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Boston, Ma, Us

Acton, Massachusetts, Us

Palo Alto, California, Us

Vmware, Inc. (Broadcom as of January 2024)o Led performance component of full company initiative to switch services from Monolith to Micro architecture within AWS.o Changed processing of Containers with Node and Pod compute with a focus on the efficiency of VPA and HPA of deployments with different levels of load saving the company thousands of dollars per month in overprovisioned architecture.o Developed Locust framework using python to generate load and performance tests, utilizing S3 and Mode/Tableau for retaining results and automating future comparisons.o Created tests to generate complex load with structure that mimics a customer endpoint and matches production traffic.o Maintain CI/CD pipelines to run automated performance monitoring across multiple environments with weekly and monthly trends.o Mentor peers on performance best practices around coding and testing of AWS cloud architecture

Palo Alto, California, Us

Carbon Black, Inc (previous to the merge with Vmware)o Embedded on cross-functional Agile development team responsible for developing next generation of AWS backend for high data rate product.o Advised and collaborated on Architecture redesign of backend system, POC on major design decisions with performance impact.o Designed and Developed methods to generate and play data at scale in a full production like environment, certifying back-end system for over 100k requests per second.o Developed full set of automated performance regression and integration test suite using JMeter, including monitoring and trend reporting with templates for further expansion.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

The company was bought out by Broadcom - See entry for Broadcom.

Palo Alto, California, Us

The company was bought out by Vmware, Inc. - See entry for Broadcom.

Framingham, Massachusetts, Us

o Architected and maintained full production scale performance environments hosted with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for two company products in the Free-to-play mobile game genre.o Injected performance engineering practices early into the Agile/SCRUM development cycle, working in cross-functional teams with Game Design, Data Science, QA, UI/UX and Engineering. o Developed strategy for JMeter tests using modularization for reuse and templates for quicker expansion for new feature scripting. o Implemented methods for tracking build versions to QA environments (server vs. client vs. platform)Star Trek: Timelineso Participated in end to end feature implementation, from design through development to release for a major new game feature (The Gauntlet).o Performed testing with focused load on specific areas to ensure new feature met player performance expectations based on existing features.o Developed the foundation for the automated tracking of performance trending for each build through Jenkins.The Walking Dead: March To Waro Developed tests in JMeter allowing for the tracking of baselines and performance trending for each release.o Performed extensive load testing and tuning of new production environment in collaboration with the Operations and Platforms teams for capacity planning and scalability, failover, live monitoring strategies and notifications.o Analyzed root cause of performance issues using trace monitoring, server logs. Some examples include optimal memory configurations, database indexes, query optimizations and batch processing of multiple data calls.o Pre-launch SOAK and Burst Load tests highlighted problem areas early, ensuring that the product launch was successful with no major issues from a high player load.

Toronto, On, Ca

o Established centralized QA Center of Excellence focused on improving Performance Testing through leadership and guidance across Thomson Reuters.o Successfully managed projects to upgrade critical software with minimal downtime and no user impact over multiple years. Including databases, agents, and core systems.o Led project to relocate lab to enterprise data center on time to support company savings initiative.o Responsible for developing and implementing best practices/standards used by Thomson Reuters teams across the globe. Identifying synergies to eliminate the duplication of efforts, driving for consistency and effectiveness.o Developed expert Engineers and Analysts to lead focused discussions, knowledge sharing, tool training, and test development guidance.o Provided communication vehicles across Thomson Reuters bringing quality professionals together creating opportunities for knowledge transfer, ways of working, and education.o Mentored peer managers on project management and personnel issues.o Responsible for selecting and implementing Centralized Quality tools for Performance testing for Load, Scale, and Capacity. Managed licensing and vendor relationships to maximize cost effectiveness across the company.o Defined processes to streamline support through Jira application which provided quicker response time and faster time to market of our products.o Established Quality community for sharing concepts, obstacles, coached teams on quality approaches and future direction. o Designed, Managed and Supported infrastructure of two large HP Performance Center environments to support global use of tools 24x7. This included planned maintenance and software upgrades to minimize downtime for the global user base.

Toronto, On, Ca

o Responsible for leading the quality team, Working closely with Product and Development teams, on over six company flagship products from conception to release. o Created a strategy for quality metrics and standards that was adopted through two larger company mergers and acquisitions, and is still used regularly across Thomson Reuters today.o Led Quality Team responsible for conducting smoke, functional, User Interface, regression, integration and ad-hock testing of StreetEvents, Delta Reports, Delta Online, Thomson One Desktop and Online.o Actively involved in the creation of detailed test plans, test cases and test scenarios according to functional requirements and business specifications.o Developed Automated test code focused on re-usability throughout the life-cycle and later focused on performance. Developed complex SQL queries for database functional and performance testing.o Identified, analyzed, and documented defects. Performed code and design reviews for both development and quality teams.

Us

Company was bought out by Thomson Corporation - See entry for Thomson Reuters.

Toronto, On, Ca

o Developed company QA standards and procedures, creating methodology and template for success on team development projects.o Part of a team that created a solution, developed in ASP.NET and VB.NET, for managing insured locations and values for a large commercial insurance company.o Managed testing plan and timeline, across multiple test teams, including cost/benefit analysis for scope of testing and resource requirements.o Contributed to the technical systems analysis and design using the Unified Modeling Language for conceptual, logical and physical design.o Involved in code reviews with the development team and contributed to user interface design team including creating mock-up screens to help business analysts gauge usability.o Managed timeline and day to day overall project plan status across the development and QA teams for a project providing a Java financial exchange application for a Fortune 100 global financial institution. o Participated in multiple phases, first as a developer, and then as the QA lead. The site became one of the first and leading corporate online survey systems allowing customers to utilize an assortment of media (phones, wireless, email, pager, etc.). o Led a team of QA professionals in designing the test cases to provide trace-ability back to requirements, as well as, performing load testing of the final release. o Coordinated the defect process from discovery to closure with technical leads and Coordinated user acceptance testing with customer.o Performed load and performance testing before and after an architecture redesign providing analysis of the results which was used to verify the value of the redesign.

US assets of company were bought out by Burntsand, Inc. - See entry for Burntsand.

o Performed installation, configuration & troubleshooting of LAN/WAN hardware & software.