Robert Smith is a seasoned software quality assurance and software development professional with over 11 years of focused experience and a career-long track record in regulated and mission-critical environments. An ASQ Fellow with CQE and CSQE credentials and IEEE CSDP software development recognition, he has led SQA teams, chaired corporate quality councils, and served as the "go-to" expert for software quality at national lab and industrial programs. His hands-on work spans test case review, change control, audits, and building automated build-and-deploy pipelines—evidenced by DevOps contributions to the Havoc Framework and clear, user-friendly infosec documentation on GitHub. Comfortable writing procedures and translating requirements into auditable test artifacts, he combines organizational behavior insight from an MBA with deep systems analysis training. Now based in Idaho Falls and formally retired from full-time roles, he continues to contribute technically and documentatively to open-source and security reference projects. Colleagues value him for pragmatic quality stewardship and a knack for making complex compliance and deployment processes consistently repeatable.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Pre-College Studies, Diploma, Pre-College Studies at Euclid High School
MBA, Organizational Behaviour, MBA, Organizational Behaviour at Ohio University
BS, Systems Analysis, BS, Systems Analysis at Miami University
An Information Security Reference That Doesn't Suck; https://rmusser.net/git/admin-2/Infosec_Reference for non-MS Git hosted version.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Contributions:2 reviews, 426 commits, 41 PRs in 8 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributes to the repository by creating and updating documentation. The commits include changes to HTML files, suggesting the creation or modification of content displayed on a website. The addition of a Docsify configuration and supporting files demonstrates the user's focus on generating an easily navigable, offline-accessible documentation site from the repository content. The user also updates the `index.html` file, likely for improved navigation of the Docsify site.
Contributions:36 commits, 15 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Robert primarily focused on automating build and deployment processes within the repository. They updated Dockerfiles and install instructions. The user also modified Jenkins-related scripts, and adjusted the build process by implementing Git clones from GitHub. This suggests a focus on streamlining the build and deployment pipeline.
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