BACKGROUND SUMMARY

• Load Testing Loadrunner 9.5, 11.52, HP Performance Center, HP Diagnostics, Quality center, Business Availability Center.
• Eight and half years in IT, Voice and Data Telecommunications.
• Software Testing and Quality Assurance of Real Time Telecom Systems.
• Systems Analyst for development of New Features and products.
• Eight and half years in UNIX System V, HP Ultrix, Sun Solaris in Telecommunications.
• ISO 9000 on Performance Software Engineering Process Improvement.
• B.S. Industrial Electronics, M.S. Electronics, Studies of Ph. D. in EE and Comp Eng.
• In-Depth Technical ability and a quick learner. Excellent troubleshooting.
• Team leader, Excellent Team Player and capable of working independently.
• US Citizen. IRS 15C MBI for a Moderate Risk Contractor Active.
• Interested in the Delaware-Maryland-Virginia DMV Area.

SKILLS

Software: SDLC, Scientific and Engineering Software SES modeling Software, X-Windows, HP Sitescope 11.20, HP Quick Test Professional , HP Loadrunner 11.52, 11.0, 9.5, 9.0, 8.1, 8.0, 7.6, HP Performance Center 8.1, HP Diagnostics, Business Availability Center, Test Director 7.6, HP Quality Center, SES modeling Software, Symbolic Mathematics Packages, S-plus5.0, Excel spreadsheet, Word Processing: Word, Quality Management System QMS, Test Management System TMS, HP Perfview, Subversion 1.7, Selenium.

Programming Languages and Operating Systems: J2EE, Python, C, C , LISP, FORTRAN, PASCAL, Assembly Language ORACLE, SQL, UNIX Solaris, UltraSPARC 10, Sun Netra 1140, FTX 2.2 SVR4 MP, HP Ultrix UX9.0, , etc. , Windows NT,XP, 7,8,8.1 , Linux, RHEL 5,6, Apache, KSH, AWK, SED, SSH, FTP, Tcl, Tkl, Bash, Python, Perl with Web Libraries, HTML, JavaScript, Expect.

Systems, Protocols, etc.: UNIX servers, PC's, Macintosh, IBM Web sphere, MQ Series, IMS, firewalls. Familiarity with the ATT telecommunications Network and the underlying technologies: Voice over IP, ATM, Frame Relay, LDAP, S. Switching and the signaling systems SS7 Network . ATM Network, Communications systems use different protocols and concepts H323, SIP, ATM, Java, X.25, BX.25, TCP/IP, SNMP, SMTP, BIND, MIBs, FTAM, NFS, CORBA.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer Tools Specialist

• HP SiteScope administrator. Involved in the day to day operation of Administration tasks.
• Installed devices and monitors in the infrastructure for the NIH Campus 22 Buildings for the Different Data centers. Includes monitors for Development, production, QA, Stage, Network, Infrastructure, replication, Sandbox, Backup, Training-Demo, etc. Devices include Switches, Servers, Firewalls, UPS, etc.
• Procured server for merging two separate instances of Sitescope on hardware to the new VMware location, improving/correcting SiteScope and aligning Deployment Architecture.
• Installed, configured, licensed and deployed and HP SiteScope 11.24.
• Reconfigured Alerts for different groups in order to maintain 24X7 availability of the servers. Servers include 627 Windows, 519 RHEL, 254 Centos, 77 ESX.
• Responsible for configuring enterprise tools for a large diverse environment to provide functional subject matter experts SMEs system availability and trending metrics. Developed Management Reports for availability, capacity, trending, and other reporting requirements. Defined system support requirements to include monitoring, capacity, and patching/updating. Analyzes and resolves program support deficiencies.

Environment: HP SiteScope 11.22, VMware vCenter Server 5.0.0, Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 5, 6, CentOS 5,6, Oracle, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2003 R2, Windows 7.

