John Beresniewicz ****.************@*****.***
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Profile
Seasoned Database and User Experience Architect with deep experience in Oracle database performance analysis and the design of user interfaces facilitating visualization-based, user- centric workflows for managing performance.
Roles: Performance Analyst, Data Architect, UX Designer, Data Visualizer, Data Modeler, PL/SQL Engineer, Requirements Analyst, Product Manager
Co-author of 2 software engineering books and holder of 9 patents in diverse areas: analytics, data visualization, SQL injection detection, workload replication Employment
Aster Product Specialist / Performance Analyst
Teradata Labs 2014 - 2016
Developed portable framework for benchmarking cluster ingest rates using Aster Data Loader Tools: Python, Bash, R (ggplot), Aster ncli, Atop, Linux Authored Teradata Aster Data Loader Ingest Capacity Study a Teradata Orange Book. Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Server Technologies Oracle America 2006 - 2014
Conceived, architected, designed core Enterprise Manager features for Oracle Database Diagnostic and Tuning Packs, over $1 billion revenue Design principal for Performance Page, Top Activity, Enterprise Loadmap, ASH Analytics, AWR, SPA, DB Capture/Replay, ADDM, Metric Extensions, Admin Groups Facilitated, co-authored and published Exadata Machine CLI functional specification Brainstormed and articulated new product features with senior executives (VP, SVP) Promoted agile, iterative, use-case based process for improving user experience design Evangelized DB time-based performance analysis methodology to Oracle customers and community
Tools: SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle RDBMS, SQL Developer, MS Office Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Systems Management Products Oracle USA 2002 - 2006
Principal designer for core performance management features in Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control (DB Performance Page, Top Activity, SQL Tuning Advisor) Conceived, designed, and implemented Adaptive Thresholds feature that automates setting system performance alert thresholds on key metrics (Patents: US7225103 B2; US7246043 B2) Consulted dozens of project teams on schema design, usability design, workflow, tuning Technology Manager, Savant products
Precise Software 2000 - 2002
Managed product-level integration after Savant-Precise corporate merger Developed and implemented integration method using XML peer-to-peer protocol Co-founder, Lead Architect, PL/SQL Engineer
Savant Corporation 1995 - 2000
Oracle Performance Diagnostics tool startup, 800+ customers, thousands of users Architected, designed, and implemented database metric collection PL/SQL daemon (30K+ LOC) Education
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, Middletown, CT 1974 - 1979
B.A. Mathematics, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, varsity soccer Publications / Patents / Presentations
Expert PL/SQL Practices, Chapter 8: Contract-Oriented PL/SQL Programming. Beresniewicz, et al; Apress, 2011
From Research to Product: Integrating Treemaps into Enterprise Software. Goldberg, Helfman, Beresniewicz; Proceedings of HCII 2009
Oracle Built-in Packages. Feuerstein, Dye, Beresniewicz; O’Reilly & Associates, 1998 Oracle Openworld: Speaker ten times between 1997 and 2012 Oaktable Network: Founding member of elite group of Oracle technologists, since 2002 Patents: US8051486 B2; US8095514 B2; US8954397 B2; US7555499 B2 Slideshare presentations: AWR Ambiguity, ASH Outliers, ASH Architecture and Advanced Usage, Average Active Sessions, Contract-oriented PL/SQL Programming, Adaptive Thresholds