Karl Baumgartner Email & Phone Number

United States

Ottawa, On, Ca

Member of the Observability team focusing on Splunk and the logging pipeline.

Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, Us

Engineer on the platform team running Openshift.

Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, Us

AI Ops. Splunk All the Things. Google Cloud. Hybrid Architecture. Development. Openshift, Docker, Kubernetes. Observability.

Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, Us

AI Ops. Splunk All the Things. Google Cloud. Hybrid Architecture. Development.

Detroit, Mi, Us

* Documentation of: - existing performance measuring capabilities - release management process - strategic proposal of new processes following ITIL standards* Implementation of external monitoring based on evaluation. * Conducted training for multiple teams on new processes and tools.* Provided the day-to-day tactical support of their development team - Build-outs of new QA and UAT environments - Administration - Automation processes.* Installed and configured Sitecore 6.5 instances on Windows Server 2008 R2 virtual and physical hosts. * L3 Support for application issues in pre-production and production instances. * Setup automated image sync processes for the Sitecore based sites that pushed resources to a Rackspace CDN.* Created data gathering process that pulled application, event, and IIS logs into a single source* Automated backup tasks for databases for quick recovery in multiple pre-production environments.* Participated in a time boxed, month long initiative to improve performance for core services. * Researched, installed, and configured a solution to offload static content for a Magento site resulting in a 30% improvement in first paint of key site pages.* installed and configured Dell (Quest) Foglight main server and agent instances.* Recorded web-based and CitraTest tests for monitoring of McKesson PACS (radiology) software implementation.

Chicago, Il, Us

Started as a member of their Operations team, left as Senior Engineer on the Performance Engineering team.* 24x7 support for Sears.com and other sites * Main POC for escalated issues and tasks. * Monitoring and executing critical business batch processes like End-of-Day, Settlement, overnight Pricing and Stock. * Starting bridges and engaging appropriate teams for high priority issues. Internal associates as Vendors and Service providers * Communicating of and Participating in deployments and planned outages.* Automation of tasks and scripting* Monitoring improvements* Deeper investigation for more complex issues. My own responsibilities:* Owned synthetic monitoring scripts in Gomez, later in Catchpoint* In CA Wily (formerly Introscope), and later in Dynatrace, setup and maintained the dashboards* Managed metrics defined and alerts for system monitoring including agent setup* Contributed heavily to the wiki documentation and aggregation of older, existing pages into a unified reference page.