Benjamin Scherer's Resume

Experience

Sr Integration Engineer · Tanium · 11/2023 - Present

  • Build, Design and maintain integration between Tanium and ServiceNow

Technical Architect · World Wide Technology · 05/2022 - 11/2023

  • Maintained a Department of Defense (DoD) security clearance
  • Review and writing of technical requirements for Agile stories
  • Offered expert consulting for CMDB, Discovery, and Service Mapping
  • Perform technical interviews for sourcing team
  • Reviewed instances for best practices and technical debt, providing recommendations

Senior Technical Consultant · Contender Solutions · 11/2021 – 05/2022

  • Mentored and peer-reviewed junior consultants
  • Worked with business analysts to write technical requirements for agile stories
  • Focused on IT Service Management (ITSM), Integration Hub, and custom integrations
  • Built a custom integration between Launch Darkly and ServiceNow Enabling stories to be deployed inactive and enabled later by business users

Senior ServiceNow Devloper · CareSource · 03/2019 – 11/2021

  • Administered a 6000-user instance of ServiceNow
  • Developed integrations with Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), providing integrations with Incident, Service Catalog and custom applications
  • Improved data accuracy and reduced claim issue resolution times by integrating with Facets
  • Created a process to log Personnel Health Information (PHI) access and integrate with Splunk
  • Built custom credential resolver for Thycotic Secret Server This allowed discovery and orchestration to operate without storing credentials in ServiceNow
  • Designed and implemented custom integration for IVM vending machines and locker
  • Managed user stories, coordinated deployments, and provided peer review for other developers

Consulting Systems Engineer · Managed Technology Services · 04/2017 – 03/2019

  • Implemented ServiceNow Performance Analytics to identify process automation opportunities
  • Developed an Advanced Email Alert module in ServiceNow, enabling support teams to create incident creation rules for inbound emails with no code
  • Customized and deployed external customer portal on ServiceNow
  • Designed and implemented the “Partner Management” application in ServiceNow This enabled third-party vendors to act on behalf of the company with limited rights and provided a simple interface for Business Relationship Managers to manage and review access
  • Analyzed and transformed data sets into actionable insights for organizations
  • Maintained a custom end-to-end billing application utilizing ServiceNow, SQL Server Database, and Reporting Services
  • Developed a custom CMDB Discovery system for ServiceNow using PowerShell , MID Servers, and data transforms
  • Provided administrative and development support for a multi-domain ServiceNow environment
  • Designed and implemented advanced alerting and monitoring using SolarWinds Orion, ServiceNow, Ayehu Eyeshare, and other technologies to resolve issues quickly
  • Implemented a highly available Tanium environment across multiple data centers for auditing, management, and patching
  • Served as the primary architect for orchestration, automation, and tooling
  • Extensive experience with ServiceNow Multi-Tenant (MSP) model

Senior Systems Engineer · LexisNexis · 4/2012 – 4/2017

  • Supported large, diverse, multi-tenant hosting environment
  • Implemented a monitoring environment using the SolarWinds product family, including NPM, SAM, NTA, NCM, IPAM, and VIM
  • Implemented Tanium for systems management, patching, and auditing
  • Implemented Ayehu Eyeshare for SolarWinds/ServiceNow integration and automation
  • Primary Technologies: Citrix XenApp, Citrix Netscaler, Windows Server, VMware, and NetApp

Senior Systems Engineer · Elsevier · 11/2008 – 4/2012

  • Application support for large-scale Tomcat and Websphere applications running on Linux
  • Worked with a variety of technologies, including IHS, Apache, Tomcat, and Websphere
  • Utilized Perl for advanced log analysis

Systems Engineer · LexisNexis · 09/2003 – 11/2008

  • Supported a large Windows production environment
  • Primarily focused on Systems Management and Automation
  • Utilized Landesk and WSUS
  • Migrated from physical servers to VMWare virtual machines
  • Managed the company-branded FTP site and implemented secure FTP

Systems Engineer · LexisNexis(Manpower) · 11/2000 – 09/2003

  • Supported 3000+ desktops and employees
  • Patch Management
  • Migrated legacy installers to custom MSI packages, removing the need for manual installation
  • Migrated enterprise from Microsoft SMS to Landesk, automating most tasks

Education

  • Associates of Applied Science in Software Development, Sinclair Community College

Certifications

  • ITIL, V3 Foundations
  • Microsoft, Microsoft Certified Systems Administrators Windows 2000
  • ServiceNow, Certified Systems Administrator
  • ServiceNow, Certified Application Developer
  • ServiceNow, Certified Implementation Specialist - Discovery
  • ServiceNow, Certified Implementation Specialist - Service Mapping