Brett W. Okeson

*** ******** ******, ***** ******, IL 60542

630-***-**** / acvk44@r.postjobfree.com

CAREER OVERVIEW

Accomplished IT leader and strategist ... 20+ years of experience in the design and management of infrastructure, operational support, architecture, systems administration & integration IT solutions. Expert in building and revitalizing organizational infrastructure, processes and technology strategies to optimize results. Expansive professional experience in senior technology, service delivery, infrastructure management and project management in leading corporations, including McDonald’s (Xerox) Corporation, Zurich, Tellabs and Ameritech.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

A strategist with a strong technical background with proven success in full life cycle system development, as well as the planning and management of business, operational, storage, network, security, training and compliance solutions in domestic and global environments.

Responsible for every component of McDonald’s global mid-range server environment (AIX, Wintel, VMWare, Linux and Sun) including SAN, middleware apps, vendor management and budgeting.

Generated End-to-End documentation for application and technology solutions including conceptual, logical and physical drawings and project workbooks.

Architected global applications for McDonald’s including Hyperion, RFM (package deployment to each store) and MBS (7 modules of Oracle’s EBS application, 12 TB per DB Instance)

Created and executed a plan for end-to-end migrations of clients to remote data centers.

Collaborated with stakeholders, vendors and an executive team to deliver a strategic framework for the ‘Platform’ discipline including hardware selection, coding guidelines and application standards.

Consistently generated business requirements from vague specifications that resulted in business optimization, growth or decreased time to market.

Successfully implemented a new Data Center in Telford U.K. and engineered a D.C. migration from Eagan, MN to Dallas Texas using SRDF technology (EMC).

Success in client relations, process improvements, training, methodology development, technical road mapping, benchmarking and business/systems analysis.

Significant experience in implementing/supporting Cloud technology (VCE/vBlock and Cisco UCS)

Highly-skilled in compliance management (SOX, ISO, ITIL) and system documentation development.

Proven success in business analysis, system integration, vendor management, project management, development, testing and launch.

Ground up experience in designing and implementing successful infrastructure, operations, network communications, architecture, disaster recovery implementation and systems integration solutions.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

GTN (for HP) North Aurora, IL 4/2014 2/2016

Migration/Technical Architect

Responsible for migration of various clients from outdated data centers to new locations, managing all aspects of the move including documentation, planning and solution.

Accomplishments:

Documenting Current, Transition and Future Mode of Operation and generating migration plan.

Detailing a plan for migration of network, server, SAN and security components including licensing considerations, tool availability, shared/leveraged environments and firewalls/LB’s for various clients.

Requirements gathering from application owners and technical resources.

Client negotiation for outage windows and evaluating gap analysis at target DC’s.

Bringing the actual migration plan to life via workbooks and playbooks.

XEROX (for McDonald’s Corporation) Oak Brook, IL 7/2005 4/2014

Technical Solutions Architect

Led and/or supported high profile, critical enterprise-wide projects from concept/feasibility study and statement of work creation and review through architecture, technical roadmapping, development, testing, launch, training and post implementation.

Accomplishments:

Lead architect for design, development, documentation and deployment of global applications and technologies, providing fully documented solutions that meet the global framework.

Consistently gathered obscure business requirements and translated them into specific IT requirements and eventually tangible documented solutions.

Influenced the client to go virtual and then architected various technologies around virtualization including AIX LPAR/VPAR deployment, Solaris Zones, DB virtualization (Delphix) and SAN virtualization (SAN Volume Controller). Generated appropriate pricing models for virtualization.

Priced out, documented and architected virtualized private environment for Dallas D.C. including SAN, network, compute and backup plans

Architected new data center roll-outs/migrations for Telford U.K. and Dallas, TX locations, including operationalization of base services, redundancy, availability and security.

Generated architecture for global McDonald’s applications including MBS (Oracle e-business), Global IDM and Hyperion using SOA principles.

Manager, Mid-Range Server Services and S.D.M.

