Software Engineer

JIMMY LOWELL BRIGHT

***********@*****.*** 301-***-****

SUMMARY

Mr. Bright has over 35 years’ experience in the Quality, Test development, Integration and Configuration Management field and is knowledgeable of Software Quality Assurance (SQA) auditing, evaluation, and testing techniques, software development, hardware quality assurance, quality inspection techniques, software configuration management processes, and Software Engineering Institute / Capability Maturity Model / Capability Maturity Model Integration (SEI /CMM /CMMI). Code evaluator, utilizing C for level C and C# for level D and MatLab in lab environments. Software Engineering SDLC phases in the proof of principal phase, others portions in the full-scaled development phase, and other portions in the maintenance phase. Experienced as ISO 9001 internal auditor, have audited and evaluated embedded avionics software and complex systems processes for compliance with DO-178B and DO-254 methodologies. Experienced in performing all required SQA activities from initial quality planning through product baseline control of software and maintenance phase; experienced in performing all Software Quality functions relating to DoD-STD-2167A and DoD-STD-2168 programs, have performed software engineering coding standards audits, and software library and certification audits. Experienced in performing audits for compliance of Aerospace Systems developers to AS9100 quality system requirements and AS9006 (AS9115) for the software quality compliance and subcontractor supplier management DO-178B Level B software development. Track non-conformances and corrective actions between suppliers in TipQA. Responsible for ensuring schedule and budgets are accurate. Developed presentations using (PowerPoint) for quarterly meetings presenting cost and budgets of projects. Utilized the DOORS tool or requirements traceability analysis for avionic flight control systems.

EDUCATION:

BS, Computer Science, Athens State College

BS, Accounting, Athens State College

AS, Accounting, John C. Calhoun Community College

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Entegee, Davenport, Iowa January 2015 – Present Software Quality Assurance Engineer:

Reviews software and firmware requirements for quality standards compliance.

Works with Software team to review and approve software test plans.

Audits or verifies execution of software testing.

Responsible for creation of software quality assurance plans and test reports.

Works with systems engineering to ensure requirements are properly flowed down from system to software requirements.

Create and present briefings to the Boeing Company regarding problem reports and software products including documentation and code on a weekly basis.

Utilize TipQA when necessary for tracking nonconformances and corrective actions between suppliers.

Serves as the independent software design review representative for design reviews.

Participates in periodic code reviews during development.

Ensures that technical, regulatory and commercial requirements are properly understood and are met, including DO-178B, AS9115 and DO-254 requirements.

Participates in reviews of systems performance analysis.

Schedules and conducts audits to assure compliance with project approved plans and standards.

Subcontractor management DO-178B Level B effort.

BROUGHT SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE RATING FROM RED TO GREEN IN FIVE MONTHS

CTS International & Gulfstream Corporation in Savannah, GA January 2013 – April 2014

IT QA Analyst II / Requirements Engineer

Primarily responsible for the identification, definition and requirements traceability for various IT projects utilizing requirements traceability methods, utilizing ITIL3 methodology.

Responsible for defining and documenting requirements using the Agile Standard Operating Procedure development lifecycle for the Mobile Applications of the Gulfstream presence.

Knowledge in Teststand, worked with people who used this for developing test cases (personally used ALM for tracking, documenting, tracing of requirements)

Responsible for generating the Software Test Plan, Software Test Descriptions, Requirements Traceability Matrix, Software Test Cases, Defect Management and Software Test Summary documents for the Bureau of Labor Statistics Calculator, CaseBank, SharePoint and WebEx projects.

Responsible for co-ordination of test activities for multiple aspects of the Windows 7 Operating Systems upgrade project.

The IT QA Analyst coordinated Defect Triage with Defect Control Group utilizing HP ALM Tool or Excel.

ALL TEST PROGRAMS COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH REQUIREMENTS

Boeing Company (Mosley Technical), Ridley Park, PA March 2012 – April 2012 Software Quality Engineer

SQE performing Software Quality Engineering tasks on domestic and foreign versions of the Chinook CH-47 Helicopter utilizing RTCA / DO-178B.

Witnessing System Level testing and Developmental program level activities for digital avionics flight control systems and health and monitoring system, performing verification of system and software requirements traceability, utilizing DOORS.

Mentoring entry level SQEs in day-to-day activities.

August 2009 – 2015 JL BRIGHT And Company – Real Estate investments, property management, agricultural management, and forestry timber management.

February 2008 – August 2009 Home Care Provider – Sabbatical – Provided in home care for elderly ailing mother-in-law and disabled brother-in-law.

