Senior IT Operations Professional

Network Technology Server Hardware Storage Data Center Infrastructure Systems Administration

• More than 15 years of experience in the Information Technology field.
• Successfully implemented converged systems for IAAS and SAAS in a large R D environment at HP.
• Extensive experience with project planning, budgeting, and resource allocation up to 11 million per project.
• Superior communications, presentation, analytical, and problem-solving skills, while expertly managing projects in fast-paced, deadline-oriented environments.
• Skilled at building teams and consensus among subordinates, co-workers, managers, contractors, government, customers, and auditors.
• Successful instructor for several technical courses, including Comptia A and Network Certification, the Microsoft Certified System Engineer track on Windows 2000/2003, Bay Networks' Fundamentals of Nortel Routers, and Microsoft Office.

Selected Projects and Accomplishments

• Lead architect in planning, designing for power/cooling, and installation of new Data Center at HP Lexington, KY . Analyze functional and business requirements, contribute to design activities, and work closely with local
• management and global IT staff to design appropriate solutions to solve IT issues at HP.
• Apply HP and third-party technologies to highly complex infrastructure and software solutions. Independently implement end-user or enterprise infrastructure of moderate complexity or services prepared by senior technologists for more complex solutions.
• Designed and implemented the entire Active Directory infrastructure for L3 Communications.
• Primary lead on an entire new Data Center design at L3 Communications, allowing an in-place upgrade with little to no downtime.

Professional Certifications and Security Clearance

• Brocade Certified Fabric Administrator 16GB BCFA Brocade Certified Fabric Professional GEN 5 BCFP Hewlett Packard Master Storage Solution Architect
• MASE
• Hewlett Packard Accredited Integration Specialist in Storage HP AIS
• HP Accredited Solutions Expert- Storage Works 2011 ASE
• HP Accredited Solutions Expert- Solutions Architect V1 ASE
• Microsoft Certified Professional
• Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer in Windows 2000/2003
• Comptia A Certified Hardware Technician Comptia Network Certified
• Red Hat Certified Technician RHCT
• VMware Certified Professional VCP on VMware 3.5 and 4.0
• Cisco Certified Network Administrator CCNA
• Hewlett Packard Certified System Administrator HP-UX v11
• Microsoft Certified Trainer Secret DoD clearance

Professional and Consulting Experience

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Storage Solution Architect

• Explore and evaluate customer storage environments to provide highly available and scalable solutions to meet the explosion of data in corporate IT and create proposals to address challenges.
• Analyze SAN fabrics, design complex environments, formulate Recover Point and Recovery Time Objectives within a customer's backup environment, and assist in the planning for automation of tiered data across both file and block storage.
• Deliver technical Deep Dive presentations and open floor discussions for storage provisioning, capacity planning, de-duplication, and thin provisioning across HP's Storage portfolio, as well as HP's corporate strategy for storage.

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Senior Systems Engineer

• Tested, upgraded, monitored, configured, troubleshot, and repaired complex hardware and software events to ensure continuous functionality in a rapidly changing environment. .
• Designed, installed, configured, and administered HP's Cloud System Matrix in an HP R D Software Lab, providing a Self Service Portal for infrastructure as a service.
• Installed, configures, monitored, maintained, and repaired the Storage Area Network to include hardware maintenance, performance monitoring, performance tuning, firmware and driver updates, and storage presentation to
• server resources. Perform the backup and recovery of network data for all servers and the Storage Area Network utilizing HP Data Protector 7.x

Mission Critical Account Support Manager

• Performed multiple assessments from data classification and server consolidation to virtual desktop infrastructure proof of concepts for a various number of customers.
• Implemented extremely complex configurations around C Class Blades and Virtual Connect infrastructure components at multiple customer sites.
• Implemented and designed virtualized data centers using a combination of software and HP C Class Blades.
• Provided quarterly and yearly reviews for customers showing value in the delivery of HP's mission-critical service.

Customer Support Engineer IV

• Performed reactive and proactive calls to all customers in the coverage area.
• Maintained accountability on local part stock for various customers with a high level of HP support.

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Senior Computer Systems Analyst

• Performed project planning, budgeting, and resource allocation of approximately 500K - 4M per year.
• Contributed significant portions to IT sections of winning DoD contract proposal worth over 1.3B over 10 years. Recognized for consistently building teams and consensus among subordinates, co-workers, managers,
• contractors, government, customers, and auditors.
• Configured multiple Cisco switches and routers to allow trunking and channeling across the SOFSANet. Implemented SOFSANet new Citrix Farm to include a 12-node server cluster.

Computer Systems Technologist I

• Designed deployable networks for tactical operation systems. Configured and maintained satellite links during operations.
• Maintained and configured sensitive military encrypted data traffic for transfer across secure WAN links.