Ronald John Pierce
Waltham, MA *****
781-***-**** - ************@*****.***
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronald-pierce-0b020798/
Professional Summary
Strategic Application Support Engineer skillful in troubleshooting and resolving application issues and performance deficiencies demonstrated over 30 years in technology roles.
EXPERIENCE
EnvisionPharmaGroup Glastonbury, Connecticut
Application Support Engineer II, October 2020 – Present.
Leveraging my years of support for the JAVA stack to fix issues and deploy code.
Using my knowledge of SPLUNK to help search logs to fix issues before they happen.
Sharing my knowledge of NOC operations to manage enterprise systems.
MicroFocus, Cambridge, MA
Application Support Engineer, March 2017 – 2020.
Automated deployment of license files across the enterprise which took hours and not days with manual deployment
Engineered a solution to solve compliance issues related with our backups.
Engineered a solution to bring down our data base engines gracefully with no data loss.
Engineered a solution to analyze database queries.
Engineered a solution to save local security policies and apply them to new 2016 servers as part of our migration strategy.
Engineered a solution to save server tasks and apply them to new 2016 servers as part of our migration strategy.
ikaSystems, Southborough, MA
Operations Analyst, Apr – 2015 – 2017.
Engineered a solution to monitor and restart adjudication engines using the bash shell
TierPoint, Marlborough, MA
EOC Technician, Jan 2015 - Apr 2015.
Monitored all data circuits as well as systems and applications.
BOSE, Stow, MA
Data Center Analyst, Aug. 2014 – Jan 2015.
Monitored and installed/improved the DC infrastructure as well as the monitoring systems.
Genesys, Burlington, MA
Production Engineer, Jan. 2014 – Aug 2014.
Monitored and upgraded systems on an Oracle/JBOSS platform.
Monster.com, Boston, MA
NOC Engineer/System Admin., 2013 - 2014
Monitored Monster application, environmental alerts as well as the two data centers.
EarthLink, Marlborough, MA
Data Center Engineer, 2007 - 2013
Engineered a solution to monitor temperature of a remote node using the bash shell.
Monitored and installed/improved the DC infrastructure as well as the monitoring systems.
Digital Federal Credit Union, Marlborough, MA
Computer Operator, 2004 - 2007
Provided operations support to all departments which included process monitoring, report generation and backup support for all data center hardware.
Hewlett-Packard, Littleton, MA
Computer Operator, 2003 - 2004
Provided backup and hardware support for all data center hardware.
Education
Fitchburg State College, Fitchburg, MA
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, 1990
Skills
Quality assurance
Technical issue resolution
Performance analysis
Customer support
DevOps principles
Coding and modularization
Data analysis
Bug tracking
Agile methodology
System analysis
Java/C/C++
Windows and Linux
Enterprise technologies
Excellent diagnostic skills
Python and Bash proficiency
PowerShell
SQL understanding
Oracle
VMware VCenter Administration
Citrix