Daniel Alan Fleming

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Nederland, CO. 80466-9726

(303)/258-8076

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

A proven people leader with extensive experience working with technology.

Demonstrated track record in technology planning and execution to meeting

strategic business goals. Expertise in building cohesive and effective

support teams. Skilled in management of both CapEx and OpEx budgets.

Excellent relationship management and problem solving abilities. Core

strengths include:

Data Center Operations

Team Management

Network Architecture

Internet Security

Systems Administration

Web Site Support

CableTV R&D

Budget Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Platforms: Virtually all flavors of unix, including Redhat Linux,

Solaris, HPux and AIX. Systems virtualization with both VMWare and Redhat

KVM. Also familiar with both Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh.

Applications: Sendmail; named/DNS; mailman mailing list management;

Apache/httpd web server; Veritas NetBackup; Amanda backup; nagios monitoring;

some Oracle administration.

Network Equipment: Cisco Routers and switches running IOS;

Brocade/Foundry Routers, switches and load balancers; Brocade SAN switches;

Checkpoint Firewalls; Network Appliance NFS filers; Network Instruments

network sniffers.

Cable TV Equipment: Cisco/Scientific Atlanta headend; Motorola headend;

Big Band Networks BMR; Terayon DM6400; Cisco DCM muxes; Concurrent VoD server;

Arris/CCOR/nCUBE VoD server; Cisco/Arroyo VoD server; Motorola/Broadbus VoD

server; Tandberg/N2Broadband catchers, BMS and AMS; Cisco CMTS; Big Band SDV

server; Cisco/SA SDV server; Trilithic EAS system; Monroe EAS system; S&T

TSBroadcaster; Time Warner Cable MystroTV system.PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Time Warner Cable ATG (previously MystroTV), Broomfield, CO 2002 - 2011Director, Lab Support: Managed support team of 14 engineers overseeing

a cutting-edge R&D data center supporting Time Warner Cable video

organization's software development, test and field support operations. The

team was responsible for doing the specification, design and support of the

development lab infrastructure, providing tier IV field support and doing

hardware architecture for deployed products. Equipment used includes multiple

Scientific Atlanta headends, Motorola headends, Video-on-Demand servers,

ISA-complaint subsystems, Switched Digital Video systems, OCAP infrastructure,

Cable modem/DSG infrastructure, over 100 Sun enterprise servers, over 300 Linux

servers, a multi-layer network with more than 30 Brocade, Foundry, Cisco and

Riverstone routers as well as many more pieces of equipment specific to the

cable TV industry.

Designed, built, staffed and operated $20 million dollar 5,000 sq ft

cable TV industry data center. Created specifications including calculating

space, power, air conditioning and cabling requirements.

Designed, built, staffed and operated a $5 million dollar, 1,000 sq ft

cable TV industry data center.

Coordinated two building moves with no outages or loss of productivity.

Oversaw the build-out of office space, working with architects, general

contractors, sub-contractors, cabling vendors, leasing company and legal

departments.

Responsible for managing all vendor relationships for the lab.

Managing a multi-million dollar CapEx and OpEX budget.

Managed design and implementation of hardware virtualization project

tasked with developing next generation solution to deploy into Regional data

centers.

Responsible for specification, vendor selection, pricing and purchase

for all data center equipment.

Infobeat (www.infobeat.com), Denver, CO 2001Senior System Administrator: Responsible for designing and implementing

an email/web network including security, network infrastructure, hardware

selection, vendor negotiation and system standards. Part of three person team

responsible for managing existing Infobeat web site including backups, system

monitoring, firewall and network security and development environment.

Designed system and network architecture to support next generation email

platform.

Mancala, Inc (aka WordOfMouth.com), Boulder, CO 2000Sr. System Administrator and Operations Manager: Responsible for

support of all office equipment, the development environment and the planning,

deployment and administration of the web site. The site was 100% Sun/Solaris,

Foundry load balancer and networking equipment, Oracle running on Network

Appliance NFS filers, Netscreen Firewall, Cisco routers, Apache web servers

and Vignette middleware.

Responsible for evaluation, contract negotiation and purchase of all

server and network hardware.

Designed and implemented website network and security architecture.

Developed website management procedures, maintenance plans and

backup/recovery system.

MapQuest (www.mapquest.com), Denver, CO 1999 - 2000ContractSenior Unix System Administrator: One of five tasked with

Systems Administrator, Network Administrator and Webmaster duties for the

MapQuest web site. Responsible for maintaining all the servers, networking

equipment and software necessary to run the site.

Led Installation Checkpoint Firewall-1 firewall.

Led evaluation of F5 Labs Big/IP and Foundry ServerIron load balancer

hardware.

Managed Sun and Linux server hardware, Cisco routers and 3Com switches.

Additional Related Experience:

TCI Careertrack, Boulder, CO

System Administrator

US West,

Denver, CO

System Administrator

AT&T Tridom, Marietta, GA

System Administrator

EDUCATION:

Georgia State University: Completed 2 years toward BA Philosophy/Religion.

Georgia Institute of Technology: Completed 3 years toward BS Information and

Computer Science.

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