Experience

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  Us army

  Jan 1993 - Jan 1999

  Physical therapist assistant

  Observe, record and report regularly to supervisor on patient condition, progress and behaviorUnder the direction of therapists, teach patients how to do exercises to strengthen muscles or improve mobility, how to use and care for braces or prosthesesConfer with physical therapists and other staff about treatment plans for patientsUse of creativity to design an exercise program that motivates the patient Provide treatments such as massage, heat, cold, electrical stimulation, ultrasound and traction Show less

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  Blanchfield army community hospital

  Dec 1993 - Jul 1996

  Army physical therapist assistant

  Assisted physical therapists with patient care including transfers, modalities, exercise, and other duties as requested.Operated Kincom and Lido muscle testing equipmentServed as supervisor for all Red Cross volunteersPage 2 of 3

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  Dewitt army community hospital

  Jul 1996 - Jan 1999

  Army physical therapist assistant

  Assisted in establishing and conducting a water exercise and rehabilitation programContributed to the development of Parkinson's rehabilitation programDirected program for the assistance of overweight children under supervision of a physical therapist

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  Amazon.com - back to basics toy division

  Aug 1997 - Feb 2002

  Network and configuration administrator

  Monitored performance and stability of networks and the general health of the LAN architecturePerformed network LAN installations, including configuring switches and routersProvided operations and maintenance support on all network-related infrastructures, including equipment software and hardware upgradesAssisted in decision-making for the purchase of employee hardware equipmentConfigured systems to user environmentsPerformed software installations and maintenance support, including operating systems and applicable company software Show less

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  Kirk u.s. army health clinic

  Aug 1998 - Nov 1998

  Non-commissioned officer in charge (ncoic)

  Assumed temporary responsibility for clinic when NCOIC was on leave

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  Dewitt army community hospital

  Feb 2002 - Mar 2003

  Physical therapist assistant

  Observe, record and report regularly to supervisor on patient condition, progress and behaviorUnder the direction of therapists, teach patients how to do exercises to strengthen muscles or improve mobility, how to use and care for braces or prosthesesConfer with physical therapists and other staff about treatment plans for patientsUse of creativity to design an exercise program that motivates the patient Provide treatments such as massage, heat, cold, electrical stimulation, ultrasound and traction Show less

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  American systems

  Mar 2003 - Dec 2009

  Software test engineer

  General Quality Assurance/Testing Tasks• Collaborated with management and development teams to understand customer and system requirements• Developed and maintained project test deliverables, such as test strategies, test plans, test scripts, etc.• Performed system, regression, and integration software testing• Maintained records of test progress, document test results, prepare reports and presented results as appropriate• Identified and communicated issues/risks applying technical and root cause analysis skillsTest Automation Capabilities• Developed a Microsoft Access front-end for Rational scripts to allow users unfamiliar with Robot to run automated test scripts• Developed scripts to automate the testing of Microsoft Security Patches• Developed an ASP.Net website to assist in tracking the status of the patch test environment• Performed accessibility testing for compliance with Section 508 using screen reading and automated tools• Developed and executed automated web security tests using Rational AppScanLoad and Performance Test Undertakings• Used Performance Studio VU and Performance Tester 7 to develop and execute performance testing scripts against web and/or client-based applications including load generation and test transaction measurement. During load generation testing, used the software to simulate either multiple users or high volumes of input data. During execution, response time measurements were taken from selected transactions and logged.• Provided reports based on test logs and graphs of load against response times.Other Technical CapabilitiesMaintained CA IV&V websites to include customer change requests and add increased functionality. Show less

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  Aegis.net, inc.

  Dec 2009 - Sept 2022

  Test automation manager

  • Leads a team of test automation engineers in the planning, developing, and executing of automation test suites against CA applications, among other activities.• Establishes Agile and Lean practices, such as eliminating waste and using automated processes, to help the team operate more efficiently and be able to react to changing requirements more effectively. Also includes daily scrum meetings to disseminate information and using Kanban to manage workflow and control work in progress. • Adapted a process to decrease the size and scope of deliveries of a custom reporting tool but deliver on a more consistent basis, allowing more frequent feedback and lowering the barrier to changes.• Identifies opportunities for applying automated testing to reduce manual testing efforts, thereby improving the quality of testing and increasing the test coverage.• Creates/customizes automated testing tasks using Rational Functional Tester and Selenium.• Trains and mentors other testers on automation best practice and the integration/use of automation tools.• Oversees the design and development of Enterprise support Web sites used for status tracking and record keeping across multiple groups• Conducts large-scale performance tests involving 50,000 users and distributed over multiple environments, including Amazon Web Services.• Performs large-scale data loading to provide testers with test data and make production of the test environment model more accurate.• Identifies automation tools to modernize automation.• Integrates new testing tools such as Dynatrace Application Life-Cycle Management, Selenium, HP Mobile Testing, HP Unified Functional Testing, HP Load Runner, Rational Policy Tester, Rational AppScan, and Rational Integration Tester into the automation laboratory environment.• Develops custom test harnesses to overcome manual test processes that prevented automation Show less

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  U.s. department of state

  Aug 2022 - now

  System engineering and integration manager