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Sandra Armstead

Gladstone,MO

Summary

Persistent professional equipped with 28 years of comprehensive experience in the Information Technology industry. Provides strong technical direction across multiple projects. Responsible and articulate individual with strengths in solutions optimization, mobile and global project management.

Overview

36
36
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Software Engineer

T-Mobile
11.1997 - 11.2022
  • Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance and customers to resolve technical issues.
  • Worked with development teams to correct problems and run test scenarios. Reduced Trouble Ticket from 15 a day to one or two a week.
  • Promoted technical leadership to entry-level and junior engineers in complex enterprise system environment.
  • Led software development initiative as subject matter expert and primary point-of-contact for project management staff.
  • Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.
  • Collaborated with clients to define solution requirements.
  • Conducted regression testing and submitted observations to development team.
  • Integrated third-party tools and components into applications.

Software Engineer

DST
09.1994 - 11.1997
  • Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance using COBOL, JCL and DB2 .
  • Updated old code bases to modern development standards, improving functionality.
  • Integrated third-party tools and components into applications.
  • Tested methodology with writing and execution of test plans, debugging and testing scripts and tools.
  • Participated in architecture, design and implementation of back-end features on mainframe environment.

Computer Programmer

Department Of Administration
06.1986 - 08.1988
  • Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance using COBOL, JCL and DB2.
  • Supported State Pay Role system to ensure batch jobs ran successfully and pay role was delivered on time.
  • Supported State Retirement System to ensure batch jobs ran successfully and data was correct.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

North Dakota State University
Fargo, ND

Associate of Science - Computer Programming

Moorehead Technical College
Moorehead, MO
06.1981

Skills

  • Operational Support
  • Developed strong partnerships with Business Users to ensure their technical needs are being met on time
  • Gathering Requirements
  • Application Design
  • Supervised unit testing, system testing, and regression testing
  • Created matrix reports that tracked system's run times to identify steps in batch cycle that would benefit from optimization
  • Project Documentation

Board Of Directors Trustee for the Northland Elks Lodge

The Northland Elks Lodge is a non-profit organization that supports veterans and local schools. As a Trustee, I assist on setting the annual budget and reviewing monthly to ensure the lodge is staying within budget. Needed expenses for maintenance projects, or donations to other organizations are approved by the trustees before projects begins. 

Timeline

Senior Software Engineer

T-Mobile
11.1997 - 11.2022

Software Engineer

DST
09.1994 - 11.1997

Computer Programmer

Department Of Administration
06.1986 - 08.1988

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

North Dakota State University

Associate of Science - Computer Programming

Moorehead Technical College

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