
Application Management at Thomson Reuters
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Application Management at Thomson Reuters
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
15 years professional IT experience
12 years Windows experience
10 years Unix experience
9 years Linux experience
8 years application and system monitoring
Application and System Monitoring
Deep knowledge of Windows Server metrics & tuning
Knowledge of web based classrooms
Trained to handle privileged information found in educational and financial fields as well as best coding practices when designing for such an environment.
(Public Company; TRI; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2009 — Present (2 months)
(Public Company; AZ; Insurance industry)
May 2007 — May 2009 (2 years 1 month)
Windows Application Administration
Deploying, updating, removing new applications
Creating utilities using Visual Basic.Net to increase productivity
Ensure SOX compliance at all times
Plan and deploy a transition from MS Operations Manager 2005 to System Center Operations Manager 2007
(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2007 — May 2009 (2 years 1 month)
Windows System Administration focusing on monitoring and automation
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Financial Services industry)
December 2006 — April 2007 (5 months)
Create, maintain, and update automation tools utilizing Perl, .Net, and other technologies.
Migrated several hundred reports from Crystal Reports 8 and 9 to Crystal Reports 11.
Create new reports with Crystal Reports 11
Performance tune Oracle and DB2 SQL servers to provide the quickest respones possible for reporting.
Automation of many day to day tasks
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)
August 2006 — December 2006 (5 months)
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; E-Learning industry)
March 2004 — July 2006 (2 years 5 months)
Responsible for the application and system monitoring architecture. Tools used: Nagios, Cacti, MRTG, RRDTool, PeopleSoft Performance Monitor, Sitescope, Siteseer, MS Operations Manager 2000, MS Operations Manager 2005, Whats Up Gold, Servers Alive, Kiwi SyslogD, NetSNMP, Custom VBScripts, Custom Perl, Custom .NET, Custom PHP
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; E-Learning industry)
June 2004 — February 2005 (9 months)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
2002 — 2004 (2 years )
Application and System Monitoring
System Design
Automation
Backup Solutions
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Financial Services industry)
2000 — 2002 (2 years )
Responsible for the monitoring of over 5000 Windows servers spread between Chicago and New York City.
Update and Maintain the Compaq applications and drivers.
New technology, Open source, application & system monitoring, writing, games (MMORPGs)
HPOV, ITPAA, AITP, EFF, ACLU, MNSpeak
MS MVP Award 2009