HQA CONSULTANT, Aries Group, Inc. at Fairchild Controls Corporation, Frederick, MD May 2005 – Feb 2008

Software / Hardware Quality Engineer

Code evaluator, utilizing C for level C and C# for level D and MatLab in lab environments.

Participated in code walk-thru and peer review processes as the code evaluator.

Proposed quotes (RFQS & RFPS, ECOS & ECNS) ensuring proposals are accurate based off of software engineering change notices.

Performing Hardware Quality Assurance Engineering repair station and other tasks on EFV, ATFLIR, and various development and production projects for compliance with DO-178B and DO-254.

Performing Software Quality Assurance Engineering tasks of software requirements verification and audit activities for Boeing 767 Tanker project and SQA quality audit and test activities for the A380 projects on the software development effort for the SCSC.

Both software quality assurance tasks include Stages of Involvement and compliance audits to the FCC standards and RTCA / DO-178B / DO-254.

Audits and reviews of LDRA Test results utilized for lower level requirements test coverage for static analysis test coverage and dynamic coverage analyses for A380 and Boeing 767 Tanker projects.

Utilized McCabe Complexity Analysis tool to confirm complexity compliance of software modules and verify path coverage on System Cooling System for the A380 aircraft.

Conducted various audits relative to ISO-9000/AS9100 compliance requirements and provided objective evidence necessary for audit trail.

QUALITY RATING 100% RAYTHEON ATFLIR PROJECT

SQA / SCM CONSULTANT / TEST ENGINEER, SEM Enterprises, Inc. October 1998 – 2015 Warner Robins, GA

Performing consulting work in the areas of Financial and Debt Reduction assistance, managing office for SEM Enterprises, while documenting processes and procedures for operation, utilizing Software Engineering Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) phases and activities, working to establish compliant SEI CMMI process.

Software Quality Test Engineer Panama City, FL August 2001 – August 2003

Conducting formal qualification tests (FQT) of the software configurations of the Landing Cushion, Air Craft Service Life Extension Program (LCAC SLEP) for Coastal Systems Station (CSS), a division of the Navy.

Reviewing FQT procedures to ensure incorporation of government comments, and updating and modifying FQT procedures as needed for lab and craft testing.

Developed test matrix of requirements verified in previous test phase to determine % passed versus % failed based on requirements tested for all six CSCIs in the system.

Performed SQA review of CDRL deliveries from contractor facility.Acted as Navy representative for quality verification of software configuration management audit and transition of development system from previous contractor to the Navy lab for completion of development and maintenance phase of the LCAC SLEP software.

Member of the Software Configuration Control Board and support reviews of identified problems against the software, hardware, and system required for requirement compliance and problem resolution, which drive new configurations of the software for testing.

Working within the Software Engineering SDLC phases for this project with some phases in the proof of principal phase, others portions in the full-scaled development phase, and other portions in the maintenance phase. Working to establish procedures for compliance with SEI CMM Level 2.

Utilized Star Team for version control and Problem Reporting of software and software changes.

Utilized DOORS for requirements traceability analysis and audits.

STABILIZED SOFTWARE OFP ENVIRONMENT.

Software Quality Engineer New Orleans, LA June 2000 – June 2001

Performing SQA and SCM tasks during the formal qualification test phase of the LCAC SLEP craft for delivery to the Navy.

Performing SQA tasks per Mil-Std-498 for FQT test activities witnessing all acceptance and requirements tests for sell-off to the Navy.

Serve as Administrator for PVCS Tracker and Version Manager Configuration tools to manage and support the tracking of problem reports and version development of all software and simulation tools needed for the project.

Provide backup SCM support including generation of all software builds, installation and release test of builds for test purposes, and support of the SCCB reviews of identified problems against the software, hardware, and system which require incorporation.

Working in the test and delivery phases of the Software Engineering SDLC. Working to establish procedures for compliance with SEI CMM Level 2.

Performed metrics analysis on Problem Report trends utilizing PVCS tool.

PREVENTED FEDERAL MARSHALLS FROM SEIZING AIRCRAFT.

Quality Assurance Manager ARINC (Warner) Robins, GA, October 1999 – June 2001

Performing SEI Level 2 compliant quality assurance activities in an organic maintenance facility for the C-130 aircraft at Robins AFB.

Established schedule for quality audits defined in QA Plan.

Worked on the CMMI improvement plan for this project.

Performed Test Certification Audit to assure readiness of various test stations.

Documented many areas of deviation and noncompliance with the documented manuals and procedures resulting in corrective action and a re-PCA. Briefed System Project Manager weekly on status of QA Program.

Supervised 1-3 personnel on daily QA tasking.Briefed all levels of ARINC management on aperiodic basis on the status of the quality program.

