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DevOps mastery:

·               Wrote LoadRunner and Performance Center HP certification exams

·               Created standard examples of scripts for LoadRunner  in C, SAP, JavaScript

·               Setup monitoring on Windows and Unix using SiteScope, Perfmon, AppD.

·               Designed and conducted Master-level seminars on LoadRunner performance testing

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·               Produced analysis combining Kibana4, AppDynamics, Tableau, and Extrahop

·               Speaker at ElasticCon on championing predictive calculations for proactive measures

·               Conducted seminars on DevOps and Git to Agile scrum masters and developers

·               Installed Elastic Beats for metrics display in Kibana4 via LogStash (ELK stack)

·               Authored hands-on tutorials to stand up Jenkins, Docker, JMeter in AWS

·               Continuous Integration of JMeter into corporate Git, Jenkins, and Artifactory.

 

Business mastery:

·               Built technical development teams in China and India.

·               Experienced with at-home telecommuting with full backup facilities.

·               PMP (Project Management Professional) certified by the Project Management Institute (PMI)

·               Microsoft Certified on Project 2007

·               Bachelor of Science in Economics and Finance

·               Skilled at arranging budgets, measurements, presentations, and plans using various versions of MS Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Visio, Outlook, and other productivity aids.

 

Programming mastery:

·               Programmed C and JavaScript code using JWT and OAuth2 authentication to reach cloud services APIs with data from in-core databases.

·               OCUP (OMG Certified UML Professional, Intermediate Level)

·               Successful at rapid prototyping, testing, and smooth installation of large and complex systems and integrating a mixed environment of internet, client/server, and mainframe technologies (Eclipse, Visual Studio, generating Android Java, JavaScript, C#, VB, ASP, J2EE, accessing Oracle & MS SQL using JSON, XML, SOAP, JDBC, and SMTP/IMAP protocols).

 

QA mastery:

·               CSQE (Certified Software Quality Engineer), CQE (Certified Quality Engineer), Certified Quality Manager by the American Society for Quality (ASQ)

·               CSQA (Certified Software Quality Analyst) ) by SQE QAI

·               ASTQB / ISTQB Certified Tester

·               Developed utilities to speed script statistically valid analysis of LoadRunner and Quality Center results (employing Taguchi Design of Experiments).

·               Certified Instructor and Product Consultant on LoadRunner load testing

·               Writing a thesis on QA performance/capacity management for a
Masters in Computer Information Technology at Regis University (online).

·               ISO 9000 Lead Auditor Certification 48-Hour Training by Inchcape-Intertek.

·               Quality seminars taught by Dr. W. Edwards Deming, Yoshida, Thurber, etc..

·               Total Quality Management 10-course certificate program, CSU Long Beach.

Mentoring:

·               Master of Science in Educational Computing, Pepperdine University

·               Conducts courses for developers on efficient Java Threading, JavaScript, and CSS.

·               Author a high-traffic in-depth but succinct blog on IT management technologies.

·               CTM (certified Competent Toastmaster) by Toastmasters International

·                                                                            Scored at or above 90^th percentile on Brain Bench certifications in Written English (Master level), Security, Software Testing, and other technologies.

 

EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE:

 

Performance Architect, JetBloom (07/14 – Present), telecommute

 

Leveraged in-depth experience to create and deliver step-by-step deep technical written and video tutorials which received consistent 5-star ratings at leading international conferences (StarEast and StarWest).

 

The deep dives include the full stack: Git/Github, Visual Studio, monitoring AWS and Azure cloud using OAuth, StudioR, JMeter, TruClient, JavaScript, and C coding.

 

Architected and created complete data management components integrated into a corporate-wide analytics platform using LogStash, ElastiSearch, and Kibana with Tableau, AppDynamics, and Google Analytics. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnVCUzCO1CI and http://github.com/wilsonmar/oss-perf presented at ElastiTour.

 

Software/DevOps Design Principal, Concur SAP (07/15 – 3/16) Seattle

Produced analysis combining Kibana4, AppDynamics, Tableau, and Extrahop.

Conducted seminars on DevOps and Git to Agile scrum masters and developers.

Installed Elastic Beats for metrics display in Kibana4 via LogStash (ELK stack).

Authored hands-on tutorials to stand up Jenkins, Docker, JMeter in AWS.

Implemented continuous integration of JMeter runs via Git, Jenkins, and Artifactory.

 

IT Architect Lead (Consultant & Evangelist), HP (08/10 – 7/14) telecommute

 

Spoke at conferences and wrote articles on performance testing OAuth2 in Google and other web services, async. processing, virtual tables, and other topics.

 

Used Salesforce to track marketing campaign progress by prospect/customer.

 

Advised HP R&D on real-world designs and beta releases (ALM 11, LR 12, etc.). Organized social media work across pre-sales, services, education among HP and partners. Re-designed product demonstrations.

 

Established all aspects of a mobile testing services practice with several vendors around the world. Architected and coded industry-leading script frameworks in QTP, ALM, and LoadRunner for enabling agile mobile testing. Established web services environments in Amazon EC2 Windows and Linux servers using .NET and Java.

 

Built teams on and off-shore and led quality management (performance and functional) efforts on HL7 integration systems, including recruitment, budgeting, and cost reconciliations.

Led benchmarking of several project management and ITIL systems, including debugging of SQL, Java, and .NET code to reduce spikes and garbage collection on SAP and custom apps.

 

IT Architect Lead (Consultant), MBO Partners (12/07 – 08/10)

 

As consultant through SAP and HP partners, recruited and mentored technicians and managers on all aspects of IT technology, especially SQL, Selenium, LoadRunner, JMeter, STAF, QTP with BPT, and ALM Quality Center.

