Richard L. Churchill
6954 N Sheridan Road, Apt. 209 
Chicago, Il. 60626

1-773-368-2542
Churchillrl@Yahoo.Com


Profile
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Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer with 6.5 years experience in testing 
high-end customer relationship management software. Comprehensive 
background in testing distributed client/server applications. Highly skilled in 
writing data-driven automated test code using QA-Partner and COM based test 
suites using Visual Basic.  Extensive experience in isolating, reporting, tracking, 
and resolving software related issues.  Strong background in database design, 
maintenance, and recovery. 

Career History
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Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer
Mosaix Incorporated, Alameda, Ca.
(December 1997- March 1999)

        * Acted as mentor and technical lead for eight member 
           automated testing team.
        * Developed Visual Basic applications for testing our entire suite 
           of COM interfaces for use with Microsoft's newly created 
           Transaction and IIS Servers,
        * Debugged the most complex and highest priority issues in our 
           automated test library.
        * Created COM based tools for special cases that could not be 
           handled by our 3rd Party automation software, using the Win32 
           API.

Software Quality Assurance Engineer
Mosaix Incorporated, Alameda, Ca.
(June 1996 - Nov 1997)


        * Created highly innovative VB IDE add-in, which enumerated 
           the interfaces within a given type library; captured the function 
           and attribute prototypes; checked for prototype changes 
           between builds; and created a complete framework for testing 
           the component object model within a Visual Basic 
           environment.
        * Was acting Database Administrator for our 'Software Problem 
           Report' tracking system, which was a custom VB front-end 
           application that used ADO/ODBC to interface with a back-end 
           SQL Server database platform. 
        * Awarded for being one of Mosaix' five most valuable 
           employee's, during this software release cycle.

Associate Quality Assurance Engineer
Mosaix Incorporated, Alameda, Ca.
(May 1994 - October 1997)

           
        * Rapidly became the most prolific and proficient member of our 
           testing team, in writing automated test scripts, using QAP 2.0.
        * Played significant role in moving our department away from 
           top-down procedural based programs, into object oriented 
           data driven test suites. Thereby, increasing the overall 
           productivity of the entire testing team.


Software Configurations Specialist
Viewstar, Emeryville, Ca.
(October  1992 - April 1994)

           Produced custom installation scripts for all outgoing orders.
           Put in place order fulfillment procedures that reduced order 
           processing errors to virtually zero.
           Created 'Customer Configurations' database to track total 
           number of licenses currently held by each customer, for each 
           product offered in the Viewstar product line.

Warehouse Manager
Mariall Apparel Inc., San Francisco, CA
(July 1991 - October 1992)

           Oversaw daily Shipping & Receiving operations. Prioritized 
           daily shipping requirements; pulled, checked, and packed 
           orders. Prepared UPS, FedEx, and Common Carrier shipping 
           logs. 


Warehouse Manager / Customer Service Representative 
Isadora Incorporate, San Francisco, CA.
(January 1990 - June 1991)


           Received and entered all incoming orders into MAI Basic4 
           computer system. Prioritized daily shipping requirements. 
           Created Pick Tickets, pulled, checked and packed orders. 
           Created invoices and submitted daily sales to our factor for 
           processing. 

Accounting Clerk
Presentables-Cinzia Inc. Sausalito, CA.
(October 1987 - December1989)

           Analyzed, classified, and resolved past-due accounts; 
           processed cash receipts;  calculated balances due for accounts 
           payable; calculated monthly Sales representative 
           commissions; arbitrated customer disputes.


Assistant manager
Central Time Inspection Company, Homewood, IL
(June 1983 - September 1987)

           Created and maintained inventory control database using 
           dBase2. Reconciled accounts payable and railroad employee 
           payroll deductions.  Assisted in sales, delivery and repair of 
           merchandise.

Skills
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Languages: Visual Basic, VB Script, SQL, HTML, QAP/Visual 4Test
OS:           NT 4.0, NT 3.51, Win XP, Win 2000, Win 9.X, WFW 3.11, Win 3.1
Database:  Microsoft SQL Server 6.5, Oracle, Access, ODBC
Other:       Microsoft Office Suite (2000), Visual SourceSafe, PVCS, Visio


Education
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1988    Computer Learning Center of S.F: Programming Curriculum
1987    Prairie State Community College: Data Processing Curriculum
1998    Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0
1997    Windows Open System Architecture I & II
1997    Microsoft SQL Server Administration - Version 6.5
1997    NT 3.51 Workstation Administration