Responsible for picking up and delivering clients in a reliable, clean, and safe vehicle to a variety of destinations in and around the Los Angeles CA metropolitan area
Accomplishments: Ensured that customer arrived safely and timely to their destination while creating customer satisfaction
Maintained 4.98 average rating out with 5 being the highest customer satisfaction
Created Excel spreadsheet and maintained files to track mileage, maintenance, and miscellaneous expenses averaging highest levels of savings and lowest expenses
Managed routes through use of Android phone app technology
Co-Owner
No Curdinary
Whey, CA
01.2013 - 01.2016
Create an outstanding customer experience through exceptional service
Establish and maintain a safe and clean environment that encourages customers to return
Accomplishments: Assist the department manager in reaching sales and profit goals established for the department and monitor all established quality assurance standards
Embrace the Customer 1st strategy and encourage associates to deliver excellent customer service
Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honest, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety for others
Costco Representative
Cabot Cheese
Cabot, VT
01.2009 - 01.2012
This position involved executing an in-club demo at selected Costco locations
The goal of the sampling events were to introduce Cabot cheese to new consumers, strengthen our relationship with our existing loyal customers or convert light users of Cabot into loyal Cabot followers
Accomplishments: Represent Cabot farmers with the highest degree of integrity, humility, openness and enthusiasm
Engage customers in conversation, conveying Cabot's history and the numerous awards Cabot has won since its conception (1919)
Educating customers during 10 hour demo emphasizing that Cabot is a cooperative of over 1200 Dairy Farmers
Teaching customers about Cabot Cheese Making process
Demonstrated and illustrated Dairy industry knowledge discussing issues such as how Cabot's 1200 Dairy Farmers do not feed their Cows commercial corn laced with GMOs
Protection Designation of Origin comprehensive global standards in associating cheese names to a particular region on the globe: i.e Cheddar cheese named after Cheddar England, etc
Mainframe Operations Analyst
MetLife
Los Angeles, CA
01.2003 - 01.2007
Initiated CICS regions setup for QA department, as well as supporting (after hours) the mainframe's Vantage production jobs extractions into CICS regions, and communicating statuses to second and third shift Operations Analysts via turnover process
Accomplishments: Developed risk analysis metrics for each production job performance which resulted in 100% tracking of mainframe's response time and the time production jobs spent waiting for system resources resulting in classifying and identifying problematic coding or database/CICS region issues in advance
100% automation of the turnover process via a CYGWIN workstation setup running Linux On Windows XP improving downstream communication via automatic turnover statuses and hourly updates
Demonstrated CYGWIN's workstation PDKSH script usefulness by extending script ability to parse through mainframe system log, producing Excel spreadsheets regarding job performances and trends
Provided technical support to QA's department by setting up CICS test regions, as well as, launching mainframe 16-hour production cycle consisting of the following duties: troubleshoot errors regarding virtualization volumes and CYGWIN workstation FTP (SOP) procedures for fetching mainframe's system log
Utilized PowerShell, Perl, and Bash Shell scripts in to resolve Active Directory errors needing resolution prior to nightly production cycle, as well as, resolving any VMware and MySQL application state prior to launching nightly production batch processing
Application Developer I
United Health Group
Hartford, CT
01.2000 - 01.2002
Served on UNIX/C platform ACIS project team assigned to conduct AIX UNIX and database administration for performance maintenance and automation through Korn Shell Scripting, in addition, to setting up workstations to coexist between team's Windows, UNIX, and Mainframe environments
Accomplishments: Created RCS check-in and check-out report which provided ACIS team with the following daily email notices reporting source files programmers checked-out/in along with time stamps and whether a checked out number correlated accurately within expected revision control (RCS) check-in and check-out ranges
Maintained and troubleshot C++ member functions as it related to training for C++ Developer position and ACIS team's multi-tier application
Established ownership of problem tickets relating to production events as it related to data load errors, Mainframe and UNIX workstations virtual connections, and Active Directory/AIX administration of userid, such as creating userid and ensuring userid permissions/groups were set up correctly
Carried out file system administration, ensuring necessary production systems were mounted at the start of each business day via UNIX AIX 'df' and 'du' commands, in addition to determining management mandated file system space was maintained
Performed file system check, via fsck, command at the start of each business day, as well as ensuring CRONTAB scripts responsible for mounting devices, and sending out email notices of daily SQL reports ran successfully
Modified C++ classes along with necessary header and implementation files, and appropriate macro guard/namespace as part of C++ Developer I training
Created UML use cases diagrams for Senior Developer's staff
Responsible for embedding SQL queries into UNIX Korn Shell scripts, establishing connection to production database, then running embedded SQL, and producing requested end user formatted reports via Awk
Senior IMS Support Specialist
ABB Combustion Engineering
Windsor, CT
01.1998 - 01.2000
Monitored mainframe's master console and provided troubleshooting and resolution of cycle problems related to disk space, JCL errors, and other issues
Performed all (3rd shift) expect Computer Operation's batch processing
Accomplishments: Within four weeks learned company's sister plant nightly Mainframe and multiple flavors of UNIX (HP/AIX) batch processes due to downsizing
Cross training the entire Connecticut 2nd and 3rd shift Operations Analysts and Supervisors within an eight week period
Automated the turnover process via Perl and Bash shell script and producing timely communication to all of the east and west coast downstream partners utilizing a Debian Linux workstation to carry out the turnover automation process
Promoted from consultant position with Aerotek (1998) to permanent employee (1999)
Organized SOP manuals for Computer Operations department mainframe and Unix systems utilizing LINUX's SOP utility
Helped department earn commendation for longest running on-time region availability
Coordinated and participated in UDB7 database conversion involving timely and accurate kernel tuning that impacted application and client-server relationships
Resolved all problems within 24-hour timeline and processed cycles with 100% accuracy and on time region availability
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