SUMMARY:

• Focused mainly in Computer Application Performance Evaluation, Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Performance Engineering and Capacity Planning.
• Provides consulting services.
• Provides Front - end Web Page Optimization as well as back end performance analysis, component level, end-to-end performance testing, modeling, validation, benchmarking and comparison analysis.
• Holds a CPC certification in LoadRunner.
• Experienced in designing, developing, implementing, testing, optimizing and maintaining diverse operating and applications environments.
• Experienced in Web-based technologies, traditional Client/Server, J2EE, RIA, SOA, Web Services, .NET, Windows, UNIX Solaris, Linux, Red Hat, SuSE, AIX, HP-UX, and Mainframe measurement including heavy problem analysis.
• Provides thought leadership and hands on expertise in the performance test engineering space.

TECHNICAL INFORMATION:

Software: WINDOWS 2007, 2008, 2010, Fiddler, Fiddler2, AviCode, IntroScope, dynaTrace AJAX, SCAI App Internals XPert, Panorama, HTTPWatch, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX UNIX, z/OS, CHROME, IE, WEBLOGIC, WEBSPHERE, IBM Compute Grid and Object Grid, nCache, Apache, Tomcat, J2EE, JAVA, JSP, MVC, SOA, ESB/MULE, JASON, XML, Tibco, WatchTower, JMX, MQ SERIES, Siebel, TUXEDO, OPTIBENCH, LOADRUNNER, PERFORMANCE CENTER, VUGEN, SITEMINDER, HEAPDUMP, SITESCOPE, MVS, ORACLE 9i, 10g, 11, RAC, DB2, IIS, MS SQL Server, .NET, MySQL, neXpert, SYBASE, ORACLE, QUERY ANALYZER, ISQL, TSQL, JPROBE, JConsole, HTML, OOAD, DNS, DHCP, C, C++, VB, AWK, SED, PERL, Windows and UNIX Scripting, SAS, EXCEL, VBA, Pivot Table, MSPROJECT, MSPOWER POINT, MSWORD, MSACCESS, SQL, ASTRA, SILKPERFORMER, CITRIX METAFRAME, Shunra HP Network Virtualization, OPENVIEW MEASUREWARE, PERFVIEW, GLANCEPLUS, PERFMON, TOPAZ, BAC, NTSMF, BEST/1, IBM SET tool, PURIFY, QUANTIFY, NETXRAY, NETMON, NMON, ERWIN, TOAD, SQLPLUS, TPNS, VISIO, CORBA, CICS, XCF, SYSPLEX, STROBE, GTF, OMEGAMON, INTERTEST, SLR, RMF, CLARIFY, HitBox, WebTrends, Endeca, AJAX, Web Services, SOA, SOAP, SOAPUI, QTP, UFT, FLEX, Verity, TEAMQUEST, OPTIER, VTS, JMeter, Avalanche, Firefox, IE, Cygwin, Shunra, WireShark, more.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE INCLUDE:

• Front End Web Page Optimization and Engineering (Fiddler, dynaTrace, YSlow, HTTPWatch, etc.)
• Performance functions: Hands-on automated performance testing, benchmarking, stress testing, sizing, Capacity Planning, APM, modeling for Internet Client/Server n-tier applications, UNIX, Windows and Mainframe systems.
• Implementation of technical functions: Computer Performance and Resource Management, Technical Planning, Systems Programming, Storage Management, Quality Assurance, Production Support, QA Testing, Performance Testing.
• Analysis, Engineering, and refinement of software performance, controls and effectiveness.
• Operating Systems generation, maintenance, support and tuning.
• Applications performance measurement and optimization.
• Management of Change Management and Problem Management systems.
• Evaluation, selection, installation, testing and support of various software products.
• Management, team lead, thought leadership, and mentoring QA automation and performance teams.

RECENT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Basking Ridge, NJ

Senior Performance Engineer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performance engineering, analysis, APM with D ynatrace, testing and planning for a complex web based application in a fast paced environment.
• RH Linux, Apache, JBoss, Oracle.
• Performance Center, LoadRunner, Dynatrace for deep dive profiling, log analysis, HPPM, Fiddler, Unix scripting. SQLDeveloper for Oracle DB. Wrote Excel tools using VBA for post-test analysis.

Confidential, NYC

Senior Performance Engineer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Second tour at this client. Member of High Performance Lab team providing performance measurement analysis services to internal application teams throughout the firm.
• Using LoadRunner 11.5 - 12.50, Measuring and analyzing Web HTTP, Flex, Web Services, JSON type REST Java client server applications with DB2 back ends. Used Shunra HP Network Virtualization to inject latency and simulate response time from remote regions. OLTP benchmarking with IBM MQ application tier connectivity.
• Also used WatchTower for metrics reporting, APM/Deep dive performance analysis with Riverbed SCAI Steel Central Applications Internals Xpert V9.09 (aka Opnet and Panorama), TTW Transaction Trace Warehouse. various Linux AWK, PERL shell scripting, Excel VBA, and Windows shell scripting.
• Installed and maintained LoadRunner and SCAI App Internals Xpert.
• Used and maintained UFT 12.01 scripts as LoadRunner GUI Vusers for thick client application performance testing.
• Used Wireshark, Fiddler and neXpert for Web Page Optimization.
• Tasked with some performance lab hardware management for purposes of application performance environment hardware assignment.
• Collaboration with various infrastructure engineering teams.
• Engaged in performance methodology and implementation from initial application review with stakeholders to test completion and analysis of results.

