Travis Marlette​

Splunk Sr. Developer / Architect / Data Science Expert

Syntel / American Express                          

January 2015 - Present

 

Responsible for spearheading the splunk implementation, and operational excellence initiative within AMEX operations, while consolidating monitoring tools to increase cost savings,  implementing dashboards to provide real-time business intelligence, and reducing alert noise and developing pro-active and 'self-healing' monitoring alerting and solutions. 

 

• System Architecture, design, deployment and maintenance of over 2000+ devices

• Big Data design and administration (Splunk/Linux)

• Splunk custom and consolidated dashboard and app development for operational excellence

• LINUX / Windows translation for single purpose dashboards (CPU / MEM Disk space) 

• Deploy splunk apps such as SQL, DB Connect, JMX, Cisco UCS, Linux/Unix, Windows, Xtreme IO, REST API, Service Now, and more. 

• Correlate system events and transactions to anomalous operational behavior, and develop proactive (self-healing) triggers and programming for alerting. 

• Increase operational awareness by 30% (80% actual), while reducing alerting by 50% (100%+ actual), while consolidating operational tools for cost savings.

• Create Executive summary dash boarding to show system status, employee awareness, and departmental agility to update in real-time. 

 

 

Implementations / Solution Architect & Data Scientist 

EZE Software Group (RealTick EMS)                            

​January 2013 - January 2015

 

Responsible for the design, architecture, deployment, administration and maintenance of the EZE Software Groups international big data environments. Working cross functionally to develop common data models, SME specific and department specific dashboards in order to improve visibility, and security into system integrity and improve system efficiency while gathering business intelligence. Increasing efficiency and visibility into network operations, infrastructure, monitoring, metrics and business intelligence to maintain the highest standard of success.  

• System Architecture, design, deploy and maintain for system life cycle

• Big Data design and administration (Splunk/Linux)

• Splunk custom dashboard and app development by unique department

• MPLS (WAN), and Juniper QFabric (LAN) network design, architecture, build out maintenance.

• Input all systems (windows / linux / juniper / cisco / f5 / aruba / cisco call mgr / SQL /Active Directory, Symantec, FireEye, Bluecoat, and more)  into a big data utility, and create data models for analytical pivoting of metrics, visibility of activity , and correlation of operational data for increased efficiency in troubleshooting.

• Investigate and design the enterprise’s open / proprietary source code big data systems and software to maximize scale-ability at a global level while maintaining visibility at both a micro and macro level. 

 

 

Global Connectivity and Market Data Engineer

BNY ConvergEX/ RealTick LLC                                                    

January 2008 - January 2013

 

Responsible for Analyzing and, trouble shooting all inbound / outbound traffic relating to Market data and FIX connectivity and accountable for gathering data for metrics, while automating the process, in order to create long term forecasting data for hardware refreshing on all systems, as well as circuit bandwidth utilization metrics and a daily index for system health on a simple scale of 1-10. Recognized through Awards Program for

 

• System / Environment Design and Engineering.

• Circuit and Connectivity Engineering.

• Architect low latency routing internationally, with resiliency.  

• Systems, circuit, and data center consolidation for cost saves initiatives resulting in an annual cost-savings of 1.7 million dollars.

• Monitor circuit utilization for line saturation at a 100ms resolution.

• Forecast trending and changes to the market data environment, to meet with FIF standards for at least five years.

• Network monitoring design and implementation across four international data centers for 1 and 10 Gbps links. 

 

 

Network Operations Control Engineer Team Lead

Townsend Analytics

​October 2006 - January 2008

 

First point of escalation in all systems monitoring, while building vendor relationships, and maintaining the client experience via automated systems implementation and maintenance of market data and circuit latency / integrity while receiving accolades for market data environment architecture, design and implementation, and tool development while leading a team of professionals and keeping them up-to-date on their technology training. 

 

• NOC Training Design

• System monitoring  / alerts

• PERL scripting

• VM Ware / ESX

• Data Center Administration

• System engineering / design

• Software Analysis

• Big FIX  / WSUS

• Splunk

 

 

 

Technical Support Specialist

Townsend Analytics

​November 2004 - October 2006