President Performax Inc, Performance engineer.
Greater Boston Area
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- President at Performax Inc (www.iPerformax.com)
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- Consultant at Checkfree
- Consultant at Prudential
- Senior Principle Consultant at Technology Solutions Company
- Performance Engineering Manager. at Dun & Bradstreet Software
- Performance Engineering Manager at Dun and Bradstreet Software/GEAC
- Performance Characterization Engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation
- Graphics Programmer at Squibb
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Bernie Velivis (Bernie.Velivis@iPerformax.com)’s Summary
Performax (www.iPerformax.com) was founded in 1998 to provide performance engineering services to the finance and insurance industries, which were busy replacing back office data processing systems with client server solutions to resolve year 2K issues. Then as now, scalability, responsiveness, throughput, and stability were the driving issues.
We have over 20 years experience building, testing, deploying, and marketing high performance applications world wide. Our methodology works; we have a proven track record of measuring and improving the performance of mission critical applications through design review, performance characterization, tuning, code optimization, IO subsystem configuration, and capacity planning. We communicate results clearly and concisely in formats useful to management, developers, and prospective users of the software.
Bernie Velivis (Bernie.Velivis@iPerformax.com)’s Specialties:
Software load testing, performance analysis, tuning, optimization, and characterization services. See a full list of services at www.iperformax.com/services.html
Bernie Velivis (Bernie.Velivis@iPerformax.com)’s Experience
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President
Performax Inc (www.iPerformax.com)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
October 1998 — Present (9 years 8 months)
Performax provides software load testing, performance analysis, tuning, optimization, and characterization services to help our clients build, market, and deploy highly scalable applications. More info available at www.iPerformax.com
Responsible for new business development and delivery of professional services. Major customers include Prudential, Kronos, Engage Technologies, Vivendi Universal, Financial Technologies International, Kaplan, CheckFree, 5th 3Rd Bank, Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank, and Nexa Technologies. Performax has over 15 years experience developing load tests and has used OpenSTA exclusively for the last two and a half years successfully on large scale commercial projects. -
Consultant
Checkfree
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)
2002 — 2005 (3 years)
Performance engineering consultant
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Consultant
Prudential
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Insurance industry)
1998 — 2001 (3 years)
Performance engineering consultant.
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Senior Principle Consultant
Technology Solutions Company
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1997 — October 1998 (1 year 10 months)
Responsible for the definition and delivery of capacity planning services performed in conjunction with the implementation and deployment of enterprise client/server systems. Services included capacity planning feasibility and risk assessment; benchmark specification, development and results interpretation; application architecture reviews; and application and database tuning. Prior engagements included a one year residency with major insurance company tuning financials and decision support databases.
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Performance Engineering Manager.
Dun & Bradstreet Software
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 1993 — December 1996 (3 years 7 months)
Formed a new software engineering team that focused on improving and characterizing the performance of SmartStream applications. Responsibilities included budgeting, recruitment and managing the performance of five engineers, performance and salary reviews, project management, and driving cooperative projects with partners such as Sybase and Hewlett Packard. As an individual contributor, my responsibilities included tools/methodologies architect, performance engineer, and technical marketing consultant. Worked directly with financial system users to define benchmark contents and metrics.
Technologies: UNIX, NT, Windows, Sybase SQL Server, MS SQL 6.5, PowerBuilder, C, Visual Basic, SmartStream -
Performance Engineering Manager
Dun and Bradstreet Software/GEAC
(Computer Software industry)
1993 — 1996 (3 years)
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Performance Characterization Engineer
Digital Equipment Corporation
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DEC; Computer Hardware industry)
September 1983 — May 1993 (9 years 9 months)
Application benchmarking, system sizing, positioning and capacity planning documents/tools for Digital application partners Oracle, SAP, and Dun & Bradstreet.
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Graphics Programmer
Squibb
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)
June 1981 — June 1983 (2 years 1 month)
Molecular modeling team member developing real time three dimensional animation software that allowed researchers to visualize and manipulate images of complex molecular structures. Developed database routines to interface an energy minimization program (AMBER) to the Cambridge Crystallographic Database and data from Squibb’s crystallography department. Also served as systems manager for VAX and PDP-11 systems.
Technologies: VMS, Evans and Sutherland Picture Systems, BASIC, FORTRAN, RDB, RMS
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