Michael Austin

Experience

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  Austin Computer Consulting

  Jan 1984 - Dec 1985

  CEO & President

  Provided on-site consulting to local businesses.

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  Grumman Aerospace

  Jan 1985 - Jan 1988

  Systems Engineer

  Worked on the definition and design of the Communications Platform.

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  Boeing Aerospace Operations, Kennedy Space Center, FL

  Jan 1988 - Jan 1993

  Systems Analyst

  By far, one of the BEST companies(and co-workers) I have ever had the pleasure of working with. Great company!!!

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  MCI

  May 1997 - Jun 2000

  Senior Test Engineer

  Senior Group Test Lead for the Network Engineering & Development group on the SubNetwork Management project. Performed installation, configuration, test and verification on the Frame Relay Access and Circuit Provisioning system for Bay and Ascend switches.

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  Lucent Technologies

  Jun 2000 - Feb 2001

  Senior Network Analyst

  Analyzed and verifed functionality of Lucent developed SW applications for SS7 Bell customers.

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  Sony Ericsson

  Feb 2001 - Jul 2007

  Product Lead

  Senior Staff Product Lead responsible for managing multiple mobile phone product deliveries between US, Sweden, and China SW Development and Test teams. Managed product lifecycle activities from inception to verification and customer delivery.Ensured corporate project deliverables proceeded according to planned project schedules. Coordinated the implementation of Quality Improvement Process initiatives set forth by the Launch Support Management organization. Coordinated SW configuration deliveries. Show less

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  PGA Tour Caddie (part-time)

  Jun 2003 - Oct 2003

  Caddie

  Part-time caddie 2003

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  BlueCross and BlueShield of North Carolina

  Jan 2007 - May 2012

  Senior Release/Project Manager

  Senior Release Manager in the Enterprise Project Office. Responsible for managing Corporate Project Release activities across the business enterprise. Activities include managing all cross functional project activities to include planning, scheduling, SW development, Quality Assurance, User Acceptance testing, workflow and process improvement to ensure successful corporate product deliveries. Company Administrator for the EPIC and Planview applications.

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  Fidelity Investments

  May 2012 - Sept 2013

  Director, Quality Assurance

  Managed a team of 30 Quality Assurance and Testing resources for the Content Management System, Search, Social Media, and Homepage test teams in RTP, India, and China.Responsibilities included coordinating project test efforts for SW development deliveries, resource planning, cross team test coordination, production installation, and project status reporting.

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  Deutsche Bank

  Sept 2013 - Sept 2016

  Responsible for managing monthly release activities from development to production delivery. Duties Include collaboration with international teams in India and England. Also responsible for creating new workflow processes and designing test status and release delivery dashboards via Jira and Jama. Manager of Quality Assurance Testing for the Duetsche Bank eSpear Application. This involves working in an Agile team environment with Functional Analysts, SW Development, Release Management, Operations and multiple Test teams to provide continued support and delivery of Deutsche Bank products into the Production Environment.

  • AVP Release Manager

    Nov 2015 - Sept 2016

  • AVP QA Test Manager

    Sept 2013 - Nov 2015
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  UltraLinq Healthcare Solutions, Inc.

  Sept 2016 - Nov 2017

  QA Test & Release Manager

  Manage the QA Test activities for all the UltraLinq core software Releases. Test activities include planning and execution of test suites to cover new & modified core application functionality for Production Release delivery. Responsible for managing the creation of the Test Automation framework to be utilized for Smoke Testing and Regression verification. Automation Smoke tests are also included in the Continuous Integration build process.Responsible for managing the Release delivery schedule and ensure coordination with Product Management planning, Software Development, and QA Testing execution and deployment are maintained through predetermined end-to-end processes.Key player in building the Quality Management System process which is used for verifying the planning, execution, and delivery of the UltraLinq Core application functionality to meet & support ISO 13485 guidelines. Show less

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  IQVIA

  Nov 2017 - Jan 2023

  • Associate Director

    May 2018 - Jan 2023

  • Release Manager

    Nov 2017 - May 2018