Stefan Winkel PO Box 391200 Mountain View, CA 94039
  Cell: 408 624 6597
stefan@winkelsnet.com
 
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Summary:
Over 10 years experience in the software industry, primarily in software design and development
 
Experience: PANTA Systems Inc Santa Clara, CA
  Software Quality Assurance Director October 2006 to Current
 
Developed initial and subsequent modifications of product assurance program to delineate areas of responsibility, personnel requirements and operational procedures within program, according to PANTA System goals.
Conducted management meetings with department heads to establish, delineate and review program organizational policies.
Developed and implemented, through support staff and lower echelon managers, product assurance programs to prevent and eliminate defects in new and existing products. This included defining processes around release management, from incident management to versioning control
Cooperated with other top management personnel in formulating and establishing company policies, operating procedures and goals.
 
  Symantec Corporation Mountain View, CA
  cLab Architect August 2005 to October 2006
 
Set overall technical direction for Symantec's Hardware Qualification Lab (cLab). cLab's mission statement is to test and publish hardware dependent product solutions as well as to maintain vendor technical relationships
Executed daily operations of cLab's infrastructure and Test Management system
Directed activities of planners team in cLab's engineering department of Symantec
Advised management on engineering problems and product interoperbility issues
Wrote, designed and implemented XML based infrastructure around the hardware qualification process
Was instrumental in defining metrices for upper management to identify a better testing approach for ROI by refining the hardware qualification process
Reviewed engineering designs for neatness and accuracy.
Trained cLab engineers in the hardware qualification process and achieved significant improvements in their productivity.
Conducted special investigations and studies to evaluate efficiency of engineering programs.
Applied knowledge of engineering to coordinate work of engineers engaged in solving problems concerned with hardware qualifications
Successfully integrated various Symantec products like resource monitoring, automated provisioning, SAN management to streamline the qualification process
Structured and maintained the SAN and Web infrastructure for cLab
 
  Symantec Corporation / VERITAS Software (Aquisition) Mountain View
  cLab Project Lead January 2005 to August 2005
 
Executed daily operations of hardware qualifications for cLab on the Windows platforms
Wrote, designed and produced cLab's Windows Test Specifications for VERITAS Storage Foundation product suite
Analyzed software requirements in order to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints.
Trained and managed 4 qualification engineers and achieved significant improvements in their productivity.
Consulted with hardware engineers and other engineering staff as well as with product management on product requirements
Consulted with customers like HP, Network Appliance and IBM concerning qualification of software system.
Successfully handled new requirements and adaption of new technologies like iSCSI, array and HBA technology
 
  VERITAS Software Mountain View, CA
  VxSS Technical Lead (VERITAS Security Services) 2002 to 2005
 
Technical lead and software developer of the VERITAS Security Services Authorization Module, an extensible authorization policy decision making service, role based access control, for VERITAS applications. This is a generalized implementation of the similar service designed for IPS and is integrated with the VERITAS Security Services Authentication Module. VxSS currently is deployed in NetBackup and other VERITAS products like Storage Foundation. As part of the design and integration worked closely with various other VRTS products/components and customers under which Bank Of America on gathering security requirements, defining security policies and deployment scenario's
Succesfully participated as a developer/lead through the whole software development life cycle with VxSS from design, implementation to it's first product adaption in NetBackup 5.0 (supported on 20+ platforms). This included tasks described below:
Wrote, designed and produced the Access Decision Framework (the core) of the authorization server. The ADF supports positive/negative ACLs based upon Permission Sets, Resource grouping and Authorization groups in an Application Permission Space
Integrated the Authentication component with the Authorization service. As a first user of the Authentication subsystem worked closely on the authentication design on giving additional requirements and feedback
Successfully handled the integration of the VxSS services with product teams like NetBackup and SanPoint Control (SPC) by working closely with various product teams, understanding their customer needs and implementing their requirements accordingly
Evaluated interface between hardware, software, operational and performance requirements of overall system. Designed and implemented various caches in order to optimalize performance
 
