Engineer Manager

OBJECTIVE:

To obtain a challenging position as a "FDM, HFM Hyperion Architect", where

I can utilize my skills and expertise that will enable business, add value

and provide opportunities for professional growth.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

. Supported FDM and HFM Hyperion Application installations load processes,

4 years

. Expertise of HP Load Runner and Scripting latest version 10.0, a total of

9 years

. Sound knowledge of HP QTP 9.1, a total of 4 years

. 3 years of banking applications Performance testing

. 14 years of Black Box testing

. Solid use of Quality Center, 5 years

. 10 years of Automation testing and summary reporting

. Solid knowledge of Building Test Applications Laboratory sessions

. Strong experience at creating Master Performance Test Plans, 14 years

. Conducts Web Based and Citrix protocol performance testing, over 8 years

. Benchmark and Baseline Performance Testing

. Solid knowledge in providing metrics for CPU, Memory and utilization

. Performs Parameterization of User IDs and Passwords

. Executes scripts in HP Load Runner Controller scenarios

. Delivers execution and Performance Report Metrics

. Creates smoke test to validate end-to-end environment

. Performs Load test or Stress test on the system for user levels

. Analyze results and tune configuration based on findings

. Mentor and document all Performance results

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

The Hackett Group - San Francisco, CA May '11

to Mar. '12

EPM Manager

Led and worked in the EPM/IPM Technology Practice as an EPM Manager. Led

and supported FDM (Financial Data Management), Hyperion and HFM client

product performance solutions for successful full life cycle

implementations.

Supported EPM deployments and specialize in Accelatis Ascension Suite

2.0.0.322, Extended Analytics Task Flows, wrote consolidation rules. Led

and provided Hyperion 9.2 Oracle Performance Tuning, Capacity solutions and

presented results to various clients.

. Supports FDM and HFM Hyperion Application installations load processes

. Writes FDM, HFM and Smart View script scenarios

. Provides Mega Data and Dimensions maintenance installation

. Provide metrics for CPU, Memory and utilization

. Delivers execution and Performance Report Metrics

. Created test to validate end-to-end environment

. Provides Performance tuning of Hyperion and Oracle Essbase Applications

Environments: Hyperion Servers, Citrix Servers, DL385, DL785, DL585,

Development, UAT, Production, HP LoadRunner 11.0, Hyperion Laboratory

Owner, Essbase,EAP, Accelatis Ascension Suite 2.00.332, ERP Oracle

E-Business Suite, Oracle EPM, Fusion Edition, ICA, Citrix with Oracle

11.0

Eastern Municipal Water District - Perris, CA

Sep. '08 to Feb. '11

Senior Quality Assurance / Performance Engineer / Consultant

Project: Led and worked on a COINS Water Budget Billing tiering project for

an application upgrade. This project will roll out into two phases with

manual testing of all tests scripts and cases. I wrote the Master Test

plan, test cases, matrixes, error reports, scripts and worked with a team

of developers and Business Analyst to complete this project.

Project: EMIS Recovery project for updating water reconciling reports,

daily, monthly and weekly from an Oracle 10i Hyperion database. Wrote the

Master Test plan, DMR and Seed Pak test cases, scripts and traceability

matrixes. Tested passing data scenarios from a Hyperion Mega Data for test

case business rules decisions.

Project: Internet Voice Response (IVR) Server Upgrade to a new robust data

server and new COINS Progress database. Ran a variety of scenarios

including baseline, stress test and compatibility test. Completed Phase I

of performance testing of the new server, Performance tested for response,

user stability and saturation Loads. Monitored CPU, Memory and other system

resources while performing load tests and notified performance issue to

high level management and resolved the issues.

Project: Led and worked on a City View9 project, testing the vendor's

application for Functionality and Performance AFS screens. Created the test

scenarios, test plan and traceability matrices based on requirements and

design specifications documentation. Used Quick Test Professional (QTP),

JMETER, Load Runner 9.2 and Site Scope 9.5.

