Michael Yazdanian

Professional Summary:

Michael is a Technical Specialist with over 20 years of IT experience, providing Enterprise Management Systems Solutions and Services from the beginning stage to obtaining business requirement Assessment/Definitions, Strategic Consulting/Directions, Architecture/Design, Specifications/Configurations, through Development, Implementation/Integration, user acceptance testing (QA), Deployment/Delivery and post production validation services. He has a specific focus on HP OpenView/BSM/OMi/uCMDB/iMC software suites that aligns technologies with business requirements in support of the client mission. He provides Technical Leadership with extensive Enterprise Project Management.

Michael is an expert in enterprise management system solutions and has been working with BSM deployments for the past 10 years. He is well spoken with that consultant mentality.

Recent work experiences include:

Provided Strategic Consulting/Directions in Enterprise Monitoring Requirement Assessments & Automations.

Customer deliverables included BSM Installation, Configuration, Design & Deployment, detailed use case development, architecture development/diagramming and tailoring.

Integration and configuration of components: (BSMC, uCMDB/RTSM, OMi, OMU/W, OO, NNMi, SCOM, LDAP, iMC, ServiceWatch and Remedy) in a multiplatform environment, all reporting to BSM Event Console (OMi).

Education:

California State University (CSULA), Los Angeles, CA

B.S. in IT, 1983

Certification in Business Information Systems Programming, 1986

Associations & Certifications:

Certified OpenView Consultant (STAR), HP

Certified OpenView Integration Specialist (AIS, ExpertONE), HP

Certified Enterprise System Engineer (ASE), SUN

Certified Fabric Professional (BCFP), Brocade

Redhat/AIX Administration, IBM/Redhat

SCO Open Server Engineer, SCO

NT/2K3/2K8 Administration, Microsoft

Database Administration, ORACLE

Netscape Suite spot Server (SUN-iPlanet) Administration, SUN

Enterprise Management Solutions (CEMS - Cisco Works/View), CISCO

Usenix, SAGE, UniForum, HP OpenView Forum

Professional Experience:

Remotepoint, Inc., CA 07/14 - 06/15

BSM Development - Solutions Architect (Enterprise Services Strategy)

Worked on a SOA project, developing a Unified Configuration Management & Monitoring Automation solution platform (PaaS).

Responsible for providing architectural blueprints, design leadership, guidance and assistance in automation (Puppet, ServiceWatch/CMDB), orchestration (OO) and applying the architecture to oversee the integration process for the project.

Dallas Independent School District, DISD, TX 10/13 - 06/14

HPOV/IMC Solutions Architect/Delivery Engineer

Project: Enterprise Monitoring Deployment (IMC – Intelligent Management center v7.x)

Responsible for architecture/design and implementation of the following services

Unified Enterprise Network Fault, Performance and Configuration Management/ Automations. Customer deliverables included iMC distributed Installation/Configuration, tailoring, integrations (LDAP/Remedy, Cisco, HP) & deployment based on DISD’s constituents and use case development.

California Technology Agency, OTech, CA 04/12 - 09/13

HPOV/BSM Solutions Architect/ Delivery Engineer

Project: Enterprise Monitoring Deployment (uCMDB/BSM 9.x – OMU/NNMi 9.x)

Provided Strategic Consulting/Directions and Enterprise Monitoring Requirement Assessments.

Customer deliverables included BSM Installation, Configuration, Design & deployment, detailed use case development, architecture development/diagramming.

Components configured and integrated: (BSMC, uCMDB/RTSM, OMi, OMU, OO, NNMi, SCOM, LDAP and DDM/Remedy, Atrium, Seamless Data Pump - ETL) in a multiplatform environment, all reporting to BSM Event Console (OMi).

Trizetto, CO 06/11 - 12/11

HPOV/BSM Solutions Architect/Engineer

Project: Enterprise Monitoring Deployment (uCMDB/BSM 9.x – NNMi 9.x)

Provided Strategic Consulting/Directions and Enterprise Monitoring Requirement Assessments.

Customer deliverables included BSM Installation, Configuration, Design & deployment.

Components configured and integrated: (RUM, BPM, Sitescope, OM/NNMi, OO, uCMDB/RTSM) in a multiplatform environment, all reporting to BSM Event Console (OMi).

DirecTV Corporation, CA 07/10 - 05/11

HPOV/BSM Solutions Architect/Engineer

Project: Enterprise Monitoring Deployment (NNMi/OMU 8.x, BAC 8.x)

Responsible for enterprise integration issues with BAC/OM environment.

