Arika Tilden

I love to develop solutions to problems using software.

I can give numerous examples of such joy, but one particular example is the development of a Nagios to Excel API. Nagios is a networked-device web application monitoring tool that keeps track of whether or not the device is connected to a network. It logs when the device disconnects. I built a Python API that scraped the data from each device that had been disconnected during the month (the start date/time, end date/time, and reason given for the outage. I tied it to a Python GUI, and reduced the 6 hour job down to 10 minutes.

Another example was when I created a Change Management system for my manager. He was managing changes in the technical environment using five different applications. I built a PHP/MySQL web application which took the place of 5 independent applications (MS Excel, MS Outlook, MS Word, eRoom, and MS SharePoint). It automated his follow-up activity, created a live agenda at his fingertips, which he could email at a click of a button, and placed ownership on those who were making changes in the environment, versus concentrating all of the work on one person, thus leveraging the administrative burden.

I also have worked with Natural Language processing (NLP), mouse-click automation, automated emailing scripts, and making various Python Classes as tools to interact with MySQL and SQLite databases.