Alex Quinn
Summary
As a project manager, I aim to seek and maintain a full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing my interpersonal collaboration skills, excellent time management, and problem-solving skills to provide the organization with their required business needs and values.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Project Manager (Full Time Contractor)
NetApp
02.2022 - Current
- Managed project schedules for: Design Validation Testing, 6x Company Stop Ships, 5x 3-6 month Qualifications.
- Developed comprehensive phase gate reviews for 5x projects.
- Constantly managing and monitoring 24x project timelines for releases and updates to Lenovo.
- Leading and presenting said projects to Lenovo bi-weekly.
- NetApp project lead of 2-year, $537,000 Lenovo Statement of Work.
- Established effective communication for cross-functional collaboration with product management, commodity management, account team, certified reliability, and supplier quality engineering to complete project requirements.
- Managed program equipment inventory and shipment communications to customers and vendors.
- Monitored progress against established goals, adjusting schedules and resources as needed to keep projects on track.
Drive Qualification Engineer (Full Time Contractor)
NetApp
05.2021 - 02.2022
- Lead testing on the baseline Samsung PM1643a Lenovo low-capacity SSD drive qualification.
- Built and troubleshot lab equipment malfunctions.
- Built and tested multiple drive firmware packages.
- Created defined configuration files to set up the drives' volumes in an appropriate RAID arrangement.
- Pulled and compared performance modepages of the high-capacity and low-capacity drives.
- Completed a full run of Performance, Power cycle, System reboot and Manual tests on 2x qualifications of Samsung SSD drives.
Student Contractor
NetApp
07.2019 - 05.2021
- Troubleshot lab equipment malfunctions for drive engineers.
- Assisted with HDD, NVMe, and SAS SSD drive qualifications under ONTAP and E-series BU's for Seagate, Western Digital, Samsung, Kioxia, and Toshiba
- Built and network cabled test equipment configurations in lab racks.
LEO Enterprises, Landscaping Full Time
05.2019 - 08.2019
Hobby Lobby, Cashier and Customer Service
05.2018 - 01.2019
Education
BBA - Business Administration (Emphasis in Management)
WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY
Wichita, KS05.2021
High School Diploma -
TRINITY ACADEMY
Wichita, KS05.2018
Skills
- Excellent communicator and writer
- Critical thinker and a patient problem solver
- Worked with Linux, PowerShell, SANtricity, IP networking, various forms of logs, RAID
- Document and Part Management via Agile ERP
- Presentations
- Task Prioritization
- Software Development Lifecycle
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Project Planning, Tracking, and Development
Accomplishments
- Improved the NetApp - Lenovo customer satisfaction ratings by 25% in one year by communicating and collaborating effectively, on-time as well as providing high quality deliverables.
- Led and completed a multi-phased project under Seagate with a brand new capacity point for Lenovo that was 2 weeks ahead of schedule.
Certification
CAPM (Certified Associate in Project Management) - PMI
December 2023
References
- Dennis Springer, Primary Storage Qualification Engineering Manager at NetApp, (316) 636-8766, Dennis.Springer@netapp.com
- Shawn Shackelford, Support Account Manager at NetApp, (316) 651-7010, Shawn.Shackelford@netapp.com
- Lara Unrein, PSQE HDD Integration Engineer at NetApp, (316) 619-7092, Lara.Unrein@netapp.com
- Jeremy Birzer, Drive Sustaining Engineer at NetApp, (316) 253-8517, Jeremy.Birzer@netapp.com
Timeline
Project Manager (Full Time Contractor)
NetApp
02.2022 - Current
Drive Qualification Engineer (Full Time Contractor)
NetApp
05.2021 - 02.2022
Student Contractor
NetApp
07.2019 - 05.2021
LEO Enterprises, Landscaping Full Time
05.2019 - 08.2019
Hobby Lobby, Cashier and Customer Service
05.2018 - 01.2019
BBA - Business Administration (Emphasis in Management)
WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY
High School Diploma -
TRINITY ACADEMY