Paul Picard Email Address

Performance Engineer

We use integrated research, active risk management and global collaboration to focus on the needs of financial advisors, institutional investors and more.

• Performance & Functional Test Automation Tools: LoadRunner; JMeter; JUnitPerf; Selenium; BadBoy; SilkPerformer; LISA; eLoad; eTester; WebLOAD. • Languages In Which I Have Programmed: C; JavaScript; XML; Java; SQL; SilkPerformer BDL; VB; VBS; Rhapsody graphical EDI route programming language; Windows shell; BASH / Bourne shell. • Diagnostic & Debugging Tools: Process Explorer / Handle Ex; TOAD; FireBug; YSlow; Process Monitor; ODP driver logging; Sun One Studio 4; Eclipse; Visual Studio; NetBeans; vmstat; iostat; sar; ptree; ps; pstat; tail; kill; lsof; top; df; du; syslog; MMC; various GNOME & KDE apps & utilities; RegEdit; Task Manager; Pview; RegMon; FileMon; WinHex;Dependency Walker; custom driver logging and debugging tools; telnet; SSH; ping; snoop; netstat; ndd; ifconfig; ipconfig; traceroute. • Databases: Oracle; Microsoft SQLServer; PostgreSQL; Microsoft Access; Lotus Notes; Inso MediaBank. • OSs: Linux; Windows; Windows Server; Solaris; Mac OS X; Mac OS. • Software Configured & Tested: WebLogic; SunOne LDAP Server; Zend Platform (PHP); Apache; memcache; JBoss; WebSphere; SonicESB; SonicMQ; Microsoft .NET; Tomcat; iPlanet; Sybase EDI Server; Rhapsody Integration Engine; Microsoft IIS; MSIE, Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox browsers; TWAIN drivers. Specialties: •Performance testing experience: --Capacity testing --Longevity testing --Stress testing •Performance and functional issue root cause analysis, debugging and tuning •Capacity, stress, longevity, functional and system test case development •Development process experience: --Agile/Scrum --Scrum --Waterfall •Types of software tested: --Web application systems (3 and 5 tier systems) --ESB/SOA systems --Caching software --Web browsers --Fonts