Matthew Adcock

Senior Manager - Performance Engineering @ SiriusXM

About

Performance, scalability, and capacity testing specialist within the field of information technology. 20+ years of experience performing pre-production automated load testing, validation and optimization, front-end performance optimization, as well as post-production performance diagnosis and application performance management for distributed applications. Project experience within various vertical industries, including Banking & Finance, Insurance, Retail, Distribution, Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, Media and Entertainment. Provided professional services for customers such as, 1800FLOWERS.com, A.G. Edwards, ADP, Aeroplan, Bristol-Myers Squibb , Brookfield Office Properties, Cartus, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Citigroup, Consolidated Edison, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Dun & Bradstreet, Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, Fidelity, Gap Inc., General Electric, General Reinsurance, GFI Group, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, iClick, IN MOTION-GIT, Intrasphere Technologies, JP Morgan Chase, JusticeTrax, Merrill Lynch, Milliman Care Guidelines, Moody's Corporation, NBC, New York State Education Department, Orlando Regional Medical Center, Pearson Education, Pep Boys, Pfizer, Prescient Markets, Inc.,ProAct Technologies, Prudential Insurance, Republic Bank, Symbol Technologies, Texas Education Agency, The Pepsi Bottling Group, UPS, and Worldnow. Experience using an extensive portfolio of both commercial and open source software quality assurance solutions, including the following: * Apache JMeter * Compuware Application Expert * Compuware Application Vantage * Compuware QALoad * Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) * Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate * HP ALM Performance Center * HP Business Availability Center (BAC) * HP LoadRunner * IBM Rational preVue * IBM Rational PerformanceStudio * IBM Rational Performance Tester (RPT) * IBM Rational Quality Manager (RQM) * IBM Rational TeamTest * OpenSTA * Radview WebLoad * Rally ALM Platform * Shunra Network Virtualization

Country

United States

City

New York

Industry

Broadcast Media

Skill

OctoPerf, AppDynamics, Datadog, Test Automation, Performance Testing, Testing, LoadRunner, JMeter, Rational Performance Tester, Software Quality Assurance, Quality Center, Quality Assurance, Visual Studio, SDLC, QTP, Load Testing, Test Planning, Java, Test Management, C

Experience

Senior Manager - Performance Engineering

SiriusXM

2021-2 - Present · 5 yrs 8 mos

New York City Metropolitan Area

Manager - Performance Engineering

SiriusXM

2018-7 - 2021-2 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Greater New York City Area

Senior Performance Engineer

SiriusXM

2014-6 - 2018-6 · 4 yrs 1 mo

Greater New York City Area

Champion and support the software quality assurance endeavors targeting the performance and scalability of Sirius XM Radio’s various subscription-driven software solutions, including its subscriber self-service web site and mobile application, its call center telephonic customer service system, its customer billing system, its identity management system (idM), and its enterprise service bus. With the focus being on the digital experience of its customers, partners, and customer service representatives, engineer automated load testing solutions in order to measure, diagnose, and tune Sirius XM Radio’s highly distributed and integrated architecture, as well as address the performance of its front-end user interfaces using solutions such as WebPagetest, Internet Explorer and Chrome developer tools, Google’s PageSpeed Insights, and Yahoo’s YSlow.

Division Manager: Performance & Scalability Division

RTTS

2007-10 - 2014-5 · 6 yrs 8 mos

Greater New York City Area

Assisted with the business development and marketing initiatives of RTTS' Professional Services division. Managed a staff of performance engineers, guided multiple on-going customer projects, and provided hands-on support when needed. Provided instructional services for IBM, HP, and Microsoft public courses pertaining to automated load testing, as well as delivered private courses tailored for specific customers. Continued to maintain and create educational content for the public courses delivered via RTTS' Educational Services.

Project/Technical Manager: Performance & Scalability Division

RTTS

2003-10 - 2007-10 · 4 yrs 1 mo

Greater New York City Area

Assisted with guiding the project life cycle of software performance engineering initiatives across concurrent projects within RTTS' Performance & Scalability Division. Provided educational and training services, including the creation and delivery of public and internal training courses.

Senior Test Engineer: Performance & Scalability Division

RTTS

1998-10 - 2003-10 · 5 yrs 1 mo

Greater New York City Area

Responsible for delivering day-to-day test automation services regarding the performance testing application life cycle. Additional roles included the mentoring and training of colleagues and assisting with the implementation of best practices.