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

SUMMARY

- Effective team and project leader
- Experienced senior engineer with vast software and hardware expertise
- Sole proprietor in commercial and web businesses - Technical and socially-focused education
- Resource-wise - Establishes and improves processes
- Effective communicator - Educationally stays ahead of the curve
- Quality, goal, and results-oriented - Attentive, friendly, humorous, proactive
- Focused, consistent and flexible - Excellent ability to resolve conflicts and problems

EDUCATION

- Web Development Certificate Program classes; Portland Community College; 2004
- GRE and CS Master’s classes; Portland State University; 2003
- Bachelor of Science; Computer Science; Portland State University, Portland, OR.
- Bachelor of Science; Social Science; Portland State University, Portland, OR.
- Bachelor of Science; General Studies; Portland State University, Portland, OR.
- Associate of Science; Computer Software Technician; Portland Community College; Portland, OR.
- Associate of Science; Graphics Reproduction; Portland Community College; Portland, OR.
- Graduated form Tom Hopkins sales training course; 1980.
- High school graduate; Lake Oswego High School; Lake Oswego, OR.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

PERSONAL TRAITS and PRAXIS

- Maintains well-organized workspace.
- Prioritizes to schedule and resources, self-managing concurrent and asynchronous tasks.
- Merges consistency and flexibility as conditions necessitate.
- Creates friendly working relationships: warm attitude, well-mannered, respecting of others.
- Practitioner of preemptive communication, pro-active listening, and non-intrusive learning.
- Focuses to established goals, the level of expected detail, and following-through.
- Readily shares knowledge and promotes the fun of learning “How To”

MANAGEMENT AND SUPERVISORY LEADERSHIP

- Met schedule for software product releases. Worked closely with other groups to exceed goals.
- Led QA efforts for multiple oscilloscope product development projects.
- Managed projects for 2D/3D graphics libraries and developed systems software for UNIX workstations.

- Managed new test lab and co-managed new test harness releases.

- Project-managed software releases and test lab implementations ahead of schedule with higher rates of quality.
- Co-ordinated team members around strengths and facilitated improvements in less-defined skill sets.
- Designed and developed processes and standards across varied disciplines to establish “team page”.

MENTORING and TRAINING

- Led sales teams of up to twenty members, keeping schedule balanced to personnel, customers, and budget.
- Trained fifteen people on customer etiquette, product knowledge, sales, and retail (music) record and tape chain processes.
- Assisted PSU interns with equipment, setup, scheduling, and code.
- Tutored development and QA team in standards (ISO, CMM, ANSI, IEEE) to disperse and ensure responsibilities,
speeding up time-to-release.
- Tutored junior engineers in scripting and Unix; performed regular toolsmithing for my colleagues.
- Assisted marketing with direct field engineer training on new products.
inventory maintenance, heating/cooling/ventilation, opening, closing, bank deposits, security systems).
- Built, trained, and sustained motivation in Tronics Sales Corporation sales team.

COMPUTER HARDWARE, PLATFORMS, and ENVIRONMENTS

- Developed large-scale test lab for testing token ring and Ethernet management tools, reducing multi-site net usage
and down time for the corporate network.
- Designed and implemented a cross-platform QA test lab that allowed for maximum versatility, easy maintenance, and
quick reproduction of defects, reducing new test suite setup time for releases by 75%.

- 15 years Windows experience: 3.X, 95, 98, NT, 2000, ME, XP.
- 18 years Unix-experience: Sun/Solaris, Sun/SunOS, HP-UX, AIX, ITek, Ultrix, DomainOS/X, U/Win, MKS Toolkit.
- 18 years Apple/Macintosh experience: MacOS7, MacOS8, MacOS9.X, MacOSX.
- Other operating systems: Linux,Solaris/PC, OS/2, BeOS, DEC VAX/VMS, MVS/TSO.

PROGRAMMING and TECHNICAL APPLICATIONS

- Many years’ usage of office tools (word processors, spreadsheets, presentation, paint, draw), filetype translators,
browsers, databases & access tools, programming tools, OCR and graphics software, etc.
- Expertise and familiarity with many compilable and interpretive programming languages: Visual Basic, C, Tcl,
Perl, Python, DOS batch files, shell scripts (Korn, Bourne, Tcsh, C-shell, Bash), SED/AWK, HTML, XML, PHP, MySQL.
- Expertise with computers and high-tech hardware; Adept in mathematics.
- Exemplary use of defect-tracking and configuration management tools.
- Test tool expertise in and subsequent quick-learning abilities exhibited in use of many software applications and office tools:
SQA:Robot, Segue, Mercury Interactive, Microsoft Test, and proprietary GUI and interactive testing tools.

