David D. Rogers
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Marketstar DFW Metroplex 2012 -2015
Google, Chromebook, Sony Specialist
Provided product specific technical training to sales staff and customers
Received advanced technical training on Chromebooks to perform in-store marketing demonstrations
Liaised corporate initiatives and marketing with the needs of the store in order to boost sales for both
Tracked consumer preferences through market research and advised findings to corporate
Received extensive technical training on Laptops, 4K TVs, cameras (Vaio, Bravia, Xperia Alpha, Brands)
Demonstrated and sold Sony Alpha Cameras, Video Cameras, and Action Cams. In Best Buy Hubs.
Tops Sales of Sony Cameras in DFW Best Buys
Accomplished Photographer
AT&T Mobility Allen, Texas 2000 - 2011
Systems Operations Manager, 2005 - 2011
Managed 5 person team to accomplish all Tier 2 issues and nightly processing
Delegated daily operations at National Data Center, including monitoring of all platforms and utilities, troubleshooting end-user issues, managing successful resolution to help desk ticket queues, and facilitating interdepartmental cooperation for escalated issues
Performed Web and Client base application testing and maintenance after updates
Resolved Teradata batch issues by troubleshooting,ETL
Back-up and restores using Veritas and Legato on Unix and VMS systems
Vendor management to achieve optimum up time
Documented all abends, opened tickets troubleshot escalated to proper teams
Used Weblogic to monitor and manage Weblogic Server instances and domains.
Monitored Sans and escalated issues to EMC
Unix, Terradata, HP,Sun, IBM,Hitachi
Remedy, Netcool, Maestro, Veritas, AOTS Thin Client, Windows 2003 servers
BMC Patrol, Nagios, Topaz, Netcool
AS/400 Daily Batch, Monitor, Back-Up and printing.
IT Analyst, 2000 - 2005
Escalated outages with a root cause, and resolution to Teradata Admins, and DBA’s
Performed routine Web and Client base application testing and maintenance, post maintenance
Created and Supported Sysops with documentation and training of Event Management, Remedy suppressions
Rebooted and monitored IVR systems, performed monthly reboots restored services
Monitored over 3000 boxes for hardware failure, file size, latency, batch ABENDs
Advance Paradigm Richardson, Texas 1999 - 2000
Senior AS/400 Operator
Download, reformat and load files using Advantest and ProComm.
Cycle Runs.
Check Printing, Daily Batch
A/B System change over
Month end / Year Processing
National Computer Systems Plano, Texas 1998 - 1999
Senior AS/400 Operator
Lead Computer Operations for the Plano ISD
Executed daily, weekly, monthly processing and printing; maintained high-speed lasers and band printers
Ensured system competency through daily backups, loading PTF’s, and updating software
Managed job queues, system problems and errors.
EDUCATION
Associates Degree in Construction Trades Technology – Olney Central College
Advance Training
Google Chromebook Specialist - 2012
Tier 2 Member Care Queue agent Help Desk - 2010
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 NT - 2006
HP Introduction to UNIX - 2001
ProTech UNIX for operators - 2000
Introduction to Project Management - 2002
Sun Solaris System Administration SA-200-S10 - 2007
T2_Uverse Tech 1 - 2009
Lakeview Technology AS/400 operations - 1999