Michelle Beck - Palomar College

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• Defined software development processes for all phases of product life cycle and drove change management
initiatives that resulted in higher quality releases and faster time to market.
Senior Staff Engineer 1997-2006
• Architected a complex project that involved distributed infrastructure, tools and validation software for Sun
Cluster that resulted in several patented innovations.
• Led a global team of 50 engineers on the implementation that resulted in 3 million lines of code in C, C++,
scripting languages and Java with ability to run on Solaris and Linux.
• Received Chairman’s award from Scott McNealy, Chairman of Sun Microsystems for outstanding work on
Sun Cluster product.
• Supervised the team that was involved in the delivery of 10 Sun Cluster releases that generated 1 Billion
USD of revenue for Sun Microsystems.
• Defined Sun Cluster Open Storage Certification program for storage products from IBM, HP, EMC and
Hitachi that resulted in 50% improvement in 3 rd party storage adoption.
• Developed Availability Benchmarks for measuring the performance of planned and unplanned outages that
generated 25% improvement in availability metrics.
UNISYS CORPORATION San Jose, CA
Software Engineer 1995-1996
• Implemented performance analysis and load characterization tools for Oracle Parallel Server applications
running on SVR4 Micro kernel based OPUS parallel computer systems.
ORACLE CORPORATION Redwood Shores, CA
Member Technical Staff 1994-1995
• Developed OS specific modules for Ultrix and SCO Unix for Oracle RDBMS 7.1.4 software.
• Ported Cooperative Development Environment (CDE) tools to Ultrix platform.
ICL INDIA Pune, India
Systems Analyst 1993-1994
• Developed a Sales demonstration tool for Tuxedo transaction manager involving a heterogeneous
distributed transaction spanning Oracle and Informix databases.
• Designed and implemented performance benchmarking tools for customer applications on ICL hardware.
WIPRO INFOTECH LTD. Bangalore, India
Systems Analyst 1991-1993
• Designed and developed runtime modules for Wipro COBOL interpreter.
HCL TECHNOLOGIES LTD. Chennai, India
Software Engineer 1990-1991
• Implemented voice mail modules for compressing and expanding data for PBX Telco software.
EDUCATION
KELLOGG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Evanston, IL
Master of Business Administration 2011
MADRAS UNIVERSITY Pondicherry, India
BS, Computer Science 1989
ADDITIONAL
• Co-authored technical white paper on Sun Cluster Software – Quality by Design for Advanced Availability
• US Citizen