.

Experience:

April 2006 to September 2014:

Software Quality Assurance Engineer – Ciena Corp, Spokane Valley, WA; World Wide

Packets, Spokane Valley, WA (acquired by Ciena Corp. 03/08)

Developed, enhanced and maintained automated software test applications at Ciena Corp.

in Spokane Valley, WA, a provider of Ethernet products targeted to high-availability, high-

traffic applications such as Video On Demand, Voice Over IP and metro Ethernet services.

Test applications were primarily written in Tcl. Commercial QA tools used included Ixia

traffic generators, MGSoft SNMP tools, and git source code control.

Responsible for running and monitoring regression tests for multiple concurrent software

releases, analyzing test failures within assigned areas of responsibility, filing defect reports

and verifying fixes.

September 2005 to March 2006:

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer -- Kelly Engineering Resources, Denver, CO (09/05 –

02/06); Spherion Professional Services Group, Denver, CO (03/06)

Provided software quality assurance services to Seagate in Colorado Springs, CO in

support of development of Seagate’s Intelligent Storage Brick RAID device. Primary

responsibility was maintaining the existing regression test suite, comprising approximately

six thousand lines of Perl code, including bug fixes and updates to follow product changes

and new product features.

August 2003 to June 2005:

Software Quality Assurance Engineer -- VIEO Inc. (now Cesura Solutions, Inc.), Austin, TX

Designed, developed and executed complex test suites and test plans for testing Layer 2

networking functionality of the VIEO 1000 enterprise management appliance. Analyzed

test failures with respect to IEEE protocol standards conformance.

Wrote new code and adapted existing code to run IXIA’s ANVL protocol conformance

suites on the V1000.

Developed utility applications using C, Tcl, Perl, XSLT, and PHP to aid product developers

and test engineers with automating complex test environments, configuration and

migration.

Maintained and enhanced a web-based Test Plan and Test Case tracking tool using PHP

and PostgreSQL.

January 2003 to March 2003:

Software Quality Assurance Engineer -- esi Technologies LLC, Austin, TX

Provided software quality assurance services on a contract basis to IT Masters Inc. in

preparation for the latest release of their MasterCell enterprise monitoring product.

Responsibilities included verifying old bug fixes and reporting and following up on new

bugs.

January 1995 to March 2001:

Senior Software Developer -- Concero Group, Austin, TX

Designed, implemented and unit tested new features, feature enhancements, and bug fixes

for a digital cable television navigator embedded systems application using C++ and object-

oriented design and programming (OOD/OOP) techniques in a cross-platform environment.

Ported and tested large business applications written in C and C++ to several UNIX

platforms including Sun Solaris/x86, Compaq (DEC) Tru64, and IBM AIX.

Performed source code control, software build, install image packaging and release

management using SCCS, make and System V pkg tools.

Served as customer point of contact and technical team lead for a group of four developers

performing maintenance, feature enhancement, and troubleshooting of Tivoli TME 10 on

multiple UNIX platforms.

Ported Tivoli System Inc’s TME 10 distributed (client/server) enterprise management

software to several different UNIX operating systems.

Performed quality assurance of large integrated business applications in a NEXTSTEP

environment including test design and development, problem isolation, and final

verification.

September 1993 to January 1995:

Software Engineer -- Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA

Performed POSIX, X/Open, SVID, and SCD standards compliance testing for

SPARCstation workstations under both Solaris 1.x (BSD-based) and Solaris 2.x (SVR4-

based) operating systems.

Prepared planning documents and wrote test code for testing features of new

SPARCstation products.

April 1988 to September 1993:

Software Engineer -- Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA

Designed and developed operator interface software for the Amdahl 4745 Communications

Processor.

Designed and developed new software tools and utilities and maintained existing software

tools for use by development engineers and field service personnel.

Designed and developed programs and procedures to test the functionality and TCSEC

(Orange Book) conformance of security features for UNIX System Lab’s SVR4ES and

Amdahl’s UTS/MLS secure UNIX operating systems.

Configured and executed third-party test suites and analyzed failures for POSIX standards

conformance testing.

Performed quality assurance reviews of source code changes prior to incorporation into the

product source database.

Performed release management functions and produced release notes and installation

instruction documents for software for the Amdahl 4745 Communication Processor product.

Education:

B.S., Computer Science. Texas A&M Corpus Christi, 1987.

A.A.S., Computer Programming. Alamo Colleges, 1985.

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