Sr IT Technical Director
Resume:
Jonathan F. Van Avery
770-***-**** (cell) Sugar Hill, Georgia 30518 **********@*****.***
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jfvanavery
PROFILE
SENIOR TECHNICAL DIRECTOR, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Technology & Business Solutions
Accomplished IT Executive with extensive professional experience analyzing and solving technical challenges and improving business performance for multiple industries. Expertise lies in managing storage, system and backup operations, planning and engineering teams. Strong Leader guiding highly skilled, cross-functional teams in leading edge technology solutions and processes. Proven ability to oversee technology initiatives and align processes and services with business goals. Detail-oriented and adaptable with exceptional communication, presentation, and coaching skills.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Security and Compliance
IT Operations/Infrastructure
Maximize ROI
Vendor Management
Strategic Planning & Forecasting
Platforms/Storage/Networks
System Automation
Backup/Recover - DR
IT Architecture - ITIL
Training & Development
Budget Development & Management
System Integration - Cloud
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Turned around underperforming teams. Assessed company performance metrics. Developed programs and procedures to address team needs. Coached, mentored, and reassigned appropriate staff. IMPACT: Increased team performance to meet business goals. Allowed company to cut labor costs.
Created multi-vendor approach for IT hardware. Researched company’s excessive hardware expenditures. Developed an approach to leverage vendors for pricing. IMPACT: Cut IT hardware costs by 30%. Enhanced vendor partnerships to influence product roadmaps.
Led effort to develop next generation network. Recognized need for IP storage services and FCOE network. Opened lines of communication and fostered cooperation among many organizations to ensure network development. IMPACT: Saved 20% on storage costs. Allowed future initiatives to be leveraged.
Led effort to tighten security on all UNIX systems. Authored UNIX Minimum Baseline Security Standards document to allow company increased security on systems. IMPACT: Ensured all UNIX systems were in compliance with SOX. Reduced the risk of exposure to law suits and government action for not complying.
Designed a new data center. Assessed existing data facility and expansion limits. Recognized problem to add new customers. Led the planning and design efforts to build new facility. IMPACT: Doubled customer base with new data center and moved to cloud environments
TECHNICAL SKILLS & APPLICATIONS
HP, IBM, Oracle/Sun, Dell, EMC, NetApp, Hitachi, Cisco, Foundry, Brocade, F5, Silver Peak, Radware, VMware, Backup/Recovery/DR, SAN/LAN/WAN, Server/Storage/Network Technologies, Cloud-AWS, Virtualization, Encryption, Hosting Services, De-duplication, Engineered Solutions, Load Balancers, ERP/WMS, DW/BI, DBA (Oracle/MS SQL/MySQL)
EDUCATION
Executive MBA (AT&T Executive MBA Program) – Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA
Delta Epsilon Iota Honor Society, Gold Key Honor Society
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Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering – Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Dean’s List, Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society
Jonathan F. Van Avery
770-***-**** (cell) http://www.linkedin.com/in/jfvanavery **********@*****.***
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
AT&T (Cingular Wireless), Atlanta, GA 2003 – Present
Sr. Technical Director
Designed/implemented/operating next generation Data Center (500K sq ft)
Owned IT architecture/operations teams for Business, Network and Corporate Solutions (BNCS)
Built new Digital Experience Technology (DET) performance architecture operations group
Owns UNIX to Linux cloud virtualization, single sign-on and VDI efforts for all of BNCS and DET
Ran storage, server, DB and backup ops/architecture teams (DevOps) including international
Designed and championed the acceptance of the new IP storage services networks.
Standardized IP storage solution saving AT&T millions of dollars.
Served as SME and Project Management for large scale infrastructure projects.
Standardized monitoring and alerting across the 18 class A data centers
Managed all storage, server, DB and backup vendors and negotiated contracts.
Developed crucial partnerships with vendors to reduce expenses and speeded up implementation
Established SLAs and Patterns to standardize ITO and improve performance of manage services.
Built relationships between uncooperative organizations.
Standardized the design process cutting design time and churn by more than 20%.
Authored the UNIX minimum baseline security standards (MBS), included data security.
Led effort to bring all UNIX systems in to Sarbanes-Oxley and PCI compliance.
Owned all back office systems (ERP, DW/BI, Financials, Supply Chain)
Completed application integration and rationalization for 3 major mergers.
Served as Plan Steward for organizations Business Contingency Planning - Disaster Recovery.
Served as Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Server, SAN, DB, Network, Backup and Storage areas.
Developed multi-vendor approach which increased ROI for IT hardware.
Owned budgets for various groups overseen
NETAPP, Research Triangle Park, NC 2003
Product Development Engineer (Contractor)
LOCKHEED MARTIN, Marietta, GA 2001 – 2003
System/Network Administrator and Engineer (Contractor)
INTERLAND, Atlanta, GA 1999 – 2001
Manager, Team lead, Storage/Backup/Network Architect/Planner, SME
DELTA AIRLINES, Atlanta GA 1997 – 1998
System Administrator and Engineer (Contractor)
SIEMENS, Atlanta, GA 1995 – 1997
System/Network Administrator and Engineer (Contractor)
DIRECTORYNET, Atlanta, GA 1990 – 1995
Manager, System/Network Administrator and System Programmer
CERTIFICATIONS
IT MaP Bronze Certification, Enterprise Data Center Operations – AT&T
Six Sigma Green Belt Certification – Kennesaw State University
IT People Managers Bronze Certification – AT&T
Cloud Computing Bronze Certification – AT&T
Security First Bronze Certification – AT&T
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