Barry Marson Email & Phone Number

Evaluate technologies for Red Hat's latest and soon to be products from a functional/performance perspective.

Quality Engineer responsible for ISV certification on RHEL. Develop tests to measure/check performance of our products and partner products. Assist partners and customers with performance issues.

Clusters and AdvFS Reliability and Test Integration (CASL)Worked in UNIX Quality Management group developing, running tests, and analyzing system behavior to locate performance and scalability issues with HPUX 11.31 using the AdvFS file system and TruCluster software. Areas focused in were IOZONE, NASTRAN and NFS performance. Interfaced with UNIX engineering groups around the country resolving issues and tested prototype kernels containing future performance enhancements.

Systems Quality and Performance Engineering Jul 2000 – Mar 2003 Supported and represented Compaq’s interests in industry standard benchmarks. Configured, characterized and benchmarked the SPECsfs NFS performance benchmark on the latest Tru64 UNIX AlphaServers. Submitted and published class leading results to SPEC. Assisted in the development and testing of the latest versions of the SPECsfs benchmark as well as serving as SPECsfs Co-recorder and Vice Chairman.Supported our… Show more Systems Quality and Performance Engineering Jul 2000 – Mar 2003 Supported and represented Compaq’s interests in industry standard benchmarks. Configured, characterized and benchmarked the SPECsfs NFS performance benchmark on the latest Tru64 UNIX AlphaServers. Submitted and published class leading results to SPEC. Assisted in the development and testing of the latest versions of the SPECsfs benchmark as well as serving as SPECsfs Co-recorder and Vice Chairman.Supported our largest customers having system stability and performance issues on Tru64 TruCluster systems. Recreated customer’s environment to demonstrate issues to UNIX engineering and worked them to resolution.CRM/BI Database Solutions Group Sep 1998 – Jun 2000Predominant time was spent supporting Sybase IQ similarly as when working for Digital. Assisted with SAP/BW performance issues running on Tru64 UNIX as well as in the staging of SAP/R3 and BW systems. Show less

Independent Software Vendor Group & Software Partner Engineering GroupProvided Ultrix/Tru64 UNIX technical support to ISVs• Supported ISVs visiting porting center• Worked technical/porting issues from various sources• On site and remote engineering liaison who supported the porting of various key ISV products.• Developed porting/characterization plans, negotiated schedules, assisted with the port, managed and defined loaner equipment, and system admin. Technical contact… Show more Independent Software Vendor Group & Software Partner Engineering GroupProvided Ultrix/Tru64 UNIX technical support to ISVs• Supported ISVs visiting porting center• Worked technical/porting issues from various sources• On site and remote engineering liaison who supported the porting of various key ISV products.• Developed porting/characterization plans, negotiated schedules, assisted with the port, managed and defined loaner equipment, and system admin. Technical contact for customers using ported products. Performance analysis/optimization work done. Managed/lead a team of engineers (Digital & contractors).• Worked with ISVs and Digital engineering to resolve base technology issues. Well connected with the compiler, debugger, and Threads group.• Led development of the Association of Software and Partners technical and business support web pages.• Supported trade shows for ISV partners (1990-1995). • Supported the more senior and junior engineer’s in my group. Show less