. Supported Oracle PROGRESS 10.1.c Water Budget Billing System screens

. Provided Technical Writing for Water Budgets program application

. Conducted Functional, Integration, Regression and Parallel testing

. Created a Water Budget Variance Forms Reference guide for users.

. Created Requirement Traceability Matrixes

. Created Water Budget Calculator for Tiering formulas

. Supported Oracle Hyperion Performance Suite 8i

. Setup Site Scope, JMETER, Load Runner 9.5 for Performance Test Monitoring

. Loaded Test environments weekly

. Supports FDM and HFM Hyperion Application installations load processes

. Writes FDM, HFM and Smart View script scenarios

. Performance Load testing using HP Load runner 9.5 and QTP

. Tested LIMS and ETL Interfaces

. Tested Oracle Transformation Business rules

. Benchmark and Baseline Performance Testing

. Tested IVR test case prompts in Spanish and English

. Scheduled weekly status meetings

. Trained end users

Environments: HP Test Director Quality Center 9.2, City View9 v3.0.831

Access 97, PROGRESS v10.1.c, Tiny Term plus Edition Emulator 4.42, Quick

Test Professional 9.5, Hyperion Performance Suite v8.i, UNIX- T2000 Solaris

10, Site Scope 10, Oracle 9.1, ERP Oracle E-Business Suite, SCADA, IVR /

IWR, SQL PLUS, JMETER, Microsoft Office Suite 2003

City National Bank - Los Angeles, CA

Jan. '08 to Mar. '08

Senior Performance Engineer / Consultant

Led and created various scenarios in Load Runner controller for performing

baseline, benchmark and endurance tests. Performed baseline test with 1

user & 5 iterations and benchmark test under a load of 35 users using Load

Runner controller. The protocol scripted was Citrix.

. Supporting a Banking Loan Servicing Application

. Benchmark and Baseline Performance Testing

. Created and Smoke Tested Performance Scripts

. Performed Technical Writing

. VPN daily to support loan application performance

. Attended status update meetings

. Trained performance analyst for Load Testing

. Created and supported Citrix ICA files

. Wrote Citrix and Web services protocol Load runner 8.1 scripts

. Wrote Load scenarios and performance test plans

. Executed Citrix Load Runner scripts

. Executed load and duration Performance tests

. Performed Hardware and Capacity planning

Environments: Citrix Loan Client applications, APACHE, Ledger SMB, Citrix

servers 4.0, Share Point 5.3, Mercury Load runner 8.1 and Microsoft Office

Suite 2003

Gemstar / TV Guide - Hollywood, CA

Nov. '07 to Jan. '08

Senior Performance Engineer / Consultant

. Wrote WSDL SOAP UI 1.7.1 Pro scripts

. Wrote Groovy Scripts (JAVA)

. Wrote Load scenarios and Performance plans

. Executed XML scripts

. Executed various Performance Load test

. Smoke tested of XML scripts

. Evaluated Performance databases

. Executed SQL Queries

. Setup simulated Production Load test environment

. Setup monitors and listeners

. Adding various assertions

. Benchmark and Baseline Performance Testing

. Performed hardware and Capacity planning

Environments: MQC, PL/SQL, MYSQL Web and Application servers, Virtual

Server Gardens, Off site Load Generators, Studio Express 9.0.3, Mercury

Site Scope 8.5, SOAP UI 1.7.1 Pro, Share Point 4.8, XML, Bugzilla 2.22,

JMETER and Microsoft Office Suite 2003

24-HOUR Fitness Inc. - Carlsbad, CA

Apr. '07 to Oct. '07

Senior Oracle Application /Consultant

. Maintain Application and Web Servers

. Supported Oracle Hyperion Performance Suite 8i

. Provided security permissions and updates to People soft users

. Created matrix documentation for Payment Card Industry compliancy

requirements.

. Assisted in (PCI) Payment Card Industry security audit reviews for each

application

. Created and updated UNIX scripts for daily CRON jobs.

