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Durham, North Carolina, Us

Demonstrated successful project management of 1) cross organization Agile teams, both new and experienced, 2) innovative solutions and enhancements to established, mission critical products 3) information, from highly technical to customer oriented, ensuring transparency, clarity and ease of access for entire team 4) schedules, eliminating blockers, encouraging team work, creative problem solving and 5) relationships, by listening, relating to challenging situations and supporting the success of each team member.Projects include: Self Checkout POS Software Enhancements and innovative new solutions, eBOSS performance scaling, Convertible Self Checkout to Front End Lane, Retail Data Management.

Durham, North Carolina, Us

Establish baseline performance of TCxGravity Client across TCGS Hardware Portfolio. Focus attention on performance issues to drive improvements that will enable deployment to large retailers. Provide performance analysis of TCxGravity running on 4690 in support of major customer bids. Analyze retailers current POS environment, as well as the resource requirements of ACE Terminals, Self-Checkout Lanes integrated with eBOSS, Fueling Positions and DIF with POSLOG conversion to determine if their current POS controllers could absorb additional front-end, Self-Checkout and Fueling lanes.Provide TCxGravity, IBM Director Server/RMA and PLMS Capacity Planning assistance in the form of hardware sizings and tuning recommendations to Toshiba customers. Analyze and document performance characteristics of ACE EMV, CHEC 6.7, RMA 3.1.2, RMA 3.1.3, eBOSS, Toshiba Fuel Solution, and TCxAmplify for development and field use. Document performance analysis and sizing methodologies to increase efficiency of future efforts.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Led team for SuSE OS verification on IBM PureFlex and System x high-end servers.• Managed and assisted with verification of SLES 11 SP3 beta on IBM hardware, resolving 35 software bugs, positively impacting IBM client experience and saving IBM more than $350K in software support costs. • Strengthened relationship between SuSE, IBM Linux Technology Center and PureFlex / System x OS verification team through clear communication of project status and by teaching hardware debug techniques to SuSE team members.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Completed performance analysis of virtualized workloads running on VMware and Red Hat Linux / KVM environments, demonstrating IBM System x hardware performance leadership and providing sizing guidance to IBM clients moving to virtualized solutions.• Quantified performance benefit of using solid state storage as cache for frequently accessed FC SAN data, using SPECvirt benchmark, VMware ESXi 5, Fusion-io adapter and ioTurbine software, contributing to IBM and Fusion-io partnership. • Developed expertise in SPECvirt, an industry standard benchmark, enabling publication of virtualized performance information and providing input to the System x virtualization sizing guide.• Published 2 leadership SPECvirt results on IBM x3850 rack and BladeCenter HX5 servers running Red Hat / KVM, outperforming HP by 10% and 17% respectively and demonstrating benefits of IBM's memory expansion unit in virtualized environments. • Published 3 leadership VMmark results on x3850 M3 running VMware ESXi on schedule and ahead of the competition by 30 days, providing IBM System x sales team with time-to-market advantage over the competition.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Created IBM System x Business Intelligence (BI) collateral by planning, configuring, running, tuning, auditing and publishing the TPC-H benchmark on System x servers. System wide skills utilized to produce leadership results and to complete performance analysis, influencing the design of future System x servers.• Optimized IBM's investment in benchmarks, advising which benchmarks should be run based on TPC-H performance projections, competitive analysis, schedule and cost. • Published 14 industry leading TPC-H benchmark results, allowing sales and marketing teams to showcase the superiority of IBM hardware and directly impacting IBM sales. • Led team which completed a 32-socket TPC-H benchmark result on System x445 running Windows Datacenter and DB2, achieving a 200% performance increase over the industry-leading SMP server and substantiating IBM's claim of server superiority. • Led effort securing a $34M System x sale to the Russian government by demonstrating the TPC-H performance of a 9-system x3950 cluster running a distributed DB2 database on SuSE Linux on an accelerated schedule.• Determined maximum bandwidth capabilities of IBM BladeCenter, influencing future BladeCenter I/O subsystem design. • Collected power and performance trace data for use by IBM System x modeling team and development, improving System x server design and ensuring the leadership performance of IBM System x servers. • Authored 3 white papers: “IBM eServer xSeries 445 Demonstrates Scalability to 32-way Running a Business Intelligence Workload”, “Estimating Storage Bandwidth on IBM BladeCenter” and “Configuring System x Servers for Business Intelligence Workloads”, improving expertise and sales for IBM System x marketing and sales teams..

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Online transaction processing performance expert and benchmark team member.• Produced first and subsequent leadership TPC-C benchmark results on System x servers, allowing marketing and sales teams to qualify for customer bids, demonstrating server performance superiority and increasing server sales. • Represented IBM System x on TPC Council and TPC-C industry standard benchmark development committee, ensuring System x servers would not be disadvantaged by modifications to the TPC-C Benchmark specification.

Bachelor Of Science In Computer Science, Data Modeling/Warehousing And Database Administration

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science