Franklin N. Brown

**** *. ******* *****

Scottsdale, AZ 85260

602-***-****

ac99ga@r.postjobfree.com

Career Summary

Enterprise-level information technology solutions leader and architect with over two decades of global systems management experience within a diverse group of industry-leading Fortune 500 corporations.

Professional Experience

October 2016 - Present

Information Security Engineer

Intel, Inc.

Chandler, Arizona

Engineer with Intel's Information Security - Active Directory Core Engineering team, tasked with engineering support of Intel's Corporate Active Directory Services. This includes maintenance of core infrastructure service designs and configurations in accordance with IT standards, and interaction with customers, service managers, and operational support teams to design, test, and deploy security and/or automation solutions to meet business needs. Managed projects (via Agile and Waterfall) that include:

Design, engineering, and deployment of multiple Active Directory forests and domains throughout path-to-production, and migration from Server 2012 to 2016

Engineering and deployment of management and monitoring tools, including Quest Tools, Kibana, Splunk, BigFix, and SCOM.

May 2018 - Present

Chief Executive Officer

Sociopathletic, LLC

Scottsdale, Arizona

CEO and Owner at Sociopathletic, LLC, the world's first savage philosophy corporation. Sociopathletic is a lifestyle company cultivating a community of individuals who build and maintain the values of hard work, fitness, readiness, self-improvement, intelligence, wisdom, and honesty, through their own self-accountability. Founded the organization, and currently leading and contributing primarily in publishing, social media, content creation, apparel design and sales.

June 2005 – October 2016

Senior Systems Engineer

Intel, Inc.

Chandler, Arizona

Senior Engineer within the Data Centers and Hosting organization providing managed hosting implementation and support for a myriad of applications, including information security, payroll, benefits, relocation, stock purchasing, training, data warehousing, content management, legal and foundry applications, and internal/external job listings. Solutions architect for full path to production for server resources on secure networks, both internally and externally facing. Significant achievements include:

Re-platformed and fully integrated global information security controls and compliance services following merger with McAfee, Inc. Deployed several hundred servers across a range of secure network enclaves (SIZ/HTZ/DMZ) and on a number of OS platforms (Windows 2008/2012, RedHat Linux) running a variety of products, including McAfee Vulnerability Manager, ePolicy Orchestrator, and RSA Archer.

Developed and deployed a performance reporting and forecasting solution known as “Management with Data.” Aggregating data from a number of tools (IMODs, FogLight, SCOM, PerfMon, et al), performance indicators, system standards and compliance scores are tracked and graded over a quarterly term. Utilization trends for various DCH hosted environments (Windows SQL and IIS servers, Geni/PeopleSoft systems, et cetera) provide intelligence for capacity needs and consolidation opportunities, and actions are taken to bring non-compliant systems into a healthy state.

Installed and maintained fully managed hosting solutions for a diverse client base for over a decade, utilizing physical and virtual server technologies from a number of vendors (HP Proliant, ESX VMWare) running a variety of operating systems (Microsoft Windows 2000/2003/2008/2012, RedHat/Ubuntu Linux).

Implemented and supported a number of front and back end technology solutions on hosted infrastructure, including IIS, Apache, WebLogic, SQL, and Microsoft Windows Server Failover Clustering. Applications are commonly deployed behind F5 BigIP load balancers, and replicated to out-of-state disaster recovery sites.

July 2004 – June 2005

Systems Engineer

Delta Dental, Inc.

Rancho Cordova, California

Senior Engineer on the Windows Server Infrastructure team, responsible for design, deployment, and support of enterprise-wide server infrastructure. Significant achievements included:

Directory services design and support: This included support and maintenance of legacy Windows NT 4.0 domains, as well as designing and deploying a Windows 2003 Active Directory.

File and print services design and support: Developed and implemented enterprise file and print standards, which included the deployment of Windows 2003 active/passive server clusters with SAN attached storage to provide high availability.

April 2004 – July 2004

Systems Engineer

Intel, Inc.

Folsom, California

Contract engineer hired to deploy new employee services web infrastructure, a redundant shared IIS environment hosting over 40 internally facing human resources applications servicing over 80,000 employees.

November 2003 – March 2004

Systems Engineering Consultant

OptionCare, Inc.

Sacramento, California

Provided a turnkey solution through a corporate-wide technology refresh. Responsible for assessment, planning, purchasing, design, and implementation. Project deliverables included reaching full HIPAA compliance with a comprehensive Active Directory and Exchange Server migration as well as complete workstation upgrades.

May 2002 – November 2003

Enterprise Systems Engineer

VeriFone, Inc.

Rocklin, California

Lead administrator for VeriFone’s primary corporate and engineering office and manager of Western U.S. data center operations. Job responsibilities included routine administration, as well as completion of a major Active Directory migration, Exchange Server upgrade, and server consolidation that resulted in monthly support cost savings of over 50%.

October 1997 – May 2002

Senior Server Systems Engineer/Technical Project Manager

AdvancePCS, Inc.

Scottsdale, Arizona

Chief architect over a rapidly evolving infrastructure. Job responsibilities included design and implementation of information technology solutions, management of production resources, and project administration. Major projects included:

Windows Integration: Architect and technical lead for the post-merger integration of Windows resources; this included consolidating 5 domains into an existing master-resource domain and then Windows 2000 Active Directory.

Thin client design and deployment: Engineered and deployed client computing standard throughout company call centers using Microsoft’s Windows Terminal Services, NCD ThinPath and Citrix MetaFrame.

NetWare to NT conversion: Architected and deployed the conversion of NetWare 4.1x servers (across multiple NDS trees) to a Windows NT 4.0 domain environment, improving client access capability and reducing by an estimated $1.6 million.

February 1995- September 1997

Independent Consulting Engineer

AlliedSignal – Phoenix, Arizona

MicroAge, Inc. – Tempe, Arizona

American Express, Inc. – Phoenix, Arizona

Contract engineer for several Fortune 500 companies engaged in a multitude of support and integration projects, ranging from Windows NT 3.51 to Novell NetWare administration. Supported every business-class version of Windows workstation, MS-DOS, and OS/2, and a number of legacy messaging solutions, including Microsoft Mail and Lotus Notes. Pioneered early Windows thin-client solutions such as TekTronix Windows Distributed Desktop, which brought Windows apps to UNIX engineering workstations.

Accreditation

Microsoft Certified Professional

Novell Certified NetWare Administrator

IBM Quality Service Skills Certified

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