QA Engineer

Network Engineer

Software Engineer

Programmer     

 

Email

Mobile Phone (Preferred)

Home Phone

Web

apmack@gmail.com

+44 753 2438246

+44 138 3853091

http://Andrew.Mack.cc

 

Andrew Mack (Download .doc version of this CV)

 

Personal Information

Address                        : 41 Boherboy Close,

                                      Lotabeg,

                                      Cork,

  Ireland.

Nationality                     : Irish               

Availability                     : June 2008                  

Date of Birth                  : 2nd of June 1986          

 

Professional Experience (Summary)

 

From

To

Company, Location

November 2008

Present

FNZ, 23 Silvermills Court, Henderson Place Lane, Edinburgh, EH3 5DG

 

 

Release Engineer

-  Responsible for setting up environments and build boxes for releases

-  Work with nant and c# to program release sequences

-  Worked with accurev to control the code streams

-  Worked with TeamCity to co-ordinate the builds previously created through nant and c#

-  Created other c# programs that monitor url’s,  allow for release of sql scripts and monitor effects of these scripts

Performed Troubleshooting on released code and scripts.

 

June 2008

October 2008

Pilz GmbH & Co. KG, Model Farm Road, Cork, Ireland

 

 

Software Test Engineer

-  Responsible for testing on  two of the main products provided by Pilz

-  Also provided administrator support for HP Quality Centre

-  Created automated tests using Quick test pro to make regression testing quicker.

-  Created test plans and reports for new projects

 

December 2007

June 2008

Harvey Norman, Little Island, Cork, Ireland

 

Salesperson, Computing Department,

 

April 2007

November 2007

EMC Corporation, Ovens, Cork, Ireland

 

QA Engineer

Participated in the quality assurance of Symmetrix software to be incorporated onto the Symmetrix Storage Unit. (EMC2)

-     The Symmetrix Storage platform is widely distributed throughout the world and has an unparalleled level of security and reliability so QA engineering on their system was carried out to a strict set of rules.

-     I worked as a part of the QAConfig group and we stressed the software and Equipment to its limit as much as possible, we set up numerous configurations of the systems and tested them very stringently to find and report bugs.

-     The software and fixes we were testing always had to be perfect as the end result was it would be integrated into EMC2 next code release.

-     Regression testing was a big part of our daily testing to ensure that previous problems didn’t reoccur, regression testing was automated in a lot of cases and could be easily implemented using EMC2 in house system. Reporting of these tests and clearing the system for the next user was the main work load when doing regression. I also ensured that systems running regression code levels could be updated to the new code levels if the customer required.

-     I also had to monitor and benchmark some of the tests to compare test runs from an old regression next to the latest code release.

 

September 2005/06

September 2005/06

Allied Irish Bank, Cork Institute of Technology, Bishopstown, Cork, Ireland

 

Bank Representative, Student Drive,

 

March 2005

March 2007

Maplin Electronics, Blackpool Retail Park, Blackpool, Cork, Ireland

 

Technical Sales Assistant,

 

October 2002

February 2005

Pendrix Display, Patricks Quay, Cork, Ireland

Store Room Administration

 

 

Core Skill Profile

Team Leading / Project Management

Team leader responsible for my class’s third year project. This included planning and scheduling every aspect of the project from conception to completion, including assigning roles to members of my class. I was also responsible for a sizeable amount of the programming and software engineering on top of my responsibilities as a team leader, which also entailed design of environment and data-setup, resourcing, project control and review of test plan execution and results documentation, issue and risk management, configuration and a small amount of version control.

 

Presentation skills

I have had numerous presentations during college and as a result of working in retail I feel I have no problems standing in front of a group of people and giving a presentation which is clearly legible and delivers everything required of the presentation to the audience.

 

Programming languages/ utilities/ Skills

Java

HTML

JavaScript

SQL

C++

PHP

nant

Software / System Testing

Assembly Language/Assembler

C# .Net

C

Software Architecture

 

Database expertise

MySQL, MS Access, SQL

 

Operating Systems, Environments/Protocols

Unix (Sun Solaris)

 Windows (Vista, XP, 2003 server, 2000, 98se, 98, 95, DOS)

Suse Linux

SIP, DHCP, TCP/IP, SMTP, IMAP4, ATM, POP3 and HTTP

Slax

TCP/IP (Unix & PC environments), FTP

Real Time Systems(OS9)

 

 

 

 

 

Networking/Telecoms background

Cisco CCNA

SAN: Storage Area Network

Network Design

Ethereal(Wireshark) Protocol Analyser

Network Engineering

 

Network Analysis

 

Other Software Products knowledge/usage

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)

Macromedia Flash

MS FrontPage

 

Adobe PhotoShop

 

Academic and Professional Qualifications

 

2004 - 2008      Cork Institute of Technology

                        Honours Degree in Software Development and Computer Networking

                        Achieved: H2.1

                        Received Award For Highest Results

 

1999 - 2004      Glanmire Community College

                        Leaving Certificate

 

 

Further Formalized Training in:

n    Cisco Systems (CCNA and CCNP course work)

n    Storage Area Networks

 

 

Personal Interests

 

I'm usually found in my spare time messing with some form of electronics, it helped working in Maplin Electronics and Harvey Normans, I also ran numerous websites and still own a few “dotcoms”. I unfortunately don't have time for sports at the moment but when I did I played hurling with my local club. I still play on occasion with my friends. Being class representative also meant I arranged the occasional class party and enjoyed the social aspect of those parties.

 

References

Available on request.