Deployed EUM/RUM/BPM configurations and Alert/Event Integrations: OMU/OMW, NNMi, BAC/uCMDB/DDM, RUM/BPM and Diagnostics.

Valero Energy Corporation, TX 07/09 - 06/10

HPOV Solutions Architect/ Delivery Engineer

Project: Enterprise Monitoring Deployment (OMW/NNMi 8.x, NA 7.x)

Provided project scope, and other constraints to build/deploy the enterprise migration/integration plan that delivers the objectives

Effectively communicated project expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.

Estimated the resources and participants needed to achieve specific project goals.

Identified and resolved issues and conflicts within the project team. Identified and managed project dependencies and critical path.

Conducted project post mortems and provided recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements (OMU/OMW, NNMi, NA, MOM, SAP, NetScout, GridControl).

Capital Group Companies, CA 09/08 - 06/09

HPOV Solutions Architect/ Delivery Engineer

Project: Enterprise Performance Monitoring Upgrade (OMU/OVPA, OVPM)

Provided Capacity Management/Performance Monitoring Requirement Assessments,

Planning/Testing and Server inventory process for monitoring (OVOU 8.x/OVPA 4.7/OVPM/OVR).

Customer deliverables included OVPA/OVOU agent upgrade (500+ PA-RISC/Solaris/Zones), configuration and deployment automation in a multiplatform environment and documentation.

Delta Dental, CA 03/08 - 08/08

HPOV Solutions Architect/ Delivery Engineer

Project: Enterprise Monitoring Deployment (OMU 8.x)

Provided Strategic Consulting/Directions and Enterprise Monitoring Requirement Assessments (OVOU/NNM/OVPI).

Customer deliverables included OVOU 8.x (Itanium) Server/SSL certification configuration, agent automation and deployment on 300+ HTTPS Agents/Policies in a multiplatform (Solaris/Zones/Itanium) environment and documentation.

MacroVision Corporation, CA 03/08 - 04/08

HPOV Solutions Architect/ Delivery Engineer

Project: Enterprise Monitoring (POC) Deployment

Provided A POC Enterprise Monitoring Solution demonstration (Pilot), based on Macrovision’s goals and requirements.

The following HPOV products were installed, configured, deployed and integrated - NNM 7.5, OVOW 7.5, and SiteScope/OVO integration and documentation.

Sanofi-Aventis Corporation, NJ 09/06 - 06/07

HPOV Solutions Architect/ Delivery Engineer

Project: Enterprise Monitoring Deployment (OMU 8.x)

Provided Strategic Consulting/Directions; Enterprise Monitoring Solution design based on Sanofi-Aventis goals and requirements.

The following HPOV/NetIQ products were installed, configured, deployed and integrated/QA - NNM 7.5 (100+ Cisco devices - Fault Alarms correlated and forwarded to OVO console), OVOU 8.x/MOM (HTTPS Message Forwarding from multiple locations), NetIQ AppManager 6.x (installed and configured Server and 600+ Unix/Wintel/agents & Policies) reported on system resources.

Performed KS customization for the Unix/EXCHANGE/CIM environment). NetIQ Integration Connector implementation and configuration to convert and forward messages to OVOU console. Wrote, tested and implemented customized code (UNIX Shell/Sendmail/AD) to forward correlated OVO (Network/System Events - Email/Pager) alerts to appropriate resources on call.

Created change control process flow for enterprise monitoring and documentation.

Altera Corporation, CA 06/06 - 08/06

HPOV Solutions Architect/ Delivery Engineer

Project: Enterprise Monitoring (POC) Deployment

Provided A POC (Proof of Concept) Enterprise Monitoring Solution demonstration (Pilot), based on Altera’s goals and requirements.

The following HPOV/Tidal products were installed, configured, deployed and integrated - NNM 7.5, OVOW 7.5, OVPI 5.1, OVIS 6.2, SIP 3.2 and Tidal Horizon/Tidal Transaction Analyzer (SAP Monitoring Integration).

Hitachi Data Systems, CA 03/06 - 05/06

HPOV Solutions Architect/ Delivery Engineer

Project: Enterprise Monitoring Deployment (OMU 8.x, NNM/OVPI)

Provided strategic consulting/directions and rapid project revitalization services including: assessments, solutions design, installation, and implementation and integration/QA services on the following HPOV products - OVOU 8.24, OVPI 5.1 on Solaris/Remote Oracle DBs, NNM AE 7.5, Radia 4.2, SD 4.5 and RAMS 3.7).

