Senior Consultant Infrastructure Discovery (ADDM) and Automation

Looking forward to automation, orchestration and public/private cloud transition projects in requirements analysis, design, implementation and operation phases.

Offering consultancy services and solid technical knowledge in IT Service Management Suites (current: BMC Software and previous:IBM Tivoli Portfolios). Contact: vmmware g mail com

Technical expertise and lead of Discovery projects in following industries: financial services, insurance, telecommunications, automotive, government, retail.
Consulting DC harmonization, migration, license- and security-compliance, internal cost allocation, ITSM integration projects.

Delivering complete palette from high-level guidance to strong technical SME: 
•Workshops in all possible areas (from security to pattern development) 
•Solution design and strategic consulting for large enterprises 
•Risk analysis according to Federal Office for Information Security Germany (BSI) catalog
•Security concept, granular rights and role concept, software lifecycle concept, logmanagement concept, penetration test concept, operational handover concept, etc.
•Develop and implement risk minimizing measures
•Penetration test plan and implement
•Interlink vulnerability assessment-, license-, log-, change- mgmt. and monitoring 
•Plan and conduct project to operations transition 
•Plan and conduct operations transfer across support groups globally 
•Pattern (enrichment, modeling, batch) and syncmapping development 
•Business application mapping- requirements analysis & implementation 
•High complex upgrades 
•Taxonomy extensions 
•Integrations (Integration Points, XML, CSV, REST API, PAM/CyberArk) 
•Scan infrastructure deployment greenfield and redesign 
•Custom reporting and development of discovery metrics 
•Third party audit for architectural design and current deployments 
Authoring technical documentation, operation manuals and templates 
•Coaching

Certified:
BMC Accredited Administrator: BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency Mapping
BMC Accredited Administrator: BMC Server Automation
BMC Accredited Administrator: BMC Remedy AR System
BMC Accredited Administrator: BMC Atrium CMDB
BMC Accredited Administrator: BMC Remedy IT Service Management
BMC Accredited Administrator: BMC MyIT and Smart IT
ITIL® Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management

+Solution architecture design for large enterprises

Analyse requirements, technical infrastructure and security guidelines.
Deliver architectural solutions according security guidelines and recommends most suitable best-practice deployment.


+Business Applications Modeling- requirements analysis and implementation 

Experience in modeling business applications, understanding complex multi-layered application infrastructure.
Collaborate with service manager, process managers and application owners in order to ensure the correct mapping between business, technology supporting it and the developed discovery model.
Reviewing the discovered model with all managers to confirm consistency, differentiate environments or update the model.


+Pattern development (TPL)

Understand customer's need to leverage more data and design methods of gathering this data.
Development of custom discovery patterns retrieving additional data and saving it as custom attribute or new datamodel-object relating to existing objects.
Explain capabilities and limitations of Collaborative Application Mapping (CAM).


+Taxonomy extensions

Taxonomy extensions including classes (node kinds), relationships and attributes
Mapping the discovered data to Taxonomy and to Common Data Model (cdm).


+Integrations (Integration Points, XML, CSV, REST API, PAM/CyberArk)

Implemented all kinds of integrations available to ADDM and recommend the most suitable best practices methods.
Implemented Integration Points in order to enrich the discovered data, but also to supply sets of discovered data to other processes.
Developed methods to automate this integrations.


+Scan infrastructure deployment and post-install configs

Experience with installing ADDM Discovery virtual (VA) or physical (Kickstart) appliances, Windows-Proxies and z/OS Agent.
Implementing important post-install configuration for optimal and accurate discovery.
Implementing secondary configurations such as end-user LDAP integration.
Knowledge of delivering the full end-to-end information flow starting from target systems over scan-appliances, consolidating gathered information and synchronizing it to CMDB.
Ability to change the planned deployment scenario or schedule to meet current needs.


+Discovery performance and issue recognition

Configure and troubleshoot credentials for different systems.
Explain and prevent possible discovery issues and customizes discovery configuration based on access quality returned from various systems.
Explain and counsel performing a deep discovery for different technologies such as virtualization, DB, application, web and storage platforms.
Design scan and backup scheduling according to best-practices.
Install OS-Upgrades, updates, TKUs...


+Custom reporting and development of discovery metrics

Implement all kinds of custom reports.
Develope and implement metrics for discovery process quality.


+Workshops in all possible areas (from PoC to Pattern Development)

Provide presentations of BMC Discovery OOTB and further capabilities and benefits.
Explain product technical deployment requirements such as appliance sizing and security considerations.
Collect business and technical information from clients regarding requirements.
Design deployment and demonstrate software capabilities at client sites as part of Proof of Concept (PoC).
Plan and conduct workshops regarding IT-Security, networking/firewalls, credentials Unix/Windows/DB.
Plan and conduct workshops regarding pattern programming, taxonomy and integrations.


+Technical support and troubleshooting discovery/patterns

BMC Remedy ARS custom build:
+Worked on redesiging a RM module and current data migration in new process
+Implemented various interfaces using AR Java API
+Automated a daily release deployment for Remedy projects based on AR Java API

BMC BladeLogic Server Automation:
+Provisioning (VM)
+Audit and Compliance Jobs
+Batch Jobs
+NSH (entry level)

IBM Tivoli>

Expert knowledge in managing and customizing TADDM scan infrastructure:
+Installation, update and running a IBM Tivoli CCMDB (TADDM + Maximo)
+Implementation of Custom Application sensors
+DLA discovery for Mainframe
+Consolidation of numerous data sources via TDI
+Datamodel extension
+Business Application Modeling
+Development Maximo applications
+(BIRT-) reporting

Managing and expanding automated infrastructure discovery based on IBM Tivoli suite and server provisioning.

IBM Tivoli Configuration and Change Management Database

Managing discovery lifecycle

Responsible for installation, update and running a IBM Tivoli CCMDB (TADDM + Maximo) based scanning infrastructure.
Management, maintenance and configuration of infrastructure discovery consisting of 1 scanner, 17 gateways and 1 Maximo application server.
Creation of scanning windows, schedules and granularity.
Implementation and debugging of new Custom Application sensors for the recognizing of specific software components.
Import CIs from System Z environment utilizing DLA Discovery.
Import and integration of information about CIs from other databases using Tivoli Directory Integrator (TDI).
Datamodel extension adding custom attributes to it.
Mapping several business applications to discovered infrastructure.
Design and implementation of Maximo applications for Configuration Management according to customer requirements.
Implementation and adaptation of the level of imports from TADDM database to Maximo database using IBM Tivoli Deployer's Workbench and IBM Tivoli Integration Composer (ITIC).
Customizing and creation of new (BIRT-) reports.
Experience with IBM Support Portal, PMRs (Problem Management Records), APARs and Service Requests processes.


Datacentre and asset management

Managing assets lifecycle and contracts

Experience in datacentre infrastructure provisioning, hardware migrations and removal of end-of-life hardware.
Performed hardware troubleshooting, managed replacement part, opened trouble tickets and scheduled hardware repairs.
Executed critical inventory management processes such as management of inventory-related incidents.
Responsible for hardware inventory such as servers, storage & networks.
Managing the asset database including maintenance contracts for all systems.