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Education
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Michele Munoz

Saginaw,Texas

Summary

I have 25+ years of experience as a Technical Lead in the Transportation Industry with extensive knowledge of developing and implementing technical strategies. I am looking to use my skills and knowledge to support your business and use my strong communications skills, and act as a trusted advisor to your business partners and team. I actively engage members of cross-functional teams to work collaboratively and understand each other's processes and want to continue to develop the talents of others and building team efforts through your organization vision, accountability, and communications. It is my desire to take part in building and executing the vision that helps move the organization into the future.

Overview

27
27
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr Systems Administrator-Change Management Lead

BNSF Railway
Ft. Worth, TX
05.2024 - 05.2025
  • Monitored and coordinated TS Change Management changes with other team members as well as Support teams.
  • Built and sent the daily Change Management Report to management. Plus, provided the Change Management Report on the 07:45 Executive Call.
  • Reviewed and critiqued the changes on the CAB agenda with Change Management team members.
  • Participated in CAB and eCAB meetings with Change Management team members, App teams and other Stakeholders.
  • Participated and provided recommendations on changes for the CAB meetings throughout the week that includes PTC, EQMS, SAP, Network.
  • Software Experience: ServiceNow - Incident/Change/Problem plus Reporting/Dashboards, Remedy, Planview CTM Notifications/Reports. Zoom Chats/Channels. TEAMS, Microsoft Suite: Outlook, Word, OneNote, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio. Working knowledge of AWS.

Sr Systems Administrator-Incident Management Lead

BNSF Railway
Ft. Worth, TX
07.1998 - 05.2025
  • Provided proactive monitoring and incident resolution of all mission critical system issues that affected train movement, safety, or loss of revenue for TS in a 24/7 environment as guided by the Incident Management Procedure and the Situation Management Standard Operating Procedure (SOP).
  • Delivered technical assistance, direction, and support to team members as well as others at the Technology Services Operations Center.
  • Held 3rd party vendors accountable and made sure BNSF Governance team was aware of SLA issues.
  • Provided awareness and communicate high/medium severity incidents with support groups and management.
  • Provided awareness, communicate, and work with various Support team on certificates that are set to expire.
  • Monitored and coordinated TS change management when necessary.
  • Assigned action items to support teams when necessary to mitigate incidents from reoccurring using Problem Management method and attending the Problem Management Review Board meetings on Thursday's.
  • Reviewed and updated all Major Incidents have accurate information captured and send updates when needed to all necessary parties.
  • Provided helpful tools and reports to the Situation Management and Change Management team members to strengthen their knowledge.
  • Provided guidance and solutions to team members and TSOC Help Desk members including the Transportation Desk, TOC Telecom Desk, LAN Desk, Mainframe Operations and TechM Service Desk.
  • Participated in DR planning meeting and provided input with BNSF and Kyndryl Support teams in the biannual BNSF and Kyndryl Disaster Recovery plans.
  • Software Mainframe Monitor Experience: MVS, JES2, IMS, DB2, MQ, BMC Mainvu, Omnibus monitoring, TSO/ISPF, CLIST, CA7, JCL, JHS, IOF.
  • Other Software Experience: ServiceNow - Incident/Change/Problem plus Reporting/Dashboards, Remedy, Planview CTM Notifications/Reports, Remedy, Dynatrace Monitoring, Zoom Chats/Channels, TEAMS, KeyFactor Dashboard for PrimeKey EJBCA certificates, Alphapage to include Swat Groups setup, Genesys Cloud, Microsoft Suite: Outlook, Word, OneNote, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio. Working knowledge of AWS.
  • Researched and recommended new technologies and strategies for improving system performance.

Education

BA - Communication, Computer Science

Washburn University
Topeka, Kansas

Skills

  • Incident resolution
  • Incident management
  • Change management
  • Problem management
  • Disaster recovery
  • Vendor management
  • ServiceNow administration
  • Technical support
  • Risk assessment
  • Data reporting
  • Stakeholder communication
  • Team collaboration
  • Process improvement
  • Critical thinking
  • Time management
  • Conflict resolution
  • Emergency analysis
  • Improvement recommendations
  • Ticket submission
  • Documentation skills
  • Stakeholder management
  • SLA management
  • Reporting requirements
  • Escalation management
  • Emergency response
  • Critical incident handling
  • ITIL framework
  • Early warning indicators
  • Post-resolution reviews
  • Business continuity
  • Incident processing
  • Metrics tracking
  • Process reviews
  • Service management
  • Incident priority assessment
  • Root-cause analysis
  • Interpersonal skills

Certification

ITILv3 Foundation Certificate

Hobbies and Interests

  • Tennis
  • Reading
  • Learning new skills
  • Watching KC Chiefs
  • Yankees Baseball
  • Astros Baseball
  • Traveling

Leadership Experience

Provided guidance for team members to understand their role with one-on-one conversations, documentations, and hands on experience with Incident and Change Management, Enjoyed the opportunity to set a positive example to team members. Founded and led the Native American Business Resource Group Group called the Council of Native Americans (CNA)., Recruited employees to volunteer their time to help make a difference in the community and for BNSF Railway.

Quickly engaged and communicated Severity 1 and 2 incidents with support groups and management, Make Things Happen - Love to learn and find opportunities to grow and make a difference with my team members.

Always looking for ways to look outside of the box on Critical Major Incidents/follow-up/resolutions and looking for support teams to enhance their effectiveness by means of asking questions and listening to support teams identify possible solutions.

Engaged and involved with Change Management Process and expectations where I used these skills to train new Change Management team members and expectations. Also, engaged in reviewing Significant changes and asking questions / clarification when changes not as expected with Change team members and Support Teams.

Making development a priority - Completed AWS Cloud Practitioner courses. Completed Security Courses as required by Security Team. Always looking for opportunities to grow myself and team members.

Timeline

Sr Systems Administrator-Change Management Lead

BNSF Railway
05.2024 - 05.2025

Sr Systems Administrator-Incident Management Lead

BNSF Railway
07.1998 - 05.2025

BA - Communication, Computer Science

Washburn University
Michele Munoz