
IT Architect - Performance
United States

IT Architect - Performance
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.
WinRunner software functional testing.
IT Project Management (PMP) and Architecture
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SAP; Computer Software industry)
December 2007 — Present (6 months)
As the QA Lead, developed comprehensive Performance and Functional Test Strategies. Designed performance tests. Installed and configured HP LoadRunner, Diagnostics, Quality Center 9.2, QuickTest Pro 9.2, and TAO on 55 machines.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2003 — November 2007 (4 years 11 months)
As a Certified Instructor (CI), conduct LoadRunner training classes and provide consulting (as needed).
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)
July 2007 — November 2007 (5 months)
Designed and championed best practices that 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; 10,001 or more employees; 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.
MS, Educational Computing
BS, Finance & Economics
MSIT, Database, Software Development
Online. In progress.
Tennis, Rules/Expert Systems, CSS
CSQE, CQE, CSQA, PMP, CPIM.