Daniel Ferrell Email & Phone Number

Saline, MI, US

Palo Alto, CA, US

Arlington, VA, US

Columbia, MD, US

Mclean, Virginia, US

London, GB

Toronto, ON, CA

• Software Performance Test Team Lead (Until August 2015)
• Manage all performance testing across the company, bring all products inline to reduce costs, follow the same process, tools, analysis, and reporting processes. Reduce the performance test tools from six to three.
• Create a shared performance team that is familiar with all performance test tools to work across all company projects.
• Requirement and design document review for marked for performance test new features and modules.
• Lead efforts to reduce error rates on all applications and create performance requirements/standards across all projects.
• Reduce performance issues to zero for all projects for standard application areas tested. Before this role, we averaged two-five performance issues per release.

This company provides address signs, address markers, outdoor home decorative items. The company makes custom address signs, capable of handling orders of any sizes.

New sales and application development

US

• Software Performance Test Engineer (August 2007 - September 2012)
• Manage performance testing against standard application areas, no performance issues released into production during this period. Before this role, we averaged 1-3 performance issues per release.
• Gather production system usage information to model system usage patterns for performance test use cases and load scenario configurations through log analysis and custom metrics gathering feature internal to our.
• Create/maintain performance framework based on system usage patterns, reviewed quarterly to determine changes in customer usage patterns for use case updates and run-time scenario updates.
• Analyze, troubleshoot, and work to resolve application performance issues.
• Setup/maintain and confirm environment integrity for performance testing environments.

• Manuscript Central Software Developer (PHP/MySQL based web application).
• Troubleshoot and solve development-related support issues.
• Implement all product development and enhancement changes on the application.
• Test functionality around all changes implemented before release into production. Testing through unit tests for specific application changes and regression tests for other major areas of the application before release.
• Implement new procedures to document/track all product changes implemented.
• Develop and test all product enhancement requests.

- Review/Recommend Solutions- Manage/Implement Solutions

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It was a great job, great company and great work environment. I did software quality assurance work, software development.

Masters, Software Engineering

Bachelors, Computer Information Science

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