Don Rogers
1309 NW 119th St.
Vancouver, WA 98685
(425) 260-3929 (primary)
(520) 878-8376 (secondary)
Professional Objective
To obtain a challenging position as an analyst, specializing in process, systems, or data; or as a quality assurance (QA) engineer. I have strong experience across the full software development lifecycle (SDLC) which includes working with complex system and subsystem functions, database and non-database entities, and synchronizing data. My long-term goal is to obtain a position in quality and continuous process improvement that provides the opportunity to train others in improvement techniques (statistical measures of variation).
Employment History
The Boeing Company
Programmer/Analyst
Boeing IT, Multimedia, Imaging and Information Retrieval Systems (MIIRS)
2002 – present
Systems Analyst
Shared Service Group (SSG) Software Engineering
1997 – 2002 (Contractor)
- Lead the effort to become the first IT organization in The Boeing Company to achieve CMMI Level 3, and the only organization validated as such without findings or recommendations – as the process improvement (i.e., the SEPG) project manager, measures focal, and change agent for an organization of 140 individuals.
- Project manager for all aspects of Boeing’s Year 2000 (Y2k) Supplier Continuity Initiative: Queried 30,000 of Boeing’s most critical suppliers, while directly coordinating, responding to, and charging input from a wide-range of Boeing specialists, including attorneys, statisticians, cognitive physiologists, test engineers, and a multitude of supplier management focals and leaders throughout the global company. While in this position, I served a dual role as the lead architect of the associated application used by suppliers.
- Application developer for more than 30 production applications, including many enterprise-wide applications, in addition to numerous prototypes. These projects utilized my proficiency in numerous software methodologies (i.e., Macroscope, Boehm-Spiral, Scrum, Agile) and multiple technologies – ColdFusion, C++, VB, ASP, .NET, JavaScript, and SQL Server. (see also Technical Skills section, further below)
- Mastered high proficiency in Lean Six Sigma, through working on Six Sigma projects (e.g., Effort and Schedule Variance), and earning a Masters’ Certificate in Six Sigma from Villanova University.
- Lead all aspects of the organization’s Application Recovery Planning Program, involving over 400 production applications.
GTE Government Systems
Software Test Engineer
1995 – 1997
- Designed and executed usability test cases, capturing test results and status reporting for International telecommunications software and asset tracking and management products, which involved the UNIX environment and OSI Management Framework.
- Responsible for all test script process documentation.
Eye Health Care Industry
District Manager
Technical Training Manager
Regional Manager
1983 – 1991
- Successful multi-branch and technical training manager for companies such as LensCrafters, achieving many awards prior to leaving the industry and entering the University of Washington in 1991.
Education
University of Washington (Seattle, WA)
College of Engineering
B.S. in Technical Communication, 1995
Villanova University (Villanova, PA)
Masters’ Certificate in Six Sigma – Information Technology, 2008 – 2009
Masters’ Certificate in Software Testing, 2009 – present
Bellevue Community College (Bellevue, WA)
Foreign Language (Advanced Certificate): Mandarin, 2000
Foreign Language (Advanced Certificate): Thai, 2001
Technical Skills
| Development |
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Tools |
| .NET Framework |
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Adobe Photoshop CS4 |
| Active Server Pages (ASP) |
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Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 |
| Architecture |
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Microsoft Access 2007 |
| C++ |
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Microsoft Office 2007 |
| CGI |
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Microsoft Project 2007 |
| ColdFusion 8 |
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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 |
| Configuration Management |
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Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 |
| Functional Analysis |
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Microsoft Visio 2007 |
| Functional Testing |
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Minitab 15 |
| HTML |
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Subversion |
| IIS |
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Visual Studio 2008 |
| JAVA |
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Visual SourceSafe |
| JavaScript |
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Process Management |
| Load/Stress(RadView) |
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Agile |
| NT |
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Application Development and Sustaining (AD&S) Process Model |
| Microsoft Virtual Server |
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CMMI |
| Oracle |
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DMAIC |
| Perl |
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Kaizen (The 5S’s) |
| Project Management |
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Lean+ |
| Requirements Analysis |
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Macroscope |
| Search Engines (Verity) |
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P+ Methodology |
| Software Design |
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Process Characterization |
| System (Software) Development Lifecycle (SDLC) |
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Value Steam Mapping |
| Software Testing |
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Statistical |
| SQL Server |
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7M Tools |
| Technical Writing |
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EMP Studies |
| Telerik RadControls |
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Failure Modes and Effect Analysis (FMEA) |
| UNIX |
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Full Factorial Designs |
| Usability Testing |
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Six Sigma |
| User Interface Design |
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Six Sigma Black Belt |
| Visual Basic |
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Taguchi Design |
| Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) |
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| XML |
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