Confidential

Senior IT Consultant

• System Performance Engineer responsible for the 2014 IRS AIR / InFlowSuite and beyond Affordable Care Act ACA Information Returns IRs system Performance of the Proof Of Concept POC on a Virtual Private Cloud VPC with Amazon Web Services AWS .
• Analysis to evaluate / verify performance characteristics of the proposed system implementation for the IRS AIR /Inflowsuite in the IRS environment simulated in AWS Private Cloud .
• Analysis to gain confidence that the IRS AIR/Inflowsuite was able to handle representative ratios ACA 1095A,B,C and Legacy IRs 1099B,INT anticipated peak volumes.
• Increasing workload conditions 3,6,12 to find scalability of AIR Inflowsuite and if the system fails to meet performance Requirements.
• Analysis of peak Day data and mix types of the Millions of IR Information Returns
• Analysis of the Loadrunner scripts, number of files, number of users, scenarios implementation of the correct load for the different load tests 345, 354, 363, 372, 380, 455 Million of IRs toggling different parameters .

Environment: AWS, CloudWatch, VPC, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4, Jboss EAP CXF 5.1.2, Oracle RDBMS 11g, CA Directory, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2003 R2, Ubuntu and Windows 7 Desktop, NG InFlowSuite, HP Loadrunner 11.52, Websphere MQ 7.0.1.3.

Confidential

Python Testing Programmer

• ETL Python programming of the DOM XML parsing and comparison for verification of the Data migrated from the Google website to the Stata Database. Verification of the Pending and Registered Trademark Casefiles, Trademark Assignments and Patent assignments. Data since April 7, 1884 to 2012.

Environment: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1, Windows 7 Desktop, SQLite 3.7, subversion 1.7, Python 2.6.6.

Confidential

Senior Performance Engineer

• Performance Testing/Simulation of the em7 product. Finding limitations of the product increasing number of devices monitored, data collection and different hardware and software configurations. The maximum configuration had 120 Collectors, 5000 devices, etc. simulated by VMware devices, Linux Virtual Machines, SNMP simulators, etc.
• Automated Testing with Selenium and Python.

Environment: Ubuntu Linux Desktop 11.10, Centos Servers, MySQL 5, Windows and Mac clients, vCenter VMWare, Simplesoft and Mimic simulators.

Confidential

Performance and Capacity Planning Team Lead

• Installed, configured, deployed and licensed HP Performance Center 9.5 and 11.5. Administration Site, 3 Controllers, 8 injectors. HP Performance Center System Administrator and support.
• Installed, configured, deployed and licensed Sitescope version 9.0, 9.5 and version 11.0.
• Pre-run scripts and sanity check of HP Performance Center before every Application Load test to ensure clean results for the Performance Run: FEMS, FEPOC, ICD-10, Benefit Admin, Targeted Messages, 999 charge Lines, Real Time Web Services, eService, etc.. Scheduled resources of HP PC e.g. Controllers, injectors, time, etc..
• Installed patches for HP Performance Center and HP Sitescope different versions.
• Coordinator Release 2, 4 for the Performance and Capacity Planning team for 2011.
• Designed, Planned and executed Performance Testing for the Benefit Admin Application.
• Designed, planned and executed Performance Testing for the SOW 020 Access to Real-time Enrollment and Claims Data Web service. Load Balancing of the Web Service.
• Coordinated Release 2 and Release 4 for the Performance and Capacity Planning team for 2010.
• Performed Automated Testing using Selenium and Python.

Environment: zOS, UNIX servers, Windows 2003 Servers, RHEL 5, 6, Windows XP clients, IBM DB2 databases, Struts, JSF, Spring, Web Services, JSP, EJB, Oracle Cluster Databases, Websphere 6.1, 6.2 and 7.0, Wily Introscope, HP QC.

