Richard Burton
Lab Services Director at SWAT Lab

Richard Burton, Lab Services Director at SWAT Lab, is responsible for the company’s new growth plans that include designing test matrices and processes for wireless technologies, 64bit architecture, security applications and web applications.

Burton’s primary responsibilities at SWAT Lab are managing all lab engineers, testers and technicians, and overseeing all test projects. This includes creating test processes and efficiencies to provide the highest quality of deliverables to SWAT Lab clients. Burton also architected and deployed web-based software that is now used as a portal for all SWAT Lab client management, project data management and collaboration.

Burton worked with a major medical software company in Minneapolis, leveraging his experience in test lab provisioning to design and implement a fast and economical automated verification framework. This framework tests multi-product applications on a single platform, using multi-boot partitioning architecture and scripted automation. The architecture will save hundreds of thousands of dollars in hardware costs and hundreds of hours of testing time. It will allow the company to conduct testing with coverage and efficiency that could not be realized prior to implementing this test architecture.

Prior to joining SWAT Lab in 2004, Burton worked in several capacities at PCTest Corporation in Portland, OR, most recently as a company Director. He designed and built hardware and software test matrices and processes for various sectors of the computer industry, testing over 500 software applications and 300 peripherals. At PCTest, Burton was involved in interactions with 300+ customers and 3000 projects. One major project was building an outsourced solution for the Fisher-Price Power Touch System that provided the company with a 50% cost reduction over previous testing methods. Another project was creating an outsourced motherboard validation solution for Intel.

Burton studied software engineering and mathematics at Portland Community College and completed advance coursework in Computer Systems Engineering Technology at the Oregon Institute of Technology. Current professional associations include the Minnesota High Tech Association, Life Science Alley, VMWare and Oracle Users Groups of Minneapolis, Microsoft Partner Program, and Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and SUN Developer Networks.