Objective Experience Education
MICHAEL RAYMOND703.444.1879

Objective
Seeking a position both strategic and tactical in nature supporting carrier delivery infrastructures according to ITIL philosophies requiring application of technical and management expertise to a wide range of solutions and environments.

Experience

Manager, Change & Configuration Management
Time Warner Cable, Herndon, VA
September 2002 - Present

  • Developed and deployed a standardized Change Management process critical to the success and growth of Time Warner Cable's Digital Phone (VoIP) and High Speed Data (HSD) services. These services support 4+ million HSD and 200,000+ primary line voice subscribers. Successfully championed reform regarding SLA support for high-revenue commercial accounts and enforced risk assessment for all maintenance.
  • Architected solutions designed to integrate existing applications to address shortcomings in change detection, change verification, device detection, CMDB management, intrusion detection, Forward Scheduling of Change, KPI and metrics reporting, and maintenance ticketing.
  • Raised the service and component availability metrics X%
  • Leader in assessing and piloting business-critical vendor solutions such as:
    • Tripwire's intrusion detection system
    • IetSolutions' ITSM product
    • Granite's inventory/asset management database
    • Remedy's ticketing application
  • Directly managed two direct reports and indirectly managed the support and execution of the Change Management process by 200+ members of TWC's Network Operations personnel ensuring that maintenance visibility, authorization, planning, and execution followed established process. Also responsible for the company CMDB and all monitoring tools used by the Time Warner Cable NOC and other operational and Customer Care groups supporting the IP network and its service delivery.
Network Engineer, Technical Operations / Backbone Operations
Time Warner Cable, Herndon, VA
January 2001 - September 2002

  • Maintained and engineered connectivity and peering for an all-Cisco high-speed fiber optic national backbone made up of OC3-OC12 level circuits
  • Assisted regional engineers with routing and route-optimization across multiple public and private AS peers

Network Support Specialist, Network Operations Center
Road Runner, Herndon, VA
February 2000 - December 2000

  • Served as a technical supervisor and point of escalation
    • Evaluated new employees and interviewed job candidates
    • Resolved personnel conflicts/disputes
    • Provided direction for employee career advancement
    • Led employee technical training seminars
  • Lead troubleshooter of router hardware and configuration issues, system issues and circuit problems
  • Worked closely with tools development and support groups to troubleshoot, enhance and optimize network monitoring tools

Senior Operator, Network Operations Center
Road Runner, Herndon, VA
August 1999 - February 2000

  • Provided end-to-end execution of the Incident Management process, including event detection, isolation, troubleshooting, escalation, notification and resolution
  • Documented Time Warner Global NOC processes and procedures
  • Responsible for training new employee