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Cupertino, California, US

Sunnyvale, CA, US

*Performance engineer contributing member, and ScrumMaster of the SecureMail Server scrum team.*Performance engineer and contributing member of the SecureData Appliance scrum team.*Maintained legacy CSharp performance testing tools updating them in response to changes made to the product.*Maintained and upgraded all performance lab equipment including.

Fort Lauderdale, FL, US

*Maintained seat on SPEC (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation) Mail Server subcommittee and continued in the capacity of benchmark co-developer.*Contributed to the release of SPECMail2008 - the first SPEC IMAP benchmark.*Performance engineer and contributing member of the GoToTraining scrum which eventually led to the release of the new.

Santa Monica, California, US

*Maintained seat on SPEC (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation) Mail Server subcommittee as benchmark development lead.*Received SPECtacular award 2007 for work completed and on-going on the SPECimap industry standard IMAP benchmark.*Conducted all internal performance measurement exercises including characterizing performance of new appliance.

*Constructed automated mixed workload (IMAP, POP, SMTP, webmail) test for nightly performance testing. This enables to monitor the performance impact of daily changes made to the product and make corrections to keep the performance at desired levels.*Constructed a benchmark test harness for the University of Phoenix. The test harness was based on a.

Palo Alto, CA, US

*Scheduled, managed, and performed UNIX users’ system and data moves for both individual and project moves as well as hardware relocation*Maintained load balancing of users on servers by transferring data. *Maintained network documentation

*Designed tools for packaging customer data which was then used for data migrations from proprietary databases to open Oracle and SQL database engines*Performed customer data migrations. Migrations entailed consultations and scheduling with customer, sales, and support*Performed systems resource planning, post-migration follow-up, resume image conversion.

San Jose, California, US

*Worked in Electronic Commerce Group with Marketing to increase site capacity and ensure system reliability and accessibility*Improved website operations by working closely with vendors to implement state-of-the-art software and hardware technology*Responsibilities also included ensuring availability and optimizing response time of Internet servers.

Responsibilities included providing technical phone support to educational lab personnel including troubleshooting lab issues, coordinating hardware repair by third party vendors, and documenting software bugs for repair in future releases of the product