ALLAN J. PARIS

13745 Holmes Rd

Colorado Springs, CO 80908

E-Mail: aparis@earthlink.net

SUMMARY:

A certified automation test engineer with over sixteen (16) years experience in Information Systems. Background includes experience in the cable, telecommunications and e-commerce industries testing billing, customer care and advertising applications. Strong skills in UNIX, NT, SQL, C, C++, EDI, KORN SHELL, PERL, HTML, IIS, SSL, LDAP, ACTIVE X, SIEBEL, PEOPLESOFT, WEBLOGIC, BROADVISION, JAVA, JAVASCRIPT, XRUNNER, SQL, WINRUNNER, LOADRUNNER, TESTRUNNER, HOLOS, CRYSTAL REPORTS, JRUN, DOORS, WIRELESS 802.11, LINUX, TCP/IP, X.25, Clarify, Six Sigma, SEI CMM, DELPHI, ISDN, SONET and ATDM. Outstanding management and communication skills.

EDUCATION:

M.S. in Counseling, two-thirds completed, Denver Seminary, Denver, Colorado, 1992. B.S. in Applied Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, 1979

 

Additional training:Certified LoadRunner, C, Advanced C, SONET, SAS/MVS, and Fundamentals of UNIX.

QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY:

Hardware

Operating Systems

Software

IBM 30XX, 43XX

OS/MVS

LOADRUNNER, XRUNNER

PC (386, 486, 586, PS/2)

MS-DOS, UNIX, OS/2, NT

C, C++, COBOL, JCL, SAS

HP9000, K570, T600

HP-UX

KORN SHELL, PERL, DELPHI

SUN, 6000, SPARCSTATIONS

SOLARIS

SQL, X-WINDOWS, TSO/ISPF

SEQUENT

UNIX

ISDN, SONET, ATDM, JAVA

DEC 4100/8400

 

MS-WINDOWS, MS-EXCEL

 

 

MS-PROJECT, MS-WORD,CLARIFY

 

 

GUI, LDAP, IIS, SSL, WINRUNNER

 

 

JAVASCRIPT, HTML, EDI Open, EDISIM, PEOPLESOFT, SIEBEL

  

 

 

 

Databases:

ORACLE, SYBASE, FOXPRO, VSAM, DB2, MS SQL Server, PICK

Protocols:

ETHERNET, TCP/IP, X.25, EDI X.12, WINFRAME, HTTP, JHTML

 

802.11 WIRELESS, WAP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sprint

10/25/01 – Present

On Contract to Sprint North Supply, Kansas City, KS. Phase 3 Load Testing for Webstore ,Siebel and Peoplesoft integrated applications. Environment: UNIX, Oracle, DB2, NT, Win2K, Javascript, LoadRunner 7.02, WinRunner 7.02, TestDirector 7.2, DOORS 5.0, Java, JSP, WebLogic, Vitria, Siebel, Peoplesoft 8.0.

 

Texas Instruments

08/27/01 – 10/17/01

On Contract to Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX. Load and performance Architect for wireless LAN connection from TI calculators to web based data and classroom material. Complex open source software architecture including proprietary hub. Designing and implementing performance benchmarks to assure end user performance criteria. Environment: Win2K, Linux, Javascript, Java, Jrun, Apache, Oracle, LoadRunner, Six Sigma.

 

Siemens

06/01/01 – 8/24/01

On Contract to Siemens Medical Systems, Philadelphia, PA. Automation Architect for Functional and Performance Testing an ASP hosted patient management system. Designing Automation Testing Strategies and implementing automation scripts that are linked to, and validated with end user service level requirements developed through the Rational Unified Process (RUP). Environment: RUP, Win2K, Javascript, LoadRunner 7.0, WinRunner 7.02, TestDirector 7.02, Caliber, Java, SQL Server 2000, MS J++, ASP, Active X.

 

Sprint

3/01/01 – 06/01/01

On Contract to Sprint North Supply, Kansas City, KS. Phase 2 Load Testing for Webstore ,Siebel and Peoplesoft integrated applications. Environment: UNIX, Oracle, DB2, NT, Javascript, LoadRunner 6.5, WinRunner 6.0, TestDirector 6.0, DOORS 5.0, Java, JSP, WebLogic, Vitria, Siebel, Peoplesoft 8.0.