Confidential

Principal

• Multimedia company, video productions, Special events, Digital Video and photography. Built the entire web portal with LAMP technology. Loaded and Configured a Suse Linux Server, with Apache web server, written in PHP language, CSS Cascading Style Sheets, and using MySql database for storing the information for the site. The template pages were designed with PHP.
• Designed, wrote Data collection package with development of Python, Perl, Python, Web libraries, Ksh, awk, sed Scripts for the Data Analysis of the web portal.
• Measured GUI Performance testing response times and internetworking requirements on Suse Linux server.

Environment: Open Suse Linux11.1, Apache, MySQL4.7, PHP, CSS, Dreamweaver, Windows XP.

Confidential

Senior Quality Assurance

Testing of the Copperhead Release of the BitArmor Data Control v3.1 product. Responsible for the testing for Shell Extension and Performance testing executing Perl scripts. The Regression package scripts tested the API through the shell extension, different paths through the software, installation/Maintenance, drivers, and traffic to the back end server database. Used different environments to produce the scripts as well as to execute scripts.

Environment: Suse Linux, .NET Environment, Apache, MySQL 5.1, PHP, CSS, VMWare, Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Perl, Python, Linux-HA.

Senior Quality Assurance

Confidential

• Development and implementation of the Performance Engineering Process.
• Scripted in Python the data collection in order to learn statistics such as the number of transactions per hour each day, the number of users, the number of procedures called.
• Showed the progressive increase in the frequency of database requests.
• Investigated, planned, scripted, executed performance testing, with the HP Load Runner 9.0 of the AssetLink .NET application a financial foreclosure application including 2.4.20.6, 2.4.21.5 releases.
• Replicated production environment by data mining the database transaction using MS SQL Server 2005, and scripting the basic application processes generated to have a property going from foreclosure to sold. Scripted the business process and generated the load.
• Included generating orders from a Litton system to the Assetlink as traffic coming from the Biztalk server.
• Tested early and discovered code that critically degraded performance of application. I stopped a major problem from going to the field. Identified slow SQL stored procedures that occurred in the business process that needed.

Environment: .NET Environment, Windows Server 2003, Microsoft SQL 2005, Biztalk 2000, HP Quality Center.

Senior Contract Load Test

Confidential

• Migration to J2EE applications running on Linux on IBM mainframes. Member of the 4 people team to maintain, script, execute Performance Testing for INET with 237 different applications for Nationwide Insurance. Intranet 1 253 scripts , Intranet 2 43 Scripts , Intranet PT3 53 Scripts , Internet 72 Scripts , J2EE 161 Scripts , SharedCompPT 64 Scripts , Billing 12 Scripts .
• Executed load testing for Property and Casualty Information Technology web based applications. Including but not limited to J2EE, JMeter, .NET, Citrix, mainframe CICS, DB2 with Loadrunner, Performance Center 8.0, 8.1, logging defects in Quality Center. For releases PC1-06, PC2-06, PC2-07, PC3-07, PC5-PC6-07.
• Investigated, troubleshooted application performance issues on the field using Mercury Diagnostics, HP Business Availability Center. HP Sitescope.
• Scripted and executed individual Load Testing for different applications such as: the Learning Management System LMS , Siebel Retail7.8, Nationwide Drive-In Scheduler,
• Scripted and executed Performance Test for Catalyst 2007 mainframe CICS, including applications as Business Auto BA , Business Owners Premium BOP and General Liability GL region UNTAU42 for comparison testing for pre-build 4 against build 4.
• Scripted and executed Performance testing for Nationwide Financial, 401K and retirement pensions for the SAP ERP Enterprise.
• Assisted in the administration of Performance Center 8.1, 8.2 , adjusting number of users, number of load generators assigned to what environments, creation of user Ids,

Environment: J2EE, Oracle 9i, IBM DB2, Websphere 5.1, Weblogic 7.0, zLinux, Windows Server 2003, Oracle DB, XML, SOAP, MQ Series, HP Quality Center, etc. etc..