Engineer Systems

Location:

Irving, TX

Posted:

July 20, 2018

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KURT KREUTZER

Irving, TX ***** C: 951-***-**** *******@*****.***

www.linkedin.com/in/KurtKreutzer

PROFILE

Versatile IT professional with 20+ years’ experience consulting in architecting datacenter hardware, storage, backup & disaster recovery and enterprise software solutions for clients in diverse industries. Created solutions and tools that drive revenue growth, client performance and savings (up to $1.3M). Relevant highlights include:

Lead consultant for RFP by State of Hawaii leading to award of ~$3M contract for consolidation of IT infrastructure, centralization of backups across state, disaster recovery (~80 servers, ~520TB) and Cloud initiative.

Managed and performed TCA/TCO analysis for 60+ clients, driving $15M+ revenue for firm.

Played instrumental role in winning two major government programs of $12M (GFS) + and $4M (GOSR).

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Architectural Design/Review • Performance Analysis • Business Impact Analysis • Capacity Planning • Public Speaking • RFPs/RFQs • Advanced Excel • PowerPoint • Visio • Operating Systems: AIX, Linux & Windows • Virtualization/Containers • AWS Certified Solutions Architect in progress

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SIRIUS COMPUTER SOLUTIONS San Antonio, TX 2010 - 2017

Senior Solutions Engineer / Architect

Generate systems requirement documents and perform architectural design and configuration of infrastructure solutions from Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM, Lenovo, EMC, Nutanix, and more, as well as EMR (Enterprise Medical Records), Databases (Oracle, SQL and OpenSource), Data Encryption, Backup/Recovery and more, which includes enterprise servers, converged, Intel rack servers, storage (SAN, iSCSI & NAS) and tape. Architect Data Center refreshes to provide cloud agility with proprietary/open source solutions.

As lead architect, led RFP by State of Hawaii leading to ~$3M contract for consolidation of IT infrastructure, centralization of backups across state, Disaster Recovery (~80 servers, ~520TB) and Cloud (hybird).

oAddressed cloud initiative for Windows/Linux environment, upgraded backup/recovery software, refreshed servers for state tax application and addressed DR and data encryption requirements.

Managed & performed TCA/TCO analysis for 60+ clients, generating $15M annual revenue for Sirius and average client savings of ~$400K (up to ~$1.3M in one case), with core count reductions up to 83% (from 362 cores to 60).

oCreated TCO analysis tools to provide faster analysis and highlight cost differences between databases.

Assisted various clients with their storage requirements to provide sub millisecond response times and to meet their Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery needs working with various storage architectures. As well assisted in the design to help comply with their governance and compliance strategy.

Clients include: State of Hawaii, State of CA, American First Federal Credit Union, Utah Retirement Systems, Apria Healthcare, BlueCross/BlueShield, Cedars Sinai, Epson, Enterprise Holdings, Intex, LearJet, Loma Linda Medical Center, University of Iowa, Oracle, Western Digital.

Contributed in authoring of certification for IBM which was a global project consisting of a group of about 30 people from across multiple countries.

One of 24 (out of ~1,200 employees) recipients to receive Sirius Excellence award in 2015.

JESKELL, INC. Sunnyvale, CA 2003 - 2010

Solutions Architect

Provided architectural infrastructure designs for major government/classified accounts. Authored technical responses for formal RFPs and RFQs for enterprise IT solutions. Maintained TSSCI security clearance for Federal accounts and systems integrators (e.g. Raytheon, Lockheed Martin). TSM 5.5 Implementation and Administration.

Participated in 100+ business development presentations for integration for Data center infrastructure and software of 18+ IBM/HP/Dell/, winning ~75%. Certified in IBM ESCON/SCON Studies.

Played instrumental role in winning two major government programs of $12M (GFS) + and $4M (GOSR) involving implementation of large Unix servers.

About 50 clients with 300+ projects (RFPs) dealing with SLED and Government accounts. State of CA, NOAA, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, USDA, BWTX Pantex and more.

Architected comprehensive AIX, Linux and Windows server which included On-Premise & Cloud and enterprise storage solutions as for five-person executive IT team at State of California Orange County Court System (3rd largest courts systems in CA): led to multiple multiyear and multimillion dollar engagements.

DIGTERRA, INC. Costa Mesa, CA 2001 - 2003

Solutions Architect

WEBVISION Torrance, CA 2000 - 2001

Systems Engineer

FASPAC SYSTEMS La Jolla, CA 1999 - 2000

Systems Engineer

BEVERAGE SOLUTIONS, INC. 1993 - 1999

Systems Engineer/Admin San Diego, CA

EDUCATION

Golden West College

Business Management

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