Sarah Griffith Email & Phone Number

Dallas, Tx, Us

Orchestrates People, Process, & Technology To Produce Breakthroughs In Operational Stability | Infrastructure, Network & Cloud Monitoring & Engineering | Project Management

Chicago, Il, Us

* Promoted to Senior Manager to improve visibility for Command Center issues. Assisted Application Recovery Team in responding to alerts from monitoring systems, which lacked framework and software to pinpoint issues.* Modernized United’s perception of infrastructure by introducing LogicMonitor to move to dynamic thresholds for alerts and reduce guessing—greatly increasing observability. * Obtained DataDog to monitor AWS (Amazon Web Services), providing higher visibility into cloud-based applications, a godsend for developers who were given access to their application logs in real time. Provides them the visibility they formerly had when logs were on premises instead of in the cloud. * Lead project with cross-organizational DevOps team to initiate a move to observability, a huge cultural shift.

Chicago, Il, Us

* Promoted to oversee entire Monitoring Team, which was using antiquated monitoring systems and dashboards and didn’t trust their systems or their results due to lack of needed visibility. * Led Proof of Value for AIops software. Selected BigPanda, that led to allowed command center to have a single pane of glass and correlated events. * Reduced both MTTD and MTTR by 40% and transformed department’s work by researching and selecting little-known Event Management Tool, BigPanda, that quickly pinpoints issues, allowing quick resolution. Greatly decreased stress on department staff. * Avoided potentially-disastrous down time in passenger ticketing just five minutes before going live when BigPanda recognized unknown issue. * Ensured universal visibility for the metrics involved with troubleshooting, a big cultural shift. * Demonstrated value of AppDynamics and overcame distrust of the tool. Showed that this software allows teams to visually see the health of critical applications, leading to enthusiastic adoption. * Replaced outmoded products with powerful modern tools, reducing 500 tools (line items) to just 5.* Liaised with upper management, gaining buy-in for new tools.

Chicago, Il, Us

* Promoted to take on a new role, managing SharePoint, Documentum and other supporting software.* Led Proof of Concept of Application Performance Monitoring (APM) software; selected product to efficiently monitor, analyze, and manage solutions.* Led Proof of Value for three software packages and completed process within three weeks; secured internal agreement. * Convinced executives to spend $2M - $3M to purchase AppDynamics, justifying the ROI. * Instrumented 208 apps with team of two.* Using AppDynamics, teams found root cause of numerous high-priority issues and problems; internal demand for this software soared.* Identified root cause of a major outage in just a few minutes with AppDynamics—after troubleshooters had been working on it for hours.

Chicago, Il, Us

* Hired as SharePoint Administrator to address errors and instability and build redundancy.* Served as go-to-person in upgrade of SharePoint; trained staff in its use. * Drastically reduced rampant issues, including complete outages, from two per month to 1-2 per year with significant improvement in response times.* Empowered users to use SharePoint, establishing single sources of truth for major departments; created scalable support system.* Created SharePoint portal to coordinate the seamless merging of systems of United and Continental Airlines; switched all systems in one night. * Efforts provided 24/7 critical incident management and support for applications impacting Flight Operations.

Houston, Texas, Us

* IT and Sales Marketing liaison, utilizing SharePoint, writing business cases, defining requirements against objectives.* Directed projects through SDLC, globally improving app speed by 80%, boosting employee productivity.* Reduced changing processes for website customer authorization approvals from one month to one week.

Houston, Texas, Us

* Orchestrated rollout plan of in-house application for two US land Operations: Lafayette, LA and Victoria, TX.* Wrote training manuals and formulated methodologies that are still used by POWER Team globally.

Houston, Texas, Us

Trimmed order placement time by 75%, from 60 minutes to 15 minutes.

Houston, Texas, Us

* Created complex automated workflow for new, expedited product development process.* Enhanced corporate image by developing shopping carts for ordering wireline parts with real-time customer support.

Houston, Texas, Us

* Increased usage by 50% by scrutinizing and acting upon marketing data and usage reports to improve end-user experience. * Trained web team and additional users on TeamSite and BroadVision.

Houston, Texas, Us

* Continually updated and improved www.bakerhughes.com, including subsites – promoting marketing, SEO, driving traffic to website, and maintaining jobs database through RecruitMax.* Increased website traffic by 40% through tracking of statistics, contracts, budgets, and maintaining banner ad campaign rotations.* Propelled website to number one ranking on Google and Yahoo with Search Engine Optimization strategies.