David Beck Email & Phone Number

Jersey City, Nj, Us

Performance engineering/testing for DTCC external client portal and batch migration projects.Reviews and expanded automation, processes improvements, tools and metrics documentation, and training for performance engineering groups.

7th Dan Sin Moo Hapkido4th Dan Kukkiwon TaekwondoLakan Dalawa 2nd degree black belt in Arnis de LeonStarted Martial Arts in 1983.See http://www.beckmartialarts.com

Southlake, Texas, Us

Developer Advocacy Team:- Shaped Developer Advocacy team vision, set goals, established operational procedures, developed communication and collaboration methods, and defined metrics for tracking progress.- Led collaboration between development and other teams of security, dev/ops, architecture, ServiceNow, and personal technology to troubleshoot issues with metrics tracking, onboarding, access, and 3rd party applications; saving at least 500 hours of lost developer productivity.- Collaborated with software development teams optimizing workflows and practices in alignment with DORA metrics- Acted as liaison to external company providing OKR metrics tracking and management, ensuring alignment of OKRs with strategic objectives.

Southlake, Texas, Us

Performance Engineering / PLAB:- Provided infrastructure support (essentially Dev/Ops) for performance benchmarking, virtualization proof of concepts, FlexLab setups, VM creations, filesystems and load balancers, MQ messaging, monitoring and metrics collection, configuration management, organic server management (OSM) automation, FlexLab and iLab (integration lab) scheduling, and puppet server adminstration.- Supported cloud migration proof of concepts with Openshift/AWS, Azure, and GCP cloud environments involving authentication, storage, microservices and distributed computing, sql and nosql databases, autoscaling in GCE and GKE, monitoring and alerts, serverless and CI/CD.- Managed groups of up to 25 people during titular manager absences.- Architected Self-Service Performance Test (Performance testing as a service) for on premise, AWS cloud, and GCP cloud environments, managing roadmap, user story development, architectural strategy, agile management, supervision, and development of automation test ware, preventing numerous Sev 1/2 incidents and minimizing production downtime.- Established virtualization framework for PLAB establishing processes for VmWare configuration and administration, enabling conversions from physical hardware to VMs.- Mentored team members on virtualization, PLAB infrastructure, performance metrics, and various projects, ensuring optimal performance of mission critical systems.- Designed and maintained Performance Engineering Training Portal, PLAB documentation of best practices on wiki, SharePoint, and Teams; conducted multiple Performance Engineering Theory classes companywide, raising performance issues awareness of ⅓ of company’s developers.

Southlake, Texas, Us

- Led PLAB Fabric team supporting 13 Fabric projects. Established best practices and processes for PLAB, including dashboards, extensive automation of pre-test setup and posttest processing and analysis, standardized stress and soak tests, and performance metrics guidelines and enhancements.- Led PLAB Air Services team, planning and executing roadmap that expanded performance testing to 100% coverage, meeting availability targets and catching over 80% of preventable Severity 1 incidents. - Mentored +15 new employees as PLAB grew, expanding to cover performance testing of over 100 projects. - Supported migrations without issues of NAS to SAN, Redhat version updates, move of data centers, LoadRunner to JMeter, DB2 to Oracle.

Southlake, Texas, Us

End to End Performance Test Team:- Established and improved processes for E2E Performance Test Team to automate tests, consolidate documentation, parameterize dynamic data, collect and report metrics, which enabled additional testing finding more issues and preventing outages.- Supported E2E performance testing of Sabre Air Services, overseeing 16 projects, which supported > 40M transactions per day. - Enhanced testing with production replicated databases, workload analysis, automated graph creation, and metrics tracking, bringing Air Services PLAB to within 10% correlation with production results. - Pioneered creation of Sabre Performance Lab isolated performance test environment from initial determination of hardware, application deployment configuration and release processes, and automation to make performance test repeatable and reliable resulting in trusted and accurate results.

Southlake, Texas, Us

Travelocity QA (then a Sabre Subsidiary):- Built metrics collection tool to graph and report defect trends to management.- Spearheaded all Travelocity performance testing and web functionality testing for 5 major releases.

Secure business communication software:Automated test script development and execution, defect tracking, results investigation, root cause analysis, documentation

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Workstation Automated Test Tool (WATT) Project - a C++ application supporting interactive and automated telephony testing in multiple roles (end user, central office, STP, SCP).Managed all phases of WATT project development: planned, scheduled, prioritized tasks, assigned tasks, and supervised team of 4 in carrying out 5 consecutive on-time releases of WATT software leaving 0 outstanding customer requests.Quadupled WATT customer base by adding functionality and enhancing support for additional telephony protocols (SS7, ISDN, IPe, VoIP).Added telephone card support and automated interactive test scenario support to WATT enabling customer demonstrations of Alcatel A5000 Softswitch proving VoIP and VoATM features.Configured and successfully troubleshot Local Service Control Point (LSCP) enabling Alcatel A5000 Softswitch testing of 1M Busy Hour Call Attempts (BHCA) with no formal training and 1 month LSCP experience.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Information Engineering Facility: Unix System administration, Ingres & Oracle DBA, installation scripting, coding standards, test supportArtificial Intelligence Lab: Software maintenance prototype system controls and object oriented GUI, realtime spatial database algorithm analysis, expert system shell consultingAutomonous Guidance for Conventional Weapons (pre-briefing expert system requiring Secret clearance): User interface revisions, database analysis, performance improvements (achieved 60x speedup), heuristic development, rules integrationArtificial Intelligence Lab: Tools and methodology developmentArtificial Intelligence Product Line: TI Explorer workstation software maintenance, support, and inventoryComponent Test Facility: 100kECL test station controls, LAN configuration planning and installation

M.S., Information Technology Management

B.S., Computer Engineering