Lead interface with McDonald’s corporate executives with global compliance, strategic steering and oversight responsibility for all McDonald’s servers and services comprised of more than 1,200 physical and virtual servers. Manage a global team of 15 (on/offshore) across all towers/business units, including AIX, Sun/Solaris, Wintel, TSM/backup, SAN and Internet Service Support/Portal. Direct accountability for strategy, design, engineering, security, administration and support of technical infrastructure, database management, capacity planning, design and full life cycle project management meeting aggressive SLAs and client requirements. Define, present and execute services strategy, as well as direct implementation of new technologies in collaboration with IT partners, business teams, clients and tower managers.

Key Projects/ Accomplishments:

Develop, present and execute short and long range strategic infrastructure decisions, including leading virtualization of all platforms, SAN performance improvement and tiered storage implementation..

Drove virtualization initiatives for VMWare, AIX, SUN, SAN (IBM’s SVC),VCE cloud technology (vBlock 300 and 700 series) and UCS cloud technology.

Re-engineered and improved global standards and processes and led implementation across multiple global teams including decommissioning processes and inter-team requests.

Developed and launched processes for implementing naming convention, decommissioning servers, standardizing backup procedures, deploying patches and capacity planning.

Achieved and maintained a 99.9% server uptime since 2008 (up from 97.9% uptime).

IBM/ZURICH INSURANCE Schaumburg, IL 1/2005 7/2005

Consultant

Planned and led a mass object migration for more than 40,000 users from NT 4.0/2000 to native 2003 environment.

Project manager for identity component of a global, mission critical project.

INDEPENDENT IT CONSULTANT Chicago, IL 4/2003 12/2004

Contracted with small to mid-sized domestic and global companies as a consultant for business analysis, Active Directory installation (Small Business, 2003 Server), custom programming, package support, LAN installations, email configuration (Exchange 2003), hardware and system integration projects. Provided operational and business analysis, created custom solutions, directed testing and provided technical support and training. Executed front end and back end analysis on systems to evaluate system problems, consider options and develop solutions.

Contracted to lead installation, optimization and troubleshooting for a global network; administered firewalls, Active Directory, MS Outlook. Spyware and antivirus.

Created vision, strategic project plan and executed a large scale Active Directory installation, as well as hardware selection/installation and infrastructure implementation.

Engagements: Project Leadership Associates; Analysts International; Edward Hospital; Braidwood Fire Department; East-West Enterprises; MicroTrain; DR. Kimberly Young, DDS; Visor Communications; Falkor Group.

TELLABS Naperville, IL 1997 2003

Enterprise Architect

Orchestrated analysis and definition of product and processes for new technology and hardware needs across a global enterprise of more than 10,000. Developed and executed IT project plans, methodologies and technical roadmaps controlling PMM and SDLC processes.

Accomplishments:

Key technical and project leader for several mission critical projects, including custom application development, global Active Directory rollout, XP deployment, domain reconfiguration, SLA rollout and global SOE teams.

Evaluated and gathered the relevant information and then documented and communicated the Platform Framework for the global organization.

Developed, documented and deployed best practices for Windows Server & desktop environments.

Led Enterprise Agreement negotiations with Microsoft and Dell; delivered a savings of more than $.5 million on each enterprise agreement.

Authored processes, RFPs, SLAs, SOEs, white papers and justification papers.

Developed and implemented standardized processes for hardware selection and implemented a successful Web solution utilizing new standards.

Senior System Support Specialist/Team Lead

Multi-functional, key server administrator role with full management control of Windows Server administration for an environment with 10,000+ users and more than 250 servers. Administered Citrix, MS Terminal Servers, SMS, backup systems (Legato, ARCserve), monitoring software (i.e., Argent Guardian, Compaq Insight Manager, Dell Open Manage) and various application servers.

Accomplishments:

Project manager: re-engineering of Windows network O/S for enterprise: reduced authentication lead times, while allowing for scalability and elimination of name resolution issues.

AMERITECH Hoffman Estates, IL 1992 1997

Team Lead/Senior Systems Engineer (Network Operations)

Designed and developed new Windows/Novell network from concept to deployment, which grew to support more than 2,000 users. Administered multiple Novell 4.1, Windows NT 3.x and 4.0 file servers. Led and oversaw a team of desktop support consultants.

EDUCATION

ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY Normal, IL

Bachelor of Science, Public Relations (Minor: Business Administration) Conferred

MICROTRAIN TECHNOLOGIES Lombard, IL

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer Course

CompTIA IT Project+ Certification

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