Improver

David Couillard

Software Release and SQA manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific

Kingston, New Hampshire

Software Release Engineering and SQA manager with extensive experience in embedded Software Development, SQA, and Release Engineering. I have many proven successes managing the testing and release of new systems and processes and/or enhancing existing systems with new features or improvements on schedule. Expert in all phases of the software development life cycle with the ability to effectively communicate to technical and non-technical audiences.

SPECIALTIES:
Product Development process definition
Software Quality Assurance Management and Testing
Software Release Engineering/Configuration Management
Device Level Hardware/Software Driver and Diagnostic Algorithm Development

SW TOOLS:
TeamCity, TestRail, Microtec Research Emulation, Applied Microsystems Emulation, VisionClick, WindRiver Tornado, MSOffice, GNU Compiler Collection (gcc), nmake/Make, VMware

CHANGE MGMT.:
JIRA, Git and GitLab, Subversion, AccuRev, BuildForge, ClearCase, CVS, Remedy, SCCS, ECMS, Sablime

OPERATING SYSTEMS:
UNIX/Linux, Microsoft Windows, WindRiver VxWorks RTOS, ChorusOS, pSOS+, ucOS

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Experience:

• Member of Technical Staff (Lucent Technologies)
• Software Release and SQA manager (Thermo Fisher Scientific)
• Senior Software Engineer (EMC)
• Member of Technical Staff (Alcatel-Lucent)
• Member of Technical Staff (AT&T)
• Senior Technical Associate (AT&T)
• Technical Associate (Bell Laboratories)
• Member of Tecnical Staff (Lucent Technologies)

Skills:

• Software Development
• JIRA
• IP
• Perl
• ClearCase
• Gitlab
• Debugging
• Unix
• Systems Engineering
• Testing
• Git
• C
• Process Improvement
• Operating Systems
• Software Engineering
• Embedded Systems
• Distributed Systems
• Java
• Solaris
• RTOS
• Release Engineering
• Integration
• VxWorks
• TeamCity
• Databases
• Telecommunications
• Embedded Software
• Hardware