David Brown

Principal Consultant - Software Quality Assurance at Sogeti

Tallahassee, Florida Area

Current
  • Principal Consultant - Software Quality Assurance at Sogeti
  • Leagis Test Manager (Contract) at Florida Senate
Past
  • Software Engineer (Contract) at PTM Software
  • Technology Architect at Wonderware Corp
  • Project/Software Engineer at Trentech, Inc.
  • LAN Manager at Rheem Manufacturing
  • Avionics Systems Specialist at USAF

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Education
  • US Air Force
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David Brown’s Summary

Accomplished, results-driven Engineering Manager with core competencies in Configuration Management, Quality Assurance, Development and Release Management.

18+ years experience contributing to custom and shrink-wrap software development projects in various roles for organizations such as Datamaxx, Kofax Image Products and Wonderware. Extensive expertise in high-level requirement development, design, coding, manual & automated testing, system level verification, documentation and training. Also worked as a Project Manager in various projects, including managing offshore development and testing (India and Costa Rica).
• Practiced and skilled people manager who takes a hands-on approach to mentoring and motivating talent.
• Effectively analyze complex problems/requirements and generate cost-effective “quick-fixes” as well as long-term solutions.
• Senior technical resource, frequently consulted by QA, Development, Technical Support & Marketing teams.
• Leverage talents in software/system development and staff leadership to manage organizational change, mitigate risk, infuse new ideas and consistently deliver results that exceed expectations.
• Skilled at implementing engineering process improvements utilizing “what works” processes culled from CMMI, ISO 9001:2000, Agile/SCRUM, etc., implementing the tools to support these processes as well as the documentation, training and enforcement that must be part of the process.

David Brown’s Specialties:

High-level requirement development, design, coding, manual & automated testing, system level verification, documentation and training

David Brown’s Experience

  • Principal Consultant - Software Quality Assurance

    Sogeti

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CAPP.PA; Information Technology and Services industry)

    November 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

  • Leagis Test Manager (Contract)

    Florida Senate

    (Computer Software industry)

    2007 — Present (2 years )

  • Software Quality Assurance Manager

    Datamaxx

    (Computer Software industry)

    2005 — 2007 (2 years )

  • Software Quality Assurance Manager

    Datamaxx Applied Technologies

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    January 2005 — 2007 (2 years )

    Managing a team of seven SQA Engineers validating solutions for the FBI, Federal Air Marshals, Secret Service, NYPD and State Law Enforcement agencies utilizing custom, COTS and SAAS models.

  • Principal SQA Engineer

    Kofax Image Products

    (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    November 2002 — December 2004 (2 years 2 months)

    Supplied QA expertise for the Ascent Capture product line, requiring defining test coverage, writing/executing test designs, and developing support tools for SQA and Engineering (C, C#.NET, VB6).
    • Test Automation Lead, maintaining the Borland SilkTest Framework and expanding automated tests.
    • Member of the Bug Review Board.
    • Managed VMware repository.

  • Software Engineer (Contract)

    PTM Software

    (Computer Software industry)

    1998 — 2002 (4 years )

    Pivotal member of 5-person development team producing Wonderware ActiveFactory, a SQL-based client data visualization and reporting suite. Wrote various development tools using Visual Studio .NET in C#.

  • Technology Architect

    Wonderware Corp

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

    May 1997 — November 2001 (4 years 7 months)

    As Technical Manager of a 15-person SQA team, interviewed, hired, trained and mentored new and existing employees.
    • Training and mentoring to the legacy QA team on testing methodology.
    • Performed audits to ensure best practices and processes were followed.
    • Wrote tools in VB to import records from the old bug tracking system.
    Key Accomplishments:
    • Created an automation team to rewrite an aging Segue SilkTest Framework.
    • Installed test labs for the various server platforms such as SQL & Oracle.
    • Introduced software complexity metrics, and made them publicly available through a Web page that updated each product build.
    • Rapidly instituted change control utilizing Rational ClearQuest and implemented a plan for product performance benchmarking.
    • Developed a server-side interface in VB/VBA to interface ClearQuest change control to the tech support case tracking system (Siebel).
    • Supplied training to the entire organization on development tools, processes and SDLC.

  • Project/Software Engineer

    Trentech, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    1992 — 1997 (5 years )

    On-site project management for the Maximum Security Prison in Trinidad, West Indies. Traveled extensively overseas to engineer, install and commission the Integrated Building Control System.
    • Served as the liaison between government officials and contractors.
    • Hired, trained and supervised local laborers.
    • Maintained previous software development and technical support functions.
    • Produced the IDEAS Control System (Echelon LonWork) using C and dBase.
    • Completed development projects in various languages: Borland C/C++, Visual C/C++, Visual Basic and PL/M.

  • LAN Manager

    Rheem Manufacturing

    (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)

    January 1990 — October 1992 (2 years 10 months)

    o Designed, installed and supported a 35 user Novell Netware Local Area Network.
    o Expanded to a 150+ node corporate wide-area-network.
    o Performed dBase development in support of the marketing, sales and advertising operations.

  • Avionics Systems Specialist

    USAF

    (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; USAF; Military industry)

    October 1986 — October 1989 (3 years 1 month)

    Shop and flight-line maintenance of B52 and KC135 aircraft automatic flight control system, stabilization systems and instrumentation systems.

David Brown’s Education

  • US Air Force

    1986 — 1987

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David Brown’s Groups:

Quality Assurance Institute

  •    Sogeti Worldwide Networking Group
  •    Sogeti USA
  •    Sogeti USA LLC
  •    TMap Professionals
  •    Invensys Alumni
  •    The Document Imaging Group
  •    QAGuild Network
  •    Wonderware Employee Network
  •    Incuity Software
  •    Datamaxx Alumni
  •    Military Brats of the USA!
  •    Software Quality Assurance Leadership Networking Group (Leads, Managers, Directors, etc.)
  •    Tallahassee Software Quality Professionals Association

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