SUMMARY:

• Early adopter of development within Amazon EC2 cloud
• Conducts expert courses on use of Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Successful at rapid prototyping, testing, and smooth installation of large and complex systems and integrating Confidential mixed environment of internet, client/server, and mainframe technologies (Eclipse, Visual Studio, IronSpeed, CodeSmith generating Android Java, JavaScript, C#, VB, ASP, J2EE, accessing Oracle & MS SQL using JSON, XML, SOAP, JDBC, and SMTP/IMAP protocols).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Capacity Data Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designing responsive single - page application front and back end using Bootstrap, FlatUI, Highcharts, running on node.js with MongoDB.
• This application collects, combines, and displays metrics from API calls to Google and several other sources to analyze relationships.
• Taught the Mastering Performance Testing 3-day class at major conferences StarWest and StarEast with 90% of attendees rating the highest score.

Performance & Capacity Engineering Consultant & Evangelist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and conducted seminars on use of cloud (SaaS) and continuous integration and mobile performance and capacity.
• Spoke at conferences and wrote articles on testing the performance and capacity of OAuth2 JWT authenticated Google APIs and other web services. Techniques include asynchronous processing, virtual tables, and security innovations.
• Advised Confidential on real-world designs and beta releases (ALM 11, LR 12, etc.). Organized social media work across pre-sales, services, education among Confidential and partners. Re-designed product demonstrations.
• Established all aspects of mobile testing services with several vendors around the world. Architected and coded industry-leading script frameworks in QTP, ALM, and LoadRunner for enabling agile mobile testing. Established web services environments for Windows and Linux servers within Amazon EC2, Skytap clouds.
• Built teams on and off-shore and led quality management (performance and functional) efforts on HL7 integration systems, including recruitment, budgeting, and cost reconciliations.
• Led benmarking of several project management and ITIL systems, including debugging of SQL, Java, and .NET code to reduce spikes and garbage collection on SAP and custom apps.

IT Architect Lead (Consultant)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As consultant through SAP and Confidential partners, recruited and mentored technicians and managers on all aspects of IT technology, especially SQL, Selenium, LoadRunner, JMeter, STAF, QTP with BPT, and ALM Quality Center.
• At Confidential, supported conversion of disaster recovery web apps to the cloud. Created environments from scratch using Puppet via git. Measured performance and capacity using Ganglia.
• Designed comprehensive functional and performance/capacity QA plans and metrics, and presented them to all levels of management and technical personnel.
• Developed and conducted seminars on coding to recognize and emulate ASP.NET AJAX within LoadRunner, JMeter, and Selenium.

Performance/Capacity Architect Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and championed best practices that enhance organizational effectiveness and system performance (SCM and defect management).
• Designed and implemented Confidential risk-based test plan for Confidential complete suite of applications: web front end using VMWare instances of Tomcat, Vignette/Liferay, TIBCO, and Oracle RAC; Drools Rules Engine; IBM Ascential ETL; Hyperion ESSBASE BI.

Performance Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Introduced Confidential powerful data-driven LoadRunner script frameworks that speeds development and debugging for this web-based document management technology for Confidential & Confidential .

Performance Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As Confidential certified Confidential Instructor and LoadRunner Consultant, predicted capacity bottlenecks and robustness issues while leading several of the largest comprehensive performance measurement and load testing efforts on Linux, Solaris, and Windows clusters.
• Planned, designed, scripted, and coordinated high-volume load & stress testing projects on complex VMWare, BEA, TIBCO, Oracle, Hyperion, Peoplesoft, Hibernate, Tomcat, Axis, AJAX, Flex, and COM systems.

Lead Performance & Capacity Analyst

Confidential, Scottsdale, Arizona

Responsibilities:

• Enabled operations to proactively tune and predict workload by building Confidential 56 machine performance, stress, and scalability test infrastructure.
• Measured and tuned load-balanced high-volume email and web applications on Windows 2000/IIS/ASP/.NET and Linux/Apache/PHP technologies using mySQL and MS-SQL.
• Used LoadRunner 7.8 and 8.0 to test SOAP, XML, IMAP, SMTP, and HTTP protocols from Java, ASP.NET, and Flash applications.
• Trained and mentored analysts after creating procedures and reports with HTML on SharePoint.

SCM Web Test Analyst

Confidential, Long Beach, California

Responsibilities:

• Measured application performance. Structured flexible RUP & UML-based test plans and scripts to comprehensively test Confidential complex order management system built (using ILOG, XML, XSLT, ASP, VB, Brio, Infromatica) to speed manufacturing Supply Chain Management.
• Defined Oracle SQL queries and PL/SQL using SQL Navigator and Toad. Introduced Rational Robot and optimized use of ClearCase and ClearQuest with Crystal Reports, all linked to RequisitePro requirements tracking.

Web Product Test Lead

Confidential, Los Angeles

Responsibilities:

• Expanded Confidential team of 12 to 36 in 4 months while also establishing Confidential 12-member offshore software test lab in India.
• Defined budgets, measurements, project plans, test scripts, and hardware installations to simultaneously test several websites dynamically created to flexibly serve many countries worldwide.
• Found and documented over 400 defects in Confidential year. Introduced WinRunner and made suggestions for optimizing use of Load Runner and ClearCase.
• Pioneered methods for end-to-end testing of XML, XSLT, ASP, VB, J2EE, Lotus Domino/Notes 5 applications (including clustering and fail-over testing).
• Defined and performed testing of encryption systems. Defined time-saving test strategies and trained Confidential team to test Confidential complex web-browser-based system using ASP, MS-SQL, and Crystal Reports to generate and manage rules controlling detailed run-time configuration of IIS servers running server-side VB web applications.
• Organized and conducted Y2K regression tests. Defined and standardized procedures to ensure installation and smooth operation of secure Windows NT, 2000, and Solaris UNIX servers.

Test Architect

Confidential, Los Angeles

Responsibilities:

• Led development of detailed use cases for applications seeking Microsoft Windows 2000 logo certification.
• Designed scalability tests for Confidential on MS-SQL, Oracle, Exchange, IIS, and Netscape servers.
• Designed and led globalization tests for Novell and Tivoli conducted in the US and Ireland.
• Designed and managed keystroke-level tests for hand-held, client/server, and web-based systems for Confidential and others.
• Implemented extranets for remote access to test reports and analysis.
• Introduced Rational Robot, Unified Process, intranets, ISO 9000/25 registration, and other process improvement initiatives.