$60

Hourly Consulting Rate

Chris Ollows

Independent Consultant

Industry Experience

Information Technology/IT

Location Supported

United States

Languages Supported

English

Skills

  • Technical consultant
  • Project management
  • Programming
  • Security/compliance governance
  • Analytics
  • Robotic process automation
  • +2 more

Product Specialization

  • UiPath Robotic Process Automation
  • Slack
  • Microsoft Teams
  • ServiceNow IT Service Management
  • Splunk Enterprise
  • +1 more

About

Software Engineer / Cyber Security Enthusiast / RPA Enthusiast

Top Project Highlights

NY Foundling RPA Project

Automating Therapy Client entries into different forms.

Employment

RPA Developer/Gigster Network

2020 - Present
  • As an independent contractor I have worked for Gigster to develop and introduce to RPA to Small companies. My project has been to develop Bots for an NGO in New York called New York Foundling.

    Technology and Tools Used: UiPath, Azure, Microsoft Office 365, Google Vision.

Software Development Engineer

2020 - 2020
    • Analyzed the results to identify potential static credentials, filing defects, and working with product teams to respond to questions regarding product defect filings.
    • Coordinated Cisco Product Security Incident Response team identifying vulnerabilities, testing and code corrections.
    • Communicated with developers on progress updates, gathered feedback and worked to resolve concerns.
    • Efficient and skilled in CSE Runner, Linux, Tmux, Python and Java against Cisco product source code and images,
    • Experienced in Programming/Scripting languages used PERL, Python, C and Java.
    • Proficient in regular expressions for results filtering/parsing.

    Technology and Tools used: Linux, Docker, Windows 10, CSE Runner, Python, Java, C, PERL, Tmux, Git, UNIX/Linux System, IMG Unbundler.

PSA / RPA Analyst

2019 - 2019
    • Developed end to end project plans in conjunction with the key stakeholders, Reengineering, Business Analyst and Technology teams.
    • Proven track record in evaluating current processes and envisioned ways to reengineer the processes in order to create significant efficiencies and enhance controls.
    • Participated in technical discussions and solutions; guided the team to make decisions.
    • Participate in tech calls and project design inter-dependencies, defined and provided job workflows.
    • Worked SMEs and partners to elicit business requirements, translating them to system requirements.
    • Administered, orchestrated and controlled the virtual workforce in the operating environment
    • Worked closely with IT to ensure applications’ continuous improvements in quality, cycle time and operating efficiency.
    • Participated and delivered special projects and assignments in process improvement initiatives.
    • Provided leadership, and technical expertise to analysts in processes automations and productivity.
    • Contributed to the service improvement efforts to the team and implemented changes
    • Keep the project manager informed of the overall status of the solution.
    • Provide development support, testing and ensuring proper implementation of industry standards
    • Provided best practices in alignment with company architectural patterns.
    • Incident management through ServiceNow
    • Participate in Change Management
    • Deployment of RPA on Windows 7 and Widows 10 Clients
    • Technology and Tools used: Automation Anywhere, ServiceNow, UIPath, Microsoft SharePoint, Linux, Provenir Decision Engine, SQL

     

    Prod. Support Analyst / App. Support Originations      08/2014 - 04/2017     Arlington, TX

    GM Financial

    Responsibilities:                                                                                                                                                        

    • Providing technical and functional support to application end-users
    • Analyzed and researched elevated service desk incidents and requests
    • Processed all configuration related changes in the databases to support originations
    • Ensured system releases and enhancements are successfully transitioned by project teams to production
    • Support by assisting throughout the project life cycle
    • Performed tasks like support documentation, testing, and deployment of system solutions
    • Processed configuration related changes in systems databases using intermediate to advance SQL
    • Served as a lead communicator and facilitator in resolving production outages and system issues
    • Ensured the issues are resolved in a timely and accurate manner.
    • Document all root cause analyses when a production outage or issue occurs
    • Recommended lessons learned and areas of improvement
    • Developed and managed relationships with internal and external business, and IT partners to provide technology-based solutions to business needs.
    • Created and maintained process flows, component diagrams, and detailed process functionality.
    • Ability to write, interpret and Implement SQL queries and use PL/SQL to Create and implement scripts.
    • Mitigated project downtime by effectively managing, scheduling and dispatching technicians for on-site repairs.
    • Incident management through ServiceNow
    • Deployment and Production support of Production applications on Windows 10 and Windows 7 desktop clients

    Technology and Tools used: Provenir Decision Engine, ServiceNow SQL, Oracle, Linux, Microsoft SharePoint, CPW, PL/SQL

    Enterprise Network Monitoring Specialist II        03/2011 - 08/2014         Arlington, TX

    GM Financial

    Responsibilities:         

    • Monitor/debug/resolve tier II Cisco infrastructure issues; routing, network hardware/software and configuration
    • Resolve LAN and WAN network outages, firewall configurations, and performance issues
    • Monitor and maintain all IT network infrastructure both hardware and software.
    • Managing systems routine backup, scheduling jobs
    • Enabling and disabling cronjobs, Linux batch jobs and enabling system logging
    • Network logging and server’s maintenance, performance tuning and testing.
    • Responsible for monitoring companywide servers
    • Monitored the file system and CPU load balance to ensure better performance.
    • Acts in a leadership role as a principal technical customer contact to interface with all levels of company and customer staff and management.
    • Functioned as a primary resource to the Technical Support team for system needs.
    • Performed GM Financial website tests; Nagios for system monitoring and Orion system monitoring.
    • Incident management through ServiceNow
    • Monitoring and Deploying Windows environments on all Desktop clients

    Technology and Tools use: Nagios, Provenir Decision Engine, SolarWinds Orion SCOM Tool, Linux, Microsoft SharePoint, MS-SQL, ServiceNow, Windows 7, Windows 10, Windows Server.

Education

Computer Network Systems
2001-2003

Certification

Cyber Security Analyst
2020-Present

Palo Alto Networks

R Programming Language
2019-Present
Splunk Fundamentals
2020-Present
Business Administration
2019-Present

UiPath

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