“Bob’s consistent demonstration of leadership and teamwork, his unparalleled knowledge and expertise and his unselfish dedication to supporting the mission of the CPOC has far surpassed standard expectations and are clearly at the highest level of effort and performance†- AT&T CPOC District Manager Cada Groves - inscribed on an award
Skills
Developer
5
Project Management
13
security Policy
2
RISK mitigation
12
Metrics Data mart
7
implementations
6
Evaluate / recommend software
1
ediscovery Policy
10
DBA, NT & Unix Administration
7
Data Masking
2
Data Archival
12
Questions & Answers
Network Engineer Hat
The Datacenter had two subnetworks. One was aligned with AT&T Transmission System 1 (T1) capable of transmitting 1.544 Mbits/sec out of Basking Ridge, NJ, the other for AT&T Transmission System 3 (T3) capable of transmitting 44.736 Mbits/sec. out of Dallas, TX. All of our NT Servers were running with dual network interface cards, except for the Unix box that was the T1 network circuit. AT&T decided to eliminate the T3 Trunk into the data center. Due to forced management reductions, AT&T could not find a Network Engineer to reconfigure their network. Again, I approached my customer. I asked if I could reconfigure their network? I would impact all the equipment (client PCs, HP printers using HP Network Direct Cards, NT Domain Controllers, Print, Application, and DHCP Servers), create and paper test a new TCP/IP Subnet Mask. Document the steps in chronological order into a plan. After I received approval from my customer. Deployed the plan myself on a Friday morning, without any problems.
Most Valuable Player Award
As the data mart grew bigger and bigger, we were receiving several hundred files a day. Ninety percent of the data arrived via Sterling’s Connect Direct software and the remainder from FTP. Suddenly, we became aware that some of the data files were not loading into the data mart. I spent two weeks working nights and weekends to trap the problem. The Development and Business Analyst teams had built a QA server. Sadly, they had not changed the configuration. The missing production data files were sitting on their QA Server. For finding the missing files and resolving this problem. I was awarded the Consumer Process Operations Center, Most Valuable Player Award, and plaque. I was the only consultant in their organization's history to be awarded the MVP Award. It was an honor!
DBA MANAGER, NT & UNIX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR Hat(s)
While I was monitoring the loading of data feeds into the data mart. Realized this application did not have a Database Administrator (DBA). I asked my client if I could become the DBA? I would read books on Microsoft SQL Server on my time. He was fine with that. As I learned, I shared what I was learning with my co-workers. We supported each other and collaborated on work together. I began to learn NT Server. To prove to myself that I knew the material. I passed the Microsoft NT Server Certification exam, followed by passing NT Server Enterprise Certification and the Microsoft SQL Server Certification Exams. Over time, I became NT and Unix System Administrator, and DBA Manager for 5 DBAs and 1 Data Modeler for the data mart.
Project Leader Hat
After the project leader resigned, I became the acting project leader on a data analytic project. I was able to convince AT&T, this Bell Labs developed application was not working. AT&T stopped that project, then engaged in a contract dispute with Bell Labs. After the development phase ended, I was moved over to the Operations Team. Â
Programmer Analyst Hat
The development team in Dallas had an urgent request for additional programmers. I volunteered, flew down to Dallas on a Sunday. Training and coding began on Monday. I sat with a co-worker, as we coded Visual Basic for Applications programs inside of Excel and Microsoft SQL queries together. Then on Friday afternoon, flew home. In the following weeks wrote many programs and continued with my business analyst responsibilities.
Business Analyst Hat
I began working on a joint EDS/AT&T project in Somerset, New Jersey, as a Business Analyst. Writing functional requirements, giving dog and pony presentations to AT&T process owners. The purpose of the project was to build a Data Mart to house all the financial metrics for AT&Ts Residential business. Residential is for people that have AT&T telephone equipment in their homes, and/or use AT&T to make local, long-distance phone calls from their home.
EDS is a staff augmentation company. Its CEO was H. Ross Perot. For each contract, EDS inserts its organizational structure into the client’s workplace for each project.
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