Bernd Friedmann

707 North Irena Ave Unit B

Redondo Beach, CA 90277

(303) 881 – 5139

 

 

SUMMARY:                            Bernd Friedmann has excelled in IT management and consulting positions for over 10 years.  He has chosen to specialize in automation solutions for Quality Assurance and Application Monitoring, and has been an active Specialist since 1997. He has a unique ability to express technical concepts to an eclectic audience, and is very comfortable in front of customers.   His consulting experience has given him the technical and management expertise to execute QA Solutions in a vast array of environments.

 

MIC BTO CONSULTANT:      Functional Test Automation             WinRunner, QuickTest Professional

Performance Test Automation       LoadRunner, Performance Center

Test Case Management                   TestDirector, Quality Center

Monitoring                                            SiteScope, Business Availability Center

Applications worked on                    C/C++, Java, RMI, COM/DCOM,

                                                                CORBA/Java, FTP, MS .NET, Oracle NCA,

                                                                Oracle Web Application 11i, PeopleSoft

                                                                Enterprise, SAP Web/SAPGUI, Siebel Web,

                                                                RTE, WEB (HTTP/HTML), Web Services.

 

2005 HIGHLIGHTS:               AVERY DENNISON:  Lead project manager and senior solutions architect in launching 3 Centers of Excellence for QA Management, Performance Testing, and Application Monitoring simultaneously.  Designed and managed the implementation of all infrastructure components, developed project engagement procedures, educated projects on technologies, expectations and deliverables.  100% satisfaction from project for services delivered on all three centers.

 

2006/2007 HIGHLIGHTS:      United Healthcare:  Principle project manager and implementer used for performance testing and tuning of the United Healthcare Online Pharmacy System. Project resulted in stabilizing the application for forecasted user amount and correct sizing and budgeting for new hardware to be implemented immediately after testing.

               

                                               

EXPERIENCE:                      

                                                Keaton Consulting Corp. – Los Angeles, CA                                04/00-Present    

                                               

                                                * Principle Project Manager                                                               03/05-Present

·          Project Manager for large scale QA Software Implementations.

·          Manager of a widely distributed internal consulting team.

·          Developer of “Centers of Excellence” for customers.

 

* Senior Technical Account Manager                                              01/03-02/05

·          Performed many technical demonstrations, and proof of concepts resulting in over $500,000 in product and service sales.

·          Top technical resource for Mercury Interactive’s Southern California sales and professional services team in COM/DCOM.

·          Many successful pre and post sales efforts on both the Application Delivery and Application Management lines.

                                               

* Senior Consulting Engineer                                                           04/00-01/03

·          Certified Consultant on Mercury Interactive Testing Products.

·          Successful design and implementation of many large automated test bed architectures.

·          Top trainer and consultant for Mercury Interactive’s most critical clients.

·          Train and consulted fortune 500 clients on the use of automated testing tools.

·          Instructed courses on Mercury Interactive products and received excellent evaluations and references.

·          Mentored many clients and reached excellent results.

 

                                                Art Technology Group – San Francisco, CA                 06/98 – 04/00

 

                                                * Senior Consulting Engineer

·          Specialized consultant on Art Technology Groups leading edge Java Beans and Java Servlet technology.

·          Successfully delivered HTML front-end for fortune 500 companies.

·          Built many integral Java modules that interfaced with databases using JDBC.

·          Consulted on numerous web applications on ATG’s software product, Dynamo.

 

Mercury Interactive - Sunnyvale, CA                                             08/97 – 06/99 

 

                                                * Senior Consulting Engineer                                                           04/98 – 06/99

·          Led numerous projects interfacing with clients to successfully implement automated testing solutions in multiple environments.

·          Consulted on Year 2000 test issues and educated customers on Y2K testing strategies.

·          Trained and Mentored new Mercury Consultants on client sites.

·           Instructed courses on  Mercury Interactive products and received excellent evaluations and references

 

*Applications Engineer-Customer Support Hotline                      08/97 – 04/98

·          Answered customer questions, provided documented solutions to problems.

·          Designed and programmed solutions for customer requests, creating bug fixes.

 

                                                NASA Ames Research Center - Mountain View, CA  10/96 – 03/97

 

                                                *Software Engineer

·          Performed Image Processing with CCD observation images and modeled the data to the lightcurve.

·          Created the Precision Temporal Model of Eclipsing Binary Light Curve Minima for the Detection of Giant Extrasolar Planets.

                                               

Neurotech Company, Intelligent Systems - West Germany    07/95 – 03/96

 

                                                *Software Engineer                                                                            

·          Designed and Developed Cybermodel in cooperation with an advertising agency.

·          Tested VRML-Editors in the Netscape 2.01 environment.

·          Created the new Cybermodel, “Friedrichshafen-online” in HTML 3.0 and Netscape 2.01 Browser.

·          Designed and Developed Video-Capture application on MS-Windows (GUI) platform using Watcom 10.0 C/C++ - Compiler.

·          Designed and Developed Still-Picture application on MS-Windows (GUI) platform using Watcom 10.0 C/C++ - Compiler.

·          Introduced a User’s Guide for a Multimedia Project

                                               

IBM, Software Division - West Germany                                       09/94 - 03/95

 

                                                *Software Engineer

·          Training course in IBM’s OS/2 and C++.

·          Used Program tool (IBM C/C++ Tools 2.01) for OS/2 GUI-Programming.

·          Designed and Developed a tool to convert Bitmaps to different data structures.

·          Developed an Application program for a serial digital Sony camera.

 

Benzing, Time & Datatechnic GmbH - West Germany              02/93 - 04/93

 

                                                *Software Engineer

·          Developed a C- Program application in the Windows 3.1 environment to administer time and management terminals.

 

 


LANGUAGES:                        C, C++, HTML, ASP, JSP, Pascal, ADA, Assembler, JAVA, Java Beans, Java Servlets, SQL, TSL (WinRunner), FORTRAN 77, VB Script, Java Script, COM, DCOM

 

TOOLS:                                  MIC Application Delivery: QuickTest Professional (All Environments), WinRunner (All Environments), TestDirector, Quality Center, LoadRunner (COM/DCOM, SAP, Oracle NCA, Web, Winsock, ODBC, Siebel, Citrix, PeopleSoft, Streaming Media, TE, .NET, RMI, Java/CORBA) , Performance Center,

 

MIC Application Management: SiteScope, Topaz, Topaz Managed Services

 

Other Tools: ATG Dynamo (DAS, DPS, DCS), MS Visual Studio, PowerBuilder, Drive Image, SAP, Macromedia Dreamweaver

 

ENVIRONMENTS:                  HP-Unix, Linux, Sun-OS, Windows XP/2000/NT 5.0/98/95/3.11, Windows 2000/2003 Server, VAX/VMS, OS/2, WEB, Microprocessors (680x0), Client/Server Databases (Oracle, Sybase, MS SQL, MS Access), Terminal Emulation, J2EE, Oracle Forms, Siebel, SAP, PeopleSoft, COM/DCOM, .NET

 

 


EDUCATION:                         Polytechnic University Of Konstanz, West-Germany

                                                Master of Computer Science & Engineering - Computer Science

                                               

                                                Benzing, Time & Datatechnic GmbH,  West-Germany

                                                Specialized In Communication Electronics

 

                                                Mercury Interactive, Sunnyvale, CA

Certified Product Specialist and Instructor – WinRunner, LoadRunner, TestDirector

 

                                                Friesen, Kaye & Associates

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