The purpose of technology is to make things easier. Ironically, investments in extremely
complicated software programs are essential to make that happen.
A holistic approach to performance is crucial, as it becomes necessary to integrate
more disparate systems across the enterprise and beyond, into the Internet cloud.
To that end, there is a need for multi-performance experts who can view the entire
system as a whole and bring all of the resources together to create a synergistic
working environment.
The people who define The Ian Thomas Group, LLC are specialists, each with years
of experience in performance, infrastructure, application, database and networking
disciplines. Together we deliver an outcome that surpasses the wants, the needs
and the requirements of our clients.
Kevin Mobley, the Chief Executive Officer of ITg, is one of the top five Industry
leaders in the reemerging field of Software Performance Engineering. Kevin speaks
publicly, on every aspect of SPE, including the invaluable benefits to various industries.
If you are interested in booking him for a speaking engagement, please contact info@ianthomasgroup.com
Kevin Mobley is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of The Ian Thomas Group,
LLC, which provides strategic and tactical Software Performance Engineering and
deployment services to organizations that install complex software systems. He is
responsible for strategic direction and implementation of SPE services. Kevin is
a Six Sigma Black Belt with more than fifteen years of experience creating software
systems for Fortune 1000 companies in the entertainment, financial services, government,
retail and travel sectors.
Prior to launching ITg, Kevin was the Director of Software Performance Engineering
at Fidelity National Information Services, Inc., where he managed the performance
engineering of complex multi-tier HTTP, XML, J2EE and mainframe financial services
CRM system, throughout the life cycle of both product development and more than
25 complex customer implementations. Kevin’s team increased the application throughput
over 1300% of both the core sales and service and teller channel applications, and
the XES service oriented architecture middleware. He also developed a holistic application
performance management application, and installed the application for Fidelity’s
customers, to enable proactive discovery and root-cause analysis of real-time application
performance degradation and error conditions.
Prior to Fidelity Information Services, Kevin was Director of the Performance Engineering
Center of Excellence and Chief Performance Architect at iXL, Inc. and a systems
engineer at Science Application International Corporation (SAIC), Georgia Institute
of Technology and Lockheed Martin Corporation.
Kevin is Chair of the Greater Atlanta Region Computer Measurement Group. He received
his Bachelors of Science degree in systems engineering from George Mason University
and his Masters of Science in systems engineering from Georgia Tech.
Angelo Tomaras is the Vice President of Information Technology for The Ian Thomas
Group, LLC. He has more than 15 years of experience in the software engineering
industry. In his role at ITg, Angelo leads the overall research into infrastructure
planning and management and capacity planning best practices. Angelo's team provides
infrastructure recommendations, hardware and software implementation services, and
facilities management.
Prior to joining ITg, Angelo was a Software Platform Engineer and the Lab Operations
Manager for Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. During his eight years
at Fidelity, Angelo was responsible for development, performance and scalability
as well as support and sales. He also received multiple Outstanding Performance
awards and played a key position in the rollout of Windows 2000 domain structure
as well as in establishing the Performance and Tuning group. Angelo started his
IT career as a database and systems administrator for Norfolk Southern, Greenbrier
& Russel and Geac Computer Systems.
Angelo graduated from James Madison University with a Bachelor of Business Administration
in Accounting Information Systems and Computer Information Systems.
Gene Bellamy leads the high performance database architecture team for The Ian Thomas
Group, LLC. Gene has more than 30 years of experience in the software industry as
a database architect, database administrator and planner, application development
DBA, data modeler, mentor to developers on high performance database access, and
consultant on high performance database architectural design.
Prior to joining ITg, Gene spent 10 years as the Senior Performance Engineer and
Database Architect for WebTone Technology and Fidelity National Information Services,
Inc. During his time with Fidelity, Gene was responsible for the data analysis and
seeding of the database to model the customer’s use of the TouchPoint (CRM) and
Teller banking software in production. In addition, Gene was responsible for the
optimization of the application’s data queries based on performance test results,
and was the team lead for various software performance engineering engagements.
Prior to WebTone, Gene was the lead DBA at Dunn and Bradstreet.
Gene received his Bachelor of Science degree in system science from the University
of West Florida.
Johnny Gilliam's team provides performance engineering consulting services that
include infrastructure architecture assessment, performance modeling, performance
monitoring tool development, network analysis and troubleshooting, and system performance
optimization.
Johnny is an experienced technology professional with over 25 years of experience
in the software industry. Johnny and his team have comprehensive technical skills
and use that knowledge to solve complex business problems. The team's background
includes development management, systems design, full life cycle software development,
software quality/testing, system performance engineering, project estimation and
systems integration.
Prior to joining ITg, Johnny worked for WebTone Technology and Fidelity National
Information Services, Inc, where he led development teams in performing full life
cycle software development for CRM/Banking web applications for financial institutions,
including leading the effort to ensure that State Farm's CRM application was able
to scale to 100,000 active agents. Johnny's performance engineering leadership has
been critical at a number of major US and International banks, including scaling
the retail banking solution that Royal Bank of Scotland leveraged to execute its
United States acquisition strategy. Johnny worked extensively on performance engineering
and testing of high availability systems for Air Traffic Control while at Harris
Corporation. The air traffic control system was required to have less than 4 seconds
of downtime per year.
Johnny graduated from Southern University with a Bachelors of Science degree in
electrical engineering.
Mary Ann Gardner is a software business analyst and project manager at The Ian Thomas
Group, LLC. She contributes during all phases of planning, design, development,
testing implementation and support, for mainframe, client/server and web based technologies.
Mary Ann has over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. Throughout
her career she has gained extensive skills in development management, application
design, software development, quality assurance, client support and implementation
consulting. Her expertise also includes user interface graphic design, analyzing
and modeling data, corrective code fix development, and the training of customers
and colleagues.
Prior to joining ITg, Mary Ann worked as the Quality Assurance Manager, for WebTone
Technologies. During her time there, she hired and managed functional quality assurance
teams, insuring they delivered high quality products. Additional responsibilities
included coordinating the research of support issues and the delivery of maintenance,
defining and documenting application development and service transition processes,
and the implementation of Rational Software products.
Mary Ann graduated Summa Cum Laude from Duke University, with a Bachelors of Science
degree in Management and Computer Science.
Interested in working for a fast-paced, exciting company that truly appreciates
your worth? The Ian Thomas Group, LLC, is always looking for the best and the brightest
System Administrators, Database Administrators and Programmers.
If you want a career in which you will be challenged to think critically and valued
for your expertise in multiple disciplines, please email your resume to:
info@ianthomasgroup.com