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Midland, Michigan, Us

Currently at XALT Energy I monitor, optimize and manage all Linux Systems, Windows Systems,vmware infrastructure, sharepoint. I also maintain/manage/optimize specialty stacks such as IBM DOORS, Code Collaborator Teamforge, Various flavors of SVN. I also maintain/update/optimize systems that run our Production Scada environment and our Manufacturing Execution System.I can setup from the ground up a monitoring and alerting system with a grafana frontend that tracks performance key metrics of servers/computers so that we are pro-active vs reactive to potential problems. I have fine tuned the system to do live and historical profiling on granular memory footprint of our MES sub processes and any other process that needs specific attention.-I have saved/provided cost avoidance to XALT for hundred thousands of dollars by looking at open source technologies in lieu of purchasing expensive contractual agreements. Eliminating non value redundancy/wasted resources that did not bring any value to the bottom line.-I also backup all of these environments, do testing and validation on them on a weekly basis to ensure that the backups are good and that they validate onsite and offsite at our Disaster Recovery site.-I do the same for our development cloud infrastructure

Providing various cloud hosting solutions and consulting for frugalsos.com, greatstartmidland.org, cleanpawstoday.com. Via Linux, Docker, Ruby. I have done this for over 20 years from back when things were ran from Perl/CGI to today's bleeding edge platforms.-I can provide consulting on best practices regarding Search Engine Optimization and placement for your business/market.-Optimize your website for speed and effectiveness so that your content is delivered optimally all the time. Provide control systems and metrics to maintain/monitor and sustain the gains.-Migrate platform from Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress + custom CMS. Migrated static website to modern Content Management System.. -Optimize your platform in a way that will let your users/customers promote your business/products.-Reduce load time of your platform by utilizing best practices in delivering the content in an optimal way, compressed, cached, CDN and various other practices.-Provide a secure, fast, efficient web platform that can be scaled out minimally in case of significant traffic increase.

(1999-2013) Frugalvillage.com Co-founder, Developer, Community Leader, Frontend and Backend.-Launched a content management system, forums and social networking tools. Optimizing content by providing contextual information for images, data, links, sitemaps.-Implemented automation of tagging for user generated content to better semantically categorized information in the forums and for use in the CMS.-Improved search engine ranking results. Website at the time of my involvement was in the top three google, yahoo, bing search results for the targeted keywords we competed in. We were able to compete with Wikipedia & about.com on relevance. -Increased membership to the forums by 30-90% every year since 2001 to 2013.-Provided support and best practices for the team of moderators online-Increased participation of members by providing tools and widgets that were relevant and assisted them on generating/creating content that was relevant to them.-Implemented internal automated contextual content to the CMS that allowed more exposure to specific forums utilizing XML & Javascript. This improved our bounce rates and revenu stream from advertisers.-Implemented a trouble ticket system to log and label end user problems and document them for business continuity.-Continuous maintenance, updates and improvements of applications to stay ahead of competitors by listening to the community requirements/feature requests.-Website/community referenced in the NewsPrint and other online resources such as: WallStreet Journal Business Insider, Bloomberg Business Week, US NEWS & World Report, NPR, Yahoo Finance, Intuit Mint, Forbes, Slate, The Huffington Post, Universal Uclick, TIME, Associated Press, MSN Money, Good Morning America ABC, TreeHugger, SCRIPPS-At one point community has 500,000 pages indexed on google by optimizing indexes, submissions, sitemaps.Sold to Vertical Scope in July 2013.

Midland, Michigan, Us

- Global Support Maintaining and troubleshooting MS Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, TIVOLI TSM, BlackBerry Enterprise Server, Print Servers, Network Shares and various other applications in a Windows Environment ranging from NT to Windows 2012 Servers. Hardware and Software Support for WINTEL. (DELL, HP, COMPAQ) Provided support to systems for Production Plants & Data centers across 10+ countries across the globe. -Global Linux/Unix Servers Support & Maintenance on hardware and software across various platform such as VMWARE, SAMBA, LDAP, ORACLE, SAP, Tivoli TSM, Service Center, MySQL, Apache, Tomcat. Provided support to systems for Production Plants & Data centers across 10+ countries across the globe. -Science and Technology Support for Linux/Solaris/Irix/AIX running Quantum Chemistry Parallel computation Software such as GAMESS & Gaussian98 and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Applications such as VNMR & VNMRJ (Agilent/Varian). License Server application. These applications were running on systems with a mixed of Redhat, Solaris, Irix, AIX operating systems.Was hired to Support EOL application and hardware on IRIX and Solaris. (Various IRIX and Solaris systems, over 7 variants) -Streamlined environment & Architecture to 1 OS and 2 variations. Solaris 8 and Solaris 10. -Migrated users to a Free Alternative in Chemical Quantum Parallel Computing that operates in a virtual environment on a FailOver/production system that was idle 100% of the time. -Lead, Designed and created On boarding procedures and roadmap for new employees joining our team. Milestones needed/expected by specific timelines. Formal mentoring within the team. -Coached and guided co-workers in creating organic documentation for procedures so that they utilize controlled documents

Midland, Michigan, Us

Customer Service Specialist/Six Sigma Green Belt Project Leader-Co-Developed, implemented & led the “BEFAST” initiative script. This resulted in a cycle time reduction of 97% to process orders. -Initiated, Led and Created audio-video capture tutorials for self-sustainability of BEFAST reducing costs to $0 for training. -Initiated, Led and developed procedures for unique telemetry systems at 13 customer locations for key account. Coordinated accountability and documented it with customer in case of failure of equipment or disaster recovery. This increased customer awareness and a closer relationship with Dow by allowing the customer to focus on their core competency and let Dow manage their inventories at $0 cost. -Managed accounts as a Bilingual customer service representative totaling $100mm in annual sales.-Brought 15 accounts totaling $17mm in sales per year under 5 DSO. They averaged over 20 DSO prior to my involvement. -Initiated, led and developed VBA script that increased effectiveness and productivity by reducing email traffic by 97% on critical daily communications. This saved the company $30m in time and increased the urgency of the message being communicated.-Initiated, led and implemented maximization of tank trucks usage totaling a savings of $300m on a yearly basis. This initiative was later leveraged to other businesses at Dow and was made into a transaction service standard.-Took initiative to Increased margins annually by $85m on an account by negotiating, exploring and influencing them to use an alternative sourcing point. Win/win/win result for Dow and Customer and logistical partner in the long term.-Took initiative and developed a customized/automated news portal to display events/news happening at customers and competitors. +Increased awareness +business intelligence information that was disseminated to business units that were impacted. Bringing the customer awareness to the business units.

Newark, California, Us

Ba Management, Management & Intl Business

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Professional, Mineral Extraction