Margo K. Kelly

Experienced professional with over nine years of experience in problem solving, system administration, operations and teamwork, eager to apply my skills to cloud technologies. I have a strong educational foundation in computer science.

CERTIFICATION

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate – Amazon Web Services 2020
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner – Amazon Web Services 2020
• Certified Broadcast Networking Technologist (TCP/IP) – Society of Broadcast Engineers 2011
• CBNT is similar to the Network+ Certification

SKILLS

• Languages: Python 3, SQL, CSS, HTML5
• Data Communication: TCP/IP, networking fundamentals, XML, JSON
• Methodologies: MVC, OOP, CRUD Operations, RESTful Architecture, SDLC
• Database: MySQL, SQL Server, Relational Database design
• Version and ticket tracking utilities used: GitHub, Jira, Service Now, Confluence

EDUCATION

• Montgomery College

• AWS Solution Architect Associate training – 2020
• EC2, EBS, EFS, S3, VPC, ELB, RDS, Route53, CloudWatch, CloudFront, CloudFormation, Lambda
• Java Web Development Boot Camp (320 hours) - 2019
• Java Core, Java Spring Boot, Thymeleaf, GitHub
• Security Fundamentals Boot Camp - 2019
• Security+ training

• American University

• Degree: Master of Science in Computer Science 2015
• Thesis work: I used social network centrality measurements to analyze a graph of 10,000 musicians who played on albums in a radio station database. I used Python to clean the data, access the musician’s names via requests to the Rovi (TiVo) API and create the graph edge list.

EMPLOYMENT

• System administrator of SiriusXM’s Lawo Audio over IP (Ravenna AES67) system and Lawo VSM control system in DC and Atlanta.
• Planned, organized and implemented a cross-department project to aggregate audio router capacity that increased usable router space by 12%.
• Implemented and tested upcoming production system changes and updates in the test environment, working in close consultation with the vendor when needed.
• Authored system standard operating procedure documentation for the shop technicians and trained them on the procedures.
• Coordinated and led the team that implemented the DC remote I/O cutover from the legacy Klotz system to the new Lawo system.
• Provided operational support by performing tier 3 troubleshooting to resolve Lawo system and server connectivity issues.
• Increased alarm visibility by implementing alarm panel GUIs according to user requirements.
• Performed hands-on Lawo audio router and system software configuration in both production and test environments.
• Presented proposed Lawo system change implementation details for project approval at the weekly multi-department change management meetings.
• Documented project implementation and work details in ServiceNow.
• Updated Lawo system documentation in Confluence and created audio router configuration backups.

• System administrator of the station’s DAVID audio and metadata asset management and playback automation system consisting of 16 Windows Servers.
• Created a Python program and workflow that sped up CD audio ingest by a factor of ten.
• Wrote VB and JS scripts to customize DAVID system functions, saving the cost of expensive vendor customization visits for those changes.
• Gathered internal customer requirements and created or improved audio and metadata workflows and custom studio user GUIs.
• Provided operational support by investigating and resolving audio routing, recording and playback problems. On call 24/7.
• Worked with the vendor on system bugs, software updates and major changes.
• Increased system security by migrating users off of the pre-existing admin account to individual user accounts. Created user groups permissions schemas.
• System administrator of Telos Axia Audio over IP (Livewire) backend system.
• Created and maintained the weekly schedules of three radio stations and eight ingest instances.

• Operated live on-air audio console for The Kojo Nnamdi Show.
• Assisted in the administration of the DAVID audio automation system. Learned the system on my own initiative.
• Operated Telos ISDN and Comrex codec units to connect guest audio for live shows and production.
• Recorded, edited and mixed the daily Tony Cox show.
• Worked under tight deadlines and time constraints.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

• Portuguese – Intermediate Level