"Lowell was essential to operations. As we downsized, I reassured Lowell that he'd be the last one out the door. Even after me." ~ CEO
2020-Present ~ Pro Bono
Provided expert level services to the community to include, but not be restricted to home design/construction, restaurant design/construction, web-site design/construction, IT services, Office design/construction, and Facilities design/construction. IETech
2019-2020 ~ Architect ~ Splunk Modules
Built two Splunk modules to augment monitoring. The first module enabled the scheduling of maintenance outages, while the second module was an HTML alerting template engine that formatted monitoring alerts for easier interpretation, on-the-fly diagnosis, and as-needed educational links. Fiserv
2008-2019 ~ Architect ~ Enterprise Monitoring
Sole architect, developer, and administrator of a monitoring solution designed to oversee the operations of the mobile banking application for many of the largest financial institutions in the nation.
Highlights: maintained all SLAs, flexible decoupled architecture, open source, single code base, highly secure, comprehensive diagnostics, essential operational data, 200+ remote servers at 100+ remote sites, 100s of touchpoints, billions of metrics, prevented 100s of impacting scenarios, live regional channel simulation (SMS, URL, and REST) Monitise
"Lowell was a great technical resource ... instrumental in helping gather and organize monthly usage data ... critical to company operations ... reported to C-level executives ... easy to work with ... always had confidence his output would be accurate and punctual" ~ VP Sales
1995-2024 ~ Owner ~ Consulting
Founded and operated a successful consulting company since 2000, fulfilling all technology needs for small to mid-sized businesses.
As part of my commitment to excellence, I replaced all of the Microsoft backend products with their Linux counterparts, resulting in substantial cost savings, significantly improved uptime, and extended capacity (>50,000 emails/week). IETech
"As the CEO of multiple companies, I had the pleasure of working with Lowell for several years ... His character and behavior are second to none ... Integrity, dependability, and reliability, best express who he is" ~ IETech Client
1990-1993 ~ Architect ~ Campus Network
Successfully designed, built, and administered a 14-server network to support 800 departmental users. Ongoing responsibilities included overseeing all aspects of LAN and WAN operations. Brown & Root Braun
"Lowell led the investigative and disaster recovery team when the company was infected with a virus. Despite sound policies and procedures established by Lowell, end-user neglect was the root cause. Lowell handled the resulting all-hands meeting with composure and resolve, quantitatvely emphasizing the importance that everyone adhere to the security policies. ~ CEO
1987-1990 ~ Architect ~ Fiber Network
As a project engineer, I led a team in evaluating LAN technology, establishing customer network requirements, and proposing the full technical specification of a large 750 node LAN. This included requirements analysis, economic analysis, design, implementation plan, training plan, and security plan. I performed extensive evaluations of the current state of available token ring, token bus, and ethernet products, and produced life cycle cost/benefit comparisons of copper and fiber optic transmission mediums for specific customer needs. S.Systems
"Lowell consistently performed above client expectations" ~ Manager
1985-1987 ~ Architect ~ Personal Matching
As architect, developer, and administrator, I created a personal matching program for single people. Its unique algorithm is still considered state-of-the-art. Intro
"500% annual revenue growth was the direct result of Lowell's skills" ~ CEO
1983-1985 ~ Director ~ Publishing
As IT Director, I launched several initiatives to improve efficiency within this publishing company. I engineered a solution to transfer data from an obsolete computer. Pertinent to that were numerous mailing list cleansing scripts using self-learning and a paste-up script to automatically paginate classified ads. Intro
"How Lowell managed to save our most valuable asset was absolutely amazing" ~ CEO