Adam Pfeffer
adampfeffer(AT)antimi.com
San Diego, CA
619-602-2855

EDUCATION

Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana, BSEE: May, 1993
     Major: Electrical Engineering, Minor: Music

Cogswell College, Sunnyvale, California, Completed Program: December, 1994
     Major: Music Engineering Technology, Minor: Software Design

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

* Over 14 years of experience as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer, with 11 years of experience in automated testing.
* Proficient with a variety of automated test tools including Borland's SilkTest, Mercury Interactive's WinRunner, Radview's WebLoad. Expert level with Borland's SilkTest.
* Experience developing in Java, Visual Basic, C++, and C#.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

Software / Hardware - Experience / Education: Borland's SilkTest, Mercury Interactive's WinRunner, Radview's WebLoad, Microsoft's Visual Basic, C++, and C#, Java, HTML, XML, JavaScript, ASP, JSP, Perl, SQL, Oracle, Sybase, Windows 98/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista, UNIX, DOS, Mac OS 7.0 through OSX, assembly language, SPICE, CADKEY, Matlab, SANs & fibre channel switches, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, and extensive experience with MIDI, audio, & video software applications & hardware interfaces.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Certona, Del Mar, CA
October, 2010 to Present
TECH SUPPORT ENGINEER

* Debugging issues with product recommendations on client websites.
* Developing and maintaining SQL Stored Procedures for client customized catalog imports.
* Debugging XSLT transforms for JSON and XML product recommendations.
* Debugging JavaScript data collection on client websites.
* Communicating with client merchandising and web development departments for new client implementations as well as new feature implementations for existing clients.

Pyxis Products / Cardinal Health, San Diego, CA
March, 2005 to May, 2009
QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER

* Lead engineer for 5 test automation developers.
* Lead of automated test development for the MedStation and Asys product lines.
* Managed the imaging and configuration of testbed equipment used for automated testing.
* Reworked and contributed to over 60000 lines of automated testing code, improving the readability and architecture so that new hires could quickly and easily become effective automation developers.
* Contributor to the automation team's engineering process and coding standards.

Prisa Networks / EMC, San Diego, CA
December, 2000 to March, 2005
QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER

* Resident automated testing guru using SilkTest, C++, Java, and Perl.
* Responsible for organizing, running, monitoring, and maintaining the daily automated smoketests, and regression tests for the daily builds of EMC’s software.
* Have written over 15000 lines of automated testing code, complete with comments, documentation, and setup procedures.
* Have written several documents that describe testcases for various functional tests and system-level tests needed to verify the quality of EMC’s software.
* Responsible for not only automating many testcases, but also executing several testcases manually which were not practical to automate.

MedData / MedImpact, Inc. San Diego, CA
February, 2000 to December, 2000
QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER

* Resident automated testing guru using SilkTest, Visual Basic, WinRunner, and WebLoad.
* Responsible for testing the MDIS Oracle database replication and recovery system, plus the 20 classes and more than 100 methods contained in the MDIS.DLL. The MDIS.DLL was tested using a test harness written in VB while controlling the testcases using SilkTest.
* Responsible for testing 2 different TCP/IP services that connect to pharmacy clients, transmitting and receiving prescription data.

COMPS Info Systems, Inc. San Diego, CA
July, 1998 to January, 2000
QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER

* Responsible for testing internet software used to distribute COMPS' commercial real estate information.
* Quality Assurance Lead for the Spectrum product.
* Responsible for testing the Data Entry application used to enter data into Spectrum's SQL database, and responsible for testing the End User application used to query Spectrum's SQL database. Also responsible for testing Spectrum's printed presentation of the commercial real estate data.
* Conducted the builds of Spectrum using Delphi, and deployed the builds throughout the 3 tier system setup at COMPS.
* Wrote test plans and followed test plans.
* Automated Spectrum's entire suite of regression test cases using the automated testing software known as SilkTest.

Opcode Systems, Inc. Palo Alto, CA
February, 1995 to July, 1998
QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER

* Responsible for testing MIDI and digital audio software for the Mac & PC. Found and reported over 3000 bugs in the software products: Audioshop, Studio Vision, Overture, Musicshop, OMS, and DSP Plug-ins. Written test plans and followed test plans.
* Created test suites for the almost infinite combinations of data types used in expressing music.
* White box and black box testing experience using MacsBug and other debuggers / memory watchers.
* Created software installers for both the Mac & PC. Burned cross-platform CD-ROMs for software installation. Experience working with oscilloscopes and spectrum analyzers to reduce high frequency noise emitted by hardware. Escorted the 64XTC MIDI interface through FCC testing.
* Quickly learned to test Opcode's entire product line (sometimes simultaneously) without previous knowledge of the products. Professional music software is quite complicated in that it is required to interface with external hardware, and sync in real-time to external devices.
* Many of your favorite music CDs, movie soundtracks, and TV sound tracks in the 1990s were created using Opcode products.

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