QUALITY ASSURANCE

- Developed tools that reduced time spent tracking and reporting software defects.
- Developed test plans based on specs, interviews, competition, previous release, defect lists, and marketing reports.
- Delivered final test reports and tested product on time and under budget.
- Set standards for tools, QA practice, and ISO processes, improving project startup, release schedule, test creation
time-to-use, and defect reproduction.
- Created test templates and priority coverage tracking spreadsheets.
- Automated acceptance testing of builds for quick feedback on whether build meets internal release criteria.
- Improved company release milestones by scheduling in more development time for documentation as part of the
Software Engineering Process Group.
- Improved test cycle communication by creating a reporting system emailing and posting-to-web test results.
- Have tested products for internationalism: Swedish, English, Spanish, German, Norwegian, Italian, Chinese, French,
Portugeuse, Japanese.

DEVELOPMENT

- Familiarity with OpenSS/FS, W3C, RPC, OpenGL, OpenDOC, OpenMP/MPI, GPIB, IEEE, and ISO.
- Languages and tools: Perl, Visual Basic, Tcl, GPIB, C, SQA: Robot, Korn/C/Bourne/Bash shell scripts, TET, TNT, DOS batch.
- Developed functionality, stress, GUI, regression, and performance test drivers, suites, and test cases (using
for analog and digital EDA simulator, manual network management tool and printer tests - improving processing
speeds and lowering defect counts each release.
- Created pre-processing tools (to speed up the creation of test cases) and post-processing tools (to speed up results
compilation, analysis, defect clarification, and failure notification).

- Developed target code for multi-platforms and provided technical support for customers and field sales.

- Ported graphics engine and examples code across operating systems and languages.

TESTING

- Tested graphics, network management, system administration, EDA synthesis and simulation, and other
dynamic data capture, display, and analysis products.
- Tested printers and printer drivers running on UNIX, PCs, and Macs.
- Tested EDA compiler - running benchmark and functional tests - of both structural and behavioral design.
- Tested a digital logic knowledge base tool set (rule editor, compiler, and translator) – Knowledge Consultant.
- Developed system administrative test cases for both host and local workstation job execution submittals - and
verified correct behavior and results with respect to request states, daemons, limits, priorities, resource management.
- Ran benchmark tests against VHDL compiler and built multi-platform test suites.

CUSTOMER, CLIENT, and PARTNER RELATIONS

- Attentively assists customers using active listening and problem-solving skills.
- Establishes good working relationships with third-party software dependencies that sped up blockading defects.
- Works closely with partner associates to achieve resolution, timely and successful products and inventory.
- Practices effective and professional contact with customers, partners, associates, and company representatives.
- Maintained upgrade and license sales with direct contact with existing customer base.

COMMUNICATIONS, WEB SITES, and DOCUMENTATION

- Assured thorough and timely cross-core team communications by creating automated QA reports.
- Supported manager with team status and personal reports depicting defect rates, test coverage, resources, and
scheduling.
- Created QA web sites, easy access to ISO standard forms and documents, as well as for quick project status-checking
via a web browser.
- Drove timely developer specifications enabling thorough test plans and higher test coverage.
- Created a cross-platform product documentation set based on field research and maximum customer usability.
- Created tools to auto-update QA web sites, enabling easier maintenance and quicker reporting.
- Created test plans from specifications, previous release documents, and developer meetings.

PROCESS IMPROVEMENT and STANDARDS

- Developed tools that reduced time spent tracking and reporting defects.
- Set standards for QA test tools/practice and ISO processes - improving project startup, release schedule, test creation
time-to-use, and defect reproduction.
- Improved company release milestones by scheduling in more development time for documentation as part of the
Software Engineering Process Group.
- Improved test cycle communication by creating a web-based report and test failure and results email notification system.
- Automated acceptance testing of builds for quick feedback on whether build meets internal release criteria.

SOLE PROPRIETORSHIP and BUSINESS

- Currently starting up several web-based businesses.
- Created and ran my own computer and web consulting, commercial painting, and offset publishing businesses.
- Maintained advertising schedules, search engine viability, and distribution of printed ads, cards, and flyers.
- Managed retail record and tape (music) stores.
- Ran three hardware-software marketing companies based on Texas Instruments’ computers.
- Cross-tracked stock-on-hand, sales, and shelf-factors to achieve proper inventory levels.
- Successfully provided computer-based trend analysis and inventory management for ten retail outlets.
- Created prize-winning and/or eye-catching displays for partnered and in-store specials.
- Interleaved specific and high-priority tasks with those needed to maintain attractive, neat, and tidy product sections.

WORK HISTORY

Consultant Software Engineering June 2001 - current
Hewlett-Packard, Inc. Software Engineering Consultant September 2002
Critical Path Software Software Engineering Consultant Aug-Sept 2002
Tektronix, Incorporated Senior Software QA Engineer 1999–2001
Analogy, Incorporated Senior Software Engineer 1996–1999
Network General Corporation Senior Software Engineer 1994–1996
Contracting firms
(Cypress Semiconductor, Intel Corporation, Tektronix, Incorporated, Mentor Graphics Corporation)
Software Engineering Consultant 1990–1994
Tektronix, Incorporated Software Development Engineer 1987–1989
Self-owned businesses Sole proprietor (painting, printing) 1983-1987
Portland Community College Graphics Lab Assistant 1982-1983
For What It’s Worth Records & Tapes Clerk; Asst. Manager; Co-Manager; Manager 1973-1978