Performance Engineer/Consultant Resume

SUMMARY:

Systems Performance Engineer and applied computer scientist with > 15 years of experience and a successful record in highly technical and leadership roles.
A multifaceted background in systems, database and applications engineering combined with a client centric approach has led to many successful, long - term engagements.
An Insightful leader experienced in managing and mentoring small teams and revenue generating practices and companies.
Systems Performance Engineering
Database and Software Engineering
Capacity Planning
Cyber Security
Keen Analytical Mind
Client Facing Expertise
Systems Architecture
Leadership of Technical Teams and Organizations
Instructing and Mentoring
Quality Assurance

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Performance Engineering: Performance Testing, Analysis, Modeling and Tuning of complex systems

Data Analysis: Excellent data analysis skills include the use of common scripting languages and R.

Operating Environments: All flavors of UNIX/LINUX. A deep understanding of UNIX internals and the tools available for the tuning and manipulation of the kernel.

Networking/CyberSecurity: TCP/IP stack, Firewalls, Routers, Switches, packet analysis, Wireshark, Nmap, BC/DR, log analysis

Databases: Oracle (v6 - Current), Informix, Sybase, SQL Server, MySQL, MongoDB

Programming Languages: Machine languages, assembler languages, C, C++, Shell scripting, JAVA, Ksh, PERL, JavaScript, CGI, expertise in all debuggers including adb

Middleware/TP Monitors: Tuxedo, NAS (iPlanet), WEBLOGIC, BroadVision

Load Generators: In addition to commercial tools like LoadRunner & JMeter.

Hardware: Sun Enterprise Servers, Sequent NUMA-Q, Pyramid, IBM SP2, HP, VMWare, all types of SAN and NAS.

Operational Environments: Extensive experience in all environments including OLTP, DSS, Web technologies (Web Services,HTTP,JSON,XML), ERP etc.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Performance Engineer/Consultant

Responsibilities:

Confidential was part of a Confidential team retained by Confidential to support performance analysis and testing of Visa Confidential ’s Direct Exchange Message Broker application.
The Confidential team created a performance lab, executed performance tests, tuned and tested systems and profiled the application code while achieving a 7x improvement in performance.

Confidential, San Francisco

Performance Engineer/Consultant

Responsibilities:

Confidential was part of a Confidential performance team retained by Confidential to analyze their hosted messaging workload and to design and execute performance and stress tests on current and next generation messaging software.
The output of this effort led to Confidential functioning as the principal system architect for re-engineering the hosted services system platform.
He delivered an analysis of the client’s workload at an enterprise level and re-architected their underlying systems platform to better support scaling, failover and systems management.

Confidential, San Francisco

Performance Engineer/Consultant

Responsibilities:

Confidential was part of a three-man team of Confidential Performance Engineers that completely revamped the Performance Engineering practice at Confidential .
The team brought a new discipline to Confidential that was formerly lacking.
He participated in the design and implementation of automated test suites, data generation and cloning processes, and performance analysis for Confidential ’s tax lot accounting application.
He constructed processes to monitor and analyze production performance and was deeply involved in data profiling.
In five years at Confidential this work contributed greatly to the increased performance and stability of this application and resulted in savings of over $3M.

Confidential, Boston

Performance Engineer/Consultant

Responsibilities:

Having spent the previous five years working on Confidential ’s software at Confidential was asked to go to Confidential to design, build and run their performance lab.
This included the design and implementation of all tests, running of the tests, analysis of the results and making improvements to the code and processes to assure that the stringent SLAs were met.
Confidential also designed and implemented a capacity planning process for the production environments.

Confidential, Denver

Director, Performance Solutions Team

Responsibilities:

As director of the Service Level Assurance Solution, Confidential was responsible for the business plan for the solution, design of the solution, training and staffing of the solution.
Over the course of two years, he built a highly respected, talented and successful group of Performance analysts.
During his last year at Tanning, he also rolled the solution out to Europe.
Confidential also served as the lead performance engineer on critical ‘rescue missions’ at new clients.

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