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Houston Area, Texas

AWS MLS Farm Migration (Team Lead of Computer Operations)Successfully migrated monolithic Extract Transform and Load environment to Amazon Web Service! As lead data mapper completed migrating Prudential Real Estate Affiliates to the new brand of Berkshire Hathaway Home Services.• Outlined the tier structures of the ETL applications and data populations for 100 market migration to the AWS for the outside consultant Slalom.• Analyzed and reduced 22 terabytes of photos to be migrated, to less than 1 terabyte. • Reduced stale data by 40 – 45 %, before backing up for cloud migration.• Maintained initial 100 plus instances/virtual machine downloading with ETL applications and processing to over 400 databases. Remote Desktop Configuration Manager utilized until project end-of-lifeMLS Operations (Team Lead of Computer Operations)Organized an 8 person ETL team, specializing Unit Testing, Data Center Service, Service Ticketing, improve team tasks execution.• Oversaw transformation of the 2nd Level Support Team’s ticket handling from exceeding 100 open tickets, to under 20. • Met and exceeded KPI by 80% faster ticket assigning, 90% improved investigating time, initiated timely resolution follow up.• Standardized product quality, saving about 5 days out of a 3 – 4 weeks average release cycle.• Collaborated with the Quality Assurance team with on the development of testing standardization of the 750 plus items and optimizing work steps or hand-off process. • Streamlined 129 project processes captured in a multi-department deployment.• Implemented a Launch Per Week Optimized Schedule that reduced the new markets and conversion markets to average 2 weeks, generating a 50% improvement in launch cycles.• Increased capacity with structured testing from monthly 8 markets launches to 10 -12 markets per month.

Houston, Tx

Configured Servers for Configure to Order, Build to Order, and Functional Board testing. Focused testing on different redundant hardware configurations including Drive RAID 0 / 1/5/5 w/Online Spare, and Memory RAID.Planned configurations for platform testing based on the current release dynamics. Developed requirements for Material Management System, Orders Receive, Inventory, and Hardware Requests.Trained new Validation Personnel for CTO, BTO, Functional Board test, as well as test matrix development.

Houston, Tx

802.11 A/B/G wireless hardware and software testing for Hewlett Packard Consumer/Commercial Laptop products.Configured encryption, authentication, WEP, 802.1x, WPA, EAP, PEAP and RADIUS implementations in Domain environments.Performed testing with Suspender, Meatgrinder, NetIQ Chariot suite. Persistent connection and SSO verification. Investigated usability of wireless configuration utilities, as well as installation and removal of prudent files on multiple operating systems.

Houston, Tx

Consulted and managed business operations from hard copies to digital for business expansion. Structured business plans too define detail cycles and targets for projecting product delivery and expected revenue.Approached existing and new clients about the great opportunity to be a service provider in their local communities.Developed new marketing methods for advertisement packages. Designed, modified and completed layout of ads in Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Word, and Adobe Photoshop 7.0.Massaged and updated data in Lotus Approach, and Envelope Manager.Configured wireless network, wireless laptops, and tighten network security as allowed.

Houston, Tx

Managed Active Directory Users and Computer accounts. Join computers to the domain.Imaged Dell Latitude D600 laptops with Ghost Cast Server. Migrated data off IBM T-20’s to a SAN server.Installed and configured user applications, including Microsoft Outlook issues.

Houston, Tx

Managed Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 Domain Controllers, DNS Servers, DHCP Servers, WINS Servers. Security: Microsoft Certificate Servers, Microsoft Internet Authentication Servers, (RADIUS), and RRAS servers.Performed testing with NetIQ Chariot suite with variable encryption and non-encryption performance test. Average, Minimum, Maximum, and CPU results helped ascertain candidates for procurement via single pair, multiple pairs, and full duplex test. Evaluated 802.11 Products for “Commercial Desktops” and “Configure to Order” channels and selected the best wireless deliverable for Hewlett Packard Commercial Desktops products.Investigated usability of wireless configuration utilities, as well as installation and removal of prudent files on multiple operating systems.Configured encryption, authentication, WEP, 802.1x, and RADIUS implementations in Domain environments.Troubleshot preproduction HP IPAQ Pocket PCs, in wireless environments. Documented installation procedures, in accordance with Hewlett Packard technical writing standards. Researched 802.11i and 802.16 future wireless technologies.

Houston, Tx

Built fault-tolerant networks simulating "real world" Internet and intranet tasks, using most e-commerce software packages, solutions, and operating systems under conventional and Distributed Internet Server Array (DISA).Installed and configured Raptor Eagle NT 5.0 Firewall, Microsoft Site Server 3.0, Microsoft SQL 6.5, Microsoft Exchange 5.5, and Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0, monitoring networks using packet capture and analysis to verify server load utilization.Performed stress, functionality, and performance testing on Compaq ProLiant Server under a variety of configurations. Administered departmental server; handling of all groups' permissions, backups, and maintenance to ensure security and availability of department resources. Networked server installations, maintenance and troubleshooting of both Wide Area Networks (WAN) and Local Area Networks (LAN) configurations, using DNS Servers, DHCP Servers under static and dynamic IP addresses.

Houston, Tx

Collaborated with developers to improve Compaq's Acceleration Server and Client-Server software.Compiled statistics for analysis on compression and decompression transfer rates of images.Installed Local Area Networks (LAN) using Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) and Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0.

Houston, Tx

Evaluated Texaco employee software configurations to assure employees of software preservation during the Windows 3.1 to Windows NT 4.0 operating system upgrade.Backed up data on employee workstations to assure employees of data preservation during the migration.Configured workstations to comply with company policy for software licenses, reconfigured access group data, and user shares.

Houston, Tx

Installed, maintained and configured Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0 Server and Windows NT 4.0 Workstation operating systems. Configured PPP Dialup connection to the Internet, and intranet networks using TCP/IP.Installed and configured modems, printers, and Ethernet adapter cards, hard drives, CD-ROM drives, memory, and backups.Provided Level 2 help desk (hands on) including personalized instruction of hardware and application use.