System Monitoring and Automation Information Technology Expert

Technical Consultant #2076

LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)
Application monitoring - Nagios®
Automation
Perl scripting
Information technology management.
Security and messaging integration.
Advanced capabilities in SMTP and LDAP protocols.
UNIX and Windows server platforms. Integrating heterogenous systems.
Platform agnostics in design, usability and functionality.
Intelligent solutions: Increase ROI, monitoring, instrumentation, visual traffic, log analytics, backup and disaster recovery.
Retrofit existing "blind" infrastructures with advanced monitoring, instrumentation, and analytics.

Undisclosed, (A Major Utility Company), LDAP Nagios ® Consultant, 2008 - Present

Designed and implemented production 3 Nagios environments, one for LDAP environment, one for web server environment, and another for Cassandra/Coherence environment.
Wrote many custom monitoring tools using JMX, bash, perl, and python.
Documented each monitoring alert with a wiki page and linked each alert to a corresponding wiki page.
Catalogued monitoring requirements in a spreadsheet to achieve a robust system management awareness of many servers in an extremely complicated and rapidly changing environment.

Kaiser Permanente, Pleasanton, CA, Identity Management and Monitoring Consultant, 2013 - 2014

Automation of routine desktop support tasks using experience with Perl Net::LDAP.
Monitoring system audit and overhaul.
Design and implementation of Nagios XI monitoring infrastructure.
Integrate Nagios XI with Tivoli Identity Manager and Oracle Identity Manager.
Automation of former "Daily Checker" manual monitoring tasks.
Miscellaneous automation projects.

The Gap, San Francisco, CA, LDAP Consultant, 2014

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