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EXPERIENCE

Major accomplishment Data Center Responsible for the total coordination of the annual 24 hour data center power down. This includes coordination of all work to be accomplished, areas/departments doing the work as well as our end customer base.

Major accomplishments Virtualization Transition over 500 physical servers to virtual machines using VMware products. This involved the managing of over 10 different colleges within the Twin Cities University of Minnesota environment. Also, responsible for the coordination of infrastructure to a 10G high speed environment.

Major accomplishment Operating System Conversion Planned and over saw the conversion to Microsoft Windows on all Novell server platforms which were administered.

Operations and Infrastructure (contractor) 10/2014 - present

● Contracted with a Medical device manufacturer based in Massachusetts but the main operations and data infrastructure is located in Minnesota.(Boston Scientific)

● Responsible for the Racking, Stacking in Minnesota and also for the Backup of data centers worldwide via working with the storage team members.

Data Center Coordinator/ Lead System Administrator University of Minnesota Sept 1992 – Present

Lead Data Center Coordinator Expert used 3+ years M

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Skills

MS Office Suite

Windows – Server Windows Desktop 7 / XP

VMWARE 2.x – 4.x

TCP/IP LAN and WAN

Novell 3.x – 6.x

Certifications

Certified in VMWARE ESX End to End Server administration

Certificate in Advanced Project Management – Carlson School of Management

Certificate in Internetwork Management

Certifications in Agreement negation, Conflict resolution, Building work relationship – Continuing education University of Minnesota

IBM Certified Specialist for Token Ring

Data Center Coordinator Responsible for helping University departments decide Networking and Server options when they request help in the decision making process. In this position I act as a technical business liaison to a variety of departments within the Office of Information Technology.

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am currently administering the back end (Networking, power, SAN Fiber, racking /stacking / monitoring, etc.) in the maintaining of 300+ servers. These consist of Windows 2003, 2008 and VMWARE clusters as well as various Linux based systems

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Lead Server administrator (VMware, Windows, Novell) Expert used 15+ years

Administered the VMware ESX (4.x) platforms connected to an EMC & Hitachi SAN. Over 30+ physical Platforms and 600+ Virtual Machines which were supported over this period. Maintained and supported server hardware and networking running VMware ESX, using the management packages of vSphere, vCenter to provide HA capabilities. (Including Site Recovery Manager), along with the P2V conversions of several hundred machines. Also, various versions of Microsoft Windows, Microsoft SQL server, various NOVELL versions and to a lesser extent Citrix server.

I was on a 24/7 support rotation, and acted as an escalation point of contact.

Managed team of six Expert level Technical liaison Expert level Used 20+ years Provide leadership, training, mentoring Expert level used 20+ years

This position was a lead administrator / manager role. I was responsible for in house collaboration for networking, server support and hosting services to other University departments. I also acted as a technical business liaison to departments within the University Twin Cities campus. The team which I managed was responsible for all system support relating to Microsoft servers as well as VMware platforms and also the tape backup systems. I was responsible for creating and maintaining a 24/7 support rotation.

Network Engineer St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Companies September 1985 – September 1992 Woodbury, MN

Technical liaison Expert level Used 7+ years Provide leadership, training, mentoring Expert level used 7+ years

Responsible for the internal wiring of 4M Token Ring Backbones, multiple cluster control units located in over 100 offices worldwide, a WAN using 96KBS, 56KB, and T1 leased lines controlled via US West DACCS system. Administer and support dial in access system.

Provided leadership, training, mentoring and work direction to 3 people over the course of five years.

Special Projects included: * On site relocations of the data/networking service for local and out of state offices * Moved the mainframe data/networking communications in Twin City area to new building and reconfigured all data communication wiring at the new site * Wired the whole main St. Paul campus for Token Ring that included 5 separate buildings

Help Desk staff – St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Companies September 1983 – September 1985 Woodbury, MN

Provided telephone support for twenty six (26) field offices located within the continental United States.

Computer operator St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Companies September 1979 – September 1983 Woodbury, MN

Provide leadership, training, mentoring Expert level used 4+ years Mainframe operator using IBM series 3270, 3080, 3290 / MVS machines.

ACTIVITIES & AWARDS

* I attend local conferences given by various vendors in the LAN, DATA and Networking and data center management community when possible.

* 2012 Data Center World attendee

* Microsoft TechNet Conference attendee

* VMWorld attendee

Past President of Valley EZ Riders and also the Farmington Snow Tigers snowmobile clubs, I have helped in the training of over 600+ students in snowmobile safety classes.

Earned the rank of Eagle Scout of The Boy Scouts of America (1975)

EDUCATION

Computer Operations Certification June 1978 – August 1978 Control Data Institute Minneapolis, MN Specialized in Computer operations

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