Christopher E. Gray
124 Luella Drive
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
925-682-8733
rasputin@teleport.com

SUMMARY

• Experienced senior engineer
  
• Results-oriented
  
• Unique ability to drive product quality
  
• Seamless integration with product development, documentation, and marketing
  
• Effective in leading process improvement efforts
  

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Consultant, December 2002-current

• Created website for business: dogwalking, petsitting, housesitting.
  
• Released 30 eDocs (OCR, image conversiongraphics/font/layout tweaks] uploading PDF to web.
  
• Developing web pages (shopping carts, layout, notification, financial security].
  

Hewlett-Packard, Inc., Software QA Engineering Consultant, September 2002

• Release tested H-P Business Inkjet 3000 printer on both HP-UX and Windows 2000.
  

Critical Path Software, Inc., Software QA Engineering Consultant, August 2002

• Completed Lexmark Z45/Z54 printer driver upgrade testing for MacOS 9.2.2 and MacOS 10.2 in English, Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian, Italian, and Japanese from existing test plan.
  
  

Tektronix, Inc., Senior Software QA Engineer, 1999–2001

• Met schedule for VocalLink, eScope, PC Zone, and Comm Zone product releases. Worked closely Led QA efforts for multiple oscilloscope product development projects. Designed and developed test suites and led QA project teams of engineers and consultants.
  
• with marketing and development to exceed key sales and release goals.
  
• Designed and implemented a QA test lab that allowed for maximum versatility, easy maintenance, and quick reproduction of defects.
  
• Developed tools that reduced time spent tracking and reporting defects. Set standards for tools, QA practice, and ISO processes.
  
• Test suites based on: VB, Tcl-based harness, GPIB, SQA: Robot. Platforms: Windows 95/98/NT/2000, Sun/Solaris.
  

Analogy, Inc., Senior Software Engineer, 1996–1999

• Developed a test engine that reduced release defects by 45%.
  
• Designed and developed a cross-platform test lab that reduced new test suite setup time for releases by 75%.
  
• Improved test cycle communication by creating a web-based report and email notification system.
  
• QA team developed tests suites for simulator product and tested with partner EDA tools. Developed regression and performance tests, and created tool set for maintaining reproducible environment.
  
• Test environment: VB, C, Tcl, shell scripts, HTML. Platforms: Windows, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX.
  

Network General Corp., Senior Software Engineer, 1994–1996

• Designed and developed regression test suites for multiple releases of network packet capture and analysis software (Foundation Manager) on multi-platform OS.
  
• Developed a large-scale test lab and sub-network for testing token ring and Ethernet management tools. Reduced multi-site net usage and down time for the corporate network.
  
• Created a cross-platform product documentation set based on consistency and maximum customer usability. Platforms: Windows, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, OS/2.
  

Software Engineering Consultant, 1990–1994
Mentor Graphics Corporation, QA Software Engineer, 1994

• Developed and ran regression test suites on the BaseLib modules. Ran TET, TNT, C-shell, Bourne shell, and C-based tests. Platform: IBM AIX.
  

STEP Technology, QA Software Engineer, 1993–1994

• Developed barcode label printing product (LABELS) in C for us by Intel in their Ethernet board manufacturing process.
  
• Verified release of chip delivery and weighing software at Boise-Cascade.
  
• Verified release of supplemental Microsoft Project software from Cadence Business Systems.
  
• Platform: Windows.
  

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, QA Software Engineer, 1993

• Developed test strategy, plan, and an automated regression tools and suites to test the VHDL-based WARP design tools
  
• Tested Cypress PLDs, CPLDs, FPGAs, and PROMs - running both structural and behavioral VHDL test designs through synthesis and simulation, with intermediate verification of results.
  
• Ran benchmark tests against compiler and built multi-platform test suites.
  

Intel Corporation, QA Software Engineer, 1992 – 1993
Quickstart Software Operation

• Developed testing strategy, test plan, and test cases for LANDesk Manager (a LAN administration tool): Control Panel, Inventory, File Transfer, Chat, Application Monitor, Queue Monitor, Server Monitor.
  
• SQA:Robot and Microsoft Test tools were used to develop interactive tests to navigate, record, compare, and playback keyboard and mouse-based GUI tests.
  

Supercomputer Systems Division

• Developed testing strategy, test plan, test cases, and an automated regression suite for MACS system administration scheduling (Network Queueing System) used on the iPSC/860 supercomputer.
  
• Developed test cases for both host and local workstation job execution submittals and verification of correct behavior and results with respect to request states, daemons, limits, priorities, resource management.
  
• Designed and implemented a regression test suite for a system administration accounting package in the iPSC/860 Multi-user Accounting, Control, and Scheduling (MACS) Utilities.
  
• Developed testing strategy, test plan, testing tools, and a simulator on Sun SparcStation using Bourne shell scripts to run on the iPSC's System Resource Manager.
  

Tektronix, Inc., Software Evaluation Engineer, 1992

• Provided QA for Thermal Wax Color Printers.
  
• Tested Adobe PostScript, HP HPGL, and Macs with Phase printers. Discovered, updated, and closed out defects.
  

Mentor Graphics Corp., QA Software Engineer, 1990-1991

• Transitioned the Schematic Generator regression test suite to the Test Environment Toolkit (TET) standard. Developed strategy and automated tools for converting the structure and existing test cases from multi-platforms. Maintained test suite, developed and integrated new test cases, and planned testing strategy for the follow-up release.
  
• Developed Unix shell scripts to implement product functionality and invocation test cases (simulation and synthesis) for Autologic. Contributed to the design, development and testing of a standardized regression test structure.
  
• Developed test plan, performed QA testing, and tracked bugs during the development phase of a digital logic knowledge base tool set (rule editor, compiler, and translator) – Knowledge Consultant.
  

Tektronix, Inc. , Software Development Engineer, 1987–1989

• Managed projects for 2D/3D graphics libraries and developed systems software for UNIX workstations.
  
• Developed target code for multi-platforms and provided technical support for customers and field sales.
  

EDUCATION

• Bachelor of Science; Computer Science; Portland State University, Portland, OR.
  
• Associate of Science; Computer Software Technician; Portland Community College; Portland, OR.
  
• Bachelor of Science; Social Science; Portland State University, Portland, OR.
  
• Bachelor of Science; General Studies; Portland State University, Portland, OR.
  
• GRE and CS Master’s classes; Portland State University; 2003
  
• Web Development Certificate Program classes; Portland Community College; 2004