  VERITAS Software Mountain View
  IPS Developer (Intelligent Provisioning Service) 2000 to 2002
 

Developer of the VERITAS Intelligent Provisioning Service, a policy based automated disk-provisioning service for disk arrays in a SAN. The service also included a separate authorization service for access control. The service was designed as a component of the VERITAS San Point Control (SPC / CCstore) product, to extend the functionality of the San Access Layer (SAL). Designed and implemented a network transport layer using XML over HTTP / HTTPS implemented over raw sockets
 
  VERITAS Software Mountain View, CA
  VML Developer (VERITAS Media Librarian) 1998 to 2000
 
Developer of the VERITAS Media Librarian, a robotic tape library management system. The project involved interactions with major robotic tape library manufacturers, including STK, ATL, ADIC and Exabyte. Some of the responsibilities included design and implementation of a service management framework so that the various services of the VML system could interact with each other. The module was developed on the 5 tier 1 platforms
 
  Ordina Integrity Utrecht, The Netherlands
  JPOL Technical lead & Development 1997 to 1998
 
Technical lead and developer of the JPOL application, a JAVA based application used by the Dutch police to remote query the Police Databases for license plate information, property information etc. Application developed using JDBC, RMI and Applets. Client side using PDA's like Nokia Communicator. Worked closely with the Dutch police while developing this prototype. Demonstrated prototype on Dutch Police national exhibition.
 
  VERITAS Software Mountain View, CA
  VxVM Developer (Veritas Volume Manager) February 1996 to August 1996
 
Developer working on the internationalization of the Volume Manager, one of VERITAS leading products, which allows management of hard disk volumes and disk groups.
 
  PHILIPS Consumer Electronics TV Lab Eindhoven, The Netherlands
  Multimedia developer August 1995 to February 1996
 
Developer of a multimedia application for TV's. Application allowed receiving faxes, incoming phone calls as well as data communication on a TV. Developed and designed communication protocol as well as worked on the UI interface and aspects for the multimedia application
 
Education: Saxion University Enschede, The Netherlands
  Bachelor Computer Science 1997
 
Languages:
 
Dutch Fluent
English Fluent
German Read & Write
Spanish Basic
French Basic
 
Software Development Skills:
 
 
System Experience:
UNIX (Solaris, AIX, HP, TRU64, FreeBSD)
Windows (Windows2003, MS-DOS, Windows 95/98/NT/2K, XP, .NET),
Linux (RedHat AS 2.1 / 3.0, SuSE 8 64bit)
Programming Languages:
C, C++, Perl, PHP, CGI, Java, Eiffel, Visual Basic, Pascal, SQL, FoxPro, Basic, Prolog, Shell scripting, Lex /Yacc
Network / Data communications:
TCP / IP, Java RMI, SUN RPC, JDBC/ODC with MS SQL
Protocols: Concepts:
ODBC, RMI, JDBC, RPC, SSL, PKI, HTTP, MIME, XML, LDAP, Applets, servlets, MD5, HTTPS, POSIX threads, SCSI, ISCSI, Win32 API, SWING, FLASH
Concepts:
Object oriented programming, client-server and 3 tier solutions, distributed solutions, socket programming, multithreading, clustering solutions, Windows Service Control Manager
Internet / Intranet:
HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SMTP, HTML, CGI, PHP, Apache, SMB, Java, flashApplets/Servlets, Java Script and VB script
Tools:
Visual Studio, GDB, DBX, Purify, CVS, Visual Café, Ladebug, Sun WorkShop,
Microsoft Office, Visio, PerlBuilder, Exceed, Acrobat
Databases:
Sybase, MySQL, Relational Database design, FoxPRO
Other:
Great affinity with security related topics and concepts
Good knowledge of High Availability Solutions (VCS, GCM, MS Cluster).
Familiar with Microsoft Certification Program (including WHQL)
Developed various websites for other companies, using FLASH, PHP, MYSQL, etc
Member of the Symantec Emergency Team (ERT)
 
References:
Available upon request
 
 
Senior Principal Software Engineer / SQA Director