Project Engineer Data Protection

Stephen J. Baldassare

**** ******** ****.

Westminster, CO. 80030

303-***-**** (Cell)

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

Career Objective:

A Lead Test Engineering position focusing on qualification products. Career Summary:

34 years experience in test engineering within an R&D environment with an emphasis on:

• Training of junior test engineering. Product marketing personnel and members of the program team.

• Developed project, testing and resource allocation schedules

• Generated the annual budget for the test group

• Organized the standardization of test plans and reports

• Implemented automation of regression testing

Significant Accomplishments:

• Designed and maintained the Data Protection Engineering (Sun) and Design Verification group (Fujitsu) web site in order to facilitate electronic versus paper tracking, review and copies.

• Streamlined formal test reports and regression testing by delivering 80% reduction to completion time.

• Awarded with the first annual Fujitsu President’s Winner Circle award for Engineering Excellence for work on a tape drive project taking grossly delayed project to on time completion.

Career History:

Oracle Broomfield, CO February 2009 – November 2022 Principal Hardware Engineer

• Lead engineer for OEM Tape engineering group. Responsible for resource allocation, project test schedules, Test Case and Test Plan development.

• Qualification and engineering support for LTO (Linear Tape Open) Generation 6 through 9. Sun Microsystems, Inc. Broomfield, CO October 2003 – February 2009 Senior Hardware Engineer

• Authored the Qualification Test Requirements for Sun tape libraries and drives document. This is the first time the Data Protection Engineering group had a standardized process for qualification of 3rd party tape libraries and drives.

• Development of a qualification CD for all 3rd party suppliers that includes Qualification Requirements documentation, test scripts, test utilities and st & FC drivers & OS patches. This CD has enhanced the communications between Sun and all 3rd party suppliers.

• Generated standard test plan and report template for all project engineers. Previously each project engineer would develop their own test plan.

• Managed the qualification of six tape library and four drive vendors.

• Qualification of 3rd party tape libraries and drives including test plans and reports; audit of 3rd party testing and documentation; testing with all applicable OS’s and DPE test scripts.

• Responsible for maintenance of the DPE lab and support of two remote engineers. Maintained ten servers, eight workstations, fourteen libraries and five autoloaders.

• Configured and maintained Sun servers for engineering test beds, including installation and administration of all major Solaris releases since Solaris 2.6

• Designed the IP, NTS and FC network for two different Data Protection Engineering labs.

• Implemented training for field and phone support personnel for high incident Customer Quality Incidents. Sustaining engineer for five tape libraries and drives. Responsible for all escalations pertaining to these libraries and tape drives. Spectra Logic Boulder, CO August 2002 - October 2003 Manager Test Engineer:

• Designed and built a 1200 square foot world class Test Lab on a shoe string budget.

• Managed the test group consisting of six engineers/technicians and one contractor.

• Standardized Test Plan and Test Report structure. Initiated development of regression testing to speed up testing by 50%.

• Procured equipment to allow parallel testing. The Test Lab now has eight test stations available for testing.

• Provided training and career roadmaps for test group personnel.

• Assigned and reviewed bug reports for all defects. Released all firmware for three library families.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. Broomfield, CO 2000 - 2002

Project Engineer:

• Authored the Qualification Test Requirements for Sun tape libraries and drives document. This is the first time the Data Protection Engineering group had a standardized process for qualification of 3rd party tape libraries and drives.

• Generated standard test plan and report template for all project engineers. Previously each project engineer would develop their own test plan.

• Qualification of 3rd party tape libraries and drives including test plans and reports; audit of 3rd party testing and documentation; testing with all applicable OS’s and test scripts. Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. Longmont, CO 1988 - 2000 Test/Project Engineer:

Testing of Fujitsu 3480 and LTO SCSI tape drives including:

• Scheduling resources (equipment, testers & personnel) and time to test

• Test plan and report generation

• Designed and maintained the DVT Web page (intranet) to track review status, schedules and test reports

Project Engineer:

• Developed the test plan, testing & resource requirements schedules, weekly status tracking report and a final test report for three different RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Drives) projects.

• Duties included testing for SCSI and functional compliance, mechanical (shock and vibration), environmental (temperature and humidity), power (AC and DC), margins

(frequency, DC power and temperature), Safety (UL, CSA and TUV), Electromagnetic Compliance (FCC, VCCI, and CISPR) and Electromagnetic Immunity (ESD, EFT, Surge and Radiated Immunity) and compliance for authorization for the CE Mark. C&B Cabinets Denver, CO 1986 - 1988

Proprietor of a custom cabinet shop.

AutoTrol Technology Denver, CO 1982 - 1986

Special Projects Engineer:

Provided bidding and testing for all hardware requests that were not part of the standard configuration.

U.S. Navy E7 – Chief Petty Officer 1974 - 1982

Missile Guidance technician, and radar control instructor.

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