Confidential

Consultant Member Capacity Planning and Performance

Responsibilities:

• Contribute in various daily ad-hoc tasks as part of the Capacity Planning and Performance team.
• Primary tools: APM and profiling with TeamQuest (Windows systems), Prognosis (Unix AIX systems), Excel, Unix shell scripting.
• Wrote custom weblog analysis parsing scripts and created performance reports from them.
• Used custom tool to extract NMON data for server resource consumption analysis.
• Created a performance strategy document for a component of the new core banking application.
• Using LoadRunner, Vugen, Analysis tools for application and component performance testing.
• Investigate performance issues in production environment.
• VMWare (Windows), AIX LPARs, VDI, Citrix ESX configurations.

Confidential, Queens, NY

Performance Test Engineer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Installed Standalone LoadRunner 11.0 plus patch (level 4) in order to measure the performance of a ASP.NET IIS 7.5 application. APM with SiteScope.
• The application under test is a wrapper application for a legacy mainframe based (z/OS CICS) core Billing application.
• Writing complex Vugen scripts. Creating and running workloads, analyzing and presenting results.
• Providing some mentoring. Using Fiddler2 with neXpert for web page optimization.

Confidential, King of Prussia, PA

Principle Performance Engineer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Second tour at this client. Large eCommerce provider recently acquired by Confidential .
• This is my second tour at this client. Provide various performance consulting services, including review of all the team’s performance results, review and improvement of performance testing approach, analysis and results presentation.
• Key role in performance team to ensure the enterprise eCommerce production infrastructure would accommodate the demand of the 2012 black friday and holiday online sales season. This was a successful effort resulting in record setting order volume, stability and revenue.
• Tasked with running performance tests, creating workloads based on gathering volume demand, Vugen scripts, LoadRunner and Performance Center scenarios, analyzing and presenting results.
• Provide mentoring for ~10 member performance team. Products: Oracle, RH Linux, LoadRunner V 9.52, ALM PerfCenter V11.5, dynaTrace Diagnostics, SiteScope, APM with Gomez, Sterling Integrator, Mule ESB, Unix and Windows scripting plus other in-house tools. Using LoadRunner JMS and HTTP/HTML script protocols, WireShark, dynaTrace AJAX for Web Page Optimization.
• Due to my deep LoadRunner background, I was used to assist with the migration and support from previous version LoadRunner V9.52 to HP ALM Performance Center V11 and 11.5, using a combination of physical Load Generators and Amazon Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) images for Load Generators.
• Created EC2 AMIs for use by ALM/PerfCenter V11.5.. Used DynDNS with EC2 cloud implementation.
• Also measured ePiphany IA which provides product cross sell at add-to-cart time in the retail online use case.
• Measured (VMWare) Virtualized Servers. Reviewed VMWare settings with the admins.

Confidential, New York City

Senior Performance Engineer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Providing strategic, tactical and coordination performance consulting services.
• Focused on performance planning, measurement, and analysis of a new Confidential enterprise wide Entitlements Management Platform.
• Architecture: Apache Tomcat Flex based front end, communicating with RH Linux/Java EE, DB2 LUW tiers.
• Led Performance Center LoadRunner script team in India and NYC.
• Converted Vugen binary based Flex scripts to Flex protocol scripts.
• Installed standalone versions of LoadRunner in order to make Flex scripts work.
• Coordinated performance work with development team in China.
• Created many tools using Windows and Unix shell, awk, Excel VBA, to parse and analyze various application logs, Developed custom DB2 Monitor snapshot reports, performance data from application tables within the DB2 schema, server resource and application response times, and JVM behavior.
• Developed tools for analysis of production environment resource utilization and DB2 metrics.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Senior Performance Engineer Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performance analysis, strategy, modeling, mentoring, engineering recommendations, testing, for global web-based financial applications.
• Front end performance engineering (Web Page Optimization) using Fiddler, HTTPWatch, neXpert, DynaTrace Ajax Edition, Wireshark, YSlow, AviCode. Back end performance engineering using Performance Center, LoadRunner, Wiley IntroScope, back-end JVM, Oracle, IIS .NET, Solaris, WebSphere, Tibco, monitoring, key metrics collection and reporting, more.

Confidential, Piscataway, NJ

Senior Performance Consultant Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Strategic and hands on performance consulting within the Confidential QA performance testing and engineering area.
• Provided assessment of performance test environment and approach to performance measurement.
• Support of performance testing for web based applications, Siebel, WebLogic, Oracle eBusiness Suite, SOA services, Window, UNIX, and Oracle architecture components.
• Assessment of LoadRunner software.
• Creation of performance test approach for SOA Oracle based applications.
• Hands on LoadRunner scripting and analysis.
• Provided via shell scripting techniques; Perfmon-based performance data collection mechanism to collect and control resource utilization data collection from many remote servers at once rather than create network bandwidth overhead from data collection during load testing of remote servers.
• Created Excel VBA and Windows scripts to process data for analysis, reporting or importing into LR Analysis Tool. Also used SOAPUI.