Adobe, Inc., CA 09/05 - 02/06

HPOV Solutions Architect/ Delivery Engineer

Project: Enterprise Monitoring Deployment (SAP/CRM/SLA)

Provided assessments, solutions design, implementation and integration/testing services. Installed, configured and integrated HP OVOU 8.10, NNM 7.5, OVIS 6.1 and OVOU SAP SPI 9.1 (Remote Oracle DB), BMC Patrol, OVOU OSSPI in a Solaris/Win based environment.

Customer deliverables included monitoring of SAP-R3 ERP/CRM Production System and related network devices Cisco).

Also was involved in monitoring of required business transactions (BPM), design and deployment of SAP SPI based on Adobe’s constituents and requirements.

Key integration/QA services included OVO/SN/OVIS, NNM, SAP-Basis & SPI and SAP-R3 CCMS alert monitoring.

Yahoo!, Inc., CA 03/05 - 08/05

HPOV Solutions Architect/ Delivery Engineer

Project: Distributed Enterprise Monitoring Deployment/Integration (OMU 8.x, OVPI/NNM 7.5)

Provided assessments, solutions design and implementation services in HP OVOU 7.10/MoM, NNM 7.5 (DIM), OVOW 7.5, OVPI 5.1 (Oracle) and Remedy integration in a distributed environment.

Some key management objectives and deliverables included Global discovery and topology design/deployment in a multi-location environment (DIM/MOM), SNMP Thresholding, OVPI Cisco device resources/interface reporting configuration and Cisco Syslog event template/policy design/deployment.

SBC Communications, CA 02/04 - 02/05

Senior OpenView Engineer

Project: OVPI Migration & Deployment (OVPI/NNM)

A member in HP OpenView Performance Insight OVPI Migration/Upgrade project team.

Customer Deliverables:

Installation, configuration, and maintenance of application data collection processes using SUN UNIX based systems and tools.

Configuration and maintenance of graphical user interface, report generation/customization, performance tuning and optimization of Sybase database.

Configured and maintained device probes; scheduled and validated data collection rollups, performed Move/Add/Change/QA activity for users and devices, OVPI Backup, restore, disaster recovery preparation, threshold monitoring configurations and integration into NNM.

Report Packs configured: Cisco device resource & interface, ATM and frame relay.

Syncor International, CA 05/02 - 12/02

HPOV Solutions Architect/ Delivery Engineer

Project: SAN Backup Design & Deployment (OmniBack)

Provided a complete SAN (Brocade) backup solution.

Used Brocade Fabric switches, HPOV OmnibackII (HP-UX) and a Qualstar Robotic Tape Library to accomplish this task. Syncor was also shown each step of this process, and documentation of how this technology works, and how to operate the system.

A successful presentation of a working system (Backup/Restore) was delivered upon completion.

PacifiCare Healthcare, CA 01/02 - 04/02

HPOV Solutions Architect/ Delivery Engineer – Logical Networks

Project: NNM Design & Deployment (NNM)

Provided strategic consulting/directions, (NNM 6.x/Solaris) project guidelines (assessment, solutions design, Implementation, testing, documentation and operations training), based on PacifiCare’s requirements, methodology and constituents.

Voice Stream Wireless, Seattle, WA 10/01 - 12/01

HPOV Solutions Architect/ Delivery Engineer – Logical Networks

Project: OpenView Documentation & Recommendations (ITO)

Provided assessment and documentation services for existing configuration of HP OpenView - ITO/NNM management environment.

Assisted in troubleshooting existing problems and resolution and distributed design methodology (MOM) and recommendations.

Kinko’s, CA 08/01 - 10/01

HPOV Solutions Architect/ Delivery Engineer

GoTo.com, CA 06/01 - 08/01

HPOV Solutions Architect/ Delivery Engineer - Sprint Paranet

Clear Data Corporation, AZ 04/01 - 06/01

Senior UNIX System Engineer - Sprint Paranet

Ernest & Young, NJ 09/00 - 04/01

HPOV Solutions Architect/ Delivery Engineer - Sprint Paranet

Honeywell, CA 01/00 - 08/00

Senior UNIX System Engineer - Sprint Paranet

Catholic Healthcare West, CA 1997 - 1999

Senior Unix/HPOV System Engineer

Cast & Crew, CA 1994 - 1996

Senior UNIX System Engineer

Advanced Systems, CA 1990 - 1994

Chief Systems Architect

Perrier Group of America 1988 - 1990

Senior Financial/Programming Consultant

Technical Skills/Training:

HP Software Solutions University (HPSSU)

OV-NNM (Network Node Manager 5.x-10i)

NNM-Correlation Composer (NNM 6.x-10.x)

NNM-Extended Topology 2.x (VLANs, HSRP & OSPF Network SPIs)

