Multi-Project Management ￨ Team Building ￨ Training / Development ￨ Key Data / Records Management ￨ Daily IT Reporting

LoadRunner ￨ Integration ￨ Performance Testing ￨ Performance Improvement ￨ Process Optimization ￨ Advanced Troubleshooting

• Top Performer who boasts a record of proven IT career results, and who makes decisions to reflect positively on operations growth in alignment with a company s vision, value, and goals to attain a competitive global advantage.
• Visionary Professional who rises above challenges to drive winning outcomes while project-managing enterprise initiatives with an emphasis on Agile methodologies and using tools (e.g. LoadRunner) to achieve test objectives.
• Solutions-Driven Communicator who builds synergistic relationships with decision-makers, developers, testers, and product managers; who excels in autonomous and collaborative work environments; and who leads teams by example.

Lead Performance Engineer

Microsoft Dynamics Server Team

  Capitalize on the opportunity to lead a forxxxxxxrd-thinking global accounting project using Microsoft Dynamics AX and Microsoft Dynamics CRM with responsibilities consisting of instructing others in executing, loading, and handling performance testing against the largest installations ever attempted and publishing diverse daily and weekly reports.

Performance Engineer Performance & Scalability

  Strategically steered the world s largest, top-performing testing team, including using Performance Center 11 to execute capacity tests on hundreds of internal Boeing applications, as well as testing new applications every month finding Maximum System Capability and response times for each application and producing concise IT-based reports.

Performance Engineer

  Utilized broad scope of industry knowledge toxxxxxxrd writing a 100-page test plan and running performance tests for build-out of the world s largest mobile server platform built on Red Hat Linux 10.3, including using an Open Source load tool called OpenTS and coding Linux shell scripts to collect metrics from Red Hat systems (i.e. CPU load, memory).

  Built scripts around Unix / Linux tools (i.e. DSTAT, VMSTAT, DBACCESS, IOSTAT, several F5 VIPRION load balancers), including collecting 100 metrics from 55 servers, as well as effectively coding additional scripts built around Microsoft s Log Parser tool to programmatically average and graph performance data from 2- hour and 3-hour tests.

Performance Engineer

Windows Live Mobile

  Delivered consistent performance improvements for Windows Mobile Platform, including designing and executing a custom load tool, as well as facilitating capacity planning to help build a platform expected to serve 700 million users.

  Developed an efficient load testing and reporting process, along with executing tests, writing load reports, comparing test results from build to build, and automating load test and reporting process to promptly resolve issues.

LoadRunner & Load Testing Trainer

  Spearheaded load testing on an ultra-secure SSH website used to gather sensitive data from Federal Agencies, including collaborating with production support to set up a load environment, install LoadRunner controller, troubleshoot scripting issues, and execute load tests, as well as establishing a clear reporting trail for measurements.

  Proactively set up XXXXXXN simulation to execute load tests, and trained top-notch staff in load testing methodology.

Performance Engineer

  Offered skill with LoadRunner, VSTT, and ACT to design and execute performance tests against a new GettyImages.com website, including loadtesting website and XML services, writing VSTS plug-ins, and analyzing and reporting results.

  Created a performance-oriented culture by presenting brown bags and seminars on performance and unit testing.

Softxxxxxxre Test Engineer (2005 2006)

MSN Messenger Team

  Led targeted MSN Messenger connectivity testing using C# automation harness, including keeping code in Source Depot and reporting results in WTT, as well as personally writing code for a programmable switching device (APCON).

Softxxxxxxre Test Engineer (2005)

Office Live Meeting Team

  Seamlessly executed a large-scale suite of test cases (i.e. functionality, stress, interoperability) essential to integrate add-on softxxxxxxre to 3 different Microsoft Office versions (i.e. 9, 10, and 11), including providing complex integration with Outlook, interfacing with Exchange, a web UI, and required location of 8 different languages to achieve goals.

  Exhibited proven experience in the efficient utilization of C# to proficiently automate various test cases.

Softxxxxxxre Test Engineer (2003 2004)

Windows Media Team

  Drove IT success by facilitating build-out and maintenance of a high-volume test environment of 100+ high-end machines (i.e. HP DL580s, 4 external RAID chassis), including using Team Tool (Imaging Softxxxxxxre), Softxxxxxxre Update Services (SUS), Cluster Sentinel, and other handwritten tools to maintain the environment and achieve objectives.

  Demonstrated advanced troubleshooting skills of DNS, WINS, SSL Certification, and Hotfix installation and maintenance, including facilitating performance and stress testing of SQL-stored procedures and all web services.

  Optimized efficiency by documenting environment and communicating changes, and executing BVTs against builds.

Softxxxxxxre Test Engineer (2003)

MSN Server Team (Red West)

  Contributed sharp analytical abilities toxxxxxxrd testing server components of Parental Control Rating System (Internet Content Filtering) of MSN client, including building out a test environment consisting of SQL Servers, Windows 2003 Web servers (HP DL380s), and client machines to perform functional and stress tests of ASP.NET server applications.

  Utilized a Web Application Stress Tool and C# tools to stress servers with SOAP requests, checked for memory leaks, forced error conditions, and handled security testing, along with comprehensively developing test cases in TACTICS, filing bugs in Product Studio, and developing critical strategies to test the Master Database of URLs for corruption.

Performance & Functional Tester (2001 2003)

WindowsMedia.com, Redmond Campus Building 50 (STE III Position)

  Expertly executed performance, scalability, and stress tests on http://www.windowsmedia.com using Web Application Stress Tool and LoadRunner, including testing for functionality, localization, security, accessibility, and SQL-Injection.

  Played a vital role in administering 100 additional W2K and XP servers, along with setting up and maintaining 2 performance testing environments (3 Dell PowerEdge 6300 web servers, 3 SQL Servers, MSN Ad server, 25 load clients).

  Ensured seamless core IT operations by maintaining all appropriate service packs, IPAKS, IIS configuration, and builds.

Programming: LoadRunner ￨ LoadRunner C ￨ C# (Visual Studio) ￨ T-SQL ￨ ASP.NET

HTML ￨ VBScript ￨ Windows Batch File Programming ￨ Linux Shell Scripting

Test Tools: Query Analyzer ￨ Top ￨ vmstat ￨ iostat ￨ Microsoft Log Parser

LoadRunner ￨ OpenTS Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) ￨ Product Studio

WTT (Test Harness at MS) ￨ Netmon ￨ Wireshark ￨ Fiddler ￨ SQL Server Profile

Miscellaneous: Badboy Softxxxxxxre ￨ Red Hat 5.3 ￨ Various Virtualization Technologies

Project Management ￨ Agile Team Techniques ￨ Checkpoint Firexxxxxxll