Michel Lopez Email & Phone Number

Aurora, ON, CA

17-117 Ringwood Drive, Stouffville, ON, L4A 8C1

88 Queens Quay W, Toronto, ON, M5J0B8

The RBC Platform Engineering group encompasses a variety of seasoned engineers from all facets of the technology field.The main product being the main Enterprise Hadoop Data lake on-prem and cloud which involves full automation as per the sheer size of the clusters and constant security tightening to adhear to RBC stringent security mandates and audits.The.

330 Front St W, Toronto, ON M5V 0G5

• Worked with an amazing group of coworkers to create RBC largest centralized system logging infrastructure to comply with the Security Compliance and Auditing regulations in which I was the lead architect, the.
• Met with stakeholders to understand their risk needs and current gaps to ensure the new auditing solution would accomplish their requirements.
• Confirmed with stakeholders all possible log locations dynamic or static file naming.
• Wrote applications and ran automation tools to first appropriately size all the different environments to calculate the full data ingestion size needs of 40,000 Linux, Windows, AIX and Solaris systems.
• Worked with a multitude of vendors for cost and feasibility of their products for this type of large scale (Petabyte) deployment.
• POC Stress tested every vendor product hardware and software in every facet: bandwidth, compute (CPU,Mem,Diskio,Security), events per second etc...

2121 Speakman Dr Mississauga, ON L5K 1A9

• Revamped the whole Network Monitoring Infrastructure of IMAX, understood the needs and tailored the monitoring system to fit the needs of multiple groups and fully automated all facets of the monitoring system to.
• Built and administered Nagios XI Enterprise Network Monitoring System on Linux to appropriately monitor over 1,000 Digital Systems, an average of 800k traps daily from a multitude of sub components.
• Heavily customized MIB files of multiple systems and modified thousands of sub values criticalities and added event correlations (SEC) to minimize SNMP noise which minimized SNMP traps for the NOC and datastore.
• Utilized Regular Expressions and Bash Programming to extract and manipulate large datasets and optimized for output speed.
• Created a multitude of automation mechanisms to help keep IMAX monitoring system uptime and ensure monitoring system reliability.
• Built and administered ELK Stack (ElasticSearch, Logstash and Kibana) which is a tabless Big Data database to store and visualize SNMP data in real time.

5343 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M9B 6K5

• Managed and maintained C.A Spectrum Enterprise Network Monitoring System.
• Configured SNMP agents on hundreds of different vendor devices to ensure visibility to all the appropriate alert traps on our network monitoring systems.
• Imported and modified MIB files and added proper correlation to our event management components of our monitoring systems.
• Tailored our event management system through specific rules which tied to our alert management component to fine tune severities & correlations for specific alert traps.
• Implemented trend monitoring on eHealth "capacity trending" module for alerting on different anomalies for our data transit links with a variation of “mean” rules.
• Ensured proper Network Security by mitigating a multitude of security risk assessments.

151 Front St W, Toronto, ON M5J 2N1

• Monitored all of Primus Telecommunications voice and data devices and troubleshot alerts according to urgency, ensuring that alerts were being acted on appropriately and within our MTTR.
• Provided high level of support to our large commercial customers (voice and/or data)
• Worked closely with our vendors to resolve system bugs found on their firmware releases.
• Configured BGP peers on border routers for peering with TORIX, SIX, NYIIX
• Escalated voice and data link troubles directly to our telco's to ensure restoration of our services in a timely manner.
• Caught PBX hackers by analyzing call trends and disabling customers which had compromised third party voice systems.

1 Place Ville Marie Montreal, QC H3B 4R7

• Provided a high level of Internet Technical Support, through fast problem solving, to residential and business customers of Primus Canada.
• Worked in a group environmentTroubleshot the following issues:
• Data Connections: T1(Data), DSL, ISDN, Dial-up
• Windows OS: 95,NT4,ME,2000,XP
• Senior MacOS Technician (Supported: MacOS 7.5 - MacOSX)
• VoIP Troubleshooting (Grandstream, Dlink, Sipura)

• Built 2 web servers and implemented a scalable security system (IDS, Tripwire and iptables ruleset)
• Implementation of redundant web cluster (tomcat) and mail servers (qmail) to support their client base.
• Built inter office network.
• Search Engine Optimization "SEO" campaign for multiple clients and ranked all clients on all major search engines including google,yahoo,msn search engines with a 7/10 keyword ratio. This involved content creation.