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

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