User:John316

John Elliott

9228 NW Leahy Rd. Portland, OR 97229 Phone (best, messages): 503-245-2946 503-297-6327 Cell: 503-709-0328 johndouglaselliott@comcast.net www.linkedin.com/in/johnelliott10

o Have received quality/excellence awards and have been called the engineers engineer o Proactively work as a team member, independently, or as the manager of a small group o Add major value to product by participating in the design of products and test suites o Test suites varied from simple to very complex. One workstation to complex network configurations or real time simulations o Champion of testing for performance, stability, correct operation, and capacity in the areas that are often overlooked, as well as the standard tests. o Work with developers and business analysts to improve product quality, based on customer expectations o Long range planning o Train QA engineers to: o Work with every QA engineer to make sure that they are not bored or stagnate in their job o Nothing inspires and motivates more than success o Send developers and QA engineers to the Pacific NW quality conference. They will pick up ideas that apply to what they are doing, and be proud of what they have learned. o Work with engineers to improve robustness performance o Review Business Requirements and make suggestions o Review end-user documentation and training documents providing suggestions. o Proven ability to debug and fix complex issues in a product or a process o Define and document critical functionality that needs additional testing o Proven ability to locate software and process changes that may increase quality or reduce cost o Work with product support and end users to find out what is really need and get these changes into the product o Decreased testing cost and time with Virtual test systems. Recommended their use for the whole company. This does require knowledge of their laminations. o A mix of hardware and software experience enables me to work on issues that impact both sides of this divide. o For example, I located a licensing issue with XP-64 and our product on VMware. The licensing team rejected fixing it. However, they did do some research. After the Beta product shipped, customers started seeing this issue. I also had a brand new physical system on which I was also able to duplicate the issue. The licensing team quickly cut in the software that they wanted to use in the next release on this release. Problem resolved for all company products.
 * Hard working Senior QA analyst engineer and manager with extensive experience and skills
 * Use critical thinking and search for issues
 * Focus on the end users from multiple cultures where appropriate
 * Think in new directions
 * How to write defects that the developers will understand
 * How to look for design issues that may cause problems for the users.
 * Test the whole system: performance, stability, and capacity
 * Use my experience to facilitate solutions
 * Encourage attendance to the meetings of Software Association of Oregon
 * Autodesk has now adopted VM test systems, saving over %100,000 per year.

Technical Skills •   Enjoy learning new skills and refreshing old ones! •   Familiar with Scrum/Agile project development/maintenance processes and Six Sigma •   Excellent reviewer of technical specifications •   Extensive technical, programming and test automation experience, Unix & Windows • 	Excellent communication skills on both an internal and external level with multiple cultures •   Familiar with quality assurance methodologies •   Testing installation of large complex applications on multiple operating systems • 	Extensive experience analyzing test data and deploying innovative suggestions and processes to reduce costs, increase efficiency, and improve quality •   Experience with all modern GUI based quality assurance test tools and the Windows tools for impaired users. • 	Real-time, multiprocessor, data flow, and fault tolerance architect •   Embedded applications •   Extensive experience with graphics cards, licensing, drivers, and other software/hardware issues •   Competent with all parts of Microsoft Office Professional and Microsoft Project. •   Functional knowledge of  databases, •    Experienced with real defect root cause analysis •    Languages: VBA, VB script, C, FORTRAN, x86 ASM, 68000 ASM, various UNIX/Linux OSes C shell scripts and Perl. • 	Automated test tools: Rational Visual Test, SQA, Team Test, Atron Evaluator, Win Runner, QTP, Mercury (these GUI tools also support web testing) • 	Analysis hardware tools: Tektronix DAS 9200, Intel in-Circuit Emulators, Network Analyzer • 	Operating Systems: Windows 7, Vista 32 & 64, XP32 & 64 95/98, NT, iRMX, Linux, UNIX, Univac, IBM •   Different browsers •   Defect tracking/management tools and configuration management tools •   Enjoy learning new skills as needed •   Participated in the design of the hardware/software interface on various projects. •   Product release life cycle Summary of Employment History Autodesk 				Lake Oswego OR 				2/2000 - 6/2009 Hardware compliance team lead, analyst • 	Designed and implemented a solution enabling graphics information and drivers  to be available to customers after ship date to resolve customer issues • 	Developed a new corporate test philosophy using VMware, improving software reliability and eliminating the need for alternative hardware and software programs thereby saving the company over 1 million dollars in future expenses and upgrades •    Bonus: A new test requirement came up just before software shipment. Test was completed in one day, by one engineer, using VMware. Product shipped on time. • 	Managed multiple individuals throughout detailed implementation processes focusing on quality, reliability and time management • 	Trained engineers to be alert for any product anomalies through the testing phase • 	Initiated testing and debugging of all new operating systems, evaluating performance and reliability issues • 	Designed a 32/64-bit performance/capacity test for use on every product release eliminating customer downtime and increasing response rate. This test showed the need for a formal 64-bit performance team. • 	Key contact for customers, in-house engineers, product support representatives and sales staff on product concerns and resolution of issues •    Developed test then certified workstations and Graphics cards for customers. This is a requirement for large corporate customers and supported the leading edge software in a high end 3-D CAD program Mentor Graphics 			Wilsonville OR 				4/1997 - 12/1999 Senior QA engineer • 	Responsible for building a project test framework which expedited testing on multiple versions of UNIX resulting in cost and operating expense savings • 	Designed modular tests for the use in stress testing resulting in a drastic increase to the test coverage area • 	Enabled project wide interoperability testing by porting tools to Windows NT supporting UNIX based products on Windows, reducing testing complexity Contract Projects (various companies)						     1987 - 1997 • 	Responsible for and initiated a ICE system design change for Intel enabling them to ship their first ever Pentium CPUs within deadline requirements and quality standards • 	Managed corporate complex software upgrade project for the Tektronix DAS 9600 • 	Developed, managed and implemented a new QA paradigm for complete system testing enabling failures to be caught thereby increasing product quality and decreasing down time • 	Responsible for reviewing hardware and software technical documentation for accuracy and readability Highlights at Naval Ocean system Center and Floating Point Systems		        1967 – 1987 • 	Real time simulation on analog and digital computers for MK 46 Torpedo, countermeasures and extended range (supersonic) ASROC missile. • 	Architect for the framework of the next generation of the torpedo simulation program • 	Embedded programming and drivers for various computers • 	Technical lead/manager • 	Successfully fixed the design of a linker that slowed down exponentially. Others had not located the root cause of the problem. • 	Designed embedded software and a mini-operating system for floating point Array Processors • 	Worked with hardware engineers to make sure embedded software was correctly support Education • 	MS with honors in engineering  	-	UCLA • 	BS with honors in Physics and Math 	- 	Portland State University Additional Training •   Member of American Association for Quality (ASQ). I can obtain any needed certifications. •   Continuous QA training, by reading, studying, and Software quality conferences •     Member of the Software Association of Oregon •     Member of TIE??The Indus Entrpreneurs (sic.)) • 	UNIX Kernel, C, Analog programming, CMS-2, FPS ASM, VBScript, x86 ASM, Perl, C-shell, Windows 95 to 7, 64 & 32 bit. • 	Scholarship to Space Science Summer Institute at the University of Southern California (Summer 1966)		References: http://www.linkedin.com/in/johndelliott10  create a free account if necessary and login, Click on “View Full Profile”. Then click on the “Recommendations”. Technical web site that I designed and partially implemented: http://www.inventor-certified.com/graphics/

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