Director, SW Quality at Cardinal Health
Greater San Diego Area
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- Director, SW Quality Engineering at Cardinal Health
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- American Society for Quality
- University of California, San Diego
- San Diego State University-California State University
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Joseph Freitas’s Summary
Software QA department Director responsible for managing a department of software quality engineers verifying and validating Hospital Information System (HIS) products and medical device embedded software. Responsible for assuring software product quality in a FDA regulated environment. Hands-on experience managing product development and release processes within FDA, cGMP, AAMI, ANSI, IEC compliance regulations and guidelines. Plan and manage system interoperability validation of enterprise software products with major HIS partners and third party vendors. Manage and mentor software test automation team on automating the verification of wired and wireless medical device technologies communicating patient related clinical information to care givers and hospital information systems.
Joseph Freitas’s Specialties:
Software Quality Assurance Skills:
• Software Development Life Cycle – from Waterfall to XP and SCRUM
• Kaizen, Design for Six Sigma, Six Sigma Green Belt
• FDA’s Medical Device Standards - 21CFR Part 11, 21 CFR Part 820
• IEC/AAMI 62304, TIR32:2004, TIR36:2007, cGMP, ISO 9001, ISO 13485, ISO 14971
• C#, C++, XML, SOA, Web Services, HL7
• Simulated Virtual Hospitals, VMWare, VLAN, 802.11a/b/g test environments
Joseph Freitas’s Experience
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Director, SW Quality Engineering
Cardinal Health
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CAH; Hospital & Health Care industry)
September 2002 — Present (6 years 11 months)
Software quality department Director responsible for verifying and validating hospital information system (HIS) software and embedded medical device systems
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Software Engineering Lead - Wireless R&D
3Com
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; COMS; Computer Networking industry)
November 2000 — September 2002 (1 year 11 months)
Supervised the software Integration Test Group responsible for system test and integration of 2G and 3G wireless communication data embedded software products. Products included Edge-Servers communicating data between the cellular network and the internet.
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Automation Test Tools Development Supervisor
Sony
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SNE; Consumer Electronics industry)
June 1995 — November 2000 (5 years 6 months)
Managed an automation tools development team responsible for the design and development of customized test and adjustment tools required for the manufacture of high tech consumer electronic embedded products. Products included robotic systems, visual monitoring tools and other product manufacturing automation aids.
Joseph Freitas’s Education
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American Society for Quality
CSQE , Certified Software Quality Engineer , 2005
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University of California, San Diego
Certifications , Computer Science , 1995 — 1999
Certicifations in C++, Local Area Networks, Oracle Database
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San Diego State University-California State University
BSEE , Electrical Engineering, Computer Science , 1990 — 1995
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Joseph Freitas’s Interests:
Latest software quality compliance standards, methods and processes, Innovtive development tools and test automation technology, Manage, coach and mentor individuals and teams
Joseph Freitas’s Groups:
American Society for Quality (ASQ),
Society for Software Quality (SSQ) - San Diego Chapter National Director,
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
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Society for Software Quality | San Diego -
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
Joseph Freitas’s Honors:
Patent awarded - #60/132,035 "Distributed Manufacturing with Feedback",1999
Speaker of the Month - Society for Software Quality Presenter, February 2007
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