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1. Patrick A Bohr
Software Quality Assurance
System Integration Test
Functional and Feature Test

2. SUMMARY
• Career Software Quality Assurance and Test
expert with 15+ years experience.
• Have worked alone, in teams and led small
groups.
• Built a System Test group from scratch.
• Managed the test group through transition
periods.
• Worked on compilers, operating systems, data
bases, applications, new systems and system
integration test.

3. Summary - continued
• Learned and developed processes, and tools
to improve and solve testing problems that
were used in within the division and the
company.
• Attended ongoing training 2-6 weeks/year
throughout my career. Inspect, review and
verify documentation, requirements, product
plans, and code.

4. Summary - continued
• Added new skills and insight through in-house
and independent reading and research.
• Acted as a mentor and quality role model to
new and transitioning QA, test and
development team members.

5. Experience
Hewlett Packard/Compaq/Tandem, Encore/Nippon/Gould,
Austin, TX
Plantation, FL
• Started the System Integration Test
group from scratch. Designed, developed and implemented
functional tests for :
• Developed the approaches, tools and
methods for a multifaceted approach • Compilers
to System and Integration Testing on • Databases
Fault Tolerant to High Availability • Operating systems
Unix based platforms. • Applications
• Developed a reputation for a unique
and effective perspective in all things
related to quality across a broad set
of features.
1990-2008 1984-1990

6. Experience - continued
Hewlett Packard/Compaq/Tandem, Austin, Encore/Nippon/Gould, Plantation, FL
TX • Demonstrated ability to apply sound
• Designed, developed and used dynamic knowledge to diverse applications.
sampling system and application • Converted manual systems to
resource monitor tool, used to detect computerized systems.
and isolate resource problems leading • Detail-minded with a good eye for
up to serious system failures. balance and organization.
• Designed, developed and implemented • Competent in all phases of testing and
Remote Terminal Emulation load quality assurance.
drivers across Ethernet, async, sync,
and Renet interfaces. • Developed schedules, resource
• Developed and implemented test allocation plans, and test plans.
harness solutions for automated test • Administered Unix machines.
execution, failure detection and report • Installed and upgraded computer and
generation. Used this automation, and network components.
technician testers to transition System • Installed and tested new upgrade
Test to regression testing. software releases as requested.
• Developed System V version 4 • Setup computer systems and related
application PerfMon tool for System equipment.
Test use.

7. Experience - continued
Hewlett Packard/Compaq/Tandem, Austin, TX Encore/Nippon/Gould, Plantation, FL
• Isolated the Query By Example application
interface design as exceeding async baud • Setup computer systems and related
capacity, saving the company $13 million in equipment.
French courts. • Programmed on-line, batch, and real-time
• Designed a large generic system load systems.
scenario that continued to find problems for • Developed ideas for test automation, and
almost a decade, as new features were system state monitoring.
integrated, and created new failure
paradigms that moved into the departments • Earned a reputation as a valuable and
feature test suites. cooperative coworker by: being fair, honest,
• Adapted new telco customer scenarios and persistent and willing to help others when
required feature stress tests into new system needed; effectively resolving conflicts at
test on the Dual Node Puma (DNP) Telco appropriate times.
sponsored platform (a high availability/fault • Easily establish rapport with people of all
tolerant hybrid Unix platform. ages, cultures, and beliefs.
• Developed an interview strategy for quality
concerns that made me widely sought after
for both QA and development hiring.
• Performed interim group and project
management tasks when employee loss left
management shorthanded.

8. Education

9. Skills
Compilers and languages :
C Ada BMA (Bare
Machine Ada)
Pascal Fortran Lisp
Assemblers Modula II Basic
Cobol C++ Java

10. SKILLS - continued
Operating Systems and environments
Unix (Vax/DEC) UTX Berkley and System V UTX
Secure
MPX (Real-Time OS POSIX Nonstop UX
) Berkley and System V
Dual Node Puma Sun OS NT2000
XP Vista Ubuntu Linux

11. SKILLS - continued
Data Bases
MX/SQL Ingres Informix
Oracle Assorted SQL Assorted QBE

12. SKILLS - continued
Applications
nroff/troff/psroff MacIntosh( FrameMaker
MacDraw,
MacProject,
MacWrite)
Excel MS Word Outlook
MS project Nvu/Kompozer PowerPoint

13. SKILLS - continued
Communications
async sync
enet Renet
LAN WAN
dialup DSL

14. SKILLS - continued
SCRIPTING
C Shell Bourne Shell Korn shell
assorted JCLs HTML Javascript
Perl DHTML XHTML
CSS CGI mwm
dwm TACL vb

15. SKILLS - continued
Tools
OutsideView DFM Veritas Volume Manager
and File System
ARS (Application OSU (online CVS/RCS
Recovery System), software upgrade)
cscope Perfmon PerformanceAnalyz
er

16. SKILLS - continued
Methodologies
SDLC Waterfall Cyclic
CMMI ISO 9000 Inspection/review
Test Planning Fagan Inspection/ Rapid Testing
review
Testability Lazar Training

17. Activities And Interests
• Honors and awards - TOPS (Tandem
Outstanding Performers) in Boca Raton, FL
1995 - awarded to the top 1-4% of employees
based on peer recommendation and
management selection.
• Reading, audio books and independent study
– self-improvement, programming, Science &
Sci-Fi, Business & Management

18. Activities and Interests
• Hobbies and interests – Travel, Theme Parks,
Dogs, Gardening, Gaming, Photography,
Comedy, Inventions, History, Movies
• Links and Memberships – Recommendations,
Linkedin, Plaxo, Compaq-NonStop ,
Tandem_Alumni, Tandem_Group, TMFL,
HP Alumni, UW Alumni