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dan@pinnacleperformancegroup.net

                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

 

 

QA / Performance (LoadRunner) / BAC Professional with proven skills, education, focus, and experience in the following areas:

 

·         Strong background in management ideas/practices to be successful.

·         Engineering license as a Professional Engineer (PE-Electrical) in California (#E015475).

·         Consulting and teaching experience with QTP 9, LoadRunner 8.1, Sitescope 8.5, and BAC 6.1.

·         Programming skills in Java, VB/JavaScript, VB, C, XML/XSLT, HTML, Silk/QA Partner/SilkPerformer (Segue tools), WinRunner/QTP/LoadRunner (Mercury Tools), Rational (SQA) Robot/Test Suite.

·         Optimization tools like Ecotools, Intel VTune Performance Analyzer, TOAD, V$ Oracle tuning / StatsPak, GOLD, JProbe, JTest, OptimizeIt, Quest tools, Tivoli, and LoadRunner (including diagnostics - SAP, J2EE, and .NET, & Tuning module), Parasoft.TEST / JTest.

 

CERTIFICATION

Certified CCNA 2.0; Certified Sun JAVA 2 Programmer; CPS 7.x TestSuite; CPC LoadRunner 8.1; CPC WinRunner 7.5; CPC QuickTest Pro 9.0; CPC QualityCenter 9.0; Certified ORACLE 8i & 9i DBA; Certified SofTest Tester; PraxisII Math Content & PLT Exams (avail provisional certified GA Math 7-12 teacher); Mercury CI; CPC ITG 6; BAC 6.1 specialist; PerformanceCenter 8.1 specialist; ITIL Foundation cert.

 

EDUCATION

GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY, Atlanta, GA

Master of Business Administration, 05/2002

GPA: 4.00/4.00

 

PURDUE UNIVERSITY, West Lafayette, IN

Master of Science, Electrical Engineering, 08/1997

GPA: 3.90/4.00

 

ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Rochester, NY

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, 05/1993

GPA: 3.67/4.00

 

TRAINING

HP Application Mapping 6.5 (MAM/Universal CMDB) Basic – Feb 2007, HP Application Mapping 6.5 (MAM/Universal CMDB) Advanced – Mar 2007

 

                                                           

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

6/06 to present

Pinnacle Performance Group, US & Canada

Mercury public/private training and consulting engagements involving QuickTest Pro, LoadRunner, Business Availability Center, SiteScope, and Universal CMDB (MAM) for mid to large-sized companies. Engagements have included Appian Corporation-Washington, DC area/VA (LR, Sitescope), Siemens-Cincinnati/Dayton, OH (Sitescope, custom), BCBS-Newark, NJ/NYC area (BAC, RUM), TechData-Tampa, FL (LR, WebServices, Diagnostics), Amerisource Bergen-Philadelphia, PA (SiteScope), SunChemical-Cincinnati, OH (LoadRunner SAP & Web, Diagnostics), ING-Atlanta, GA (BAC 6.x MMS), CIBC-Toronto, Canada (BAC 6.x, RUM, SiteScope, Vugen, MAM, and Diagnostics), Sun Chemical-Parsippany, NJ (LR,SOA,Diagnostics,Capacity Planning), and public/private training for LoadRunner 8.1, QTP 9, SiteScope 8.5, BAC 6.5, HP Application Mapping 6.5.

 

8/04 to 6/06

Coke Enterprises, Atlanta, GA

Performance Consultant

Worked with LoadRunner 8.x, PerformaSure 3.x, JProbe 6.x, IBM Tivoli, Oracle OEM, Business Availability Center 5.x/6.0, Mercury Diagnostics (SAP, .NET, and J2EE), QuickTestPro 8.2 (QTP) with MTS/Citrix, and other free tools to performance test and tune J2EE, WebSphere 5.x (including portal), MSMQ, Vitria, SAP R/3 and portal applications, vendor apps, and internally written apps.

 

2/03 to 8/04

 

 

GE Energy, Atlanta, GA

Performance Manager

Worked with LoadRunner, LoadRunner TestCenter, TestDirector, QTP, SilkPerformer V, JProbe, Jtest, Rational tools, code check tools, and SPI Dynamics security tools to load test/tune J2EE / WebLogic / Oracle / eMatrix / webMethods applications for operational acceptability.  Position ended.

 

 


3/02 to 2/03

 

 

N2 Broadband, Atlanta, GA

Performance/QA Engineer

Worked in Linux/Solaris environment to manually test project, configure machines, and integrate with SeaChange/Concurrent VOD server and other vendors.  Also performed performance tuning with JProbe, JTest, Quest Central, SQLExpert and unit testing application with JUnit between builds.

 

5/00 to 7/01

SQMR, Atlanta, GA

Performance/QA Engineer

Assigned at client sites to perform testing using Mercury tools such as WinRunner, LoadRunner, and TestDirector.  Worked at Cisco Systems (San Jose) writing LoadRunner web scripts to allow others to benchmark Cisco’s new CCO architecture with their existing architecture.  Worked at ValuBond to automate with WinRunner parts of the commercial bond-exchange site, and Security First Network Bank (SFNB) to automate and load test (with SE Toolkit, HTML/ASP optimization ideas, Oracle performance. Tuning, iPlanet tuning, LoadRunner) the second bank version release.  Left to finish MBA full time.

 

 

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