Howard Liu

About Howard Liu

pursuing a career in performance engineering as performance engineering lead, performance…

Experience

1. Performance and Capacity Management Architect

   IBM

   Dec 2013 — Present

   Technical expert in the field focused on the technical aspects of testing performance, load, scalability / capacity, networks and infrastructure in the Global Business Consulting Services. Expertise in the planning, design, management, execution, and reporting of tests using appropriate testing tools and techniques. Performance and Capacity Management Architect is responsible for examining and evaluating performance criteria and standards compliance to ensure that new and amended systems, together with any interfaces, perform as specified. Plan and develop the performance test design during performance test specification development with focus on both the functional and non-functional requirements for testability against the technical acceptance criteria and quality metrics. Performance and Capacity Management Architect defines the test automation framework, methods and tools to uncover performance issues. Proficient in utilizing performance tools, analyzing results, resolving performance related issues, including optimization and tuning. Performance and Capacity Management primarily apply their technical skills in an internal or external customer consulting services and implementation environment. Boosted performance and increased capacity by 30% on one cloud-based payroll system for a national electricity and gas company. Performance and capacity management on one of the world largest OPPR, Out Patient Pharmacy Replacement System. Design and developed a web-based remote command executor portal across different unix machines for standardization of execution time with web API trigger. 17 years of experience in: Performance test team leadership, architect and analysis Development and Execution of Detailed Performance Test Plans Performance tools, ex. HP Loadrunner Performance Test Monitoring tools Database monitoring Oracle Database monitoring web servers monitoring and tuning Web services performance testing Unix Operating System

Skills

• Shell Scripting
• Databases
• Javascript
• Xml
• Mysql
• Java
• Software Development
• Testing
• Enterprise Software
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Integration
• Loadrunner
• Php
• Perl
• Sql
• C
• Web Applications
• Oracle
• Performance Testing
• Itil