Summary

• Over 19 years of hands - on experience across teh entire Application Development Lifecycle. These areas include: 1) Requirements Definition 2) Software & Hardware Architectures 3) Data Modeling 4) Software Design and Construction 5) Performance and Capacity Management.
• My experience includes multiple roles across each of these areas to include Software Engineer, Architect, Data Modeler, Project Manager, Technical Management and Director. Most of my career focus has been designing, building, and maintaining large scale systems.
• Extensive experience in Software Engineering and Architecture building software systems to scale to meet teh customer’s high volume transactions and 24x7x365 requirements
• 10 years of management experience
• 19 years experience in Distributed Computing
• 19 years experience in utilizing Software Development Methodologies (Scrum, RUP)
• 19 years experience with relational databases and replication technologies (Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, Golden Gate, SharePlex), monitoring, tuning using explain plans etc.
• 19 years experience with most variations of Linux/UNIX to include tuning teh operating systems to support large volume of transactions for both web, application server, middle-ware and database tiers
• 19 years of Performance Analysis experience, utilizing a multitude of tools (Purify, UNIX utilities, SNMP, jClarity Censum, HP Diagnostics, You'reKit, HP SiteScope, Oracle Sun Performance Analyzer, DTrace, Wire Shark, Hyperformix Optimizer)
• 10 years experience utilizing Java to build large server side systems using multi-threaded designs for high volume throughputs
• 10 years experience utilizing Performance Management techniques and technologies (HP BAC, HP SiteScope, IBM Tivoli)
• 12 years experience utilizing Load Testing technologies (HP LoadRunner, JMeter)
• 12 years performing Network Analysis (UNIX utilities, Wire Shark, DTrace)
• 8 years experience utilizing virtualization technologies (Solaris Zones and AIX PowerVM)
• 7 years utilizing and tuning ODBC and JDBC interfaces
• Significant experience building systems that utilized Service Oriented Architectures supporting millions of on-line customers which scaled to over 1,000 transactions per second

Professional experience

Confidential, Newton, MA

Performance Architect

Responsibilities:

• Performed all teh tasks as listed in teh previous role
• Improved teh scalability of teh REST interface by eliminating teh synchronization points in teh product design (You'rekit, improvement of over 100%)
• Benchmarked product configurations for prospective customers
• Improved teh scalability of teh SQL interface by using teh available configuration items TEMPeffectively
• Developing in-depth monitoring capabilities to understand teh performance characteristics of teh software (JVM tuning and code optimization)
• Performance tuning Cassandra

Confidential, San Mateo, CA

Performance Architect/Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designing teh performance lab to emulate our customer’s production deployment architectures
• Planning, procuring and managing our Performance Engineering environment tools (HP LoadRunner, HP Diagnostics, HP SiteScope, Oracle Sun Performance Analyzer, DTrace)
• Moving our primary Performance Analysis environment to Solaris x86 to take advantage of teh sophisticated capabilities (Oracle Sun Performance Analyzer, DTrace, Solaris Utilities)
• Interacting with our Development Staff and Product Architects to identify and resolve performance issues
• Benchmarking teh primary interfaces to understand teh performance characteristics to determine where we stand on teh performance of teh products and where we need to focus our efforts
• Improving teh performance characteristics of teh product by up to 500%
• Exploring teh use of SmartOS

Confidential, Reston, VA

Professional Services Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed and deployed federated database architectures in support of customer's business requirements
• Integrating with 3rd party applications such as teh Bloomberg API to provide financial customers with real-time market data related to their portfolio holdings
• Design and development of shared Data Services to be utilized across teh enterprise (Data Architecture)

Confidential, Reston, VA

Business Service Management Architect

Responsibilities:

• Vendor capabilities matrix across teh following functions: Change and Configuration Management, Change Control Management, Business Service Management, Problem Recognition and Diagnostic, System Monitoring
• Vendor cost benefit analysis in teh above areas

Confidential, McLean, VA

Performance Engineering Practice Lead / SOA Architect

Responsibilities:

• Scaling teh implementation to process over 1,000 transactions per second
• Interfacing with teh Software Architects, Development, and Production Support Staff to enable a full life-cycle approach to Performance Management
• Refactoring teh architecture to improve teh performance characteristics by over 100% and delaying teh procurement of additional hardware and software licenses saving teh business several million dollars
• Successfully managed a staff of 4 Performance Engineers

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Senior Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Implementing and training teh customers on teh HP Business Availability Center suite of applications
• Implementing and training teh customers on teh HP SiteScope application

Confidential

Technical Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managing teh software delivery schedule with teh customer
• Managing and interfacing with teh customer on teh ongoing Production Support operations
• Working with teh team member to improve teh application performance to meet teh customer's objectives (tuning large OLTP Oracle database)
• Interviewing and hiring employees and contracting staff

Confidential, Tucson, AZ

Director Professional Services

Responsibilities:

• Managing teh project delivery and interfacing with customers on projects
• Preparing project proposals
• Interviewing prospective employees
• Participating in sales engagements (technical support)

Confidential

Technical Lead and Architect

Responsibilities:

• Enhancing teh existing architecture to support simulation models built with Java (via CORBA)
• Re-architected teh existing “game truth” capabilities to store historical data and teh relationships of that data (object database) to enhance teh simulation model’s capabilities (HUMIT)
• Technologies (VisiBroker, ACE, TAO, C++ and Java)
• Managed a team of 3 - 5 Software Engineers

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Creating applications to capture and process billable events (utilizing C++ and CORBA)
• Assessing performance characteristics of teh applications by creating multi-threaded test clients