Technical Project Leader

Michael Schwarz

Clarendon Hills, IL *****

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

http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelschwarz7

OBJECTIVE Position as a Technical Software Project Leader with full life-cycle support from customer requirements, hardware/software development and integration to customer deployment/signoff. SUMMARY Project leader of small teams delivering new software releases to meet customer requirements for wireless networks. As a software process engineer in an SEI Level 5 organization, I built a strong foundation of quality, metrics and rigorous process compliance. Using either a waterfall or Agile software development process, I managed every aspect of the team (locally and abroad), collaborated with adjacent teams and interfaced to upper management. I take a hands-on approach to delivering results by often testing the product myself, finding issues, and validating any new product updates. Work experience includes hardware and software integration, troubleshooting, project management plans, requirements and design documents, continuous improvement, root cause analysis, innovation, test planning and execution, customer training, field hardware and software installation, customer issue investigation, and acceptance test plans. In 2012, I was named Innovation Champion of the Year by the CTO, for leading idea generation activities, conducting idea review sessions, and presenting ideas to the business team for acceptance into the product.

For our Push-to-Talk over Broadband product, on Android and iOS devices, I certified new devices, calibrated audio levels, measured audio quality (PESQ), and measured call-setup timing using an oscilloscope.

EXPERIENCE Summary

Motorola Solutions, Inc. Schaumburg, Illinois 1997 - present TRW, Inc.(acquired by Northrop Grumman) Fairfax, Virginia(secret clearance) 1992 -1997 Details

Motorola Solutions, Inc. Schaumburg, Illinois

Audio Test and Measurement 2014 - present

Android and iOS PTT performance testing: Audio Quality (PESQ), Audio Leveling, Call-setup timing

Characterization of competing PTT products on multiple devices Innovation Champion

Awarded 2012 Innovation Champion of the Year award by CTO

Direct interface between Business Unit and the CTO

Administered 3rd party innovation tool to manage ideas, conducted directed innovation sessions, reached 50% participation levels

239 ideas submitted, 5 ideas committed to product 2009 - 2014

Systems Engineering 2009 - 2014

Authored system level requirement and design documents for waterfall programs

Created User Epics for Agile programs

Authored Acceptance Test Plans for customer signoff

Invented new feature “Base Site RF Scanner”

Customer Support 2005 - 2009

Collected logs for field issues and identified root-cause

Communicate possible solutions to management and the customer

Ensure successful deployment of solution and customer acceptance Project Leader, 12-18 month cycles 2000 - 2009

Led small team of engineers locally and globally to develop base station software

Developed project schedules, mgmt plans, risk assessments, test plans

Owned all issues and communicated status to upper mgmt

Performed Root Cause Analysis, Failure Mode analysis

Led Process Improvement through phase analysis metrics and project post- mortem exercise with team

Conducted innovation session with team that developed 12 new feature candidates and which I presented to customer executives

Secured a $4.95 million dollar contract to deliver iDEN network performance improvements

Conducted on-site acceptance test to obtain customer signoff

Managed on-site software and hardware deployments to the customer test lab, and FOA

Met all quality goals in the presence of extreme schedule pressure Software Process Engineer 1997 - 2000

Achieved SEI Level 5 certification

Conducted CMM review of other organizations

Administered Root Cause Analysis sessions

Analyzed project metrics with control limits to indentify violations TRW, Inc. Systems Integration Group, acquired by

Northrop Grumman (secret clearance) Fairfax, VA

Member Technical Staff I and II 1992 - 1997

Software engineer supporting a contract with the U.S. Army, to deliver a command, control, communications (C3) system

Performed SCM builds/testing/product tape generation to deliver software products to Army installation sites

Participated in formal technical review processes within the team and with the customer

Supported Quality Management team by reporting metrics and process compliance

Required Secret clearance

EDUCATION B.S. in Computer Science from College of Engineering University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 1991 PATENTS Publish: “Unintrusive Real-time Mobile Network System Optimization RF Analyzer” by Michael Schwarz, Mark Nowak, and Yashpal Thind, Motorola Technical Developments, September 7, 2006 http://ip.com/IPCOM/000145919

Pending: CM16958 "Mobile Digital Multimedia Evidence Upload Vehicle", Submitted May, 2014

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