NNM Implementation/Integrations/Automation workshop

OV-PI (Performance Insight 4.x,5.x)

OV-OMU (Operations Manager Unix/Linux 4.x-9.x)

OV-OMW (Operation Manager Windows 7.x-9.x)

OV-MeasureWare & EPC (PA/CODA)

OV-ISA (Integrated Services Assurance)

OV-ECS (Event Correlation Services/Designer 3.x)

OV-IS (Internet Services 5.x, 6.x)

OV-TA (Transaction Analyzer)

OV-SN (Service Navigator/VP)

OV-PM (Performance Manager)

OV-SIP (System Information Portal 3.x)

OV-SOA (Service Oriented Architecture 2.x)

OV-CM (Radia 4.x,5.x)

OV-D (Dashboard 2.x)

OV-SAM (Storage Area Manager 3.x)

OV-DP (Data Protector 4.x)

OV-SPIs (DB/OS/Web/Remedy & SAP)

HP-DDMi (Enterprise Discovery/Inventory 7.x-10.x)

HP-SA/NA (Server/Network Automation 9.x-Opsware)

HP-SiS (SiteScope 8.x-12.x)

HP-BAC (Business Availability Center 7.x, 8.x)

HP-AM (Application Mapping 6.x - uCMDB/DDM 7.x-10.x)

HP-CCM (Change Control Manager 3.x)

HP-DDMA (Dependency Mapping Automation)

HP-DMA (Data Base and Middle Ware Automation)

HP-SM (Service Manager SM710 Implementation Essentials Boot Camp)

HP-SM (Service Manager SM710 Implementation Advanced Boot Camp)

HP-uCMDB (uCMDB 7.x-10.x Implementation Boot Camp)

HP-BAC (BAC 8.x Implementation Boot Camp)

HP-BSM (BSM 9.x Implementation Boot Camp)

HP-OMi (Operations Manageri OMi 8.x-10.x)

HP-OO (HP Operations Orchestration 9.x Implementation Boot Camp)

HP-CMS (CMS 9.x Implementation Boot Camp)

HP-CSA (CSA 3.x Implementation Boot Camp)

HP-CSA4M (CSA4Matrix 2012 Implementation Boot Camp)

HP-Diagnostics (Diag. 8.x,9.x Implementation Boot Camp)

HP-Intelligent Management Center/BYOD (iMc 5/7.x Implementation Boot Camp)

Neebula ServiceWatch 3.x

SUN Educational Services

Solaris system admin. 1 & 2

System performance management

Network admin. 1 & 2

Network and system security-FW-1

Veritas volume manager

HA solution (SUN Clusters)

E10K Star Fire & Sun Fire admin.

Oracle Educational Services

Data Base Administration

DB Back-up/Recovery

IBM Educational Services

AIX Administration 1&2

Microsoft Educational Services

NT/2K/2K3 Administration

Netscape/SUN Educational Services

NS Suite spot Server (SUN-iPlanet) Administration

SCO VAR Training Services

Open Server Administration

CISCO VAR Training Services

IOS Installation & Configuration

Brocade Communications

Fabric Design and Configurations

Ascolta/Sprint Training Company

Cisco Works/View

UNIX Systems and Application Technology:

SUN Solaris 2.x, SCO UNIX 5.X, AIX 4/5.X, HPUX 11.x and Itanium 11.3x, Sequent PTX 4.x, RedHat, Docker, Nagios, Puppet, Netscape Suite spot Servers (SUN iplanet), Java, XML, TCP/IP, Shell/Perl Scripts, Cron, Sendmail/DNS/NIS/UUCP/SSH,SNMP, Checkpoint FIREWALL, Veritas Volume Manager and Clusters (Jumpstart/Ignite), Oracle, CISCO Works/View, SolarWind, MRTG, Qualstar Robotic Tape Library, HP OpenView BSM Suite, uCMDB/DDM, Performance Tools (BAC, PA/Glance, Performance Manager), Brocade Fabric Switches, SUN T3000 and Sparc Storage Arrays, Legato NetWorker, Omni Back-II Network/SAN backup applications, Remedy and ServiceNow/ServiceWatch.

DOS/Windows Applications:

DOS 5 and 6, Windows NT/2003/2008, Citrix, WebEx, Visio, MS Office, Net Manage and Exceed (X Windows clients), PowerShell, NetIQ AppManager, SiteScope, BAC, OMW, VB Scripts, VMware, Lotus Notes, Word Perfect, PC-NFS, MS-IIS, Apache/Tomcat, ProComm/Crosstalk.

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