Lance Drake Email & Phone Number

Greenwood, In, Us

Virtual/Remote

Subject Matter Expert for meter reading systems integrations with NISCs CC&B application, including MultiSpeak and any other non-standard integrations for Electric, Water, and Gas systems. Oversee professional development, on-boarding/training, and other managerial duties for the AMI Implementation Team. Review all Enterprise project SOWs and approve Third Party Integration language. Representative for strategic initiatives across the Enterprise for Third Party Integrations. Perform testing and validation of all new vendor Third Party integrations with NISCs CC&B application.

Subject Matter Expert for meter reading systems integrations with NISCs CC&B application, including MultiSpeak and any other non-standard integrations for Electric, Water, and Gas systems. Oversee professional development, on-boarding/training, and other managerial duties for the AMI Implementation Team. Review all Enterprise project SOWs and approve Third Party Integration language. Representative for strategic initiatives across the Enterprise for Third Party Integrations. Perform testing and validation of all new vendor Third Party integrations with NISCs CC&B application.

Responsible for the implementation of Electric, Water, & Gas Advanced Metering Infrastructures (AMI), as well as AMR & OMR, within the iVUE Suite. I work closely with all AMI Vendors (Aclara, L&G, etc.), Meter Manufactures (Aclara, Honeywell, Landis&Gyr, etc.), Distributors (HD Supply, Browstown, etc.), and Meter Exchange Vendors (Chapman Metering, Bellwether, etc.) in efforts to supply the utility with an effective and efficient finished product; design and deliver all aspects of training to utility personnel; implement, coordinate, and facilitate the deployment, and maintenance, of MultiSpeak, through the use XML and SOAP, between AMI Vendors and NISC utilities; create and test MultiSpeak Assertion documentation between AMI Vendors and NISC.

Lake Saint Louis, Missouri

Responsible for the implementation of Electric, Water, & Gas Advanced Metering Infrastructures (AMI), as well as AMR & OMR, within the iVUE Suite. I work closely with all AMI Vendors (Aclara, L&G, etc.), Meter Manufactures (Aclara, Honeywell, Landis&Gyr, etc.), Distributors (HD Supply, Browstown, etc.), and Meter Exchange Vendors (Chapman Metering, Bellwether, etc.) in efforts to supply the utility with an effective and efficient finished product; design and deliver all aspects of training to utility personnel; implement, coordinate, and facilitate the deployment, and maintenance, of MultiSpeak, through the use XML and SOAP, between AMI Vendors and NISC utilities; create and test MultiSpeak Assertion documentation between AMI Vendors and NISC.

Indianapolis, In

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Support for HP & Dell servers, AD, network security, server maintenance, GroupPolicy, ePO and enforcing corporate policies. Maintain, monitor and support a nationwide Exchange 2003 environment. Enforce corporate computing policy and procedure for systems, IT staff, end users and external vendors to be SOX 404 IT Compliant. Provide tier 3 level support to remote network administrators at all Emmis properties for troubleshooting server/networking issues. Provide support to desktop support personnel at corporate location and available for on-call duties, off-hours (late night and/or weekends) system maintenance events.• Supported Hardware: HP & Dell servers, Cybernetic SANs, HP ReadyNAS, HP Autoloaders, Dell, HP, and Apple laptops• Server OS: Windows Server 2000/2003/2008/2008R2• Technologies Supported: Failover Clustering, NLB, TMG, Hyper-V, AD 20003, DHCP, DNS, SMTP, Exchange 2003/2010, WSUS 3.0, FTP, Windows XP/Vista/7, Office 2003/2007/2010, CA Arcserve Backup r15, McAfee ePO 4.5 & VirusScan 8.8, WSS 3.0, ImageNow, SQL 2005/2008, InfoPath 2003/2007/2010, Cisco VPN, BES, GoodLink, Dynamics CRM, Lync 2010• SOX 404 Compliance

Maintain and support software/hardware used in daily operation of the internal computer network for the central and satellite offices. Key Projects: · Implementation of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. Project required content database migration from both the existing SharePoint 2003 and 2007 servers. Also required working, in conjunction, with multiple departments. · Implementation of network Anti-Virus solution and Microsoft Exchange Server Backup solution. · Migrating legacy physical network servers to virtual server pool using Citrix XenServer virtualization software.

Responsible for maintaining the hardware and software of all PCs, servers and network devices (except custom software) to minimize business disruption; provide security for all electronic resources and proprietary information in electronic form; and, responsible for disaster recovery planning for hardware, software and data files. Also, maintain current industry knowledge and develop department strategic plan.