Cathy Bliven

Experience

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  Lockheed Martin

  Jan 1984 - Jan 1993

  Sr. Program Specialist - ERP SME
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  Contract Engineering

  Sept 1993 - Feb 1995

  Project Manager

  Mech El (Contract Engineering), Englewood, CO Project Manager 09/93 – 02/95Worked at Rocky Flats plant on four DOE/EG&G electrical/mechanical/construction projects: - Bldg. 881 – Transformer upgrade, switchgear building construction: gen’l contractor - $3M.+ project, 7 subs.- Bldg. 443 – UPS upgrade in central steam plant. Completed ahead of schedule. - Bldg. 443 – Data Acquisition Control System (DACS) electrical/instrumentation renovation.- Sanitary Landfill – electrical work for two new buildings.Job site lead as needed. Managed 4 to 6 electricians, 4 to 6 subcontractors, Primavera SureTrak scheduling/admin/conversion, purchasing, billing, cost proposals, safety meetings, escort hiring, timesheets, system administration, CAD, training. Show less

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  J.D. Edwards

  Jan 1995 - Jan 1999

  QA Analyst
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  US West

  Jul 1999 - Dec 2000

  Consultant - Test Engineer (EDI test)

  CMMI process rep for team. Release lead. EDI system tester for IMA project - for phone order transactions for local service.

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  EoTek, Nexstar Financial Services

  Jan 2000 - Feb 2003

  QA, lead level

  Release lead, manual and automation testing (Rational Robot, record and playback, data-driven) of web- and EDI-based mortgage, relo, refi and HELOC application software. Led team in acquisition of automated test tool. Audit rep. Elicited and documented business requirements as use cases.

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  Software Quality Association in Denver (SQuAD)

  Aug 2000 - Oct 2007

  Board member, founder Job board
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  Primerica

  Jan 2003 - May 2007

  District Leader
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  CoBank

  Apr 2003 - Jul 2005

  Sr. Quality Engineer
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  Bentley Systems

  Jul 2005 - Jul 2006

  Project Manager, QA Manager, Test Lead (contract)
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  First Data Corporation

  Jun 2006 - Sept 2006

  PM, Test Manager (contract)
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  ROCAK Services Inc.

  Jul 2006 - Dec 2018

  Consultant
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  IHS Markit

  Oct 2006 - Mar 2007

  UAT Test Manager (consultant)
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  Tw telecom

  Mar 2007 - Aug 2007

  Project Manager, Test Manager
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  Analytic Solutions

  Apr 2007 - Aug 2007

  QA
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  U.S. Bank

  Aug 2007 - Feb 2008

  Test Lead (contract)

  Test lead, project management work. Projects encompass integrated QA test and User-Acceptance test (UAT) of up to 139 financial-related applications, in addition to project audit preparation. Create and work with supporting documentation, collect signoffs, provide support and guidance to various project personnel as needed. Support test and project managers.

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  Micro Center

  Oct 2007 - Aug 2009

  General Sales Associate (part-time)

  Retail sales - computers and accessories; customer service and troubleshooting; stocking, facing, maintaining technology training levels.

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  Current USA Inc.

  Feb 2008 - Jul 2008

  Consultant (Test/QA)

  Main project involved conversion of Alliance order-management system to PCS system. Tested Web Services and other interface products. Other project involved internet gift/greeting card combination with much B2B partnering. Helped facilitate UAT activities, wrote functional specifications where lacking, documented issues, assisted with process templates. Testing included black- and white-box, web, GUI, E2E, heavy integration testing and data analysis and validation. Technologies: ERP system implementation, JIRA issue software, XML/ICSXML files, FTP, SQL Studio, test-plan and test-case documentation, SEO, E2E and heavy integration testing. Show less

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  TurnKey Solutions

  Jul 2008 - Oct 2008

  Consultant-auto test team, tech writer

  Part of a Quality Center/QTP test-automation team on a large (800 testers) Sun Microsystems global Oracle applications upgrade project (from v. 10.7 to 11.5.) Assisted with test and project management, datasheet loading and running of automated test scripts. Wrote, updated training manuals, business function online help.

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  Max3

  Jan 2009 - Feb 2009

  Test Manager, consultant
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  DSI®

  Mar 2009 - Aug 2009

  Sr. Quality Assurance Analyst
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  McKesson Health IT

  Aug 2009 - Jun 2011

  QA Manager, Team Lead, Lead Tester, QA 4 (Horizon Clinicals software)
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  City of Tucson

  Nov 2017 - now

  IT Business Management, PM/QA/Training

  Consulting: PM, Scrum Master, trainer, BA, SQA, testing, UAT, hardware and software implementation, EMRs, ERP, process improvement, governance, IT, business, healthcare, financial services, telecom, manufacturing, non-profit, victim advocate (DV, homelessness), IT, training.Industries: Training, Healthcare, Telecom, Financial, Energy, Manufacturing, Government (DOD, DOE, DOT, Education, county government), non-profit and for-profit.Clients include: > SAP > PeaceWorks, Inc. > Cuattro LLC > ALP International > Catholic Health Initiatives > CenturyLink > Urban Lending Solutions > Secure Media - max3 > Sun Microsystems > Current USA Inc. > National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA, www.ncpanet.org) > American Software Test Qualifications Board (ASTQB, www.astqb.org) > Analytic Solutions > Time Warner > US Bank > Information Handling Services > First Data, Western Union > Bentley Systems Show less