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The Woodlands, Texas, United States

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Greater New Orleans Area

IT capacity management architect at HCL technologies performing end-to-end capacity management and performance management for Entergy client.

Dallas

IT operations manager with primary responsibility in enterprise capacity and performance management for EFH and its subsidiaries.

New Orleans & Little Rock

IT capacity management for compute, virtualization, and storage areas. Experience in analytical modeling (queuing, OLS, Arima, SPC, and other methods), forecasting, business planning, as well as performance analysis at the infrastructure and application layers. Systems integration skills employed in the capacity space to pull in and integrate data from numerous sources to correlate business KPIs with infrastructure performance metrics, bottleneck identification, and remediation. Infrastructure capacity management for VMware, Solaris, Windows, Linux, EMC, Netapp, Hitachi USP/VSP, Cisco UCS, NAS, SAN and converged environments (FlexPod). Regularly interface with project management, senior IT leadership, and cross-functional teams to deliver blended multi-year capacity plans with reliable cost/risk analysis, project capacity impact and costing, and operational performance analysis to deliver problem management analysis & recommendations.

New Orleans

IT Enterprise Systems Management EngineerEngaged initially as a contractor through Sprint Paranet, then as a direct employee after 6 months service. Design, deploy, integrate, and support systems management operational tools across the enterprise based on IBM Tivoli systems management suites. Experience integrating monitoring systems with ticketing systems (BMC Remedy), call-out/escalation systems, SNMP, NOC processes, reporting and predictive data analytics.

Multiple Locations Us & Canada

Plant floor control systems engineering and IT systems management engineering on the General Motors account with EDS. Led numerous initiatives related to production equipment monitoring, alerting, reporting and analytics including statistical process control methods, just-in-time material delivery systems, synchronous manufacturing process engineering, HVAC and power control systems, SCADA, physical access control systems, PLC programming, broadband network maintenance & troubleshooting, and IT systems management across multiple General Motors assembly facilities across North America.