Performance and Capacity Engineer Resume

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Performance and Capacity Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Built a broad understanding of how our work related to teh overall IT and business architecture within teh IRS and used dis knowledge to serve as a bridge between teh IRS and fellow contractors
Supported system engineering for infrastructure refresh of a major IRS application
Wrote documentation based on analysis of teh design documents and measurement data available
Directed performance testers using LoadRunner and Rational Robot
Conducted high level briefings on mainframe capacity
Member of teh UNIX capacity planning group
Involved in staff augmentation project preparing documentation on infrastructure and performance of teh CADE 2 application
Prepared performance engineering model documents as part of a group of contractors for tax applications associated with IRS modernization; major applications involved e - filing, core tax processing, and support for teh Affordable Care Act
Participated in proposal preparation for government bids

Performance Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Built spreadsheet models of system performance and validated their results against measurements, requirements, and more detailed models

Performance Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Created model of a multiple mainframe system supporting trading and inquiries using teh Confidential (SES) tools; identified a bottleneck in teh proposed approach for spreading teh load across two Sysplexes (System Complexes)

Performance Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Employed Best1 in support of enterprise capacity planning, saving ~$1 million by identifying surplus workload segments
Built spreadsheet model of actual cycles per instruction for a Windows workload supporting x86 design and created modeling objectives for DSP design to determine teh competiveness of our proposed product
Used Pentium counters to demonstrate significance of segment register loads and presented CMG paper in 1998, PC Desktop Performance and Hardware Performance Counters

Senior Computer Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Served as a technical manager of senior performance analysts
Functioned as an advisor to teh hardware design team on performance
Supervised 2 performance analysts and provided technical expertise for their function of building and using a SAS database