Cathy Kiser

Cathy Kiser

Account Manager, ROCAK Services Inc.

Greater Denver Area

Current
  • Account Manager at ROCAK Services Inc.
Past

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Education
  • Purdue University
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Industry
Management Consulting
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Cathy Kiser’s Summary

Mfg, IT, financial, TQM, sales, SQA, PM, test management, process and improvement, consulting experience.

Cathy Kiser’s Specialties:

Software Quality/Testing/Process, Financial Services, ERP, training experience

CTFL, CSQA, CPIM

Cathy Kiser’s Experience

  • Account Manager

    ROCAK Services Inc.

    (Management Consulting industry)

    2006 — Present (3 years)

    Consulting: PM, SQA, testing, UAT, ERP, process improvement, business, financial services, telecom, IT, training. Clients:
    > Triad Consulting (Current USA Inc.)
    > National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA,
    www.ncpanet.org)
    > American Software Test Qualifications Board (ASTQB,
    www.astqb.org)
    > Analytic Solutions
    > Gunther Douglas (Information Handling Services)

  • Consultant-auto test team, tech writer

    TurnKey Solutions, Inc.

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    July 2008 — October 2008 (4 months)

    Part of a Quality Center/QTP test-automation team on a large (800 testers) Sun Microsystems global Oracle applications upgrade project (from v. 10.7 to 11.5.) Assisted with test and project management, datasheet loading and running of automated test scripts. Wrote, updated training manuals, business function online help.

  • Consultant (Test/QA)

    Current USA Inc.

    (Paper & Forest Products industry)

    February 2008 — July 2008 (6 months)

    Main project involved conversion of Alliance order-management system to PCS system. Tested Web Services and other interface products. Other project involved internet gift/greeting card combination with much B2B partnering. Helped facilitate UAT activities, wrote functional specifications where lacking, documented issues, assisted with process templates. Testing included black- and white-box, web, GUI, E2E, heavy integration testing and data analysis and validation. Technologies: ERP system implementation, JIRA issue software, XML/ICSXML files, FTP, SQL Studio, test-plan and test-case documentation, SEO, E2E and heavy integration testing.

  • General Sales Associate

    Micro Center

    (Privately Held; Retail industry)

    October 2007 — May 2008 (8 months)

  • Test Lead (contract)

    US Bank

    (Public Company; Banking industry)

    August 2007 — February 2008 (7 months)

    Test lead, project management work. Projects encompass integrated QA test and User-Acceptance test (UAT) of up to 139 financial-related applications, in addition to project audit preparation. Create and work with supporting documentation, collect signoffs, provide support and guidance to various project personnel as needed. Support test and project managers.

  • Foundation Lead

    ASTQB TAG

    (Management Consulting industry)

    2006 — 2008 (2 years)

  • Board member, founder Job board

    Software Quality Association in Denver (SQuAD)

    (Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

    August 2000 — October 2007 (7 years 3 months)

  • Project Test Manager

    Time Warner Telecom

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TWTC; Telecommunications industry)

    March 2007 — August 2007 (6 months)

  • QA

    Analytic Solutions

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

    April 2007 — August 2007 (5 months)

  • District Leader

    Primerica Financial Services

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Financial Services industry)

    January 2003 — May 2007 (4 years 5 months)

  • UAT Test Manager (contract)

    IHS

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

    October 2006 — March 2007 (6 months)

  • Test Proj Mgr (contract)

    First Data Corporation

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; FDC; Financial Services industry)

    June 2006 — September 2006 (4 months)

  • Test Lead, project QA Mgr. (contract)

    Bentley Systems, via Adecco Technical

    (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

    July 2005 — July 2006 (1 year 1 month)

  • Sr. Quality Engineer

    CoBank

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    April 2003 — July 2005 (2 years 4 months)

  • QA Analyst

    JDEdwards

    (Public Company; Management Consulting industry)

    1995 — 1999 (4 years)

  • Project Manager

    Contract Engineering

    (Management Consulting industry)

    September 1993 — February 1995 (1 year 6 months)

    Mech El (Contract Engineering), Englewood, CO Project Manager 09/93 – 02/95
    Worked at Rocky Flats plant on four DOE/EG&G electrical/mechanical/construction projects:
    - Bldg. 881 – Transformer upgrade, switchgear building construction: gen’l contractor - $3M.+ project, 7 subs.
    - Bldg. 443 – UPS upgrade in central steam plant. Completed ahead of schedule.
    - Bldg. 443 – Data Acquisition Control System (DACS) electrical/instrumentation renovation.
    - Sanitary Landfill – electrical work for two new buildings.
    Job site lead as needed. Managed 4 to 6 electricians, 4 to 6 subcontractors, Primavera SureTrak scheduling/admin/conversion, purchasing, billing, cost proposals, safety meetings, escort hiring, timesheets, system administration, CAD, training.

  • Sr. Program Specialist - ERP SME

    Lockheed Martin

    (Management Consulting industry)

    1984 — 1993 (9 years)

Cathy Kiser’s Education

  • Purdue University

    BA , Visual Design, Photography, Biology , 1977 — 1981

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Cathy Kiser’s Groups:

> ASTQB (Tech. Advisory Group member)
> Park County Sheriff's Office, Victim Advocate
> Deer Creek Elementary School, Science Fair Judge Coordinator

  •    Software Testing & Quality Assurance
  •    Colorado Big Ten Networking
  •    JD Edwards Alumni Association
  •    CoBANK

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