Experience

• Sun Microsystems, Inc.

  Software Engineer

  • Part of benchmarking team that published results on enterprise servers
  • Involved in industry-standard benchmarks (e.g., SPECjbb). Exercised and validated low-level storage and network configurations using microbenchmarking. Assessed CPU and Memory performance.
  • Vast experience using virtualization software such as Oracle VM Server (Logical Domains)
  • Familiar with HBA technology: SAS, Fibre channel, 10 Gb, 1Gb Ethernet, Infiniband
  

• Raytheon

  Senior Software Engineer

  Nicholas worked at Raytheon as a Senior Software Engineer

• Dell EMC

  Performance Engineer CO-OP

  • Instrumented tests to root cause system performance problems
  • Wrote Perl scripts to read and analyze CPU performance register stats
  • Collected and analyzed Front Side Bus trace to root cause performance issues
  • Worked with software engineers to implement performance fixes
  • Worked extensively with Unix/Linux systems, configuring and writing scripts
  • Gained knowledge of various Storage Interconnect Technologies: Fibre, iSCSI, Ficon
  • Gained an understanding of various Storage Management Software
  • Configured and took ownership of a high-end storage system
  

• AVTECH Software, Inc.

  Product Development CO-OP

  • Designed and built circuits and sensors used for home/office monitoring systems
  • Tested and assembled hardware and software devices
  • Created circuits on a PCB using the software program ExpressPCB
  

• Oracle Corporation

  Senior Software Engineer

  Core Qualifications:
  Datacenter Management: Efficiently plan, install, and configure IT infrastructure to achieve high availability and performance. Took ownership of datacenter to streamline processes and increase productivity to accomplish rapid results.
  
  System Administration: Strong experience managing server and storage infrastructures across multiple platforms including Linux, UNIX, and Windows. Proven ability to determine solutions to increase business growth, advance skill set, and optimize system and network performance. Skilled troubleshooter in determining root cause and corrective action. Proficient in managing systems, projects, and teams on different IT platforms.
  
  • System administrator and datacenter manager, supporting team members in different time zones
  • Engage core Hardware/Software engineering team to implement fixes for functional and performance issues.
  • Maintain and manage systems and storage by keeping up-to-date firmware and software stack
  • Installed and continually maintain group webserver using Apache as a back end
  • Routine engagement of UNIX/Linux system installation, configuration and administration for a team of 20 engineers
  • Troubleshoot root cause issues on software and hardware of Oracle enterprise servers
  • Successfully implemented ticket system to prioritize datacenter tasks and projects
  • Developed and integrated cooling and power strategy into datacenter environment
  • Deploy and configure UNIX and Linux OS installs including networking and storage configuration
  • Active participant of core engineering exercise to improve the quality of Oracle enterprise servers
  • Responsible for backup and recovery of performance data of team projects
  • Traveled to engage and educate team members in different time zones for efficient progress
  • Transfer datacenter assets between various locations, reallocate, and retire resources with minimal downtime