 

At Dell, supported conversion of disaster recovery web apps to the cloud. Created environments from scratch using Puppet via git. Measured performance using Ganglia. Designed comprehensive functional and performance QA plans and metrics, and presented them to all levels of management and technical personnel.

 

Developed and conducted seminars on coding to recognize and emulate ASP.NET AJAX within LoadRunner and Selenium.

 

Identified performance bottlenecks and configuration changes after designing and conducting load and stress tests on.NET and Java SAP Portal, and Business Objects environments at Blue Cross Blue Shield Rhode Island, Mckesson, Stratacare, RightNow, AIG, Freescale, Army GFEBS, Dell, and others.

 

Crafted complex SQL queries and VBScript for Quality Center, data loading, and visualization. (See testpartner.com)

 

Implemented agile functional and load testing framework to collect and integrate statistics from systems during load runs at EnerNOC and elsewhere.

 

Performance/Capacity Architect Consultant, Mckesson (7/07 – 11/07)

 

Designed and championed best practices that enhance organizational effectiveness and system performance (SCM and defect management). Designed and implemented a risk-based test plan for a complete suite of applications: web front end using VMWare instances of Tomcat, Vignette/Liferay, TIBCO, and Oracle RAC; Drools Rules Engine; IBM Ascential ETL; Hyperion ESSBASE BI.

 

Performance Consultant, Intralinks (12/06 – 07/07)

 

Introduced a powerful data-driven LoadRunner script frameworks that speeds development and debugging for this web-based document management technology for Pharma and Life Sciences M&A.

 

Performance Consultant, Orasi/Mercury partners (1/05 – 12/06)

 

As a certified Mercury Instructor and LoadRunner Consultant, predicted capacity bottlenecks and robustness issues while leading several of the largest comprehensive performance measurement and load testing efforts on Linux, Solaris, and Windows clusters.  Planned, designed, scripted, and coordinated high-volume load & stress testing projects on complex VMWare, BEA, TIBCO, Oracle, Hyperion, Peoplesoft, Hibernate, Tomcat, Axis, AJAX, Flex, and COM systems at MetLife, Northrop, Raytheon, JP Morgan Chase, Netbank, and other organizations.

 

Lead Performance & Capacity Analyst, GoDaddy, Scottsdale, Arizona (11/03 – 1/05)

 

Enabled operations to proactively tune and predict workload by building (from scratch) a 56 machine performance, stress, and scalability test infrastructure. Measured and tuned load-balanced high-volume email and web applications on Windows 2000/IIS/ASP/.NET and Linux/Apache/PHP technologies using mySQL and MS-SQL. Used LoadRunner to test SOAP, XML, IMAP, SMTP, and HTTP protocols from Java, ASP.NET, and Flash applications.  Trained and mentored analysts after creating procedures and reports with HTML on SharePoint. 

 

SCM Web Test Analyst, Toyota, Long Beach, California (contract period 8/02 – 10/03)

 

Measured application performance. Structured flexible RUP & UML-based test plans and scripts to comprehensively test a complex order management system built (using ILOG, XML, XSLT, ASP, VB, Brio, Infromatica) to speed manufacturing Supply Chain Management. Defined Oracle SQL queries and PL/SQL using SQL Navigator and Toad. Introduced Rational Robot and optimized use of ClearCase and ClearQuest with Crystal Reports, all linked to RequisitePro requirements tracking.

 

Web Product Test Lead, Citibank Los Angeles and Mumbai (Bombay), India (11/99-7/02)

Expanded a team of 12 to 36 in 4 months while also establishing a 12-member offshore software test lab in India. Defined budgets, measurements, project plans, test scripts, and hardware installations to simultaneously test several websites dynamically created to flexibly serve many countries worldwide.  Found and documented over 400 defects in a year. Introduced WinRunner and made suggestions for optimizing use of Load Runner and ClearCase. Pioneered methods for end-to-end testing of XML, XSLT, ASP, VB, J2EE, Lotus Domino/Notes 5 applications (including clustering and fail-over testing).  Defined and performed testing of encryption systems.  Defined time-saving test strategies and trained a team to test a complex web-browser-based system using ASP, MS-SQL, and Crystal Reports to generate and manage rules controlling detailed run-time configuration of IIS servers running server-side VB web applications.  Organized and conducted Y2K regression tests.  Defined and standardized procedures to ensure installation and smooth operation of secure Windows NT, 2000, and Solaris UNIX servers.

 

Test Architect, VeriTest Lionbridge, Los Angeles and Ireland (8/98- 9/99)

Led development of  detailed use cases for applications seeking Microsoft Windows 2000 logo certification.  Designed scalability tests for Symantec on MS-SQL, Oracle, Exchange, IIS, and Netscape servers.  Designed and led globalization tests for Novell and Tivoli conducted in the US and Ireland.  Designed and managed keystroke-level tests for hand-held, client/server, and web-based systems for Lanier eDigital and others. Implemented extranets for remote access to test reports and analysis.  Introduced Rational Robot, Unified Process, intranets, ISO 9000/25 registration, and other process improvement initiatives.

 

Advanced Technical Training, The Helms Group, Los Angeles (1/98-7/98 training sabatical)

Coded programs and web pages on Java, J2EE, VB, SQL, Windows server & AS/400 configuration.

 

Prior work includes:

·               Programming of financial and other apps using Visual Basic, C, and other languages.

·               Consulting with an international consultancies.

 

·               Proficient at forming and facilitating multi-disciplinary teams.

 

SKILLFUL:

·               Conducts expert courses on use of Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

·               CPIM (Certified Production and Inventory Management professional) by the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS)

·               A+ and i-Net+ by CompTIA, CIW (Certified Internet Webmaster)

·               CSP (Computer Systems Professional) by the ICCP