GLENN STIER
*** ***** ******, ****** *****, IL. *0061
Phone: 847-***-****, Email: ******@*******.***
Education: University of Illinois, Champaign, Urbana, BSCE
CAREER SUMMARY
A highly rewarding career of recognized achievement in software design, including product conceptualization, design, and project management. Have implemented over thirty five complete product designs from concept through production. Strengths include creativity, attention to detail, and the ability to undertake and complete large projects within a team environment while employing industry best practices.
QUALIFICATIONS
Programming Languages / Applications utilized:
Visual Studio (2022, 2019, 2015, 2010) .Net Framework 4.8.x, .Net Core 8.0.8
C#, C++, Github, ASP.net, Python, XML, PHP, JavaScript, MFC, ATL, ActiveX, HTML/DHTML,
National Instruments TestStand 2021, NI LabVIEW, Rockwell Studio 5000, Rockwell FactoryTalk,
Wireshark 4.0 Network Analyzer, SQL Server, SSMS, MySQL, Microsoft Access, SQLite, Win32 API
Operating Systems:
Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 7, Vista/XP/95, Linux / Apache Web Server
Hardware Components / Peripherals
Keysight DC Power Supplies, Electronic Loads, Digital Multimeters, Kron-Hite Calibration Source
Matrix Switcher, CompactLogix Process Controller(PLC), Matrox Imaging System, Danaher Hi-Res Motion Control
Project Management Tools:
Atlassian JIRA (Agile), Confluence, SmartBear Collaborator, Sharepoint, MS Office incl Teams, Project, Word, and Excel
CAREER HISTORY
Rockwell Automation, Inc. Milwaukee, Wisconsin 9/2020 to 5/2024
Manufacturer of industrial automation technologies
Senior Mfg. Test Engineer
• Leading mfg. test team introduced Rockwell’s new next generation PLC automation platform into production.
• Created production test specifications defining test objectives, criteria, resource planning, and test deliverables.
• Conducted testing on the reproducibility of system hardware and software components.
• Tested and debugged new hardware fixtures for all 5015 components under test.
• Working with Agile cross-functional development team in PI Planning, story creation, daily scrum and backlog categorization created user-acceptance tests with NI TestStand, and C# to achieve production acceptance of the following components: 5015-AENFTXT Ethernet/IP Fault Tolerant Adapter, 5015-MLTRXT Media Landing Card Redundant RJ-45
5015-PB100FTXT Power Conditioner, FLEXHA 5000 Backplane Interface Module, FLEXHA 5000 Universal I/O
• Advised product development, quality management, operations, and business units of issues, defects, and risks related to production and recommendations for process improvements.
Consultant
Design, development, and testing of the next generation Rockwell Manufacturing Test System including:
• Standalone Hardware and Software Test Platform (STP), High level system software/hardware abstraction layer
• Family of multiple product test application scripts (NI TestStand, C#)
• Part of multi-national project team including development engineering in Poland / Singapore and test eng. in India
S & C Electric Co. Chicago, Illinois 07/2019 to 07/2020
Premier Global Manufacturer of Electric Power Systems and Services
Senior IOT Engineer / Consultant – Intellirupter Product Line
• Product Owner role for Machine Optimized Manufacturing web application used to automate heavy equipment manufacturing process. Conducted briefings with cross-national members from manufacturing, quality, and product development to find solutions and establish top priorities to streamline assembly operations.
• Created .Net C# web application for testing the electrical discharge profile of Intellirupter systems.
• Created C# application to capture and convert manufacturing process test console data created with NI LabVIEW
using SSMS and SQL Server Data Queries.
• Developed C# programming interface to automate power tool torque monitoring utilizing Atlas Copco programming interface.
Teradyne Corp. Buffalo Grove, Illinois 02/2008 to 12/2018
Manufacturer of Automated Test Equipment for the global semiconductor industry
Senior C++ Software Engineer / Project Manager – MST, Eagle Vision, Final Test, Wafer Sort
Tools and OS Platform Conversion
• Acting in the role of Project Manager and Agile development Product Owner, led a team of cross-national development engineers to upgrade multiple Windows-based software products. Participated in creating the product backlog, sprint planning, resource mapping, and sprint retrospectives. These product refreshes support an annual revenue stream of over $100 million creating maximum value by focusing on customer's current or changing requirements.
• Mixed Signal Viewer / Mixed Signal Editor
Managed a team of contract developers in creating design concepts for the next-generation Eagle software platform utilizing C++, C#, and SQLite. Worked with product stakeholders incl. Marketing and Sales to provide advice and refine the UI/UX look and feel for the industry-leading MST software platform, combining ease of operation with complex data driven information displays.
Developed a C++ graphical user interface featuring waveform display of analog and digital test system IO. Managed requirements process, project scope and schedule planning, design specifications, component integration and software verification testing - following Teradyne’s SLDC product development process.
• MST Sustaining Engineering
Helped the sustaining engineering team reduce the MST JIRA Defect backlog by 50% by debugging C++, C#, and C source code, refactoring, code fixes, unit testing, and working with software quality assurance testing.
PerkinElmer Life Sciences, Inc., Downers Grove, Illinois 05/2001 to 01/2008
Manufacturer of state-of-the-art biochip dispensing and liquid handling products supporting
the biomic life science and drug discovery industries.
Software Project Manager – SpotArray and Piezorray Microarray Dispense Systems
* Developed revolutionary C++ COM-based robotic client-server application software.
The software allowed the user to define and print microarray patterns of biological
samples onto targeted substrates such as glass slides, ceramic tiles, or microplates.
Managed software team development for simultaneously conducting motion control, fluidic metering system, Matrox vision / image detection, and automated transport and handling of substrate carriers.
Utilized Visual C++, MFC, ATL, MS Access / ADO data-tier.
Principal Software Engineer – Janus, CellLux, and LumiLux Liquid Handling Systems, ScanArray Optical Scanning Instrument
* Streamlined manufacturing operations with intuitive graphical configuration interfaces - providing simple customization of automated liquid handling systems.
Utilized Visual Studio 2005, C++ MFC/ATL, STL
* Developed software to integrate third party instrumentation and robotics with Janus software platform, supporting expanded customer specific solutions for liquid handling operations.
Fluid Management(A Division of IDEX Corporation), Wheeling, Illinois
Premier Manufacturer of Fluid Dispensing Equipment for the Paint and Coatings Industries
Established Software Platform Architecture
Manager of Software Engineering
* Managed a software development group responsible for the ColorPro Windows-based point of sale dispense system. The software captured an 80% market share, supporting an estimated $50 million in annual sales. This retail and industrial application included an expert-driven graphical user interface design, an object-oriented api engine development(VC++), and low-level hardware interfaces(C). The development team was responsible for migrating the functionality of multiple legacy applications into an n-tier client-server design pattern and maintaining and enhancing the system based on customer feedback.
Project Manager - Technical Lead
* Responsible for transforming disparate software user interfaces from multiple legacy projects into industry-leading retail point-of-sale system. As technical lead, I led our team in defining product requirements based on customer interviews, on-site role playing, use case Kano priority analysis, rapid UI prototyping, and conducting user interface focus groups with major project stakeholders. This application appeared on point-of-sale PC-based systems in national retailers such as Home Depot, Loews, Sherwin-Williams, Benjamin Moore, Walmart, and Ace Hardware, among others and was a key selling point.
Awarded Fluid Management Product Developer of the Year Award
Colorpro Development Team Leadership Award