Summary
Senior IT monitoring engineer specializing in the internet/infrastructure monitoring field. Results driven support specialist with managerial experience in the full life cycle including design and implementation of 24 x 7 monitoring. Hands-on experience in leading all stages of designing, planning, analyzing, requirement definition, development, implementation, and the documenting for monitoring solutions to support the business objectives of maintaining 100 uptime and availability as well as alerting on events. Outstanding team leader with superior experience in training and managing 24x7 monitoring teams in a Network Operations Center NOC environment. Also ITIL v3 Foundations Certified.
Technical Proficiencies:
Platforms: UNIX Solaris, HP-UX , Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/Vista, Sun Sparc, VAX/VMS, and OS2 operating systems.
Professional Experience:
Confidential
Sr. IT Consultant
Working as a consultant to Aetna Health care on updating and upgrading their monitoring suite of tools to the BMC BPPM version 9.5 suite. Worked heavily in the area of Patrol Central Operations PCO and Patrol Configuration Manager PCM to configure and set up all alerting to events, including testing and documenting all test cases and certification.
Confidential
Sr. Consultant
Performed the complete architectural design, selection of vendor, build out, and implementation of the monitoring solutions for DHS Headquarters at the St. Elizabeths campus in Southeast DC utilizing the ITIL model. This design incorporated the BMC BPPM set of tools as well as importing the alerts from some 30 plus monitoring tools, including Solar Winds, What's up Gold, and NetScout utilizing the Syslogs and SNMP traps from those tool sets. Wrote the design documents, designed the architectural diagrams, created the SOP's for the BMC Patrol Monitoring, and set the SLA's to turn over to the 24x7 NOC/O M group. Also wrote the code, utilizing the Master Rule Language MRL to integrate the SNMP traps with the BMC BPPM tools. Performed all upgrades and mitigations needed to pass the ATO from a C A standpoint.
Confidential
Network Systems Monitoring Engineer
Installed and maintained the NetScout Network Monitoring tool set for the Marine Corp Network Operations and Security Command MCNOSC . Wrote ConOps and ITI's for 24x7 personnel. Performed data packet analysis, updates, patch installation, C A and IA certifications using Retina and SRR scans. Received nCP Certification from NetScout.
Confidential
EM Practitioner
Plan, architect and design the Event Management responsibilities and duties that were to be implemented by the USMC. Duties included writing Technical and Instructional manuals for approval and acceptance by the USMC. Also worked with HP contractors to implement the HP tool suite utilizing HP's OMi/OMW/NNMi toolset.
Confidential
Senior Engineer
Planned, architected, developed, installed, maintained and corrected all monitoring solutions to meet business objectives of 100 uptime and availability, operating on both UNIX and Windows platforms, using the ITIL models. Tools included the BMC Patrol Agents, BMC Portal, BMC BIEM, SiteScope, Foglight, and Big Brother now known as Xymon .
Confidential
Technical Manager
Managed the day-to-day operations of the NOC facility including a 24x7 support group that covered production support, installs, upgrades, and troubleshooting analysis. Also drove process to resolution for all full and partial outages. Engaged 3rd party vendors to outsource various architectural needs and support as necessary. Began employment as the Technical SME and as the SME, I compiled, organized and deployed the total monitoring solutions for Inphonic. Created all profiles, scripts, and created all the metrics needed to set up BAC, Big Brother and SiteScope monitoring for the InPhonic.com.
Confidential
Technical Manager
Duties included managing the restructuring of the NOC operations between Sprint and Nextel as well as organizing the new structural architecture of the Monitoring network.
Managed the day-to-day operations for the Monitoring team including interviewing, hiring, firing, time card monitoring, administrative functions, providing daily, weekly, monthly reports, etc .
Confidential
Technical Lead/System analyst.
Position required providing support for investigation and resolution to all application issues in a highly technical and demanding telecommunications field. Investigations and resolution included data manipulation using SQL queries and updates, LDAP queries and updates, Code manipulation and corrections in both C and Unix Shell programming languages. Overall duties were to maintain the www.nextelonline.nextel.com website, and all of its dynamic applications. Tools included BAC now known as HP's Omi, SiteScope, Big Brother, and NetQOS
Confidential
Support Specialist
Provide Unix/SQL database support to all applications for production support group while assigned to AT T.
