Software Engineer & Owner/Downright Software LLC
Washington D.C. Metro Area
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- Owner/Manager at Downright Software LLC (Sole Proprietorship)
- Past
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- Owner/Manager at The Safe Harbor Group (Sole Proprietorship)
- District Manager at Digital Equipment Corp
- Manager - Electronic Publishing Resource Center at Digital Equipment Corp
- District Software Manager at Digital Equipment Corp
- Mid-Atlantic Area Applications Products Business Manager at Digital Equipment Corp
- MCI Mail Program Manager at Digital Equipment Corp
- Various Technical/Management at Digital Equipment Corp
- Education
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- Johns Hopkins University
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Joe Griffin’s Summary
I have spent the last 10 years figuring out how the accurately measure the performance of web based applications and then how to convert that measurement into strategies and architectures that enable my clients to achieve success.
Joe Griffin’s Specialties:
Stress/Performance Testing of Web Based Applications and Web Services.
Python Development
Linux System Administration
JAD Workshops
Joe Griffin’s Experience
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Owner/Manager
Downright Software LLC (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1992 — Present (16 years 5 months)
Principal Consultant in a practice focused on web application testing and python development. Architect/designer of web application testing site STRESSMY.COM and the Open Source Load Generation Tool Addanc. (Found on sourceforge.net.) Downright Software web performance engineers help clients find bottleneck in their web based applications that cost money, lost sales, and reputation.
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Owner/Manager
The Safe Harbor Group (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1992 — June 1997 (5 years 6 months)
Principal consultant in a consulting practice focused on supporting the information technology needs of growing businesses and providing short term staff supplement, project management and technical assistance to development projects.
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District Manager
Digital Equipment Corp
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
1976 — 1992 (16 years)
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Manager - Electronic Publishing Resource Center
Digital Equipment Corp
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; DEC; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 1989 — December 1991 (2 years 6 months)
Managed the Electronic Publishing Resource Center, providing technical consulting for custom projects supporting electronic document management, document imaging, and document printing applications across the US geography.
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District Software Manager
Digital Equipment Corp
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; DEC; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 1987 — July 1989 (2 years 4 months)
Managed distributed team of over 80 software professionals providing support and consulting services to DEC clients in MD, VA, and the District of Columbia.
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Mid-Atlantic Area Applications Products Business Manager
Digital Equipment Corp
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; DEC; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 1983 — March 1987 (3 years 5 months)
Managed marketing and sales support efforts for system and application software products in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, and Washington, DC.
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MCI Mail Program Manager
Digital Equipment Corp
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; DEC; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 1982 — November 1983 (1 year 6 months)
Managed the sales and delivery effort for the user interface and message transport services components of the MCI Mail project. Successful completion of this project required managing a 30 effort-year project to completion in 9 months, creating a project facility for the effort, installation of a three VAX 11/780 cluster, hiring 20 additional software specialists and coordinating project efforts in two geographically separate districts. The MCI Mail project was completed on time and within expense projections, resulting in over $4 million of services revenue to Digital. Technical duties included management of the prototyping and specification phase, design and installation of the system development platform, and review and approval of all proposed changes to project design and plan.
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Various Technical/Management
Digital Equipment Corp
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; DEC; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 1976 — May 1982 (6 years)
Software Unit Manager
Managed the Private Sector Support Unit and the TIMELINE Data Center; responsible for delivering sales support and consulting efforts to private sector customers in the Washington, DC District. Management of the TIMELINE Data Center included operational and marketing responsibilities for timesharing services on a variety of VAXes, PDP-11s, and DECSystem-20s.
Senior Software Specialist
Delivered technical sales support and consulting services to Medical and Laboratory customers in the Washington, DC area. Provided support for VMS, IAS, RSX-11D, RSTS/E, COBOL-11, Datatrieve, DBMS-11, RT-11, and MUMPS-11. Developed real-time data acquisition applications, data analysis systems, a “back-end” data base system, DOS-11 and IAS device drivers, and medical laboratory support applications for a variety of Digital clients.
Joe Griffin’s Education
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Johns Hopkins University
BA, Psychology, AI, SW Engineering, September 1972 — May 1976
