
System Architect at Cerner Corporation
Kansas City, Missouri Area

System Architect at Cerner Corporation
Kansas City, Missouri Area
Multiple responsibilities as System Architect, Engineer, and Database Administrator for remotely hosted Cerner clinical applications in a Managed Services environment. Work closely with VMS, AIX, HP-UX, Oracle, Citrix, and Cerner Millennium. 24/7 primary on-call technical responsibility for clients throughout the Midwest US Region.
System Administration, Cerner Millennium, AIX, AIX HACMP, VMS, VMS Clustering, HP-UX, HP ServiceGuard, Linux, KSH, DCL, CCL, SQL, Citrix XP/PS, Windows 2000/2003/XP, Oracle 9i/10g RAC CRS, IBM MQ Series, IBM WebSphere, Apache, XML, HTML, XHTML, CSS
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CERN; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2006 — Present (2 years 10 months)
Total Accountability for 5 client sites hosted remotely in Cerner's state of the art data center, ensuring systems remain available and perform at the highest levels. Responsible for overseeing routine maintenance of client systems, system changes, and managing incidents to recovery. Engaging in daily contact with client as primary point of contact for technical issues and long term domain strategy. Engaged in techincal activities such as back end systems management, front end systems management, database administration, network consultation, diagnosis and installation of fixes and new technologies to ensure ongoing performance and client satisfaction.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CERN; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2005 — October 2006 (1 year 5 months)
Responsible for the implementation of Cerner Millennium domains and layered technology for Cerner clients and support of Cerner Millennium. Perform system upgrades, interfacing to foreign systems, and overall system performance management.
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
2004 — 2005 (1 year)
Involved in various university committees including:
Computing and Information Technology Advisory Council
Faculty Senate Waitlist Committee
Information Resource Management Council
Legacy Applications Systems Empowered Replacement Steering Committee
Co-chair
Student Senate Special Committee to Study Online Course Teacher Evaluations
Student Senate Ad-Hoc Elections Regulations Committee
Chairman, Educational Opportunity Fund
Chairman, University Portal Student User Advisory Group
Campus Activities Board
Board of Directors, K-State Child Development Center
K-State Child Development Center Task Force
Campus Academic Calendar Committee
Project Sponsor, Wildcat information Network
Center for Student Activities Task Force
Diversity in Action Conference Planning Committee
BS , Management Information Systems , 2000 — 2005
Dean of Student Life Outstanding Graduating Senior Award, awarded to the top graduating seniors who have made a substantial contribution to student life and Kansas State University.
Web Design, Web development, Django, Guitar, general technology, live music
K-State Dean of Student Life Outstanding Graduating Senior Award, 2005