Brandon H. Mitchell


Summary: I am experienced in Enterprise Systems Management with an expertise in event management and systems monitoring. Much of that work involves the use and customization of Tivoli including T/EC, ITM, DM, and task libraries. I have consulted companies in Enterprise Management solutions in multiple fields: ASP's, training centers, semiconductor manufacturing, publishing, retail, health care, financial, snack food manufacturing, and DOD. These companies have varied in size from one site to global organizations. My background is with Unix and Linux system administration. This experience includes installing, maintaining security, work with relational databases, maintaining backups, maintaining web and ftp servers, user administration, and hardware upgrades. My programming experience includes C, C++, Perl, Java, Bourne Shell Scripting, SQL, Prolog, and HTML with cgi scripting.

Employment
History:
FVT Solutions: President / Enterprise Management Consultant, August 2004 - Present
  • Created and managed FVT Solutions
  • Developed and implemented a solution using the ITCM data movement service to migrate data transmissions off of a NetView DM (NDM) Mainframe implementation for several thousand endpoints.
CNT (formerly INRANGE and eB Networks): Technical Lead / EM Consultant, September 2000 - August 2004
  • Analyze, evaluate, and document products and potential client solutions
  • Design, implement, and support Tivoli enterprise management systems for various clients
  • Deployed and configured BMC Patrol for Windows and Unix systems with Perform and Predict support
  • Continued work with Enterprise Console rules and Distributed Monitoring custom monitors
  • Setup scripts to install and configure many of the Tivoli modules
  • Designed tasks to simplify maintenance and routine jobs with a gui front-end
  • Designed a solution to perform a Windows upgrade from NT to XP
  • Gained experience with Inventory, Software Distribution, Remote Control, Access Manager, User Administration, Tivoli Workload Scheduler, and Service Desk modules
  • Presented at the Tivoli Federal and DC Area User Group
SRA: Enterprise Systems Management Consultant, June 1999 - September 2000
  • Architect, installed, configured, and maintained Tivoli at client sites
  • Worked with Solaris, AIX, HP, DEC, Windows NT, DOS, and OS2
  • Wrote correlation and notification rules for the Enterprise Console
  • Setup SNMP and Logfile adapters
  • Developed custom monitors for Distributed Monitoring
  • Setup Workload Scheduler (formerly Maestro)
  • Customized NetView for work with non-snmp devices using proxies
  • Worked in small teams and individually at a variety of client sites

SAIC: Systems Administrator, May 1997 - May 1999
  • Worked on the Global Tropospheric Experiment at NASA Langley
  • Setup and administered Sun workstations
  • Proposed, installed, and setup an Oracle database
  • Maintained a web site created cgi scripts with perl

Education: Tivoli Training, June 1999 - Present
  • Trained for Framework, Distributed Monitoring, Enterprise Console, Inventory, Software Distribution, and User Administration
  • Training for various releases of Tivoli Workload Scheduler (Maestro)
  • Tivoli Security Transiciel: User Administration Internals, Global Sign-On, and Security with TACF
  • IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business Training
  • Certified Consultant with strengths in Enterprise Console and Distributed Monitoring
BMC Training, March 2003
  • Trained for Patrol 7 Updates
B.S. in Computer Science, with High Honors, May 1999
  • Minor in Information Technology
  • College of William and Mary
  • GPA: 3.7 Overall, 3.9 in Major
  • Courses Included: Systems Programming, Database Systems, Simulation, Network Systems and Design, Operating Systems, Software Engineering, Scientific Computing, and Honors Thesis

Achievements: Presentations
  • October 2001: Tivoli User Group, Network Monitoring with DM
  • March 2003: Tivoli User Group, ITM Resource Models Using Java within JS

Email: bmitch3020_web@cox.net
Homepage: http://bmitch.net/