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Oak Brook, Illinois, Us

Sales, manage client relationships, and oversee project quality. Develop, create, and deliver client solutions, proposals, strategies, and roadmaps. Program management for our largest clients. Advise clients on monitoring systems (e.g., SolarWinds and NetBrain) and improving processes, reporting, dashboards, system architecture. Created a new consulting service focused on observability, automation, and data science.

Westlake, Texas, Us

Architecting and engineering leading edge cloud, automation, and data center solutions to drive down cost and improve efficiency. Products include LiveAction's LiveNX, Extrahop, and NetBrain while integrating them with popular open source technologies such as Salt stack, Kafka, Apache analytics stack, and Grafana.

Detroit, Mi, Us

Architecting and developing IT performance services for Fortune 100 companies. Brought on to develop new professional services that aligned with overall corporate goals, working with team of six consultants. Analyzed customers’ websites and how they are supporting business initiatives, developed recommendations to enable them to meet goals. Managed complex projects utilizing consultants and collaborative resources. Generated $1+ million annual revenue pipeline with development of focused professional consulting services. Leveraged all Compuware Dynatrace products to deliver high value projects.

Tempe, Az, Us

• Created the performance and capacity management services for all IT network, server, and storage platforms• Grew the team from one (1) to more than fifteen (15) to encompass Enterprise Systems Management (monitoring systems)• Lead the evaluation, selection, and implementation of the application, performance, and fault management systems to help the organization proactively address capacity and performance concerns and improve incident response• Supervised the evaluation, procurement, and implementation of SAS statistical software for complex capacity studies• Applying data management, mining, and analytics to correlate end-user experience and system metrics to isolate the root cause of performance degradation• Leveraged CA eHealth and SPECTRUM, OPNET ACE, ACELive, EMS and Panorama, ZOHO Manage Engine, Compuware Gomez, SAS JMP, Enterprise Guide, and Data Miner, Arbor Peakflow SP, Zabbix, Web Page Test, Show Slow, Mondrian, and Kettle

Helping IT organizations improve the end-user experience by optimizing application and network performance.• Worked with Account Managers across North America selling OPNET Consulting services to Enterprise clients; responsible for $12M annual quota• Developed and delivered all sales and services presentations; authored Applications Network Readiness (ANR) whitepaper; presented ANR methodology to regional user groups; conducted two web-based technical workshops on Performance Engineering

Westlake, Texas, Us

Transforming capacity planning and developing performance engineering services.• Lead the transformation of capacity reporting, management systems, and network engineering teams into a full-service performance engineering organization while developing new application and network readiness methods and services• Managed six different design & engineering teams and one project management team for Technology Infrastructure Services division; accountable for team strategies, internal marketing, budget, workflow, performance, training and career development• Increased the number of teams managed from two to five, personnel from ten (10) to twenty (20), and financial responsibility from $100,000 to over $2M in less than two years• Leveraged HP OpenView Network Node Manager (NNM), OPNET ACE, and SAS IT Resource Manager ( ITRM)

Chandler, Arizona, Us

Delevoping, managing, and delivering performance engineering services.• Lead the Performance Solutions practice providing network and application performance troubleshooting, baselines, and profiling; experience with Compuware Vantage, OPNET ACE and IT Guru, Mercury Interactive SiteScope, and Wildpackets Etherpeek• Managed our largest practice (core networking) with 60+ consultants; developed wireless LAN capability for the organization; architected a service provider network; and developed design templates to capture design best practices• Developed and delivered presentations at TribalNet conference and Compuware seminar; developed and presented WLAN training for the Phoenix Network Users Group; and interviewed by Network World reporters

Chandler, Arizona, Us

• Managed and implemented numerous network integration and implementation projects• Hands-on experience with Cisco routers, switches, load balancing, and firewalls

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Managed the system integration team with three (3) engineers and a $500,000 budget to design and implement a new corporate-wide network. The network was used to support the deployment of emerging client/server applications and ease system management functions. Expected ROI was less than two years due to network transport cost savings and increased revenue• Managed the software development and maintenance projects for an existing Unix to mainframe communications gateway with a team of six (6) contractors and a $250,000 budget• Managed a team of six (6) administrators that coordinated on-site installation and troubleshooting of Unix systems at both Trans Union remote sites and customer locations

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Supervised UNIX system management projects for 175 local and remote systems. Responsibilities included troubleshooting systems and software, performing bug fixes, software distribution, regression testing, and administration• Lead efforts to define, standardize, and document Unix system construction and verification procedures. Designed and built a flexible laboratory and work area to facilitate construction and verification tasks

Dublin 2, Ie

• Managed development and support efforts of a communications gateway for customers worldwide• Performed full development life-cycle including design, coding, testing, and installation of software on OS/2, MVS, and HP-UX• Managed a team of three software engineers doing system testing and final production release

Dublin 2, Ie

• Worked on over nineteen different engagements, at sixteen different clients doing data network architecture, design, and installation worldwide (US, Canada, Europe and the Middle East)

Notre Dame, In, Us

• Developed experiments for and instructed a third-year electrical engineering laboratory that provided hands-on experience with the fundamentals of computer hardware, interfaces, and system-level (assembly language) programming• Experiments used the IBM-PC architecture with Intel’s 8086 microprocessor and supporting integrated circuits. Topics were taught covering memory-mapped and I/O addressing, interrupt handling, serial and parallel interfaces, direct memory access (DMA), and DOS/BIOS system-level calls

• Assisted in the development of system test facilities for digital voice communication equipment• Designed and supervised the implementation of a microcontroller (Intel 8051) based platform to control test equipment and interface with an Intel 310 computer to control overall system test operations• Designed and implemented the embedded system level programs for the test controller and Intel 310 computer using i8051 assembler and ‘C’ language routines on XENIX

• Designed and implemented data processing for a research project in electrical power distribution and brokering• Responsible for data collection and processing, quality assurance, and publishing reports for twenty-four US power plants