Thomas W. Amiro

THOMAS W. AMIRO 90 Westford Street, Chelmsford, MA 01824 Home: 978-256-4813 Cell: 978-726-3787 [email protected]

Career Focus Experience Summa ry

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Profession al Experie nce

Expert User-Focused Tester—Unique background as a software developer, technical writer, and SQA engineer/team leader provides for a keen user orientation and interest in installation, configuration, and administration of software products. Passionate Team Leader—Inspires others by sharing enthusiasm and technical information; mentors junior QA engineers; collaborates well with developers, customers, and all levels of management Proven to Deliver Results—Highly effective in planning and communicating test priorities, defining procedures, writing test plans, assessing quality, getting bugs fixed, and meeting key deliverables with distributed global teams Recognized at All Hands meeting by Director of Application Platforms for perseverance in setting up Siebel for Mobile Enterprise Platform testing, 2009 Recognized as Employee of the Quarter as SQE Lead for PC-NFS, Spring, 1998 STC Awards of Merit and Achievement for Technical Publications, 1993, 1996 Promoted to Staff Engineer for superlative job on Java Web Services Developer Pack, 2003-2005

SQA Staff Engineer/Team Leader – Sun Microsystems, Burlington, MA Sun Mobile Enterprise Platform (MEP) • Implemented test priorities, led test development/automation and all test execution for MEP; tracked and filed numerous bugs greatly improving the product quality • Tested the samples, demos, data synchronization use cases (on wireless toolkit emulator and BlackBerry), the Administration Console, and the Installer • Programmed Ant script to automatically install the MEP gateway and executed automated use case tests across platforms • Led other test engineers, inspiring them to write procedures on the “howto” wiki that benefited the whole team • Installed Solaris, Linux, and Windows platforms and set up and administered Siebel CRM, Oracle, Remedy, MySQL, and WebLogic on test machines • Answered user questions on the MEP forum and by blogging • Assisted partners and potential customers to set up and launch MEP • Spearheaded the migration of MEP from GlassFish to WebLogic • Reviewed MEP documentation such that its quality was significantly improved

2007 2009

Resume of Thomas W. Amiro Page 2 SQA Staff Engineer – Web Services Interoperability Technologies (WSIT) • Programmed Ant script to automatically install WSIT on Sun AppServer and execute web service smoke test • Tested samples, documentation, and NetBeans tooling • Created overall project test plan for product delivered into Sun AppServer • Go-to quality guy – created and posted comprehensive bug queries, tracked bugs, reported bug status, administered Issue Tracker, and approved product release SQA Engineer/Team Leader – Java Web Services Developer Pack (JWSDP) Releases 1.2 to 1.6 • Led distributed, international test team delivering Java technologies into Sun AppServer • Developed overall test strategy and project test plan • Certified Xalan/XSLTC in JAXP; co-wrote Ant script to run conformance tests • Certified JAXB TCK; wrote batch mode scripts for Windows and Solaris • Tested samples, documentation, and administration GUIs resulting in much improved quality • Quality champion – created and posted comprehensive bug queries, tracked bugs, and reported bug status, and gave goahead for product release SQA Engineer/Project Leader • Tested XSLT compiler (XSLTC) at Sun and at Apache XalanJ2 open source project • Created in-house XSLT conformance automated test suite • Developed "real" web application at coolrunning.com using JSPs and XSLTC • Added tests to open source Xalan Conformance test suite at apache.org in collaboration with IBM • Tested Apache Web Server on Solaris 2.8 – ran automated suite, and verified HTTP conformance • Scripted automatic install/testing of Solstice Network Client (PCNFS) 3.2 using WinBatch, Ghost, and QA Partner • Championed test effort for installation, configuration, and licensing of SNC 3.0 and overall test effort for SNC 3.1, 3.1Plus, and 3.2 on Windows NT/95

2005 2007

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1996 2003

Principal Technical Writer – Sun Microsystems, Burlington, MA • Authored PPP Guide; PC-Admin 2.5 Administrator’s Guide (STC Excellence Award); PC-NFS 5.1 Installation and Configuration Guide; System and Network Administration Framework API Man Pages; SunOS 5.1 Setting Up User Accounts, Printers, and Mail (STC Merit Award)

1990 1996

Principal Technical Writer/Project Leader – Wang Laboratories, Lowell, MA • Led Freestyle 1.21 documentation project • Authored Freestyle/Light guide; Freestyle/Light functional specification, Wang Inter-System Exchange Guide for OIS and VS; and updated Freestyle Programmer Reference

1989 1990

Resume of Thomas W. Amiro Page 3 Senior Consultant – Booz, Allen, & Hamilton, Bedford, MA • Authored spec for VAX/VMS MIS system using ORACLE and CA/ISSCO • Tested system, tracked bug resolution, and supervised contract writers • Pentagon Security Clearance

1987 1989

Plant Design Product Specialist – Computervision Corporation, Bedford, MA • Ported FORTRAN CADDS code to Sun/UNIX platform • Supported Stress Analysis/Electrical packages

1985 1987

Plant Design Documentation Manager – Computervision Corporation, Bedford, MA • Hired, supervised, and managed technical writing staff • Planned user documentation set and authored the Plant Design User Guide

1982 1985

Plant Design Application Programmer – Computervision Corporation, Bedford, MA • Designed, coded (FORTRAN), tested, and documented CADDS commands • Organized and participated in internal training and supported customers

1978 1982

Databases

JDBC, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, Remedy, and Siebel

Languages

Ant, Java, Javascript, JSP/CGI, Fortran, Perl, SQL, and Unix and DOS Shells

Platforms Tools Web Education

References

Sun, Intel, Solaris, RedHat Linux, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, and Windows Server BlackBerry JDE, CVS/SVN, Ghost, Hudson, WTK, NetBeans, QAPartner, Selenium, and WinBatch Apache Web Server, GlassFish, JSP/CGI, .NET, SyncML, Tomcat, WebLogic, XML, and XSLT M.A., Experimental Psychology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI Clinical Psychology Program, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT B.A., Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA

1978 1975 1974

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