Lisa Beal Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Sterling, Va, Us

Maintain military computing environment

San Francisco, California, Us

• Supported 99th percentile SIEM and cybersecurity team using Splunk AWS- and GCP-based clusters.• Developed over 40 SPL searches, GIS/mapping dashboards and Splunk Classic dashboards.• Worked on 4-geozone global technical support team.An awesome job working with awesome colleagues![Contract via TEKsystems]

[Contract via Dexian / Signature Consultants]• Groomed a Top 3 telecommunications giant’s ElasticStack clusters for its cybersecurity team.• Performed monthly patch/reboot tasks using Vagrant, Jenkins, RobotFramework. • Enhanced features over 2 years for the existing ElasticStack systems, including observability, SAML-SSO

Middleware consultant for DeVry University (formerly part of Adtalem Global Education)Doing what a jack-of-all-trades does: a little bit of this, a little bit of that, including:* Middleware Support: Apache, Tomcat, WebLogic, Oracle Fusion• Received cash bonus and Ron Taylor Performance Award for European CPA training website migration.• Reduced Solaris/Linux footprint by approximately 50%.• Migrated over twenty data center services to Amazon Web Services (AWS)[includes some contract work via CapGemini]

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• Provided resume reviews, networking advice, encouragement,• Offered honest recommendations for improving the job search• Occasional motivational speaker

Chicago, Il, Us

[via contract with MAKE Corporation, now part of Dexian]:• Monitored and troubleshot UC4 schedules for multiple trade clearing environments• Provided Linux support for demanding financial/trading environment.• Coordinated timely problem resolution for trading and clearing processes

• Assisted growing startup firm with initial setup of in-house wiki system• Developed prototype application monitoring system

Seattle, Washington, Us

• Maintained Solaris and Linux servers at 2 Chicago-area data centers for a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider to the residential real estate industry.• Enhanced mail system performance, resulting in 50% improvement in deliver speed• Authored web-based real-time monitors for mail system, voice recognition and log management systems. Reduced problem detection time by over 80%.• Developed web-based mail log scanner, cutting customer support team’s resolution time for email issues by 50%

Cambridge, Ma, Us

• One of three primary designers on the project start-up• Developed Python code for graphical user interface (GUI)• Collected visual vocabularies for the project• Project: build an OLPC (XO) application to allow a motion-impaired person to carry on a spoken conversation (like Stephen Hawkings' talker device)

Chicago, Illinois, Us

* Administered server farms of over 3000 Linux and Solaris systems serving 4 continents.* Led deployment team for global travel distribution software builds to multiple environments* Automated web-based system to manage application logs for staging and production environments. Reduced time needed for weekly log issue management by 50%.* Cut cost of web site security certificates by $65K through new shell scripts and improved web-based tools. * Promoted to technical lead based on these cost savings to the company.* Received STAR (performance) award for Python-based real time application monitors* Provided 24x7 on-call support to Orbitz global network operations center* Extensively documented build deployment and standard operating procedures, improving consistency of the software deployment process.* Maintained existing VMWare cluster (of 100 virtual machines) for test environments

• Improved system availability to 99.9%.• Administered 800+ Solaris, HP-UX, DEC, and NCR hosts for demanding wireless/mobility development environment• Monitored and maintained Sun SunFire , Enterprise & SparcServer class hardware.• Upgraded and maintained NetApp F-series (740 and 780) file servers• Maintained NIS+ and NIS for Chicago, IL & Columbus, OH environments• Provided level 2 support to users for help desk team.• Monitored and maintained VERITAS file systems• Performed VERITAS NetBackup support for help desk team.• Administered Solaris 5/7/8/9 on Sun E-series server farm for demanding development team of 90 people;• Maintained Sun workstations.• Installed patches, hardware and software updates; tuned, monitored• Re-designed ATM/Ethernet LANs to improve network response by 20%.• Maintained Netra and Sunfire systems for telecom development labs.• Created web-based documentation for support team, reducing setup errors.[includes contracts with Modis IT and TEKsystems]

• Developed critical video-microscope and video-conferencing support for the much-publicized cancer treatment of a stranded South Pole doctor. • Received the ASA Quality Service Award and congressional Antarctic Winter-over Medal for superior performance, superior communication, and excellent teamwork.• Supported 3-site multi-platform satellite communication system serving research stations.• Provided full-spectrum computing support for polar research program. Deployed to Antarctica (research vessels, McMurdo Station, Palmer Station, Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station) for 26 months during this job. [contract via EG&G/Antarctic Support Associates