rbm 04082008

RICHARD BRIAN MCGARRY

** ******* ***, *********, ** 03857 978-***-****

kcwztv@r.postjobfree.com

Summary of Qualifications: Experienced Business Management and Software Quality Assurance Engineer with significant background in large scale systems and network environments. Strong technical and analytical skills with superb team building and problem solving expertise.

Experience

Homeland Security, Transportation Security Agency (TSA), Portland, ME Nov 2007 – Present

Federal Transportation Security Officer

* Ensure security of airline passengers and staff through the execution of DHOS policy and protocols. Perform technical and personnel screening including behavior based observations. Supplement other airport security control measures as required.

Reflections By McGarry Professional Photographers, Newmarket, NH Aug 2002 – Present

Professional Freelance Photographer

* Founder of a prizewinning photography business offering commercial, special event, corporate and family-based services (weddings, bar mitzvah’s, portraiture, etc). Developed a collaborative team of professional photographers and support services, including a graphics arts studio, to execute a variety of special projects. Clients include Jordan’s Furniture, Surveillance Specialties, and TJX.

* Developed a successful online E-commerce business for photography services and products by creating and designing websites for photography services, educational training, professional portfolios and wedding album design.

* Instruct classes in studio lighting as an Assistant Photography Teacher for the Newburyport Art Association.

Groove Networks, Beverly, MA 2001 - 2001

Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

* Ensured 24/7 reliability fail-over load balancing environment at Level Four in Cambridge MA through successful testing of a (Store and forward relay server farm) using a Microsoft Cluster networked with 8 other MS enterprise servers which also included a clustered SQL Server and independent 6 Berkley DB database servers. Performed Functional, Integration, Fail-over, Data Integrity, Security and Load/Scalability testing using Groove’s Client and Server Peer-to-Peer Software Application.

* Collaborated with various teams testing the software application beta releases, regression testing, customer releases, and on customer service problems. Worked with other testers, contractors, and developers in solving problems related to the software applications, lab setup and network configuration, and numerous server environments.

* Tested Software applications through various Proxies and Routers using HTTP port 80 and a Groove STTP port 2492 protocols and Client/Server data paths through various Firewall applications.

* Wrote test plans, test cases, filed problem reports, gave white board talks, and mentored other team members.

* Ran propriety automation test cases during normal testing and regression testing.

Response Networks, North Andover, MA 2000 - 2001

Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

* Developed, published, and implemented test plans with a team of integrated software testers and developers located in both Boston and Washington DC.

* Wrote, maintained and executed propriety test automation macros, scripts and test cases which included solutions for

o three-tier architecture for monitoring network performance response time and Quality of Service.

o Response Network’s Management Tools, Servers, Databases, VPN, VoIP, LDAP, E-mail availability, Quality of Service and System Performance (Memory leaks).

o Java based open enterprise architecture using an Oracle Database.

* Developed quality assurance standards, defined and tracked quality assurance metrics such as defect densities and open defect counts.

MMC Networks Inc., Chelmsford, MA 1998 - 2000

Lead Senior Quality Assurance Software Engineer

* Created and built a Software Quality Assurance Test Lab and an R&D sub network for developers to do functional testing on. Set up all test systems Unix and NT/WIN2K, protocol analyzers and internal test subnets.

* Tested Software Wrappers, WEB Browsers Operating Interfaces, TMS, Telnet, and SNMP management control for a Wind River vxWorks OS based 24/2 port and 8 port Gigabit Fast Internet switch prototypes.

* Ran and modified test suites written in Tcl for an IXIA Network Analyzer. Used propriety automated tests verifying RFC standards and system performance parameters.

* Wrote test plans, set up, configured, and maintained a internal WEB Server for a Problem Tracking System, including a library of development documentation, user guides, test cases, test plans, and test results.

AVID, Tewksbury, MA 1996 - 1998

Principal Quality Assurance Software Engineer

* Project Leader for group of five software test engineers and contractors, testing a large client/server multiple OS platform, multimedia system. The system consisted of more than 35 systems networked together.

* Wrote propriety automated test suites to test a 24/7 workflow environment used by CNN Headline News.

* Tested PC based MPEG encoding and M-JPEG editing video multimedia propriety application systems, server software for video and text storage using SCO, SGI, and NT4.0 operating system priority applications, satellite feeds and video conferencing matrix to 15 desktop video and editing software application systems.

* Created Intranet WEB Site for Test Plans, Test Reports and Test Results. Presented impacts, status and problem solutions to the SQA and Development groups as well as management boards. Authored several white papers on news storage systems.

* Designed and set up test lab to handle concurrent multimedia software projects ensuring effective coordination between various development and software engineering groups.

TRW and Harvard Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 1994 -1996

Senior Quality Assurance Software Engineer

* Project Lead for SQA Group on the major software components, operational manuals and inspection protocols for NASA’s Chandra XRAY Telescope. Team included Astrophysics Scientists and Software Test Engineers.

* Developed and executed testing protocols to confirm that a XRAY test facility in Huntsville, AL would be able to handle network feeds and loads of XRAY Images of Tera-bytes of data to the database servers based in Cambridge, MA.

Bay Networks Inc., Billerica, MA 1991 - 1994

Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

* Tested large-scale network configurations using various network lines and numerous network routing protocols. Protocols include 802.1d, 802.5, Token Ring, TCP/IP, FDDI, SNMP, and WAN.

* Tested performance, fail-over and load conditions with different protocol parameter configurations.

* Wrote test plans, test cases, and worked with developers on creation of propriety automation test suites.

Previous employers include NetLink Inc, Digital Equipment Corp., LISP Machines, and Wang.

EDUCATION

Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, NH - Bachelor of Science Degree – 1985

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

2002 - Boston University Computer Career Programs, Boston, MA – Masters Certificate in C/C++ Programming

2002 - Boston University Boston, MA - Masters Certificate in Microsoft Windows Software Development

2001 - Northeastern University State of the Art Program, Boston, MA – Certificate in Data Communications

1998 - Various training courses for Windows, Unix, Networks, and Databases

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