Performance & Capacity Engineer Resume
Durham North, CarolinA
SUMMARY
- E ngineering professional with solid history of effective integration / qualification and testing of servers and applications.
- Broad knowledge and success in capacity planning, system performance management, and engineering development environments.
- Proficient in qualifying, integrating, and testing UNIX systems. Skilled trainer and project leader; able to direct multiple tasks effectively and readily master innovative software and tools.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Test Development & Execution
- Project Oversight
- Systems Implementation
- Client Relationship Management
- System Migration
- Capacity Planning
- Troubleshooting & Problem Resolution
- User Training and Support
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Platforms: CRAY YMP - C90, CRAY J90, DEC Alpha 8400, DEC VAX 11/780, DEC VAX 11/785IBM 3090, Distributed Systems (HP, IBM, Sun Microsystems & Windows based), FORTRAN, C, C+ +, HTML, SQL, PVM, MPI Too l s BMC Performance Assurance (BEST1), BMC Patrol, TeamQuest Surveyor, TeamQuest Analyzer, TeamQuest Predictor, HP Openview, Netuitive, eG Solutions, NetScout, CA Introscope, NMON Analyzer, Knime Analytics Platform, SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) & System & Application Monitor (SAM)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Durham, North Carolina
Performance & Capacity Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Promote operational maturity to performance management and capacity planning processes
- Design and apply guidelines and consolidated data analytics collection metrics utilized for P2V capacity study.
- Install and configure application and infrastructure level monitoring and alerting.
Confidential, Cary, North Carolina
Principal Capacity & Performance Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Analyzed server configurations of disparate hardware types and computed capacity requirements to support migration of enterprise systems from international to domestic data centers resulting from company acquisitions.
- Conducted application capacity assessments to support enterprise migration of application workloads from AIX to VM/Linux.
- Provided Tier 4 triage support while assisting in root cause analysis.
Confidential, Collegeville, Pennsylvania
Senior Server Performance Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Conducted performance management while supporting Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond during six-month contract.
- Analyzed data collected by NMON, SAR, CA Introscope to identify root causes of server and application performance issues.
- Identified need for server capacity upgrades and reported application and server metrics measured during performance test conducted.
- Supported Critical Cloud Computing Services for Windows, AIX, Solaris, and Linux systems.
Confidential, Coppell, Texas
Senior Capacity & Performance Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Analyzed system and application data to identify performance bottlenecks.
- Conducted system capacity reviews and provided recommendations for server upgrades and system kernel tuning.
- Provided dynamic system performance and server monitoring and system resource utilization data collection support during production triage and analysis phases.
- Rationalized enterprise system metrics implemented for monitoring and alerting threshold values.
Confidential, Troy, New York
Lead Capacity & Performance Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Administered performance management functions and capacity planning analysis of distributed system servers.
- Operated physical and virtual environments to maximize resource utilization and application performance.
- Analyzed system performance and developed automated reporting system.
Confidential, Albany, New York
Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Conducted system analysis for performance management and capacity planning of Windows NT and Unix servers.
- Assisted with IT hardware procurements and upgrades and providing technical specifications for Operating Systems and applications.
- Designed and conducted software application testing and performance test scripts.
- Oversaw and issued final QA reports for application testing.