Keith Richards

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About Keith Richards

A self-motivated Electronics Engineering Technologist and Project manager with twenty+ years experience in the computer, telephony, and telecommunications industry combined. Ability to interconnect and interface with different computer based communication environments, QA Team management, sales consulting, Engineering support, and excellent customer service experience. The ability to take charge of projects to meet and satisfy customer needs, operate a solid basic and aggressive knowledge of project management of computer products technology to grasp and learn new system either on a large scale or micro scale. Specialties: Voice technology Software development- Develop strategies and infrastructures for cross platform (Win/MAC/Unix/iPhone/Android) automated test API based feature tests utilizing GoogTest (C++): http://code.google.com/p/googletest/- Develop GUI based test automation coverage for customer facing Cisco Web Conferencing Clients utilizing EggPlant (TestPlant): Cisco’s Voice Over IP gateway (VoIP) carrier grade switches (MGX8260 & 8850-VISM) utilizing MGCP/IPDC call control protocols, T1/E1, T3 Developed automated test tools for the following Cisco Soft Clients- Top 10% Performance rating for last 5 years at Cisco - Created from scratch Google-Test (C++) Automation infrastructure to test API based VoIP Soft Client features- Cross platform test automation (Windows/MAC/Unix/iPhone/Android) built on one test on many- GUI based customer facing test automation development utilizing TestExpert(Java) & EggPlant (TestPlant) Cisco Routing & Switching- Ethernet Protocol/Features- 802.1x security protocol - Ethernet Uni and Multi-Cast Flood Blocking- VQP (VLAN Query Protocol) Client dynamic VLAN port assignment- Programming knowledge: UNIX SHELL, C++, Java, Perl & Vbasic.