SUMMARY:

• A proven Performance Engineer with more than 12 years of IT experience including 10 years in performance planning & forecasting, monitoring, diagnosis, testing, analysis, tuning and capacity.
• Expert in analyzing requirements - functional and performance; developing User Experience / Application Monitoring dashboards; preparing performance engineering estimates; performance data, transaction volume, application usage and client profile models; developing projects, processes, strategies, standards, test plans, test cases, scripts and scenarios; conducting tests and preparing analysis reports.
• Specialist in resources monitoring and troubleshooting of n-tier applications - client, web, application, database and service; identifying performance bottlenecks - CPU, memory, heap size, garbage collection, threads, memory or connection leakage, network; performance tuning and capacity planning.
• Proficient in dynaTrace/APM/UEM/Browser Agent, HP Performance Center/LoadRunner; HP J2EE/.NET Diagnostics and SiteScope; memory heap, thread and CPU dumps analysis, hands on experience using tools - SilkPerformer, Quick Test Pro, Wily Introscope, Shunra Network Appliances, HttpWatch, WireShark, GWT, Quality Center/ALM, Eclipse IDE, Selenium, Fiddler.
• Skilled developer using mix of languages - C, C++, Java, VB, SQL, shell scripting and Fortran in operating systems - flavors of UNIX, Windows; advanced understanding of n-tier architectures including RDBMS - Oracle, DB2, SQL Server
• Experienced in Insurance, Financial, Banking, Retail, Healthcare, Medical, Social/ECS - Lotus Notes, and SharePoint; and ERP - Oracle EBS, ecommerce, Medical Center, Health Coverage, HIPAA compliance; Credit applications, Pega Systems, Investment portfolios, Diamond Client/Server, HP Peregrine.
• Design and conduct experiments, develop analytical and computational models, publish technical papers in international journals, conferences, assist graduate students, fellow in multinational cutting edge research laboratories.

STRENGTHS:

• Process and Framework Improvement Analysis & Reporting R&D
• Team Building Creative Discipline

SKILL:

Test Tools: Performance Center, LoadRunner, Automation - QTP, Selenium, SOAP UI

Monitoring/Diagnostics: dynaTrace, SiteScope, Diagnostics J2EE/.NET/Oracle, Introscope, MAT, Jconsole

Developer Tools: Eclipse IDE, Putty, Cygwin, Visual Studio, Developer2000, SQLPlus, Toad

Relational Databases: Oracle, DB2, SQL, HP AssetCenter, Diamond Healthcare System

Languages: C++, C, VB, Java, SQL, TSL, XML, HTML, FORTRAN, Scripting

Servers/Environment: WebLogic, WAS, IIS, Apache, Tomcat, ATG, Yantra, Apache-Oracle AS

Protocols: Web (HTTP/ HTML), Web Services, Oracle (web/2-tier), Custom Users, TCP/IP

Other Tools: MS Office, Visio, Quality Center/ALM, Shunra Network, MathCAD, Simulink, Electronic experiments with sophisticated diagnostics, GPIB, LabVIEW, Designer

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Amelia, OH

Performance Engineer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Develop User Experience and Application Monitoring dashboards to support the Performance and Production environments
• Establish dynaTrace UEM and APM footprints in the ModernLINK and Guidewire Policy Center, Billing Center, and Claim Center applications.
• Create process documents for the production issue root-cause analysis from the Business monitoring dashboards to Production support dashboards and performance analysis

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Performance Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Develop Performance Test Framework to facilitate component level performance testing of n-tier applications, support enterprise release and capacity planning.
• Analyze requirements, prepare test plan, strategies, scripts, work load modeling, scenarios; execute performance, validation tests; monitor applications, servers/OS, create analysis reports, detailed call profiling including browser side performance and network; conduct memory, thread, CPU, I/O, AWR analysis; give insights on tuning and architecture.
• Perform and/or support code deployment in performance, validate environment for test and production readiness, data seeding using in-house capabilities and tools, building and maintaining DB baselines for performance benchmarks and baselines.
• Enhance the team’s performance engineering and analysis capabilities to include component level performance - GUI, Web services (Middleware), Database (Oracle, SQL, and DB2), Network and Browser applications.
• Support Team activities - performance architectures, proof-of-concepts, technology evaluation, production monitoring, and issue diagnosis and root-cause analysis.

Performance Engineering Consultant

Confidential, Ann Arbor, MI

Responsibilities:

• Perform and enhance Enterprise Monitoring with tools - HP SiteScope, BAC, custom scripts
• Conduct performance test and performance validation of enterprise systems
• Perform load balancing from Load Generators/Controllers (VM Ware) to Web/App (IIS/WAS) servers to DB Servers for baseline and capacity planning
• Analyze performance - Perfmon, LoadRunner monitors/analyzer, SiteScope, in-house monitoring tools, application and DB severs (Windows, LINUX, UNIX)
• Present results on weekly basis and actively participate in design, maintenance of enterprise applications and infrastructures - SAN, Network, Applications, Servers, Processes

Confidential, Linthicum, MD

Responsibilities:

• Establish performance test processes, strategies, TCOE standards
• Analyze performance requirements, develop Performance Test Plan and Test Execution Plan
• Lead a mid-size team of performance engineers/testers in analysis, data, scripts, scenario, tests, reports
• Monitor OS, DB, Application servers with LoadRunner native and in-house monitoring utilities
• Analyze results, identify bottlenecks and prepare analysis reports including the recommendations
• Gather and analyze requirements, prepare performance project estimates, prepare analysis and work with DBA/developers/performance architects to analyze the scope in performance.
• Prepare analysis reports for the Black Friday performance model and support in mitigation of database locks initiated due to the multiple items checkout.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Responsibilities:

• Analyze performance requirements, prepare performance project estimates, prepare scripts, execute testing scenarios, prepare analysis, and work with DBA/developers for database/application tuning.
• Setup repeatable performance testing process that could be executed by non contract personnel

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Performance Engineering Consultant

Responsibilities:

• I worked on all facets of the team - performance engagements, functional and non-functional (performance) requirements, SOW, test plans, scripts, WLM, scenarios, performance testing and monitoring (SiteScope), diagnostics (HP J2EE/.NET Diagnostics), analysis and reporting, assist in tuning and capacity planning of large user base enterprise applications.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Performance Engineering Consultant

Responsibilities:

• I worked on performance of the Web and Mainframe Applications: instant messaging, Confidential Card; business rules - PegaRULES; upgrading DB2 version 7 to version 8. My responsibilities were to analyze requirements, develop test scripts, plans, scenarios, strategies, loads testing, test analysis and reporting.