Bob Sesek, MS
bob@runthinkmeasure.com
Professional Work History
Vice President. Run Think Measure, Inc. Boise, ID. 2005-present.
Vice President of Run Think Measure. System testing consulting, involving evaluation of testing approaches and planning. Engagement where needed, from evaluation of current approach to working with clients to build a qualification program from the ground up. Product qualification is analyzed holistically to ensure that the overall approach is sound and works together to provide the best use of people and resources to provide desired product quality. Providing training in testing techniques and approaches for complex systems. Developing customized training for a client’s test team. Helping organizations manage test requirements and design for testability. Help organizations to best utilize the people and resources that they’ve got and identifying those that are needed. Helping clients to integrate qualification into their design and development processes.
Intellectual Property Consultant. Basic Intellectual Property Management. Boise, ID. 2005-present.
Working as an Intellectual Property consultant doing competitive intelligence. Running invention workshops. Invention workshops are customized to particular clients and their specific IP needs. Invention workshops include simple invention training, Intellectual Property “Strip Mining” and focused invention capture sessions. Invention workshops are run with both large and small groups depending on specific customer needs. Providing IP strategy consulting for both large and small companies. IP strategies are client specific and depend on the company’s short and long term goals, including increasing company valuation for acquisition, protecting a company’s product uniqueness, protecting a company’s trade secrets and providing a company with licensing capability.
System Test Master Architect. Hewlett-Packard. Boise, ID 2002 – 2005.
Worked as master system test architect responsible for the qualification of hp’s newest most complex mfp products. This includes setting strategy and monitoring tactics as well as influencing qualification strategies across divisional boundaries. Devised and implemented the overall qualification strategy. Became the “prototype” for system test architects in other divisions. Coordinated with other divisional system test architects to implement best practices across all of LaserJet and other technologies. Championed industry standard and best practice test processes at the system level as well as at the component level. Managed, planning component and system testing across multiple geographies. Identified testing “white space” and developed short term coping plans as well as long term strategies to address this white space. Worked within a distributed development model, collaborating with internal and external development and test partners across numerous geographies including external vendor/partners. This required remote meetings and face to face meetings in Boise as well as Japan and Mexico. Oversaw the successful qualification and delivery of hp’s first S4 class digital copier. Responsible for mentoring and training system test and integration engineers. Devised and implemented the concept of “sweet spot” for system testing. This helped hp to accurately determine the necessary time for product end-game qualification. Sweet spot analysis has become a division best practice and is being replicated across divisions. Worked to prototype and implement SQUIRT testing within my division to export for use within other divisions. SQUIRT testing is automated integration testing that is intended to increase the effectiveness of system level testing by finding many component and integration defects earlier. This testing should reduce system testing cycle time.
Test Program Manager. Hewlett-Packard. Boise, ID. 1997 – 2002
Worked as the Test Program Manager (TPM) for Shared Printer and MFP products including hp’s flagship color, monochrome and MFP platforms. Responsible for understanding and explaining test issues ranging from Environmental and Regulatory testing, to software component and system testing, to both external PMT/development partners and LTL management, while ensuring that both H/W and S/W testing are completed within schedule and budget. Tracked and managed LTL testing costs versus ASPIRE targets and explained discrepancies. Responsible for both strategic and tactical decisions involving the assigning and direction of members of the LTL Shared Printer test team to effectively and efficiently provide testing, enabling HP to deliver quality products to market. Responsible for representing the LTL at PMTs and functional checkpoints. Drafted high-level project test plans and reviewed low-level project test plans with LTL Engineer/Scientists to continuously improve testing processes. Coordinated with other TPMs to leverage testing across divisional boundaries and to ensure that LTL best practices are leveraged across all supported development divisions. Managed the execution of software component testing for the first and second major LaserJet releases supporting 8 major programs. Unofficially, I started a grassroots effort to get the LTL into the generation and capture of Intellectual Property. Through workshops and one on one meetings I have motivated more than 50 people within the LTL and across the site to actively participate in the invention disclosure process. Resulting in numerous patent filings and publications.
Quality Engineer. Hewlett-Packard. Boise, ID. 1995 – 1997
Worked as QE for six LaserJet projects. Coordinated project F/W, S/W and network testing in LSG test center. Represented project quality issues at the PMT level. Presented quality perspective to functional staff at project checkpoint meetings. Test Center representative for pilot of System testing effort. Developed system testing pre-qualification “smoke test.” Developed Review/Inspection plans for S/W and F/W project teams. Wrote F/W test plans for several LaserJet products. Worked on LaserJet architecture class for Test Center training program. Handled various project F/W rolls. Developed network of contacts with experts in many areas related to LaserJet development and test. Worked to deliver and modify risk management workshops. Trained new LTL engineers.
Lead System Engineer. Hughes Aircraft Company - El Segundo, CA. 1994 - 1995
Worked as lead system engineer for a government satellite program. Responsible for representing business unit on spacecraft issues to both internal and external customers and auditors in a PMT environment. Position required managing H/W, F/W, and S/W issues for multiple spacecraft subsystems. Responsible for leading test team in spacecraft system level testing, data review, anomaly resolution and data sell-off. Responsible for modifying and maintaining system level tests. Responsible for writing, verifying and executing spacecraft flight command plans. The command plan testing and verification was done using high fidelity real-time spacecraft simulations. Designed a command plan verification testing training course for system engineers. Responsible for anomaly resolution for operational spacecraft.
Member of Technical Staff. Hughes Aircraft Company - El Segundo, CA. 1990 - 1994
Performed subsystem control testing for the attitude control electronics of a number of satellites. Testing included spacecraft control electronics, hardware-in-the-loop, mixed simulation tests. Wrote and released test procedures. Responsible for reviewing and signing off data. Ran simulations for anomaly resolution for several satellite programs. Responsible for the validation of space flight firmware and attitude control electronics hardware for a government satellite program. Responsible for updating and expanding existing high fidelity simulations. Wrote, released, ran and reviewed final acceptance test for spacecraft attitude control electronics. Responsible for interfacing with both internal and external customers and presenting results. Received two Superior Team Awards.
Research Assistant/Teaching Assistant. University of Illinois - Urbana, IL. 1988 - 1990
Completed individual master’s thesis. Research focused on nondestructive testing and evaluation using the acousto-ultrasonic approach. Research required design of experiments, test execution and data analysis as well as acquiring expertise in a new technical field. As a Teaching Assistant, instructed an engineering design course. Responsibilities included planning and organizing lectures and developing and evaluating student design projects. Gained experience in directing and motivating students. Received Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
Education
Master of Science General Engineering, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. 1988 -1990
Bachelor of Science General Engineering, Bachelor of Arts Economics, Double Major Program, University of Illinois. 1984-1988
Graduated with Honors, Deans List, James Scholar for both liberal arts and engineering colleges.
Patents and Publications
Filed 87 US patents since January, 2001. Received 26 issued patents with 51 patents pending. Published over 40 times in Research Disclosure.
References
References available upon request.
