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Mark Jason Almadin

Mark Jason Almadin

Singapore

Summary

Experienced in Data Centre Operations Monitoring and Escalations.

Incident, Change and Problem Management.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience

Work History

ITSM Analyst (Incident, Problem and Change Analyst)

NEC Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd.
07.2022 - Current

Healthcare projects-Khoo Teck Puat Hospital and Changi General Hospital

  • Escalation point for all major incidents
  • Communicates with all levels of management regarding severity 1 and 2 incidents
  • Coordinate on outage resolution
  • Creates Incident Report and participates on review discussion
  • Control of user call surge during outage
  • Weekly and Monthly reports for major incidents
  • Leads or facilitates team-based improvement projects; acts as liaison, coordinating activities and resolving issues between teams, departments, vendors, etc
  • In an attempt to maintain effective working relationships, correct discrepancies, and resolve issues that develops from day-to-day operations
  • Process owner for Incident Management
  • Identification of issues that can be treated as problem
  • Analysis and coordination on problem cases
  • Weekly and Monthly reports for problem cases
  • Process owner for Problem Management
  • Ensure compliance to Change governance processes
  • Verify Change Requests (CR) for all Production Deployments, working with Application, Server and Network teams to ensure all required information and/or documentation are included in the CR
  • Verify resources have been secured prior to deployments
  • Verify approvals have been obtained prior to deployments, working with CAB when applicable
  • Scheduling and facilitating deployment meetings and distribute release communications
  • Update Change tickets with the status and information regarding the success or failure of a deployment activity, ensuring timely closure of the Change Requests
  • Weekly and Monthly for change requests
  • Process owner for Change Management
  • Focal point for application Go-Live
  • Assist in operation escalations
  • Ensures escalation matrix is updated

Data Center Operations Team Lead

NEC Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd.
04.2018 - 06.2022
  • Lead and manage a team of 24x7 Data Center Operators
  • Set individual goals and performance objective training and coaching for all team members to be fully competent on their jobs
  • Ensures audit compliance by implementing processes and procedures
  • Creates Job Processing Instructions for Data Center
  • Collates and prepares monthly reports
  • Attends management meetings

Data Center Operator

NEC Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd.
04.2017 - 04.2018
  • System, Network and Application monitoring and escalations
  • Ensures physical security procedures are adhered- visitor’s management, equipment movement, and cage and rack access
  • System backup- monitoring, tape management and preparation of backup reports
  • Participates in DR and SSA and Data Center preventive maintenance
  • Remote hands and eyes support-server reboot/shutdown
  • Assist in password resets and providing session to end users
  • Data Center and Facility monitoring (UPS, CRAC & CCTV)

AS400 Computer Operator

DFS Ventures
01.2015 - 03.2017
  • Performs daily/full backup, restoration and Initial Program Load in ISeries and PSeries
  • Executes and monitoring of AS400 system jobs
  • Monitor/Rerun SAP jobs via Automic tool
  • Server and Network monitoring
  • Logs and follow up ticket incidents
  • Tape Management
  • Password Management (Resetting of high authority profiles)

Computer Operations Officer/NOC

Acclivis Technologies and Solutions
01.2013 - 01.2015
  • Server and network monitoring
  • Monthly patching for windows servers
  • Monthly backup and IPL on AS/400
  • Keeps track of offsite/onsite tape rotation
  • Ensure prepared check lists, logs and reports are completed promptly and accurately
  • Reports incidents and liaise with vendors on hardware/software issues
  • Provide helpdesk support to end-user issues
  • Process access and material movement request for the data center

Data Center Operator

Computer Sciences Corporation Technology
04.2008 - 01.2013
  • Perform systems health check
  • Backup monitoring, rerun and backup report preparation
  • Works closely with application, server or vendor on the troubleshooting process
  • Act as a contact point or host the meeting should an incident occur for the support team and management team to update the incident status (SRT)
  • Monitors data center environment for security and facility issue
  • Records and report the IT incidents in the handover form
  • Tape management-ejecting, inventory and keeps track of onsite/offsite tape rotation
  • Ensure physical security procedures are followed strictly
  • Perform quarterly audit check on media off-site inventory

Technical Support Engineer

Trendmicro Inc.
07.2004 - 07.2007
  • Provide high quality technical solutions ranging from simple to complex issues to clients around the world
  • Telephone, email and chat technical support on Trendmicro Internet Security and Trendmicro Anti-spyware software
  • Resolve issues related to Installation of the program, Proper configuration of the program based on user’s needs, updating virus definitions and cleaning and removing of virus, worms and spyware/adware using Trendmicro tools and solutions posted on internal and external knowledge base
  • Work closely with the software development team and other engineering groups in identifying and resolving the problem
  • Use existing knowledgebase and published solutions in resolving cases
  • Troubleshoot computer-related problem of client if necessary
  • Work on beta testing of Trendmicro products
  • Monitor daily metrics of the team
  • Presents technical sharing of ideas to the team
  • Coach new hires on proper handling of cases

AS/400 System Operator

Digital Telecommunications
10.2002 - 07.2004
  • Monitoring and time execution of batch jobs
  • Investigate/Responds to abnormal job end following sop
  • Performs IPL
  • Print /reprint accounting and reconciliation report and bills of statements per request
  • Escalate system error messages to system support

Collections Officer

Citibank N.A.
09.2001 - 03.2002
  • Follow-up payment and collection of delinquent credit card accounts thru phone, fax and mail
  • Probe client’s whereabouts

Education

Bachelor of Science - Management Information Systems

Philippine School of Business Administration
Philippines

Skills

  • ITIL v4
  • DCIM
  • Remedy
  • Service Now

Accomplishments

    Service excellence awardee-FY2021

Timeline

ITSM Analyst (Incident, Problem and Change Analyst)

NEC Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd.
07.2022 - Current

Data Center Operations Team Lead

NEC Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd.
04.2018 - 06.2022

Data Center Operator

NEC Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd.
04.2017 - 04.2018

AS400 Computer Operator

DFS Ventures
01.2015 - 03.2017

Computer Operations Officer/NOC

Acclivis Technologies and Solutions
01.2013 - 01.2015

Data Center Operator

Computer Sciences Corporation Technology
04.2008 - 01.2013

Technical Support Engineer

Trendmicro Inc.
07.2004 - 07.2007

AS/400 System Operator

Digital Telecommunications
10.2002 - 07.2004

Collections Officer

Citibank N.A.
09.2001 - 03.2002

Bachelor of Science - Management Information Systems

Philippine School of Business Administration
Mark Jason Almadin