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Coordinated the utilisation of key personnel (7) within various Laminex Industries departments and industrial sites. |
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Initiated
a number of software interfaces to manage/assist the methodology and
infrastructure changes. |
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Identified requirements deficiencies in the Laminex Distribution and Sales system (LDS) |
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Achieved the Y2K requirements |
I was recruited for three months to coordinate the Y2K testing of the major vendor software systems used by Laminex Industries.
The testing was to prove the compliance of systems already being used in production.
The systems to be tested comprised the BPCS financial, manufacturing and distribution system used by the Laminex manufacturing sites, Laminex Distribution and Sales (LDS), Preceda HR & Payroll, AssetPro fixed assets, MainPac for plant maintenance, and XM4 shipping despatch system.
Laminex Industries is a major supplier of wood-based products for the manufacture of kitchen and bathroom furniture and tile products. The company has production sites in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, and has recently amalgamated with the New South Wales company Formica.
At the time the company did not have a formal Change Control process or requirements recording and traceability process. There is only minimal system documentation and most of the Laminex users only know the parts of the software systems they are using. Not all functionality within the software systems are used. Software version control is contained within the AS400 environment for the BPCS system, but there is no version control for other software systems.
| Coordinated the utilisation of 7 key personnel within various Laminex Industries departments and industrial sites. |
| Initiated a number of software interfaces to manage/assist the methodology and infrastructure changes. |
| Identified requirements deficiencies in the Laminex Distribution and Sales system (LDS) |
| Achieved the Y2K requirements. |
| Created a master test plan, system test plans, system test procedures, and project plans for each software system. |
| Identified and recorded the sub-systems that made up the software systems into manageable units for testing. |
| Scheduled and assigned Laminex staff to test systems or subsets of systems. |
| Recorded testing results for each system, providing audit trails of each groups of tests. |
| Testing systems and subsets of systems where resources are unavailable. |
| Manage the reporting and tracking of all testing activities. |
| Assist Laminex in recording and tracking their hardware and software assets. |
| Catalogue MS Office file types for easy retrieval from the LAN. |