Engineer Quality Assurance
Resume:
DANIEL S. HAMBRICK
Pflugerville, TX 78660
mrefq7@r.postjobfree.com
SUMMARY
Dan has over 10 years in IT. Dan started in technical support and has most
recently been working in Data Center operations. Dan has worked with
various servers and all server operating systems including Windows Server
2003, 2008, 2012, and Red Hat Linux and SUSE Linux. Dan has extensive
experience with design, installation, configuration, maintenance, and
troubleshooting servers and other Data Center hardware. Dan is able to
prioritize workloads and meet deadlines. Dan is exceptionally organized and
resourceful, with a wide range of computer hardware, software, and customer
skills. Dan is a local candidate and available immediately.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
. Technical skills include IIS, OLTP DB, OLAP DB, and Python programming
language, .NET programing, and some C # programming. MS-SQL on Windows
Server 2003 and 2008, expert level. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Versions
4&5 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Versions 9 & 10 with Oracle DB.
Virtualization experience with VMWARE 8 & 9. Fiber Channel, ISCSI,
FCoE, CIFS/SMB, NFS, NTFS, and Citrix Application Server.
. Strong understanding and knowledge of TCP/IP, Multicast, VPNs,
Routers, Switches, and Hubs.
. 6 years SAN and DAS experience. I performance tested the entire EMC,
Power Vault, and Equal Logic Storage product lines for bottlenecks and
ease of deployment.
. Writes and executes test scripts using Win Runner and Test Director
. Experience with multiple other testing suites besides Mercury
Interactive
. Responsible for regression testing new software functionality written
in SQL, ASP, Active Directory and SOAP. Extensive Windows Server 2003
experience. Apache on Linux experience. Disaster Recovery and Data
Warehousing experience.
. SAS/SATA II and III protocol analysis training
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
DELL COMPUTER CORPORATION, Austin / Round Rock, Texas
11/10 to 9/12
R & D Lab Manager / Conceptual Design Engineer
. Operational management of the Data Center Solutions Sonic Lab and the
DCS hardware library
. Inventory management of an $8M material library to seed growth in the
developing datacenter and the creation of the cloud computing
infrastructure
. Work with the Primary Technologists for Modular Data Center Computing,
Infrastructure, Mechanical, Electrical, Software, and Storage
. Developed with AutoCAD and Pro-E, new data center centric chassis,
working with Global OEM manufacturers on logistics for product
delivery
. Developed lab engineering data center space with facilities
. Control the budget, work with the Architects, the City, and my
internal facilities to design data center spaces for high density
. Responsible for cost center accounting of an $8M annual development
budget, reporting to the cost center manager for DCS
. Managing material and accounting for four global design centers
. Had the highest accuracy in financial reporting of any group in The
Product Group this last year.
. Proof of Concept Engineer reporting to Director of System Architecture
for DCS. I am able to solder PCB at a very fine pitch and have used
hot air and some infrared soldering gear.
. Won a Silver Star from The Product Group for "Fastest concept to
delivery timeline for a server ever."
. Works as a field engineer installing and supporting Modular Data
Centers around the US.
. I was selected from a team of Electrical Engineers to be Proof of
Concept engineer due to my out of the box design ideas.
Storage Performance Engineer
2004-2010
. Part of the Advanced Engineering Group for Internal RAID/Solid State
Disk/Direct Attached
. Lead TPC-C Oracle/SQL/ Linux/Microsoft server benchmark engineer
. Published 7 consecutive #1 world records on the TPC-C
Price/Performance benchmark
. This represents most ever consecutive records for Dell & Microsoft for
X86 and SQL
. This benchmark is Online Transaction Processing (selling product on
the internet) performance centric
. Publishes engineering white papers on how to improve SQL and server
performance
Lead Quality Assurance Software Engineer
2000-2004
. Lead Quality Assurance Software Engineer for Premier.Dell.Com website
(It earns $44B USD/yr)
. Extensive white box and black box testing of the existing code base
for the Premier.Dell.Com site
. Advanced certification training in MS Project
. Implemented Project Central and Project Server for Dell IT
. Now the Dell IT organization tracks all their resource usage with
these tools
. Basic Crystal Reports integration programming between SQL, Oracle, and
PeopleSoft databases
. Extensive data center experience working at an enterprise level
Dell Technical Support
Rotational Position in Dell Failure Analysis Engineering
6/00 to 10/00
. Isolates all returned computer failures to the planar level on Dell
Inspiron, Latitude, Dimension, and Optiplex family computers
. Provides component and subsystem failure pare to Dell Manufacturing,
for vertical assembly training opportunities
. Provides pare to of batch failures to external component vendors.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science, Telecommunications
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
Silver Star from Michael Dell personally for fast Server Design.
Manager's Excellence Award
Team Player Award.
Synergy Award
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