SUMMARY

• I'm a founder and Practice Director of Confidential specializing in ERP performance testing and tuning.
• Led performance testing efforts in more than a dozen large SAP implementations throughout North America
• Leveraged over 17 years of LoadRunner and Performance Center consulting experienced in lead roles Led the development of several customized performance testing methodologies
• Led project efforts with critical accounts to plan, develop, and execute performance test suites .
• Served as Lead on performance testing projects for multiple ERP implementations (SAP, Siebel Web and JDE Peoplesoft).
• Primary experience working with the following software testing tools, testing methodologies, and ERP applications: SAP (FI, SD, BEX, BOBJ, BI, F&R, ERP, Store Ops, COM, POM, CRM,Batch Jobs and more), Siebel Web, Citrix, Fidelity TouchPoint CRM, JDE / Peoplesoft Web, Developed and delivered LoadRunner and Performance Center 11 training materials to F100 customers.
• Certified Product Consultant in HP Solutions Services # LoadRunner # Performance Center # Certified Instructor
• Consistently understands the importance and relationship between software development, QA, executive/strategic planning, communication, and client relationship management.
• Served as Visiting Faculty at The Confidential ’s College of Computing, creating and delivering a course in Enterprise Computing Performance in 2005 (CS4803EPR).
• Established the Enterprise Computing Performance Lab at Georgia Tech.
• Developed complete functional and performance testing solutions for a wide range of industry clientele Provided professional training for a wide range of industry clientele on: LoadRunner, ALM Performance Center and many others. Senior Performance Engineer who led the automation effort at many large clients, and against many different platforms and software applications.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• SAP performance testing JD Edwards performance testing ERP performance testing performance engineering (early and late detection) performance test simulation and related skills predictive performance and performance modeling functional test automation

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• LoadRunner
• Performance Testing
• Performance Center
• Test Automation
• Testing
• Test Planning
• Quality Center
• Software Quality Assurance
• SDLC
• Agile Methodologies
• QTP
• Unix
• Requirements Analysis Quality Assurance Regression Testing System Testing
• SQL
• Performance Tuning Test Management Software Development Integration
• User Acceptance Testing
• Software Project Management
• Business Process
• Scrum
• Oracle
• Manual Testing Data Migration Test Cases Web Services Business Intelligence DB2
• Java Enterprise Edition Enterprise Software Java
• Load Testing
• Solaris
• ERP
• Web Applications
• Agile Project Management
• SOA
• System Architecture Data Warehousing Architectures CRM
• HP Quality Center

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Founder and Director

Confidential

Responsibilities:

I'm the Director of Professional Services and principal consultant at Confidential. I developed new business and partnerships, as well as built out the consulting practice from two to more than ten senior consultants. I deliver and manage performance simulation consulting service engagements. Responsibilities include client development/management, business development, HP/Mercury training services delivery, client needs/requirements analysis, test planning, requirements formalization, client engagement scoping exercise leadership, team management and results reporting. Technologies: LoadRunner & Performance Center through version 11 on multi - platform and various system architectures, to include SAP, Siebel, JDE, Oracle, Microsoft and EJB; SiteScope, Diagnostics, WinRunner, ODBC, Informix, Ora 2-Tier, terminal emulation (RTE), WinSock, HTTP scripting and more; QuickTestPro scripting.

SCORE SAP Performance Test Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Performance Test Manager; Duration 9.5 mos Confidential SCORE Project (6+ mos) Lead Performance consultant (large team) doing extensive test planning, scripting and execution (including detailed analysis and defect resolution) on COM, FI, F&R, BI, UCM, XI and Store Ops. Led team of 33 testers, consultants (including SAP AGS) and Basis engineers. Implemented SAP J2EE monitor on HP-UX (app servers). Worked extensively with large Basis, Security, Portal and horizontal teams. Worked closely with onsite SAP AGS (Active Global Support) team. Designed and executed front end and back end (batch) tests. Technologies include WebDyn Pro, ABAP, R/3, DB2, HP-UX, Java, etc.

