IT Engineer/Architect - Portland, Oregon
Multi-disciplined, technically outstanding, IT professional, offering more than 10 years of IT infrastructure engineering experience (23 total in IT). Delivered a wide range of solutions from Data Center hardware to software automation. Strengths lie in experience, and thorough planning, testing and execution. EXPERTISE
● Data Center, collocation and cage
● Cab wiring, racking and stacking
● Data Center power and cooling
● On-prem and cloud virtualization
● Linux/Unix and Windows OSs
● Servers, networks and storage
● Switch/route, FW, & load balance
● Monitoring, logging and alerting
● Phone/VoIP/video conference
● Infra services (DNS, DHCP, etc)
● Security/compliance/governance
● Documentation and diagramming
● Automation and provisioning
● Site-to-site connectivity
● On-prem to cloud migrations
EXPERIENCE
Nov 2017 -
Present
Principal IT Infrastructure Architect
GREENUP ENGINEERING
Architect and engineer on:
● Vegas emergency FW HW/config/replace (Cisco ASA)
● Data Center cage consolidation. 46 cabinets to 28
● Replace vulnerability scanning (Nexpose to OpenVAS) 2017 - 2017 Data Center and Networking Engineering Manager New Relic
Oversaw architecture and engineering of:
● F5 Big-IP cluster upgrade for performance boosts
● Juniper VPN replacement for FedRAMP compliance
● 2x Data Centers Colo/Cage SaaS product expansions 2010 - 2017 IT/Systems Engineering Manager
Webtrends
Oversaw, and architected/engineered:
● New $2M DC and compute relocate (APC/Liebert/CPI)
● Monitoring/alerting solutions (Solarwinds > PRTG)
● Log/backup systems (Splunk/Graylog/RANCID)
● On-prem virtualization to cloud (VMware/AWS)
● Vulnerability scanning solution (Nexpose)
● 60k SF / 15 AP corporate WiFi solution (Cisco)
● Corporate edge/core/load balancing & access network replacement (Cisco/F5 > Brocade/Fortinet/Citrix)
● Storage solution replacement (HP > NetApp)
● VoIP phone system (Nortel > Shoretel)
● On-prem email/office to cloud (MS Office > Office 365)
● Multi Factor Authentication (Juniper VPN and Okta) 2002 - 2010 Senior IT Specialist
IBM
Architect and engineer on:
● 140kW Liebert UPS install for brownout protection
● 20t Liebert CRAC unit install for uptime/SLA protection
● 160 slot RDC/PDU cab install for flexible pwr dist
● 20k SF IT/AV briefing center design in New York City EDUCATION/TRAINING
● IBM Client Consulting for IT
Architects
● IBM Architectural Thinking
● IBM Technical/Leadership
Exchange
● IBM Leadership and Teamwork
● Certificate III in Information
Technology
● Microsoft - MCSE (Win2k)
● Cisco - CCNA (Nov 2006)
● Aruba/ClearPass, Chef/Opscode,
Citrix/NetScaler, NetApp,
FortiGate, Shoretel, Brocade
● BS - Business Management
● MBA - High Tech concentration