Professional
Qualifications Summary
- 15 years experience with design, content writing, and management of Technical Support Documentation in the Financial Industry, including requirements analysis and development of support procedures for Service Platforms, Application Support, Data Center, and Enterprise Infrastructure.
- 13 years experience as a Technical Support Analyst and Manager in a large distributed Enterprise Environment.
- Experience with Business Analysis Requirements, ITIL, FFIEC concepts & taxonomy, Project Management, and Tracking.
- Demonstrated performance with metrics driven process analysis and improvement. Served as the liaison between First/Second Level Administration Support Groups and Engineering, for weekly change control and monthly service review meetings.
- Experience working globally with project teams and business units in the development of firm wide standardization and implementation initiatives for online documentation systems.
- Proficiency with: HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, Java, Wiki, Twiki, Jive, Dreamweaver, SharePoint, Visio, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Flash, Maya 3D, Captivate, Microsoft Office Applications: Word, Excel, PDF, and Power Point.
Related Work Experience
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Morgan Stanley
Documentation Specialist/Wealth Management Technology IT Onboarding
August 2016 – Present
Documentation Specialist/Application Support - Technology Risk Technical Documentation Project
October 2009 – December 2010
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JP Morgan Chase
Documentation Specialist/Technical Writer for the Global Documentation Initiative
October 2011 – February 2012
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Lehman Brothers Inc/Barclays Capital
Assistant Vice-President/Team Leader/Senior Support Analyst/Documentation Lead
August 1995 – November 2008
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The Linde Group
Documentation Specialist/Technical Writer for Application Documentation Project
June 2015 – June 2016
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Parsons Brinkerhoff
Documentation Specialist/Technical Writer for Enterprise Information Technology Documentation Project
August 2012 – September 2013
Demonstrated Performance
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Event analysis identifying recurrent, redundant, non-essential, bugs, patching and update candidates, improved monitoring efficiency by 90%, and reduced associated labor and database overhead significantly.
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Metrics captures developed for Service Reviews (performance) and reporting have proven valuable as an instant and archived source of information for multiple use planning, tracking and evaluation.
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Task automation and tool centralization yielded and expanded standardization of procedure increasing efficiency, QA, and metrics capture capability. The greatest measure of success was the adoption of these tools by other groups and locations.
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RealOps work flow process designs reduced labor hours with 30% automation of all monitoring.
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Developed support procedures and wrote all web based run books for the Server Operations off hour support initiative when it was first taken over from the System Administration groups.
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In coordination with the Engineering Group, structured and wrote all web based run books for Server Operation’s first level monitoring and support of the LDAP Application.
Education
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Northampton - Web Development - Phi Theta Kappa
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School of Visual Arts - Fine Arts, Design, & Photography
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Seton Hall University - Computer Science & Mathematics
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AMA/Management Courses - Leadership ILT, Cross Functional Communication, Effective Interviewing, Business Writing, Performance Management for Managers, Presentation Skills, Problem Solving and Decision Making, Tackling Change, Strategies for IT Managers
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Lehman Business Courses - Capital Management: Commodities, Credit Risk, Fixed Income Products, Foreign Exchange, Investment Banking
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SUN – Solaris 10 for Experienced System Administrators, Sun Cluster 4.1 Administration, Sun Systems Fault Analysis, Shell Programming for System Administrators, Core Services LDAP Training
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Red Hat – Linux System Administration
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CEAS Certification (Corporate Emergency Access System) Credentialed for New York City Emergency Site Access.
Platforms
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Sun Microsystems Models
SPARCS, UltraSPARCS, Enterprise, SunFires, Netras Versions: 5.8 – Solaris 10
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Linux (Windows Platforms)
eserver xSeries 336, COMPAQ Proliant DL360 G5/ DL380 G5/DL385 G1/DL580 G2/DL585 G1, IBM eServer Blade Centers Red Hat Versions: Enterprise AS 3 - 4
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Blade Center Red Hat Versions
Enterprise AS 3-4
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Mac OS X
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Applications/Languages
VERITAS Cluster Server 4.1, RealOps, StorageTEK, Autosys 4.5, NetApp, NetBackup, HP Openview, Remedy, VI, Shell Script, HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, Java, jQuery, jQTouch, PhoneGap, Twiki, Dreamweaver, SharePoint, Visio, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Flash, Maya 3D, Captivate, Microsoft Office Applications: Word, Excel, PDF, and Power Point.
Synchronoss Technologies
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Created and did the content writing for an online Support Knowledgebase; including SOPs, Diagnostics, Process Flow, SLA determination, usage documentation, ticket handling, and issue escalation.
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Participated in the development of Metrics Capture and Automated Reporting.
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Prepared statistics and agendas for monthly Departmental Process Improvement Service Reviews.
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Designed and did the content writing for Quarterly Presentations.
JP Morgan Chase
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Worked with Department Representatives and Subject Matter Experts to convert Regional Data Center Documentation into a Global standardized template format. Documentation platforms included Word, Excel, Power Point, Visio, and Captivate.
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Entered new documentation into the SharePoint 10 Repository and initiated the Approval Workflow Process. Worked with SMEs and Governance throughout the editing and revision process through to final approval and release as business as usual.
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Prepared and presented bi-weekly status reports to the Project Team.
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Created Usage Documentation, Acronym Tables, Documentation Templates, Style Guides, Quick Reference Cards, FAQ Sheets, and developed integrated Training Modules and Assessment Tests in Captivate.
Lehman Brothers Inc/Barclays Capital
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Primary for overseeing the group’s Twiki website organization and content. Primary contributor for technical and procedural writing.
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Developed support procedures and wrote all web based run books for the Server Operations off hour support initiative when it was first taken over from the System Administration groups.
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As a Senior Support Analyst, reviewed and evaluated new support areas and functions for the group, then wrote the new first level support procedures and worked with the client groups to certify, and establish SLAs. Examples: Taking over first level monitoring and support for SAN, LDAP, and SMTP.
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Performed hands on first line monitoring, technical support, and team management for 2900+ Unix Servers and 10000+ Linux Servers (Americas and Asia) for the Server Operations Group. Monitoring for Neuberger Berman Trade Processing. Monitoring and escalation for Autosys Batch Processing. First level contact and support for Client and Application Support, Incident and Crisis Management. Prepared daily shift reports for handover to offshore support.
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Prepared, Organized and Conducted weekly Change Control Meetings for the Operations, Linux and Unix System Administration Groups, as well as for Emergency and Scheduled Maintenance Work such as Power Downs and DR Testing.
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Served as the liaison between the Server Operations Group and the Unix and Linux System Administration Groups. In this role responsible for monthly status reporting, performance metrics, procedural review, change management review and scheduling, application and tool development.
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Primary for RealOps (Automated Operator/Workflow) process logic. (Technical advisor)
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Project work included: Created online hardware architecture reference tables, Designed automated web form for client notification and outage tracking, Designed dynamic monitoring prioritization tool. Worked with programmers to develop scripting for standard checks, Created Sentinel branch and cluster monitoring views. Developed training materials for the intern program.
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Personnel Management: Interviewing, training, scheduling, projects, workflow, management, time sheet approval and bi-annual employee performance reviews.