Wilson Mar

Wilson Mar

Architect - Project Lead

United States

Current
  • Sr. Consultant at Dell
  • Trainer/Consultant at Mercury (now HP)
Past
  • Performance Consultant at CGI
  • Performance Architect/SME at GFEBS/Accenture
  • QA/Performance Architect at SAP
  • Performance Architect/Build Engineer at Mckesson
  • Performance Architect at Intralinks
  • Performance Architect Consultant at Northrop Grumman Mission Systems
  • Performance Architect/Lead at GoDaddy
  • QA Architect at VeriTest Lionbridge
  • Analyst at Transamerica Financial Services

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Education
  • Loyola Marymount University, College of Business Administration
  • Pepperdine University
  • Regis University
  • WOPR8

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Wilson Mar’s Summary

Over 20 years of in-depth IT experience on complex high-volume, high security systems in banking, health care, and manufacturing. (wilsonmar at gmail)

Wilson Mar’s Specialties:

LoadRunner performance/capacity analysis and load testing.
Quality Center SQL & ITIL Test Management.
Selenium, WinRunner & QTP VBScript testing.
IT Project Management (PMP) and Architecture

Wilson Mar’s Experience

  • Sr. Consultant

    Dell

    (Public Company; DELL; Information Technology and Services industry)

    July 2009 — Present (5 months)

    Prepared Dell to move PHP and Java apps using jboss cache via F5. Adapted STAF, Quality Center, and Java/Jython custom apps in conjunction with LoadRunner. Created NCIS & Puppet installers, cron jobs, and Linux (Centos) shell scripts along with git, Nagios, Ganglia, Splunk. Detected memory leaks using VisualVM.

  • Trainer/Consultant

    Mercury (now HP)

    (Computer Software industry)

    January 2003 — Present (6 years 11 months)

    As a Certified Instructor (CI), conduct LoadRunner training classes and provide consulting (as needed through HP partners).

  • QA/Performance Architect/Engineer

    BCBSRI

    (Hospital & Health Care industry)

    January 2009 — June 2009 (6 months)

    Established Quality Center with Business Process Testing (BPT) by defining metrics and constructing SQL queries for Excel graphs and Business Objects dashboard. Designed processes and QTP VBScript to coordinate and schedule complex batch testing across Java servers connected to IBM mainframe via SOA ESB, SFTP, and other modes. Defined performance testing strategies and implemented QTP & Selenium for functional and performance testing of HIPPA EDI with BlueExchange.

  • Consultant

    MBO Partners

    (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Financial Services industry)

    2007 — 2009 (2 years )

  • Performance Architect Consultant

    Right Now Technologies

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

    December 2008 — December 2008 (1 month)

    Designed the performance engineering strategy, troubleshooting metrics, and LoadRunner scripts for .NET asynchronous chat.

  • Performance Consultant

    CGI

    (Public Company; GIB; Information Technology and Services industry)

    October 2008 — November 2008 (2 months)

    Designed and scripted framework-based load tests for a .NET AJAX property insurance app.

  • Performance Architect/SME

    GFEBS/Accenture

    (Defense & Space industry)

    May 2008 — October 2008 (6 months)

    Designed, planned, and conducted performance tests using LoadRunner 9.10 SAPGUI and SAPWEB scripts on SAP Portal 7 to ECC and BI on Solaris at a Secret Army facility at Redstone SC and Ft. Jackson AL.

  • QA/Performance Architect

    SAP

    (Public Company; SAP; Computer Software industry)

    December 2007 — May 2008 (6 months)

    As the QA Lead, developed comprehensive Performance and Functional Test Strategies. Designed performance tests and use of SAP Solution Manager. Installed and configured HP LoadRunner, Diagnostics, Quality Center 9.2, QTP 9.2 with Business Process Testing and TAO on 55 machines.

  • Performance Architect/Build Engineer

    Mckesson

    (Public Company; MCK; Pharmaceuticals industry)

    July 2007 — November 2007 (5 months)

    Championed QA best practices and installed Quality Center to enhance organizational effectiveness and system performance (SCM and defect management). Designed and implemented a risk-based performance test plan for a complete EHR application (web front end using VMWare instances of Tomcat, Vignette/Liferay, TIBCO, and Oracle RAC; Drools Rules Engine; IBM Ascential ETL; Hyperion ESSBASE BI).

  • Performance Architect

    Intralinks

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

    December 2006 — July 2007 (8 months)

    Created a flexible spreadsheet driven library within LoadRunner to stress test a highly secure web-based (Adobe Flex and Java Struts) document management system for drug trials and mergers and acquisitions. Back-end technologies include BEA Weblogic, Spring, Axis, and Hibernate in front of Oracle. The framework worked with DynaTrace & SiteScope to report system status.

  • Performance Architect Consultant

    Northrop Grumman Mission Systems

    (Public Company; NOC; Defense & Space industry)

    December 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 1 month)

    Lead the planning, setup, and execution of performance tests on the WebCOP GIS system for the Joint forces (Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, NATO). This web-based system ran on Solaris with BEA Weblogic and GIS using Oracle.

  • Performance Architect/Lead

    GoDaddy

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

    November 2003 — January 2005 (1 year 3 months)

    Designed and setup a complete performance testing lab of 50 machines.

  • QA Architect

    VeriTest Lionbridge

    (Computer Software industry)

    1998 — 1999 (1 year )

    Led projects for Harris, Symantec, and IBM Tivoli to test functionality, scalability, and translation of mobile and web systems. Architected testing for Windows 2000 logo certification.

  • Analyst

    Transamerica Financial Services

    (Computer Software industry)

    1980 — 1981 (1 year )

Wilson Mar’s Education

  • Loyola Marymount University, College of Business Administration

    BS , Finance & Economics

  • Pepperdine University

    MS , Educational Computing

  • Regis University

    MSIT , Database, Software Development

    Online. In progress.

  • WOPR8

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Wilson Mar’s Honors:

CSQE, CQE, CSQA, PMP, CPIM.

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