Manager Project

ANDREW DANIEL BRINN

Cherry Hill, NJ ***** 267-***-****

***********@*******.***

SUMMARY

SYSTEMS R&D Professional with extensive experience in working for Fortune 500 and medium sized companies. Expertise in Software Quality Assurance, Development and Systems Support. Key skills include:

Project Management

Systems Quality Assurance

Process Development

Resource Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

COMVERSE INC, Mount Laurel, NJ Jan 2009 – June 2015

QA Manager

Managed onshore and offshore test teams for Comverse customization projects within Product QA team (CLU PQA), reported to PQA Director.

Planned release test efforts, attended project status review meetings and estimation meetings.

Managed resources, test status reports, schedules, case creation, and hands-on testing, installation.

Interface with development teams (Java, Oracle, C++) for bug investigation and Unit Test Support.

Supported customer UAT by interfacing with project team, reviewing business test scenarios and test support.

Acted as Test Infrastructure Manager for all group PQA test systems (30+ test systems).

Achieved on time delivery with high quality of projects involved, including systems for P4 (Poland), UTS (Caribbean Islands), MIRS (Israel), Mobistar (Belgium).

Developed and implemented full system installation procedures within the team.

Reduced test efforts by several days across all projects by developing and implementing new system fallback procedures.

TESCOM USA INC, Mount Laurel, NJ Jun 2005 – Oct 2008

Project Manager

Interfaced with customers, Tescom and Comverse employees.

Managed test projects, team resources, bug reports and test reports

Participated in Functional and Technical requirements review meetings, test schedules, test case creation, hands-on testing, installations,

Supported customer UAT by interfacing with project team, reviewing business test scenarios and test support.

Interface with development teams (Java, Oracle, C++) for bug investigation and Unit Test Support.

Ensured project remained on track and produced customer satisfaction by interacting with customer and following up with team on a weekly basis.

Delivered Comverse’s first customization project to Alltel in record time.

Assisted in creation of Customization test team at Comverse.

Created new opportunities within Comverse for Tescom.

Managed remote test team at Ricoh, for ORACLE Applications implementations project.

Completed Ricoh project remotely on time and under budget.

IBM BRASIL LTDA, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil July 2004 – May2005

Test Lead

Offshore QA and UAT Test Lead for internal e-announcement software SPIN

Supervised teams for 2 other offshore test projects.

Provided test schedules, cases creations, automation scripts creation and execution, and reports.

Attended Functional and Technical requirements review meetings.

Supported application users and attended weekly progress meetings.

Built new team in Rio de Janeiro office to support multiple onshore (US based) projects.

Improved over Test automation platform, greatly increasing automation scope.

IBM BRASIL LTDA, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil Feb 2003 – July 2004

IT Specialist

Worked on site at customer TIM Brasil

Acted as UAT Test lead for BSS/OSS Customer Web Interface systems.

Implemented Pre-Production Test Process (Collaudo), reducing risk of new BSS/OSS systems entering production.

AMDOCS (BRASIL) LTDA, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil May 1999 – Feb 2003

Project Implementation Manager

Interfaced on site with customers at Oniway (currently Oni) in Lisbon, Portugal for Business case review and implementation, UAT support, new build installations and bug investigation.

Point of contact for all project related communications between Amdocs Development in Israel, Brazil and Cyprus, and Accenture’s implementation and UAT teams.

Built effective communication process with Offshore development team located at Amdocs Israel.

Also lead projects for Amdocs at Claro (Brazil), Codetel (Dominican Republic), Bellsouth (Panama) as on-site developer, installation and UAT support.

ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Retail Systems Coordinator at retail chain CASA & VIDEO, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Economics Research Statistical assistant at IPEA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE

OFA member, organizing grassroots team around raising awareness and promoting action on Climate Change since 2012.

EDUCATION

MS Systems Analysis and Project Management – Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro - Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

BS Statistical Sciences – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Managing in a Global Environment – Comverse, Inc, at Mt. Laurel, NJ, USA

Introduction to Project Management – Comverse, Inc, at Mt. Laurel, NJ, USA

WinRunner Basic and Advanced – Mercury International at IBM Brasil, Hortolândia, Brazil.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Knowledge Process: Agile, Waterfall, SDLC, Manual and Automated testing, Test Planning, Test Case writing, Requirements mapping, ISO

Operational Systems: Windows, Unix, Linux.

Database Management: SQL, Toad, SQL Navigator, PLSQL Developer, SQLPlus

Test Tools: RQM, Quality Center, Jmeter, WinRunner, Selenium.

Other Relevant Utilities: MS-Project, MS-Office, Rational Clear Case, Rational Clear Quest, PowerBuilder, PL-SQL, C, Delphi, Java, Weblogic, Clipper and Pascal.

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