Worked with Software Process Improvement Team to firm up Level 2 documents and establish baseline for Level 3.

Configuration Management Jacksonville, FL April 1999 – October 1999

Performing Software Configuration Management administration tasks for a new development effort of a Virtual Office for a major insurance provider.

This includes establishing new baselines in UNIX and NT from existing projects using PVCS.

NT server installation and test of projects using PVCS.

Established a process for migrating environment scripts to the various test environments and day-to-day PVCS administration activities.

Configuration Management Atlanta, GA August 1998 – April 1999

Performing Software Quality Assurance (SQA) related activities, metric calculations on the problem reports, and Software Configuration Management (SCM) of vendor supplied software on Computer Aided

Design (CAD) and Job Management Software (JMS) for major telecommunication company field upgrade.

Designed and developed Access Database to maintain manual CM control of all deliverable software from seven vendor sources.

Log and maintain deliverable software and purchased software in CM System.

Generate weekly and monthly inventory reports for deliverable and purchased software using Access.

Review Line Purchase Orders (LPOs) for vendors and evaluated delivered documentation (Application and detailed design documents).

Configuration Management Version Control (CMVC) archives of Phase 1, Phase 2 and Stage 3 configurations for CAD and JMS application software to CDROM as required.

Used Excel to create and maintain extensive monthly CMVC metric reports for Senior Executive management.

Maintained package build data from CMVC and generated trend reports of related Change Management Reports used to track defects and feature requests.

Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems, Marietta, GA November 1997 – October 1998

Senior Software Quality Engineer

Performing SQA activities associated with test phase for the Ground Based Data System and Mission Computer CSCIs for the C130J development program.

SDLC activities for SQA include disposition of On-line Software Change Requests (OSCR) using the Process Configuration Management System (PCMS) as the SCM tool for software development on SUN workstations utilizing the UNIX based operating system.

Utilizing Interleaf for generating and updating all deliverable documentation for DoD-STD-2167A compliance.

Assuring traceability of requirements from system level documents to code.

Assuring that all approved OSCR are closed and documentation complete prior to Operational Flight Program (OFP) build generation and witnessing all OFP build testing to assure requirements have been verified.

Assuring documentation of all failures, performing analysis on test failures, and assuring disposition and resolution of fixes along with retest for identified failures.

Analyzing test results to assure all requirements were tested.

Evaluating the test report to assure accuracy to test.

Approving the test report once compliance to requirements, accuracy of test results, and correctness is assured.

Reviewing the Version Description Document to assure completeness and correctness.

Other related activities include conducting process audits to the schedule developed based on the approved Software Quality Program Plan, performing Software Development File audits, performing code evaluations to requirements and documents, attending design and code walk-throughs for new development areas, and witnessing unit test of new development code.

Responsible for conducting test readiness reviews prior to FQT, including presentation of all evaluation results indicating readiness for test.

PEI Electronics, Inc., Huntsville, AL October 1996 - November 1997

Hardware Quality / Software Quality Engineer, Gidep Representative, Internal Auditor

Audited Group I Suppliers, updated Approved Supplier Listing, Interface with Design Engineering and Receiving Groups on GIDEP Alerts for defective parts and discontinued MIL-SPEC Parts.

ISO 9001 internal auditor and Internal Contractor Performance Certification Program (CP2) auditor.

Representative for Hardware Quality at Configuration Control Board, Hardware Quality Engineer for Grizzly, ReEntry System Test Set (RSTS) on MK12 program, A3 Bradley Tank, DSESTS System Enhancement Program (SEP) and Fielded DSESTS programs.

Software Quality Engineer for Fielded DSESTS programs, LAV-Mortar, ASLAV (Australian Light Armored Vehicle) DSESTS SEP, and HTI FLIR Test Program Sets programs performing all required SQA activities from initial quality planning through product baseline control of software and maintenance phase.

Also, perform many administrative duties as assigned (SLOC estimates, Specification Initiative Program (SIP), and interface with DCMC representatives on regular basis.)

Software Quality Engineer

Responsible for Software Quality functions related to Mil-S-52779A for Test Program Sets using ATLAS code.

Perform monthly audits including SCM audits, library audits, archive audits, backup audits, and manufacturing software audits.

Other activities include Software Problem Report entry into database, generation of SPR trend analysis reports and other related reports, and evaluations of documents such as the Software Development Plan and the Software Quality Program Plan.

Also, perform SQE activities for the Bradley A3 Tank TPS that include audits and document evaluations of the Software Requirements Specification, Interface Requirements Specification, and the Software Development Plan utilizing DoD-STD-2167A.

Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Huntsville, AL August 1991 - January 1996 Software Quality Engineer

Responsible for all Software Quality functions relating to DoD-STD-2167A and DoD-STD-2168 program for the US Army Missile Command.

Performed document reviews, attended Preliminary Design Reviews, Critical Design Reviews, In-Process Reviews, Test Readiness Reviews, and Formal Qualification Testing for LONGBOW program.

Responsible for all SQA functions relating to subcontractor management.

Performed vendor surveys and follow-ups; vendor audits; evaluation of all vendor products and reviews.

Audited Software Development Library and Software Development Files.

Performed code evaluations for compliance with MIL-STD-1815A and software engineering coding standards.

Responsible for ensuring schedule and budgets are accurate.

Developed presentations (PowerPoint) for quarterly meetings presenting cost and budgets of projects.

Participated in change control and corrective action processes, and Software Trouble Report (STR) approval process by the Software Configuration Control Board.

Performed STR tracking from incorporation through closure, and calculated trend analysis reports of STRs generated.

Responsible for the collection and generation of Software Management Indicators.

Performed duties of SQA Cost Account Manager.

Responsible for the coordination and generation of Memorandum of Understanding Agreements between

Westinghouse and other companies; responsible for the generation of Operation Directives between Joint Venture partners; assisted in the justification and assembly of Engineering Change Proposals.

MOST SUCCESSFUL FIRING PROGRAM FOR MICOM UP TO THAT POINT.

SUMMA Technology, Inc., Huntsville, AL April 1990 - August 1991

Quality Assurance Manager

Wrote and implemented MIL-Q-9858A compliant Hardware Quality Program.

Managed, quoted and bid on jobs.

Defined Receiving procedures and processes. Implemented compliant SQA program.

Performed document evaluation reviews, attended Preliminary Design Reviews, Critical Design Reviews, and In-Process Reviews for HAWK program.

Implemented Total Quality Management (TQM) concepts within the company.

Wrote TQM policy and defined TQM concepts for SUMMA Technology; wrote Software policy for the company.

Established the TQM Steering Committee, TQM Board, and Operational Team members, authorities, and responsibilities.

Informed the Company President of the need to establish a vision for TQM.

Implemented Phase I Vision, Phase II Definition of the Company Mission, and Phase III Measurement Criteria for achieving long term goal.

Phase IV Improvement Project and Action Plan; involved setup of Tiger Team to resolve procurement problem: established policies and defined procurement cycle from request, approval, and purchase to receiving & inspection, and delivery of purchased item to requester.

PROVIDED IDEA TO PRESIDENT OF COMPANY TO REALIZE HIS DREAM.

SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, AL August 1980 - April 1990 Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Worked on programs requiring compliance with MIL-S-52779A, performed documentation reviews, attended Critical Design Review to assure compliance with MIL-STD-1521B, reviewed software test plans, procedures, and reports to assure accuracy of tests, controlled software prior to test, and witnessed formal software testing for compliance with requirements.

Helped update SQA procedures to assure compliance with DoD-STD-2168.

Reviewed documents for DoD-STD-2167 and DoD-STD-2167A compliance, involved in the Software Requirements, Preliminary Design, Detailed Design, Code and Unit Test, CSC Integration Testing, CSCI Testing and Acceptance, Production, and Maintenance phases of the software life cycle.

Also, performed monthly SQA audits, SCM audits, Software Development Files and Library audits, Storage and Handling audits, and Vendor Surveys.

Performed code evaluations for compliance with requirements and coding standards.

Familiar with change control and corrective action processes, Software Trouble Report approval process by the Software Configuration Control Board, STR tracking from incorporation through closure, and calculating trend analysis of STRs generated.

Developed checklists and forms for use by the SQA Department.Attended Software Quality Assurance Seminar covering all standards governing SQA activities and requirements.

STAMP NUMBER 3 WAS SYNONOMOUS WITH “IT’S BEEN DONE RIGHT.”

Quality Engineer

Duties involved interpretation of drawings and procedures associated with components and hardware.

Defined and expedited parts for Customer Returned Material.

Reviewed contract requirements to determine Government / Customer requirements.Developed Material Review Board databases to expedite material flow.

Quality Technician Screening Department

Duties involved visual inspection, bench testing, burn-in of components, and writing quotes for all screening process functions.

Also, performed electrical testing, visual, mechanical, and internal (x-ray) inspection of subassemblies and components.

Performed screening, programming, and control of firmware devices in accordance with MIL-S-52779A and DoD-STD-1679.

United States Air Force Corrosion Control Specialist April 1976 – April 1982 HONORABLE DISCHARGE SECRET CLEARANCE

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