
Architect - Project Lead
United States

Architect - Project Lead
United States
Over 20 years of in-depth IT experience on complex high-volume, high security systems in banking, health care, and manufacturing. (wilsonmar at gmail)
LoadRunner performance/capacity analysis and load testing.
Quality Center SQL & ITIL Test Management.
Selenium, WinRunner & QTP VBScript testing.
IT Project Management (PMP) and Architecture
(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.
(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).
(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.
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Financial Services industry)
2007 — 2009 (2 years )
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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).
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(Computer Software industry)
1980 — 1981 (1 year )
BS , Finance & Economics
MS , Educational Computing
MSIT , Database, Software Development
Online. In progress.
Tennis, Rules/Expert Systems, CSS
CSQE, CQE, CSQA, PMP, CPIM.