Adjunct Faculty

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Developed and delivered a senior/graduate level three credit hour Computer Science elective course on Software Performance Engineering, titled Enterprise Computing Performance CS4803EPR, the first course of its kind. The course covered queuing theory, predictive performance modeling and late integration performance evaluation theories, methods and techniques, including a major practical project. Established the Georgia Tech CoC Performance and Scalability Lab. Developed and delivered a post-graduate special topics course: CS8903; Performance Engineering - Special Projects.

Principal Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Principal Performance Test Consultant, specializing in ERP application performance testing (SAP, Oracle, JDE, etc) as well as other large, complex systems. Trained and installed LoadRunner and Performance Center for many large clients. Conducted sales engineering efforts for some of the HP BTO products. Mentored other consultants.

Performance Test Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Started a formal performance testing practice and lead several, major projects for clients including State Farm. Lead a team of eight engineers.

Performance Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

TechSouth direct client: 12 mos engagement. Led a team of 5 performance engineers. Developed test plans and reports for high-availability, n-tier transactional business solutions for the financial industry, built on Microsoft DNA and DNA 2000 architectures. Developed technical project plans and leveled resources for multiple, concurrent, large-scale projects. Presented process, risk, technological and architectural overviews to senior management. Evaluated and implemented new test tools (Mercury LoadRunner 7, Silk Performer 4.5, AppMetrics, TrueTime, etc.). Implemented new processes and artifacts, and hired new personnel. Managed priorities, personnel issues and provided high-level direction for dramatically improving the scalability and performance of high-volume, enterprise CRM solutions. Designed, developed and implemented a complex performance results tracking app (ASP, ADO, ODBC).

Director of QA

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Directly managed the Jacksonville and Atlanta QA management. Developed the Encore Enterprise 'QA Handbook'. Jointly developed the 'Encore Performance Methodology' (with the VP of Development). Conducted formal test tool usage and process implementation reviews. Successfully led a major project through a disaster recovery period. Gave technical and non-technical direction to direct and non-direct reports. Hired new staff. Coordinated with the Atlanta office concerning training, processes and procedures. The test tools included the entire Mercury suite (Test Director, WinRunner, LoadRunner).

Performance Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Engagement: Led a team of 4 performance engineers. Developed high-level, high-availability (HVA), performance measurement and scalability test plans. Evaluated test tools including LoadRunner and Silk Performer. Developed performance scripting architecture, scripts and harnesses for BuyerXpert and MerchantXpert e-commerce applications. Worked with lead Sun developers to trace and remedy unacceptable performance characteristics. Wrote Java classes using JDK 1.3. Environment: Segue SilkPerformer 3.5/4.0, Solaris 2.6 and 2.8. Sun E10k, 450, 4500 and Ultra 80 servers; Ultra 10 workstations; C-shell; X-Windows.

Sr. SQA Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Used the Mercury Test Suite (WinRunner and TestDirector) to develop test automation scripts to automate testing of FLEXScript# language components, Confidential IDE UI (integrated development environment user interface), the Confidential SDK (software development kit), the compiler, the device simulator and other components of the PageWriter IDE. Led the evaluation of test tools including Rational's SQA Robot. Led the project to achieve CMM Level 1. Developed SDK examples for inclusion with the product. Developed test cases and test plans. Reviewed the Confidential client Y2K plan. Y2K-tested the Confidential IDE. Setup test lab infrastructure. Setup and administered the Mercury Test Suite of testing tools. Developed a Mercury Test Director and WinRunner training course and materials and conducted a 1 day class.

SQA Manager

Confidential

Consultant on AT&T-GIS POS-ONE project. Led all SQA efforts (functional and performance testing) with 35 test engineers and a large test lab. POS-ONE implemented the first Windows-based graphical, touch screen terminals for the US Postal Service. Implemented Mercury Test Director, WinRunner and LoadRunner for test management and test automation. Led performance testing effort, using the Winsock protocol to communicate with postal terminal peripherals throughout a national ISDN network, simulating hundreds of thousands of simultaneous users.

QA Test Automation Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Developed software functional and performance test automation test plans and scripts, and executed them on many projects in a wide variety of Unix and Windows technologies, using Rational, Mercury, CompuWare, Segue and other .

SQA Engineer and Technical Support Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Supported Quattro Pro for DOS and Windows, and other Confidential products. Worked in the QA department testing several Confidential products.