September 2008 Status for Ned La Celle

Cynergy Cynergy-Apps : ATA Kuali Rice Infrastructure

  • managed the hardware outages, motherboard replacement, memreplacement
  • configured and tested new Apps enviroments and on Oct3 implemented HR workflow into prod apps environment.
    • created environments for the multiple instances of the application framework (apache, tomcat, keystores, certs, holding accounts, Service IPs etc.)
    • cynergy-indev-apps.cit.cornell.edu
    • cynergy-test-apps.cit.cornell.edu
    • cynergy-stg-apps.cit.cornell.edu
    • cynergy-pro-apps.cornell.edu
    • tested infrastructure and validated
  • interviewed multiple candidates for Analyst position in ATA

Collabtools: Confluence, SourceForge, Jira

  • managed hardware scan and validation to preclude h/w failure that occured on similar h/w that hosts cynergy
  • Operational Support of confluence, restarts, documentation, CCABs, outage reports
  • JIRA upgrade: co-managed and implemented JIRA upgrade
  • GreenHopper installation: JIRA tool GreenHopper added to allow for Agile/type task-issue mgmt
  • Confluence upgrade: co-managed Confluence 2.0.9 => 2.8.1 themebuilder to 3.2.1

Tomcat Multi Instance / uPortal Support:

  • uPortal restarts (Operational Support) CCAB for outages
  • portlet investigation

Modcomp / Viewmax:

  • monitor and restart as needed when services needed to be moved for hardware failure

IS Pulse:

  • increased responsibiliy as Team Lead, create new pulse survey, publish results to management
  • Participated in IS Pulse team activities.
  • Facilitate group brainstorming for Dave Kohler
  • scribe for meetings

Course Enroll Infrastructure Load Testing

  • asked to participate in the "swat" team charged with investigating infrastructure variations to discovery better performing configurations
  • confluence scribe for the meetings
  • consult on infrastructure architecture
  • capture various configurations and test runs

Apollo Decommissioning

  • survey application developers and clients as to the Tomcat3 apps that need to be retired
  • verified and documented the idwebtest (tomcat3) apps that must transition to new hardware
  • co-created new Tomcat clustered resources and environment setup to house the new, temp tomcat3 environment
  • co-created the new Tomcat cluster resource to house the migrated idwebtc5test container.
  • test migradted both environment applications to the new 2 containers on Orpheus.

Misc: education/training/external

  • Apache Performance Tuning: Webinar (SpringSource/Covalent)

Medical-missions and service trip Kampala Uganda (10 days)

  • served with 70 local volunteers to treat 1515 individuals with medical, social, physical needs
  • worked together with voluteers to rebuild termite damaged platform
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