Confidential, Mt Laurel, NJ

Performance Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Used LoadRunner, Performance Center, vmstat, excel VBA, Wily Introscope, SOAPUI, Unix and Windows scripting, to run and produce baseline comparison reports for web based Apache, WebLogic, Oracle, ALBPM, Web Services, under Linux (J2EE) Provisioning applications, including CIMA, SSO, Siteminder components.
• Wrote Vugen scripts, created the workload scenarios from business-supplied performance targets, and produced analysis reports.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Performance Strategist

Responsibilities:

• Provided high level strategy and low level hands-on development of test harness (LoadRunner, etc) for upgrade of core Health Benefits application using HIPAA compliant EDI messages.
• SOA, ESB IBM XI50 network appliance, Business Rules Engine PegaRule, WebSphere, J2EE, AIX, z/OS, CICS and DB2. Mentoring less experienced team players.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Performance Measurement Engineering and Testing

Responsibilities:

• Conducted benchmarking for purposes of migration from Unix-hosting Fujitso mainframe to Unix-hosting IBM LPAR Z10 IFL.
• Migration is from Solaris based platform to a combination of SuSE and RedHat Linux, which requires baseline comparison type performance work under various workloads, with iterative tuning efforts. Oracle 10g backend. Wrote Windows, Unix shell scripts, Excel VBA for environment reporting, and C program test harness to simulate CPU, Memory, and IO utilization portable to Solaris, SuSE, Redhat and Windows platforms.
• Used LoadRunner and TeamQuest for driving simulated workloads, monitoring and performance data collection, extraction and analysis.
• Participated in team to assess performance and capacity planning tools for future use by the enterprise.

Confidential, King of Prussia, PA

QA Application Performance Measurement Testing

Responsibilities:

• Within an extremely fast paced, complex eCommerce environment (Akamai, BigIP, J2EE: Apache, Weblogic, Verity, Oracle, RedHat, to additional supporting backend mainframe components; As400, DB2, MQ Series); gathered performance requirements, created performance test plans, wrote VuGen scripts, created LoadRunner scenarios, gathered test data, ran the workloads, collected the performance data, analyzed and presented results for many eCommerce Web Store applications. Also used JMeter and Avalanche.
• Created requirements for performance targets for various applications and components based on production performance data and modeling.
• Designed, ran, analyzed, and presented many types of performance tests, including Java JVM Heap memory leak testing, ESB/MULE/SOA requests, Web Services and other component testing, to full, load, and stress performance testing.
• Built and led a team of QA performance testers.
• Invited into QA Senior Management team as head of QA Common Services area. This position involved management of Automation (QTP based descriptive testing) team, Performance (LoadRunner), and Tools (Quality Center, BrowserCam, Maxamine, etc) team. This was a temporary position. Remained hands-on at all times.
• At various levels, interacted with many other departments: Release Management, Project Management, System Administration, DBA team, Development, Capacity Planners, Performance Monitoring team, Production Operations support, Business Development and Business Management teams.

Confidential, New Providence, NJ

Capacity Planning and Application Performance Measurement Testing

Responsibilities:

• Second tour at this client. PE validation for Search Engine improvements within an architecture comprised of Linux, Apache, Tomcat, WebSphere, AJAX JavaScript, Endeca and Oracle 10g RAC implementations. Developed LoadRunner (8.1) scripts incorporating latest scripting techniques - Click and Script. Combined LoadRunner scripting and C coding techniques to determine and subsequently use Search Engine results in the form of Guided Navigation Endeca Dimensions, Dimension Values, and identify Descriptors. Created workloads and workload models from statistical data provided by the business and development areas. Created the associated LoadRunner scenarios. Ran the workloads, analyzed and presented the results, and participated in tuning and optimization of the application.
• Developed QTP functional automation scripts during low-busy periods.
• Conducted a PE validation for Oracle 9i to 10g RAC conversion, with SEO improvements.
• Used Excel, HP MWA (MeasureWare), Perfview, HitBox, WebTrends, LoadRunner, UNIX shell scripting, SED, AWK, and SQL tools.
• Analyzed web traffic patterns.
• Created dynamic models of target peak hour workloads using Excel.
• Used LoadRunner to simulate production peak hour traffic in a scalable lab environment. Created workload models, performance plans, lead the development of LoadRunner scripts with a 3-member team, implemented the plan, analyzed and presented results.
• Provided context based best practices and process-improvement suggestions.
• Assisted in problem determination and resolution of various performance-related production issues, e.g. memory leaks and slow response time, etc.
• Upgraded the LR PE environment to LR 8.0, and 8.1 FP3. Utilized Mercury’s (recently acquired by HP) new Click & Script Web protocol. Working closely with Mercury Tech Support to resolved many issues related to this new way of scripting business processes.