. Created and updated (PCR's) Problem Change Request for application issues

. Granted access to People soft Financials Applications and Middle tier

systems

. Reviewed and approved deployment scripts.

. Heavy usage of UNIX/LINUX commands, PL/SQL

. Researching and writing HP 8.1 Load runner scripts for simulated Load

tests

Environments: DL360 Servers, Accruent MAX, SDLC Methodologies, TOMAX 5.3,

M2, Reflexis, Oracle 11i, HP Load runner 8.1, MQC, PL/SQLWeb and

Application servers. Secure CRT 5.1, UNIX - T2000 Solaris 10, VI Editor

with UNIX/LINUX, PCR, and SharePoint 4.8, Payment Card Industry, ERP

NetSuite, Oracle People Soft Enterprise Applications, Remote VPN Clients,

Juniper Redline SSL, Putty 4.1, and Microsoft Office Suite 2003, Oracle

Hyperion Performance Suite 8i

Intuit, Inc. - San Diego, CA July

'06 to Feb. '07

Senior Software Performance Engineer / Consultant

. Led and worked as a Senior Performance Engineer tested desktop products

such as Quicken, Turbo Tax, and Microsoft Money and QuickBooks online

systems for Web usage.

. Performed testing of all new features and summarizing trending analysis

for customer response, memory and CPU usage.

. Led and recorded Silk performance GUI scripts.

. Built performance scripts from use cases and executing scripts with Silk

Test and Silk Performer 5.1. Built baselines for QA releases, maintained

performance environments and trained performance analysis for turnover.

Environments: Silk Test and Performer V5.1 DL360 Servers, Test Director,

SDLC Methodologies, Web and Application servers. Silk laboratory, boxes and

agents. Secure CRT 5.1, UNIX - T2000 Solaris 10, ERP Oracle E-

Business Suite, and VI Editor with UNIX/LINUX command base, Post Mark,

Remote VPN Clients, Juniper Redline SSL, Serena Team Track, Putty 4.1, and

Microsoft Office Suite 2003

Ameriquest Mortgage Services - Orange, CA

July '05 to May '06

Automation Engineer Team Lead /Consultant

Led and worked as an Automation Engineer team leader interviewing and

writing performance resource job descriptions to build a Performance

Automation Engineering team. Built a performance engineering laboratory for

this mortgage services company using the below hardware and software tools.

Wrote the laboratory requirements specifications, Cost analysis

perspective, Vision statement, Project Charter, Master Test plan and

project task plan using Microsoft project, Word, Excel, and Power point.

Led and worked as a team lead of eight Performance Analysts conducting team

meetings writing and reviewing test plans, requirements, performance final

reports and performance load scripts using Mercury Load runner 7.8 and 8.1

Quality Center with a MQC controller. Led and conducted performance tuning

testing, fault tolerance testing, stress / load tested and capacity

planning for overall performance analysis. Used Rational Clear quest as a

tracking tool and rational clear case as a versioning tool for performance

testing. Executed weekly baselines of all core systems for monthly upgrades

for certification and production host applications for whole sale and

retail mortgage business. Led and worked also as the Clarity collaboration

manager, conducting all meetings and tracking all documentation throughout

the RUP and PMO methodologies processes. My other projects include

performance GUI load testing, duration and response time metrics reporting

for a Loan Genius decision system.

Project accomplishments was an Ameriquest Mortgage Company Loan Project

with requirements to compare performance response times and throughput with

the Denver Colorado processing facility and Cartwright processing location

in Irvine, California. Led and worked completed two iterations of

performance testing with the Mercury Load runner 7.8 Test tool.

Project accomplishments were an HOMER (New Loan System). Setup a

performance test environment from scratch and installed Mercury Tools such

as Load Runner 8.1 with Mercury Quality Center to execute load Performance

Test scenarios and provide final summary reports.

