Capacity Planner

Description

ResponsibilitiesAppropriately applies activity and data modeling, transaction flow analysis, internal control and risk analysis and modern business methods and performance measurement techniques. Applies expertise to reengineer methodologies. Establishes standards for information system procedures. Analyzes and studies complex software requirements. Serves as a lead resource in the design, development, implementation and maintenance of complex systems. Develops and supports using formal specifications, data flow, diagrams, and other related design and development techniques. Analyzes user requirements, procedures and problems to automate manual processing. Ensures effective configuration management of systems and applications. Plans and provides recommendations for accommodating future IT workload growth. Acts as liaison between Technical (IT) staff, Business Management and User Groups to reconcile business drivers, performance and IT resources. Applies graduate level knowledge of statistics to problems of sampling, correlation and forecasting. Applies knowledge of queuing theory to analysis of operational problems. Required Skills Workload identification and characterization. Identification and measurement of Key Performance Indicators, Key Volume Indicators, Natural Business Units and/or Natural Forecasting Units. Capacity planning/sizing of complex systems and applications. Sizing resource/capacity requirements for each category of business unit. Document operational objectives that require additional computer/network resources. Impact analysis of new software on capacity/performance. Computer and network performance monitoring. Computer and network performance modeling. SAS Data collection/extraction, Data manipulation, Analysis, Modeling, Forecasting, Presentation SQL and/or MySQL queries/data extraction Capacity/performance experience on Mainframe, UNIX and network Graduate level knowledge of regression analysis Knowledge of queuing theory Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) Excellent communications skills (verbal and written) Good interpersonal skills team player, team building, leadership, mentoring, taking direction Consultant experience preferred