Glenn Ford Ilagan

+63-917-***-**** (Mobile) • adjc56@r.postjobfree.com • Antipolo City, Rizal 1870, Philippines

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Seven years of software development experience (primarily C++), with an aptitude for learning new languages and frameworks. Experienced in solving complex problems, designing new features and writing related tests. Highly analytical team player with great sense of code ownership and code quality.

SKILLS

Proficient in object-oriented programming

Proficient in application of SOLID principles

Proficient in software testing (unit tests)

Proficient in smart memory management (C++)

Knowledgeable in Python scripting

Knowledgeable in testing via Robot Framework

Knowledgeable in Agile way-of-work

Knowledgeable in software design tools

Experienced in other tools – Jira, Jenkins, SVN

Experienced in other languages – TTCN3, Lua

RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE

Technical Leader (October 2018 to September 2020) – Nokia Technology Center Philippines, Inc.

Introduced new software framework within 3 months to address requirements for upcoming features related to new hardware support, effectively cutting required development hours by 75% for every new hardware introduction with different platform interfaces.

Participated in inter-business line discussions to improve software interface, which resulted in an estimated savings of up to 90% and 75% of development and maintenance hours, respectively, per hardware introduced.

Proactively reviewed upcoming features, preventing 2000 man-hours worth of would-be missed features.

Supported integration of 5G features in Finland for a month, and reached expected milestones 2 weeks ahead of schedule.

Grooms and coaches teammates to improve technical skills.

Senior R&D Engineer/Designer (November 2017 to October 2018) – Nokia Technology Center Philippines, Inc.

Performed code refactoring on a problematic area, enabling extensibility of the software and reducing reported issues by 80%.

Introduced test framework improvement on said area, improving ease of adding testcases, and significantly increasing line and conditional code coverage.

Performed such items on top of Senior R&D Engineer tasks.

Senior R&D Engineer (January 2015 to October 2017) – Nokia Technology Center Philippines, Inc.

Performed impact analysis on new feature introductions as a subject matter expert.

Implemented domain-related features and maintenance tasks such as interface alignment and bug squashing.

Participated in solving complex bugs such as memory leaks and/or performance issue.

Wrote specifications, which includes interfaces and interactions to and fro the domain.

Implemented inter-domain features with little to no supervision.

Enabled a group of test engineers to use a proprietary test environment with little programming background.

Acted as the de facto “scrum master” and one of the leads that supports the test team.

Identified, assessed and implemented scripts and Robot keywords using Python needed by test team.

R&D Engineer (June 2013 to December 2014) – Nokia Technology Center Philippines, Inc.

Performed competence development trainings (C++, proprietary testing framework) during the ramp-up process.

Performed code reviews to new hires during the ramp-up on top of normal deliveries.

Developed and maintained a tool that converts a large amount of data into a user-friendly interface.

Briefly implemented test cases written via various scripting languages (Robot Framework, Lua, AutoIt).

EDUCATION

2008 to 2013 College of Engineering, University of the Philippines - Diliman Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Communications Engineering

Cum Laude

Department of Science and Technology (DOST) RA 7687 Scholar 2004 to 2008 Philippine Science High School – Cagayan Valley Campus

Graduated with High Honors

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