This document provides background about my technical experience as a software engineer, and complements the information in my resume.

I have worked successfully in positions from programmer to manager. I want to find and solve problems, lead, mentor others, and ship the best possible quality product. I have had a variety of stable full time positions and contract assignments.

Here are some of my accomplishments:

General Software Engineering:

• 15 years in software QA / test engineering, following 15 years as an applications developer.
• Multiple platforms: Windows NT, Win2000, UNIX, VMS and other systems.
• UNIX system administrator for a 30-40 user software development organization.

• As QA Manager, doubled the size of a QA department by finding and hiring the best personnel, increasing the group’s tools and test development skills.
• As QA Lead, built a QA department from the ground up.
• Supervised hardware compatibility testing for NEC PCs and peripherals.
• Built a test lab to test embedded software on networked medical devices.
• Familiar with QA test methodologies, and passionate about supporting product development.
• Planned and led testing activities, to coordinate with and support development.
• Performed the full range of software life cycle activities in development and QA environments.
• Wrote, organized, and managed extensive scripting for test process control, and data reduction and analysis of results.
• Used formal tools for source control, configuration management, and release engineering.
• Released and deployed software products across multiple media.
• Drove and promoted standard engineering methods across QA and development.
• Utilized web technology for managing, displaying, and delivering technical content.
• Worked closely with other departments to meet schedules and organizational goals.

• Scripting experience in UNIX, Windows, and VMS environments.
• Wrote application and test specs, test plans, manual tests, and automated tests.
• Wrote and executed unit, integration, system, sanity, and regression tests.
• Tests cover white/black box, smoke, functional & bug fix verification, load, and performance.
• Test areas include applications, networking & communications, web, client server.
• Wrote router tests using the Expect scripting language.
• Tested networked devices using TCP/IP, SNMP, FTP, Telnet, IMAP, POP, LDAP.
• Wide range of general sys admin and configuration activities to support ever-changing test requirements.

• Created a virtual retail book business, and managed the website completely.
• Taught programming languages: Cobol to MTSs, and Basic to college adults.
• Self directed exposure to ISO 9000, SEI-CMM, and Six Sigma.
• Continuing self training with Perl, C++, VB6, Java.

I have nearly ten years of combined management and senior level engineering experience:

• As QA Manager at Avanti Corp., in Billerica MA, I was responsible for developing tests, hiring software developers, planning software releases, and assuring that the released product was as fully tested as possible. In 13 months I doubled the size of that group, and guided software development activities following a traditional engineering approach supporting both software development and test engineering.
• I led a test group at NEC for five years, where I planned PC functionality and hardware compatibility testing, and assigned work to engineers and contractors. I wrote extensive Foxpro database applications to automate the transformation of results data into a variety of useful test reports.
• I served Wang Labs as Principal Engineer and UNIX System Administrator. Projects included Workstation/PBX development, and software tools for UNIX/C development to Motorola targets.
• Earlier, at Calspan Corporation, I served as Sr. Computer Scientist: (at Bell Labs) supporting software development for voice/data telephony switch; defined development methods; trained technical staff; developed C applications and tools in UNIX environment; (at MIT Lincoln Lab) provided software development and tools support for radar applications; (at Calspan) developed PL/I, Cobol, Fortran, and Assembler applications for fingerprint-based ID systems, image processing, radar data reduction, and graphics.

• Cross platform experience with UNIX, Windows NT and 2000.
• Contributed to custom automated test projects, requiring extensive shell scripting (sh, csh, ksh, bash) on virtually all the UNIX and Linux operating systems.
• Networking, TCP/IP protocols, and router experience, and have used Expect to do some testing in this area.
• Exposure to 3rd party test tools from major vendors.
• Developed automation for legacy products, and project management tasks.

Thank you,
Manny Jasus