Brendan Means-Koss

Brendan means-koss

bookmark on deepenrich
location of Brendan Means-KossAlexandria, Virginia, United States
Phone number of Brendan Means-Koss+91 xxxx xxxxx
Followers of Brendan Means-Koss197 followers
  • Timeline

    Feb 2007 - Sept 2011

    Operations Senior

    Best Buy
    Current Company
    Jun 2011 - now

    System Architect

    U.S. Department of Justice
  • About me

    System Architect at U.S. Department of Justice

  • Education

    • University of mary washington

      2008 - 2012
      Bachelor of science (b.s.) business administration, management and operations
    • Carnegie mellon university - heinz college of information systems and public policy

      2017 - 2019
      Master of science (m.s.) it management
    • University of mary washington

      2008 - 2012
      Bachelor of science (b.s.) computer science

      Activities and Societies: Upsilon Pi Epsilon

  • Experience

    • Best buy

      Feb 2007 - Sept 2011
      Operations senior

      Promoted twice in two years, from computer sales associate to Geek Squad technician, then to Front End Leader. Managed customer service employees to ensure fast and accurate processing of customer transactions, accomplished through effective training on processes designed to maintain excellent customer service and satisfaction. Served as manager on duty to resolve customer issues storewide and maintained customer satisfaction across all business areas. Maintained full functionality of all store hardware systems, including registers and workstations and ordered store supplies. Drafted staff work schedule according to store traffic to ensure adequate coverage while constrained to labor cost limitations. Processed the store’s nightly cash deposit and maintained accuracy in the store safe. Show less

    • U.s. department of justice

      Jun 2011 - now

      Created new training and SOP documentation for the enterprise help desk to supplement existing materials, instructing readers how to resolve standard issues and efficiently navigate the incident management systems. Updated technical training manual to reflect frequent call scenarios from across the agency for use by new employees in their transition onto the help desk team. Developed Service Level Agreements between the help desk and various IT solver groups to improve help desk performance. Facilitated incident management of critical or high profile outages and recommended resolutions to reduce downtime and extended negative impact. Monitored server and network health using HP Operations Manager and HP Network Node Manager. Show less

      • System Architect

        Aug 2022 - now
      • Tech Lead

        Mar 2019 - Sept 2022
      • Supervisory IT Specialist

        Mar 2018 - Mar 2019
      • Software Developer

        Jul 2014 - Mar 2018
      • Desktop Support Technician

        Sept 2011 - Jul 2014
      • Intern

        Jun 2011 - Sept 2011
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Certified scrum master

      Scrum alliance
      Feb 2015
    • Cisco certified network associate routing and switching (ccna)

      Cisco
      Apr 2022
      View certificate certificate
    • Certified senior system architect (cssa)

      Pegasystems
      Jun 2019
    • Certified scrum developer

      Scrum alliance
      Jul 2015