DONALD W ARENA
Mobile: +1 (650) 278-6436 • 37714 Mosswood Dr, CA 94945 USA • E-Mail: darena66@gmail.com________________________________________
Summary
A senior software engineer for 20+ years, passionate about understandable, maintainable, and performant expressive application development, simplifying complexity, breaking down requirements, and behavior-driven development in an agile environment.
Experience
Senior Software Engineer Medidata Solutions 03/2015 to Present
– Rails backend micro-services developer responsible for developing, enhancing, maintaining, and refactoring multiple services that serve various domains with the study planning realm of the clinical trials’ design.
– Other responsibilities include SME-contributions to story-mapping, backlog grooming, reviewing pull-request, interviewing, on-boarding and training new team members, coaching other team member, participating across functionality boundaries, interfacing with product and project management, devtools, service delivery and deployments, writing and editing service deployment and installation guidelines.
Lead SDET Medidata Solutions 03/2012 to 03/2015
– Developed flexible cucumber and HP-UFT testing frameworks for Java/WPF.Net and SPAs.
SDET (contractor) Mattson Technology 10/2011 to 12/2011
– Developed an EFEM hardware simulator (Java) for application development and regression testing.
– Allowed developers and SQA to develop and testing control-software without the actual hardware.
Project Manager (contractor) Electronic Banking Services 06/2009 to 05/2010
– Managed the EFT switch upgrades and the call center installation and personnel training.
Project Manager (contractor) Unisol (A Technology World Company) 01/2008 to 05/2009
– Managed a slew of IT infrastructure projects, and established project management standards.
Operations Manager (contractor) Electronic Banking Services 01/2007 to 12/2008
– Directed daily operations, spearheaded ITIL process, and recommended capacity upgrades.
Project Manager (contractor) Electronic Banking Services 01/2006 to 12/2006
– Managed the installation and training of the electronic cheque clearing system.
– Managed the design and implementation of the backup and recovery site.
Software Engineer (contractor) Sudan Currency Printing Press 03/2005 to 01/2006
– Developed a .NET computerized maintenance management system application.
Software Engineer (contractor) Sudan Currency Printing Press 03/2003 to 09/2003
– Developed a GUI application in C++ for the embedded controller on printing press.
Software Engineer SAN Light 11/2001 to 06/2002
– Developed fibre channel driver for storage volume manager.
Software Engineer Hewlett-Packard Company 11/1993 to 08/2001
– Developed SCSI Enclosure Services interface for HP Disk Enclosures.
– Developed power-on-diagnostic/hardware initialization for HP routers and switches.
Software Quality Engineer Amdahl Corporation 01/1993 to 10/1993
– Developed test-suites to verify code correctness, code coverage metrics, and memory violation analytics.
Software Quality Engineer OPTX 01/1991 to 11/1992
– Developed test-suites to verify a newly developed 3rd generation object-oriented compiler.
– Incorporated library calls to the underlying C system libraries.
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Education
MBA in Project Management UMST, Khartoum, Sudan 11/2010
BS in Computer Engineering California State University, Chico 12/1992________________________________________
Skills
? Jira, GitHub, NewRelic, SumoLogic, AWS Console, Jenkins CI, webservices
? Ruby, Java, VBS, C#, C/C++
? Rails, RSpec, Cucumber