Web Performance Evangelist and Social Media Thinker
Greater Boston Area
- Current
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- Senior Evangelist and Architect at GrabPERF
- Senior Consultant at Gomez, Inc
- Past
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- Senior Diagnostic Analyst at Keynote Systems
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Stephen Pierzchala’s Summary
I am dedicated to the concepts of Web performance excellence, and actively promote these concepts in my work at the leading Web performance measurement firm. I have also designed my own experimental test-bed to better understand the complexity of a global measurement system.
I am also actively following trends and concepts in Social Media, and how people interact with each other with modern technologies.
Stephen Pierzchala’s Specialties:
Web performance analysis, continuous improvement, best practices analysis, author, presenter, HTTP, HTML, TCP/IP, Network diagnosis, Web 2.0, consulting, evangelist, Twitter, FriendFeed, Social Media
Stephen Pierzchala’s Experience
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Senior Evangelist and Architect
GrabPERF
(Non-Profit; Myself Only; Internet industry)
November 2003 — Present (4 years 9 months)
Designed and developed the GrabPERF Web monitoring platform, a multi-location performance measurement system. Tools used in the development included:
* PERL
* PHP
* Apache 2.0 and 2.x
* MySQL
* IPTables
This system uses advanced statistical analysis to provide Web 2.0 companies, notably in the Blogging and Social Media sectors, with access to Web performance data that had been previously out of their reach. -
Senior Consultant
Gomez, Inc
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
October 2003 — Present (4 years 10 months)
* Actively delivering Technical Professional Services focused on a process of continuous improvement in Web performance
* A dedicated evangelist advocating the use of existing technologies and improved site design to optimize and enhance Web server performance at the lowest possible cost and greatest posible impact on the bottom-line
* Analysis of Web performance measurement data to validate and verify the impact of performance enhancement processes
* Lead projects with large customers to identify, diagnose, and resolve Web performance issues affecting customer experience and revenue -
Senior Diagnostic Analyst
Keynote Systems
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; KEYN; Internet industry)
July 1999 — October 2003 (4 years 4 months)
* End-to-end analysis and diagnosis of Web performance issues for Keynote customers.
* Ongoing QA of Keynote's measurement technologies and interfaces, with a focus on accurate capture and representation of Web performance metrics to customers
* Maintenance and monitoring of Keynote's Public Performance indices, including the Keynote Business 40, and the Keynote Brokerage Trading Index
* Primary technical content developer for three Keynote training offerings, including the creation and ongoing maintenance of the course manual and technical presentations
* Produced and presented online seminars in the areas of:
0 Web Caching
0 Tweaking Web Servers for Performance
0 Advanced Data Analysis Using Keynote Data
0 Browser Behaviour
* Presented seminars in Advanced Data Analysis at Keynote's GIPC WEST and GIPC EAST conferences to over 80 Keynote customers
* Primary presenter of Keynote Training offerings for both in-person and on-line sessions