 

Bank of America

2/11/01 – 3/16/01

On Contract to Bank of America Charlotte, NC. Reviewed and made recommendations for Performance testing lab methodology as well as scripting for intranet/internet corporate money management application. Environment: UNIX, MQSeries, Oracle, NT, Javascript, LoadRunner 6.5, WinRunner 6.0, TestDirector 6.0, DOORS 5.0, Java, JSP, Iplanet, NetDynamics, ColdFusion.

 

Manulife Finanical

1/9/01 – 2/10/01

On Contract to ManuLife Finanical, Boston, MA. Performance testing on their intranet/internet Fund management application. Environment: Oracle, NT, Javascript, LoadRunner 6.5, WinRunner, TestDirector 6.0, Visual Basic, COM/DCOM, SQL Server 7.0.

 

State of Florida

9/15/00 – 12/15/00

On Contract to State of Florida, Tallahassee, FL, performance test development on their Intranet Child Services application. Environment: RUP, DB2, DB Connect, SCOUNIX, NT, Javascript, LoadRunner 6.5, WinRunner, TestDirector 7i, Tuxedo, Jolt, Java, Weblogic, Apache.

 

GE Supply

 

2/9/00 – 12/31/00

 

  

On contract to GE Corporation, Shelton, CT, performance and regression automation test development for their e-commerce Business to Business Internet site. Setup test methods, procedures and development processes. Environment: Oracle, UNIX, NT, C++, Visual Basic, Clarify, BroadVision, MQSeries, JavaScript, HTML, LoadRunner 6.0, WinRunner 6.0, TestDirector 6.0.

  

 

 

EMC

 

12/20/99 - 2/26/00

 

  

On contract to EMC Corporation, Boston MA, performance and regression automation test development for their customer service Clarify based system upgrade. System upgrade from Sybase 11 to Oracle 7.3.4. Environment: Oracle, Sybase, UNIX, NT, C++, Visual Basic, Clarify, LoadRunner 6.0, WinRunner 6.0, TestDirector 6.0.

  

 

 

Epidemic Marketing

 

10/01/99 - 12/15/99

 

  

On contract to Epidemic Marketing, defining and evaluating automation test needs for their e-mail based marketing e-commerce system. Implementation of Mercury automation tools and usage on their web based e-commerce site. Environment: Oracle, SQL Server 7.0, NT, JHTML, IIS, SSL, DYNAMO, JAVA, Netscape, Javascript, IE, LoadRunner 6.0, WinRunner 6.0, TestDirector 6.0.

  

 

 

Alignmark

 

9/7/99 - 10/15/99

 

  

On contract to Alignmark, defining the test needs for automation, mentoring team on tools evaluation criteria, automation principles and techniques. Analysis of automation tools and usage on their web based e-commerce site. Environment: Oracle, NT, LDAP, ASP, IIS, Netscape, Javascript, CGI, IE, LoadRunner, WinRunner, Performance Studio, QARun, QALoad.

  

 

 

State of Alabama

 

8/27/99 - 9/3/99

 

  

On contract to the State of Alabama, mentoring and training the test team in automation techniques and methods. Set up analysis criteria, test methodology, automation test structure, and provided test script training. Scripts generated for the mainframe system will be use for actual load/stress testing. Environment: Powerbuilder, ODBC, LoadRunner, WinRunner, TestDirector, Caliber, DB2, NT, Performance Monitor.

  

 

 

Notions Systems

 

6/99 - 9/99

 

  

On contract to Lucent Technologies, technical performance consultant for 911 systems. Responsible for performance testing script development and analysis reporting for all 911 data management systems, mentoring of test team members on methodologies and software development lifecycle process improvement. Environment: NT, Delphi, SQL, LOADRUNNER, WINRUNNER, MS SQL Server, MS Performance Monitor.

  

 

 

Productive Data Systems Englewood, Colorado

 

6/98 - 5/99

 

  

On contract to TCI, technical team lead responsible for Y2K load/stress automation on 60 plus different cable system applications including Oracle Finanicals customizations, 2 – tier Sybase applications, 3 – tier Netscape client server applications. Developed GUI test scripts to match business Y2K system usage. Environment: HP UNIX, Windows95, Windows NT, SQL, LOADRUNNER, PERL, XRUNNER, WINRUNNER, WINBATCH, CITRIX WINFRAME, CRYSTAL REPORTS, ORACLE, SYBASE, PICK, HOLOS.

  

 

 

Interim Technology Englewood, Colorado

 

12/97 - 6/98

 

  

On contract to USWest, responsible for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) data file creation for system testing, creating requirements based test cases for JAVA and EDI data inputs, querying an Oracle database that links data inputs through a Business Processing Layer to several telephony Legacy systems. Environment: HP, WINRUNNER, UNIX, NETSCAPE, ORACLE, HTML, JAVA, SQL, DDTS and EDI..

