Profile
Publish Date
06 March 2008
Last Update
30 September 2008
Rating:
(based on 6 reviews)
Author(s)
- David Chadwick
- Chip Davis
- Mark Dunn
- Ernest Jessee
- Andre Kofaldt
- Kevin Mooney
- Robert Nicolas
- Ashish Patel
- Jack Reinstrom
- Kent Siefkes
- Pat Silva
- Susann Ulrich
- Winnie Yeung
David Chadwick is the Level 3 Technical Support Manager in the IBM Rational Performance Tester development organization in Raleigh. He also serves as the product champion and SWAT team member responsible to help internal organizations and customers adopt the Performance Tester tool and associated performance testing processes. He has spent over 20 years working in the areas of computer performance and related tool development. This is his first IBM Redbooks project, which he conceived and gathered an all-star cast to help him write. David holds a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering specializing in Computer Engineering from Stanford University and two Bachelor of Science degrees from North Carolina State University in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Chip Davis is the Modular Service Offering (MSO) development lead for Rational Services in Atlanta, Georgia. He has been involved in providing pre-sales and post-sales services for over 6 years and was an early adopter, training material developer, and trainer for advanced users of the Performance Tester product. Chip has a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.
Mark Dunn is a Software Engineer on the Performance Tester development team in Raleigh and also an on-going contributor to the Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Platform project. He works on the network proxy recording technology. Prior projects at IBM include the WebSphere Workbench Simulator project, which was another performance testing tool.
Ernest Jessee is a Software Engineer on the Performance Tester development team in Raleigh who specializes in statistical analysis tools and techniques, statistical data aggregation, and Performance Tester workbench performance. He has worked on performance testing tools for over 7 years.
Andre Kofaldt is a Senior IT Specialist in Rational Services in Kšln, Germany. He was an early adopter of the Performance Tester product and has provided services to several IBM customers using the tool. He was also one of the first users of the SAP extension.
Kevin Mooney is a Software Engineer on the Performance Tester development team in Raleigh and specializes on the tool's playback engine performance characterization and tuning. He has worked on performance testing tools for over 10 years.
Robert Nicolas is an IT Specialist working on the System z Benchmarking team at the Products and Solutions Support Center in Montpellier, France. He has extensive experience using many performance testing technologies to provide system sizing information to IBM's customers.
Ashish Patel is a Software Architect and Development Lead working at the IBM Toronto Software Lab in Canada. He has over 7 years of industry experience in software architecture and development and 4 years of business development and entrepreneurial experience. Ashish participated in IBM's premiere internship program, Extreme Blue, where he co-founded the IBM Performance Optimization Toolkit (IPOT). He has worked with IBM for 2 years on numerous start-up products in the software development and test area. Prior to joining IBM, he created software solutions for one of the largest integrated petroleum companies in the world and one of Canada's top providers of energy. He also founded a privately-held software development and consultancy firm, where he was appointed President and Chairman of the corporation, and which he operated for 4 years. Ashish holds a Computer Engineering degree from the University of Alberta.
Jack Reinstrom is the System Performance Test Manager for the System Verification Testing team for the IBM Rational server-based tools in Lexington, Massachusetts. He and his team have adopted Performance Tester to perform all of their testing. Jack has led the effort to use custom Java coding to drive their tool APIs when not using standard client-server protocols.
Kent Siefkes is the Second Line Development Manager for the Performance Tester development team in Raleigh. He has been architecting and managing the development of performance testing tools for over 20 years.
Pat Silva is an Information Developer for the Performance Tester development team in Raleigh. She has developed performance testing product documentation for 10 years.
Susann Ulrich is a Program Manager for Quality Management in the TechWorks team in Rational Sales in Miami, Florida. She has worked for Rational for over 10 years. Susann has been instrumental in the development and delivery of technical enablement for Performance Tester to the Rational sales team.
Winnie Yeung is an IT Specialist in IBM Global Business Services in Toronto, Canada. She was one of the first users of the Citrix extension for Performance Tester.
ISBN
0738485675
IBM Form Number
SG24-7391-00