James G Ryan
Little River, SC 29566
910-***-**** – Mobile
*******@*********.***
Profile
OverThirty years of IT experience and over 40 years of business experience. Extensive
experience in Testing, Test Planning, Test Management and execution. Advanced
experience in team building and leadership. Extensive experience in training, both
new hires and experienced staff. Extensive experience with training all levels of client
personnel. Extensive experience in client relationships and building trust. Experience in
test and process automation. Extensive experience with business and technical analyst, including design, development, backup and recovery, and testing. Experience with Dev Ops Agile testing to create automation scenarios.
Employer History 01/2015 – 09/2017
IBM, United States of America
Combintorial Test Design Engagement Lead with Dev Ops
Conducted POCs, Pilots and Projects with various clients; in Bank and Financial Institutions, Manufacturing, HealthCare, Insurance, Communication and TV, and internal projects. CTD functions within the Dev Ops groups using Agile mythology. Automation is achieved by developing BDD test plans that are input to Cucumber. Within Cucumber the attributes are linked to screen objects allowing Selenium to execute the automation test cases. I presented to all levels of business and technical management levels. Developed strong relationships with client, and was a point of contact. Responsibilities included determining the scope of effort, leading both On and Off shore staff, direct client interface and status reporting. Trained IBM and client employees in Combintorial Test Design, leading to certification.
08/2011 – 09/2017
IBM, United States of America
Senior Consultant
Senior Consultant
Engaged at various client as Test Planner. Designed and developed test plans and supervised the efforts of testers. Reviewed testing defects and ensured that the correct group corrected problems and coordinated the efforts to test.
08/1997 - 04/2011
Compuware Corpation, United States of America
Solution consultant – Pre Sales Product Engineer
Worked with Sales force to present, trial and close sales of automated testing tools. Worked with clients to plan and execute testing on all levels.
Worked with clients to plan unit, system, concurrence and UAT testing.
Worked with many clients to plan and prepare for functional and performance test efforts.
Developed training guide for both internal and external training.
Mentored new hires through training and deployment to clients.
Worked with product development to implement client enhancement and had lead role in Beta testing.
Had lead role in client training.
02/1996 - 08/1997
Consultec, United States of America
Senior Consultant
Performed analysis of current VSAM system to DB2 conversion. Responsible for presentation to State client of the new Financial sub-system.
02/1990 - 02/1996
Computer Sciences Corporation, United States of America
Senior Consultant
Task leader for redevelopment of Mortgage Portfolio subsystem for HUD.
Corporate Training Manager for new hire consultants.
Project leader of large multi-divisional team to synch up two major data bases for
provisioning and billing
Worked with clients to develop backup and recovery systems
02/1986 - 02/1990
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, United States of America
Information Systems Analysis
Primary development member for Finance and Treasury Subsystems.
Key Skills
CTD Certified
Test planning and Management.
Test Automation - Planning and Execution
Client interaction.
Interpersonal relationships.
Test and process automation
Key Courses and Training
Advanced level management courses toward the MSSM.
CTD Certification
Organizational Behavior
Education Qualifications
Masters Science System Management in Systems Management
University of Southern California, United States of America, 1988
BA in History
SUNY College at Purchase, United States of America, 1979
AS / AAS in Math Computer Science - Data Processing
Dutchess Community College, Pougkeepsie, NY United States of America, 1982
Languages
English Fluent