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San Mateo, California, Us

• Led a team of 6 Performance Engineers at PlayStation to modernize the testing framework for the Playstation Network, enhancing infrastructure performance and resilience.• Unified worldwide tooling and practices surrounding infrastructure performance to ensure a seamless gaming experience for users globally.• Reduced toil of system validation for 24/7 AWS services and enhanced a test framework that provided confidence for production-only performance testing for on-demand deployment of thousands of micro services. • Led a team of 6 Performance Engineers at PlayStation to modernize the testing framework for the Playstation Network, enhancing infrastructure performance and resilience.• Unified worldwide tooling and practices surrounding infrastructure performance to ensure a seamless gaming experience for users globally.• Reduced toil of system validation for 24/7 AWS services and enhanced a test framework that provided confidence for production-only performance testing for on-demand deployment of thousands of micro services.• Spearheaded the simplification of our distributed load generation infrastructure, manageable by Jenkins orchestration and/or k6 cloud. Streamlining test case development using the k6 framework.• Increased performance testing velocity, reduced test complexity, increased test confidence, re-use and shift-left adoption, saving the business 400k in licensing and AWS usage fees

San Diego, Ca, Us

I work in an Agile Development environment with a dynamic team of innovators. I'm tasked with White Box testing of our Grails applications and data infrastructure.

Mountain View, California, Us

Currently responsible for DataStorage funtionality and implementing new tests and maintaining application data integrity. Automation techniques are being implemented to increase productivity, reduce time in test yet improve feature and system quality. Using HypericHQ and its scripting and xml plugin structure, my team monitors backend server components and resources plus frontend availability and usage metrics across all QA environments

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Installed and maintained automated Test bed for 3 test resources.o Jboss 3.2.5, 4.0 app server, Soa Test 4.5• Created Test Automation framework for enterprise billing software across development, staging and production environments.o Mindreef Soapscope 5.1• Created pre deployment smoke tests• Created Unit, Functional, Regression and Load Test Cases• Created Test Plan and Best Practices for Web Services Testing• Built a performance test bed with push button ease to meet production billing system requirements for accuracy, transaction loading and using data to depict the customer experience.

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Facilitated testing for an Enterprise level software product. Managed the entire Testing Life Cycle, including unit, acceptance, integration, system, performance, automation, and functional testing. I also managed the source code including release management of all Generally Availabe code, Point releases and Release Notes.

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Silicon Space Inc, System Test Consultant, 8/2005 – 11/2005, San Diego/CA• Installed and maintain Dev, Test and Production Environments for Harcourt E-Learning Site• Created Test Automation framework using Perl based open source tools• Created Web App Performance tools using Perl based open source tools• Maintained Test Case and issue Tracking DB using QuickBase• Wrote Best Practices for product release and Test Scheduling• Created Test Plan Templates

Accredited Home Lenders, Service Oriented Architecture Deployment, 10/2004 – 7/2005, San Diego/CA• Implemented SOA environments for Development, Testing, Staging and Production• Integrated 30 .NET and WLW Services across 3 BEA Weblogic Domains• BEA Weblogic app server installation and tuning on Win2003 Server• BEA Workshop Client Development• Installed and tuned the SOA persistent DB using MS SQL Server 2000• WS-Security implementation and testing• WS-Addressing verification• WS-Routing implementation• Trained AHL Architects on SOA Methodologies• Trained AHL Operations on SOA Functionality and Best Practices• Trained AHL Quality and Development in Web Services technologyo Parasoft SoaTest, Jtesto Mindreef Soapscope 4.1o BEA Weblogic Workshop 8.1SP4 with SDE Virtualization (visual paradigm)

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Maintained, Managed, and Scaled the Copper Mountain System Test, Integration Test, and Engineering Unit Test labs. This multi-million dollar lab included cutting edge hardware, software and network topologies bridging data networking, voice technologies and the integration of both, which was utilized by 20 test engineers and over 50 software developers. Resulting in the creation of best in class broadband networking features and 99.99% defect reporting prior to product release

La Jolla, California, Us

Wrote the original perl-CGI and system shell scripts for the award winning npaci hotpage. The support site allowed the user to interactively maintain their Supercomputing resources. This level of support facilitated the efficient usage of multi-million dollar computing power. Other tasks included level 1 phone support, walk-in support and researching better ways to present npaci resource via the web.

Ms, Electronic Commerce

Bs, Electrical Engineering