2004 Senior Tools Specialist/R&D/Xtralis Australia
High Level Tasks:
- Fitting tools and associated processes to business needs
- “Hard coding” business processes
- Liaising with business stakeholders internal and external (such as contract renegotiations)
- Managing Support interactions with vendors (such as IBM)
- Assistance with Adelaide Product Development site (ADPRO)
- Troubleshooting
- Staff Training
Medium Level Tasks:
- IBM Rational ClearCase Administration (Configuration Management)
- IBM Rational ClearQuest Administration (Process Management)
- IBM Rational Test Administration (Testing Infrastructure Management)
- IBM Rational RequisitePro Administration (Requirements Management)
- IBM Rational RoseRT UML, Mathworks Matlab Administration (Development Tool Management)
- License Server Administration (High availability of licenses for all products)
- Managing the Standard Operating Environment of client machines
- Managing Integrations (Compilers, MS Office, Databases, inter-tool)
- Intranet Administration
- Process Documentation
- Tools Research and Advice (i.e. investigating alternatives)
Low Level Tasks:
- Development of tool integrations (C#, Perl, Visual Basic, Shell, Php, ClearCase triggers, batch)
- Troubleshooting network issues
- Database Administration (Oracle 8i, 10G2, Sybase, DB2, Access)
- Server Administration (Solaris, Redhat Linux, Windows Server, VMware ESX Server)
- Licensing collection and statistics
- User account management
Senior Test Engineer
Projects:
- VesdaNet System Test: System testing of new fire protection (VLF) network interface card
- Open HLI: System testing of High Level Interface (to VesdaNet) card updates
- Display: System testing of display updates
- VLx: System/Product Test Lead on new VESDA product range
- Data Gathering: Research project into product field performance
- Relay Card: System/Product Test on new (VLF) relay interface.