Jayendra Patel is a Performance Engineer Staff at Lockheed Martin STS. Colleagues describe him as "I can highly recommend Jay for all performance and capacity planning projects. Before Jay became a productive member of our team we did not have a proven processes in place for performance testing. The first thing Jay did was set up Load Runner with custom scripts to capture a baseline for our application and DB. Jay set up a proven process, still in use today, and helped alleviate any performance hits with our product releases. He was instrumental in pinpointing problem areas early in the release cycle, so the development teams and management could mitigate any bugs and fixes. He also put in a process for capacity models that helped management plan for future hardware upgrades. This was essential to the project since we were responsible for the entire customer environment from the server, SAN, and networks to the applications and DB’s. We needed to stay ahead of the capacity curve to keep user and hardware performance risks low. He released the models in an easy to understand excel format that management would review periodically. Jay was a critical asset for our project and I recommend him strongly."