Montgomery Boss

Current

• Test Project Manager at Motion Computing

Past

• Sustaining Test Engineering Manager at Dell
• Test Eng/ Test Manager at Dell Computers
• Test Engineer at Compaq

• Test Technician at FutureSoft

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Education

• Texas State University-San Marcos
• Del Mar College

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Industry

Computer Hardware

Montgomery Boss’s Summary

Twelve years of increasing responsibility in the personal computer industry to include: test planning, technical test execution, test engineering, project management, process improvements and management of human resources and cost centers.

Montgomery Boss’s Specialties:

Human resource management, test engineering, project management, test execution, process and web development.

Montgomery Boss’s Experience

• Test Project Manager

  Motion Computing

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

  August 2005 — Present (3 years 4 months)

  System Test Lead/ Test Project Manager
  • Currently working in a modified lead role as Test Project Manager for Motion’s new product in development. While continuing to manage and execute Motion’s test activities, I also quasi manage our ODM supplier’s software and BIOS test team, test plans, and test reporting. I traveled to mainland China with the VP of Software to negotiate and set mutual expectations for this relationship.

• Sustaining Test Engineering Manager

  Dell

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; dell; Computer Hardware industry)

  January 1996 — May 2001 (5 years 5 months)

  Managed the Portables Sustaining Test Group in testing BIOS, drivers, software, peripherals and operating system updates.
  • Successfully led the test team in completing over 900 test efforts in FY ’01 and FY ’02.
  • Maintained budget, headcount and expenditure forecasting for a $2 million per annum cost center, while maintaining 98% on time project completion.
  • Worked cross functionally to develop and implement business process improvement contracts resulting in $330,000 annualized savings throughout FY ’02.
  • Maintained less than 5% employee turnover by working one on one with staff in creating and maintaining individual professional development and performance plans.
  • Reviewed test plans and test cases to ensure that all test requirements and phase entrance/exit criteria were met resulting in a 25% reduction in resource allocations.

• Test Eng/ Test Manager

  Dell Computers

  (Computer Hardware industry)

  1996 — 2001 (5 years)

• Test Engineer

  Compaq

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; cpq; Computer Hardware industry)

  October 1995 — September 1996 (1 year)

  Compaq Computer Corporation, Houston, TX. 10/1995 - 09/1996
  Test Engineering Technician
  Testing development level notebook computers
  • Worked with team leads in the creation of test plans and detailed test instructions to ensure adequate test coverage.
  • Developed and communicated to management: schedule, resource requirements and risk management plans.
  • Executed test plans and communicated results to team leads and management including perceived issue severity and customer impact.
  • Responsible for testing platform, BIOS, drivers, operating systems and software compatibility.

• Test Technician

  FutureSoft

  (Computer Software industry)

  August 1995 — October 1995 (3 months)

  Tested proprietary telephony software applications.

Montgomery Boss’s Education

• Texas State University-San Marcos

  BS, Project Management, 2008 — 2010 (expected)

• Del Mar College

  AA, Business Administration, August 2004

  104 total hours completed.

  Activities and Societies:

  Spanish Club, Tennis

Additional Information

Montgomery Boss’s Interests:

Boat Night, Linux/Apache/MySQL.

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