Data Center Senior

William Vaughn

Data Center Technician * - **** El Mirador Dr Fullerton Ca 92835 – 714-***-****

Profile:

Experienced and self-motivated Data Center technologist bringing a passion for his job. Results oriented with a proven track record of working collaboratively with both coworkers and vendors to accomplish personal and team goals. Experienced in all aspects of Data Center and Critical environments.

Work history and responsibilities:

Databank - Irvine, CA January 2023 to Present

NOC technician 3

Fiber and Cooper cross connects, Decommissioning of cable within critical customer environments

Vendor management

Remote hands and all customer request via Epicor (Server Installs, hard drive swaps, troubleshooting of network issues, new cage and cabinet buildouts, etc.)

BMS monitoring of all critical infrastructure.

OOB server work

Asset management and inventory control

Oversee critical infrastructure maintenance work (UPS, PDU, ATS, GenSet, CRAC, AHU)

Fidelity National Financial - Irvine, CA May 2008 to June 2022

Data Center Manager (Fidelity National Financial) – June 2013 to June 2022

Coordinate and assist vendors in new offsite data center installs. ( Irvine, LAX, El Segundo, Atlanta, Hawaii)

Work with system engineers to assist in all new server installs, BIOS start up, OOB set up.

Hard Drive, Power Supply, any other part that needs replacement.

Rack and Stack

All Fiber and Cooper installation within Fidelity's west coast Data Centers plus the Atlanta location (Evoque and Equinix)

Work with Data Center staff to complete all projects on time and in an organized fashion.

Access Control

Work with upper management on all Data Center issues (capacity, budgeting, equipment purchases and placement, future data center projects)

DCIM inventory and asset management.

Critical Facilities Manager - May 2008 to June 2013

Assisted in build out of in-house Data Center (Genset and ATS Install, CRAC units, UPS, Battery and PDU install, Rack set up)

Responsible for all in house data center projects, maintenance, vendor services.

Quarterly maintenance on all electrical and environmental systems (UPS, PDU, On site Generator, fire suppression system, HVAC)

Coordinate and assist in all new equipment installs (Servers, switches, PDUs)

Coordinate all Data Center expansion needs (power, HVAC, rack gear, sq ft, etc.)

Access Control

SKILLS

DCIM asset management and inventory build outs for multiple Data Centers

Hard drive, memory, GPU, nodes, power supply troubleshooting and replacement on a range of servers (HP, Cisco, NetApp, SuperMicro

Site and rack auditing

Power set up (Circuit design, implementation of equipment and OOB setup for remote monitoring of DC rack power

Vendor management – I have great established relationships with most of my past venders to this day.

Cooper and fiber cross connections, server cabling

Server and switch BIOS set ups and OOB support (HP C7000, Cisco Catalyst, Dell PowerEdge, NetApp, SuperMicro, Eaton and Tripplte PDU)

Project management

Troubleshooting ( Electrical, Network, Cooling)

Education:

College in General Studies:

Riverside City College - Norco, CA September 1996 to September 1997

Certifications:

Schneider Electric DCCA Certified

Contact this candidate