Environments: F5 Load Balancers - High Availability Pair, Servers DL380

and DL360 Servers, APACHE, DL760R02 Quad X3, HP UX RX4640 Servers, Cisco

Catalyst 6509 Switch, Brocade Switch and HBA Cards, EMC CX700 SAN, BAT tag

and Configure Servers, Intel Xeon 3.0GHz -4M Processor Kits, Integrated

lights-out board. Test Director 7.8, SharePoint 4.8, UNIX 5.1 Oracle 10.1,

SOX Compliance Lotus Notes 5.1, LOS Field Glass 4.2, HP Drives Informatica,

Oracle Spotlight, ERP NetSuite, Data Power XML Spy, AJAX, JAVA Windows

2000, Microsoft Project Empower 6.1, Empower database Web Services Pricing

Engines, Loan Genius, Clear Case, Clear Quest, RUP Methodologies

Argent Mortgage Company - Irvine, CA Feb.

'05 to May '05

Performance Engineer Team Lead /Manager Consultant

Work as a Team Leader / Manager; wrote performance resource job

descriptions, vision statements, business strategies, and processes and

interviewed QA and performance candidates.

Led a team of 3 Performance Analysts conducting team meetings writing and

reviewing performance test plans, reviewing requirements, status reports,

creating performance scripts using Mercury Load runner 7.8, Test Center

with controller.

Created test environments for releases, deployments and performance

topology's using JBoss, Cold Fusion and IIS servers. Also baseline all

core systems for monthly upgrades for test and production for wholesale and

retail business. Other projects include performance load testing, duration

and weekly baseline reporting for a Loan Genius Mortgage decision engine

and harness.

Environments: UNIX 5.1, Oracle 10.1, F5 Load Balancers, LINUS, Citrix

Metaframe, APACHE, J BOSS and Cold fusion Servers, DL380 R04 Dual X3 and

DL380 G2 Dual Xeon Servers, Test Director 7.8, SharePoint 4.8, SOX

Compliances, Lotus Notes 5.1, In site Field Glass 4.2, HP Drives

Informatica, Data Power XML Spy, J2EE JAVA, Windows 2000, Microsoft Project

Professional 2003, Empower 6.1, Empower database Web Services and Pricing

Engines, Loan Genius, Rational Clear Case, Clear Quest, RUP and PMO

Methodologies

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

IIS MTS Servers JAG Servers ILOG BRM Test Case Manager

HP Load Runner 10.0 Test Center 7.8 Test Director 7.8

SharePoint 4.8

Oracle Server J2EE XML Spy WINDOWS NT 4.0

SOURCE SAFE Vista Win Runner 5.0 Rational Clear-Case

Lotus Notes 4.5 Silk Test 5.3 MS Office 2000 Visio 5.0

Rational Tools Platinum PM Clear-Quest SOAP UI 1.7.1 Pro

Internet Explorer IE5+ Crystal Reports Windows 2000 Performance Studio

Informatica PowerCenter 5 Cognos BI Quest Toad 7.0

SQ Lab Expert 4.5 ALPHADAS Oracle 8.1.7 Oracle E-Business Suite

FDA GxP Web sphere 4.0 Business Objects 2.7.2 Silk Performer 5.1

PROGRESS 10.1.c Hyperion 9.3 Tiny Term Plus 4.42

UNIX - T2000 Solaris 10

Technical Writing Mainframe MVS/TSO

Hyperion Performance Suite 8i

Mercury Site Scope 9.5 MVS/ESA TSO / ISPF SMS / JCL

ERP FDM HFM CLIST

BASIC PASCAL COBOL 74 FILEAID

OS / JCL VSAM DB2 - SQL/MYSQL SPUFI

OPCA / 3 CA7 / 4 Oracle Spotlight SAR

CMS QMF OMEGAMON HTML

MQC Load Runner 9.2 AJAX Oracle 11i

EDUCATION:

Northeastern Illinois University

University of Illinois at Chicago Circle Campus

Kennedy - King College, Liberal Arts Degree

Computer Education & Programming International

Control Data Institute, Diploma - Major Computer Science and

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