 

 

 

Productive Data Systems Englewood, Colorado

 

4/97 - 12/97

 

  

On contract to TCI, responsible for testing SYBASE Open Server application in a Distributed Data Server environment. Maintained 4 UNIX testing systems, responsible for IVR/ARU testing across Aspect and ROLM switches, validated data migration conversion scripts, debugged stored procedures, performed Graphical User Interface (GUI) validation, and utilized LOADRUNNER for system stress automation. Built and executed complex SQL queries on a SYBASE database to validate data and wrote PERL scripts to randomly access data and pull customer data records from the database. Environment: SUN SPARCSTATIONS, SOLARIS 2.5, SYBASE, SQL, LOADRUNNER, PERL, XRUNNER, WINRUNNER.

 

 

 

 

Productive Data Systems Englewood, Colorado

 

10/96 - 4/97 CONSULTANT

 

  

On contract to US WEST, responsible for testing NETSCAPE and ORACLE telecommunication call routing and mediated access applications utilizing PERL, HTML, and CGI scripts. Validated the interfacing of data base SQL queries. Environment: HP, SEQUENT, UNIX, NETSCAPE, ORACLE, HTML, PERL, SQL, LOADRUNNER, XRUNNER, ,WINRUNNER, DDTS and CGI.

 

 

 

 

SAI Englewood, Colorado

 

04/96 - 10/96 CONSULTANT

 

  

On contract to TCI, responsible for testing back office applications of SUMMITRAK. Validated data migration conversion scripts, debugged stored procedures, performed Graphical User Interface (GUI) validation, and utilized LOADRUNNER for automation. Built and executed complex SQL queries on a SYBASE database to validate data and wrote PERL scripts to randomly access data and pull customer data records from the database.Environment:SUN SPARCSTATIONS, SOLARIS2.5, SYBASE, SQL, PERL, LOADRUNNER, XRUNNER.

 

 

 

 

AIC Denver, Colorado

 

10/95 - 04/96 CONSULTANT

 

  

On contract to US WEST, test team lead responsible for system test, project management, configuration management, and defect administration for a Public Service Reengineering Project. Created and executed extremely complex SQL queries on an ORACLE database to validate and test data. Also responsible for production support. Environment: HP, UNIX, ORACLE, SQL, MERCURY TEST TOOLS, CONTINUOUS Configuration Management TOOL, DDTS defect tracking tool, XRUNNER, and LOADRUNNER.

 

 

 

 

MCI Colorado Springs, Colorado

 

06/93 - 09/95 STAFF ANALYST/TEST LEAD

 

  

Served as product test lead on all Perspective (billing and Call Detail PC analysis tool) host, Perspective interfaces with NCBS, an MCI billing system, utilizing IBM mainframe, COBOL, JCL, SAS, VSAM, and TSO/ISPF. Also led Perspective CD-WRITE, a data server product that created CDs with billing and call detail information, utilizing UNIX, X-WINDOWS, C, C++, and TCP/IP on an ETHERNET network. Additional responsibility included Perspective TRAFFIC VIEW, a 1-800 Call Detail analysis tool, utilizing C, C++, FOXPRO. Prototyped GUI interfaces for clients. Served as client needs analyst for Call Detail analysis software and as design and test analyst for Call Detail software products. Prototyped test data, evaluated assessments, resources impacts, test documentation, test procedures, test matrices, test metrics, problem tracking, and status reporting. Automated test scripts utilizing TESTRUNNER and TESTPRO.

 

 

 

 

Pioneer Hybrid International

 

12/87 - 08/91 ANALYST

 

  

Served as customer-level system design analyst and systems resource evaluation analyst for end-user software and hardware requirements. Evaluated computer products and data services, including E-Mail, commodities trading information, professional journals, satellite world weather, and Internet data sources. Additional responsibilities included selling, installing, and training users on these products and data services.

 

 

 

 

Paris Agri-Services

 

09/79 - 08/90 PROJECT COORDINATOR

 

  

Completed product evaluations for agricultural chemical manufacturing companies, including Ciba, ICI, Sandoz, Monsanto, Dupont, Rhone-Poulenc and Shell, Served as sales executive for agricultural products. Represented Harvest Publishing as an agricultural authority to advertisement customers. Participated on a keynote panel of nine, discussing innovative technical advances relevant to 3,500 convention participants.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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