Project Manager Engineer

PROFILE

Energetic, accomplished professional with a wide range of technical and management leadership in software development, testing and verification. Experienced in the telecom industry, industrial control and database management. Managed and led multi-disciplined teams and projects with demonstrated success developing, driving and delivering efficiently and profitably. Skillful international liaison between development teams and vendors, ensuring concerted projects success. Effective communicator, collaborator and business oriented project manager who consistently delivers clarity and results in a fast paced, dynamic environment.

• Software Testing Management • Software development expert

• Test planning per spec requirements • Software projects management

• Project and development liaison • Process definition & evaluation

• Analytical and detailed problem-solver • Project management certified (PMP)

• Lead, coach and motivate teams • Excellent verbal/written communicator

Selected Accomplishments

Successfully led 8 North American projects through test and verification planning and execution that enabled the business to secure multi-million dollars in sales.

Successfully enabled the business to meet critical functionality timelines by leading a software team through an early implementation of a technology that otherwise would have cost 18+ months of competitive business edge by waiting for implementation in the hardware.

Accomplished successful certification of alternative technology by leading the certification project utilizing processes, requirements and procedures that was still new for the development team.

Greatly enhanced team spirit, communication and team building through activities that proved very successful within the team for extended period of time.

Led an international team through successful certification testing and acceptance of three products by guiding the team through FCC technical requirements.

Realized a saving of $60,000 per product with a projected annual saving of $300,000 annually by implementing hearing aid compatibility FCC testing and certification in-house that has been previously outsourced.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Flextronics, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2011

Project Manager (Operator Acceptance)

• Scoping, scheduling and management of testing vendors' deliverables.

• Supervised performance of field testing.

• Escalation of blocking, show-stopper, and critical issues based on Test Labs reporting.

Ericsson / Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, RTP, NC 1997-2010

Manager, Americas Conformance Testing 2009-2010

• Managed a team of Certification engineers through the different cycles of Conformance testing by providing work plans, setting objectives and reviewing progress against schedule and cost, for both on and off-shore teams.

• Successfully managed and led the successful certification of Sony Ericsson’s first CDMA phone, including scope definition, scheduling, tracking, escalation and reporting.

• Provided technical guidance to the development team for resolving Certification hardware and software issues. Also had regular communications and reported progress to management / stakeholders.

• Facilitated professional development and achievement of team members through the setting of individual goals, annual evaluations and reviews while driving to inspire and empower individual accomplishment and team success.

Conformance Testing Consulting Engineer 2002-2009

• Achieved successful certification of 8 US Sony Ericsson global GSM/UMTS mobile phones. Managed the scope definition, planning, scheduling, progress tracking, reporting, and eventual success working with global cross-functional teams.

• Interfaced with project, acceptance and product management to plan and monitor scheduling, software and hardware features of the product and testing of those features.

• Provided Regulatory guidance, escalation and issue resolution for obtaining certification for FCC for SAR and HAC (Hearing Aid Compatibility). Also provided guidance for obtaining the European R&TTE (Radio & Teletype Equipment) Certification to achieve the “CE” marking, and industry requirements (PTCRB in the US, and GCF in Europe).

Senior Software Technical Lead 2000-2002

• Successfully managed a team of senior software engineers and consulting engineers that developed AMR (Adaptive Multi-Rate) functionality for Ericsson GSM mobile phones. Management included supervising the code design, code review, development, configuration management and testing of functional layers for AMR.

• Defined the architecture for the software implementation, and broke down the functionality development for every team member. Also, reviewed with the individual engineers their implementation and unit-testing of their features.

• Interfaced with Test system vendors who provided capability for testing the implementation, as well as with cross-functional development teams.

• Provided HR performance review, leadership and coaching for team members.

Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer 1997-2000

• Performed Design, “C” coding and unit test for features implemented for Ericsson Satellite phone project, fully documenting my design (Functional Specification and Functional Description documents) with formal review by manager and peers.

• Experienced in Layer 1 (Physical layer) of GSM phones.

Computer Process Control (CPC), Kennesaw, GA 1996-1997

Software Engineer (Contract) 1996-1997

• Written C code for Z180 processor controllers used in refrigeration and building control.

• Designed test plans and executed test suits to verify proper functionality.

EDUCATION / Certifications

• Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering with a Computer Engineering minor, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois

• Project Management Professional certified (PMP)

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