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James Raleigh Thomas

James Raleigh Thomas

Information Systems Consultant I
Bangalore

Summary

Rational Windows Unix Engineer with 9 years of experience enhancing operations for organizations through information systems solutions. Proven track record of transforming specific business goals related to growth and efficiency improvements into new system designs. Successful background maintaining systems by efficiently leveraging infrastructure and operational knowledge to enhance processes. Practiced troubleshooter with diagnostics procedure expertise and in-depth technical experience.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
16
16
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Information Systems Consultant I

CenturyLink Communications Pvt. Ldt.
Bangalore
07.2016 - Current

Incident and Change Management:
• Creating tickets on BMC Remedy as per Customer Emails.
• Monitoring the Remedy queue for new tickets or Customer/Vendor updates on tickets.
• Scheduling Changes as per requirements and dispatching it the relevant teams.
• Mediating with Customers/Vendors to manage and schedule requests/change activities.


Active Directory Management:
• Adding Users into the Active Directory.
• Creating and managing Customer and User NA-MSMPS/LDAP accounts.
• Reset Customer/Internal User Account Password as per the request.
• Unlocking Customer/Internal User Account Password as per the request.


HPE Synergy - Refinitiv Process:
• Documented Process for HPE Refinitiv Process as it was a Pilot Process.
• Monitoring HPE Synergy Devices by logging into the Synergy Portal hosted on our Jump boxes.
• Collecting Initial Alert Related Data and engaging Vendors/Customer.
• Scheduling Changes to have faulty parts replaced and to do post checks once replacement is completed.


Windows Unix Tier 2 Process:
Browser Admin Role:
• Proactively monitoring Windows/Unix Servers on Netcool (Monitoring Tool).
• Creating Tickets on receiving alerts on Netcool.
• Triaging Tickets and dispatching them to Team Members while in Browser Admin Task.
• Creating P1’s and Engaging MIM (Major Incident Management) Team in scenarios where we have a Server down and multiple Alerts.

Case Worker Role:
• Working on assigned tickets and troubleshooting Windows/Unix Issues.
• Logging into Windows/Unix Servers using Putty or RDP for triage.
• Identify the issue with server and documenting notes related to it.
• Engaging Vendors in cases where Part replacement is required.

Change Admin Role:
• Creating Change activity for Part replacement.
• Mediating with Vendors to arrange Field Engineer for Part Replacement and to provide Part Availability.
• Writing Method of Procedure for the Change activity.
• Scheduling Activity and executing the Replacement of faulty parts.
• Performing Post Checks and closing out the Activities within the scheduled time.
• Performing DNS Changes: Adding/ Deleting/ Modifying A, CNAME, TXT, PTR, AAAA, MX Records.

Backup Shift Lead Role:
• Managing the Shift and all the Shift Members.
• Co-ordinating with Browser Admin, Change Admin and Case Workers in the shift, to have the Shift’s tasks done before Turnover Time.
• Joining Weekly CAB Meetings and Leads Meetings.
• Taking up and driving the scheduled Job Interviews.

IT Analyst/IT Administrator/NOC Engineer

STS Technologies Pvt. Ldt. Cisco, IBM Project
Bangalore
07.2013 - 07.2016

IT Analyst:

  • Assisted Cisco Clients in troubleshooting issues related to both Windows OS and MAC iOS, Microsoft Office, VPN, Java Updates, Lenovo Driver Updates, Adobe Products and other Cisco Software’s.
  • Assisted Cisco Clients in Password Reset issues and Access Level Correction.
  • Helped Cisco Clients with resolving/routingconnection issues related to CVO (Cisco Virtual Office) Routers and Cisco IP Phones.
  • Also, helped in fixing Network Issues and engaged Escalation Desk to fix Priority 1-2 cases.
  • Resolving issues related to Cisco related tools by determining and managing Access’ with respect to the problem.
  • Troubleshooting issues for Cisco Clients regarding problems with Cisco Mobile Mail and Cisco related applications on mobile devices.

Asset Management:

  • Assigning Laptops to New Hires from Local Stock and Recording the instances on Registers and over the Cisco Tools.
  • Associating Access Cards and assigning respective access levels to the New Hires/Visitors.
  • Break-fixing Laptops if they need repair and replace them with new working laptops from Local Stock.
  • Auditing the movement of laptops from Client Location to Local Stock.
  • Creating Access Card reports and monitoring Access Restrictions.


STS E-Mail Admin and Laptop Support:

  • Creating/Deleting email accounts for STS employees according to the requests made by the STS HR’s.
  • Configuring the email accounts for an employee according to the type of account (.net or .com)mentioned by the HR to be configured for the employee.
  • Receiving requests through the STS Smarter Mail from the HR and responding to the requests made by the HR after completion of the requests.
  • Troubleshooting and resolving laptop software/hardware issues for STS employees who are onsite/offsite.
  • Maintain records of laptop details and software licenses.


NOC(Network Operations Centers) Engineer

IP Phone Configuration and Management:

  • Configuring IP Phone and associating it with End Users using CUCM.
  • Managing End Users and their Extensions on the CUCM.
  • Setting up Voice Mail Profiles on the CUC and managing them.
  • Troubleshooting the firmware issues on the IP Phone device.

Managing Xpress Contacts/Xpress Dialers:

  • Creating Campaigns as described by the Customer and setting appropriate rules so that the Campaigns run as expected.
  • Managing and Troubleshooting the Campaigns.
  • Escalating Outages raised by the Customer by gathering basic template information which would be useful for the Tier 2/Tier 3 Engineers.
  • Creating and managing Timezone Overrides according to region of the Contacts in the Campaign.
  • Generating Reports of Campaigns to identify the on-going issues in the XC/XD.

VOIP Networking:

  • Monitoring different Voip Servers of American Based Clients.
  • Acknowledging alerts over the monitoring tools and gathering basic information on the Outage, if any.
  • Escalating the outage with basic information of the Alert/Outage to the Tier 3 Engineer.
  • Managing/Directing call volume between Servers at times of high calls to agent ratio.

Education

I.C.S.E. -

St.Germain's High School
Bangalore, India
06.1997 - 05.2007

P.U.C - Physics/Chemistry/Mathematics/Electronics

Stracey’s Memorial Pre-University College. Bangalo
Bangalore, India.
06.2007 - 04.2010

Bachelor of Computer Science - Computer Science

St.Joseph’s College Autonomous
Bangalore, India.
06.2010 - 05.2013

Skills

    Engineering abilities

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Certification

Microsoft Azure Administrator Asscoiate

Interests

Sports Enthusiast - Basketball, Football

Sneaker Collection

Music

Movies

Art

Timeline

Microsoft Azure Administrator Asscoiate

03-2021

Information Systems Consultant I

CenturyLink Communications Pvt. Ldt.
07.2016 - Current

IT Analyst/IT Administrator/NOC Engineer

STS Technologies Pvt. Ldt. Cisco, IBM Project
07.2013 - 07.2016

Bachelor of Computer Science - Computer Science

St.Joseph’s College Autonomous
06.2010 - 05.2013

P.U.C - Physics/Chemistry/Mathematics/Electronics

Stracey’s Memorial Pre-University College. Bangalo
06.2007 - 04.2010

I.C.S.E. -

St.Germain's High School
06.1997 - 05.2007
James Raleigh ThomasInformation Systems Consultant I