Data Manager

Daniel L. Kutch

Vancouver, WA *****

503-***-**** *******@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Passionate, high performing IT Leader with over 25 years of experience working in global enterprise environments.

●Leadership - Proven experience in a leading Multi-Divisional Corporation with diverse needs and competing priorities.

●Strategic Planning - Developing a technology roadmap that aligns with the company vision.

●Teamwork – Using communications and listening to help team members obtain goals and objectives in a rapid changing environment with both internal and external influences.

●Proficient with multitasking, strong vendor management, managing technical staff, project and multi-portfolio management, and prioritizing under constant change.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

The Greenbrier Companies 1993 – 2020

Technical Services Manager (2007 – 2020)

●Lead team of seven engineers responsible for Systems Data, Storage, Backups, Systems Security, Server Engineering, Compute, and Data Center Operations.

●Worked a large scale datacenter consolidation project that involved building a metro cluster datacenter using EMC Vplex and VNX SANs.

●Purchased all computer equipment for Datacenter usage, EMC and Pure Storage, DELL servers, Brocade switches as well as Racks, UPS’s and cables for system refresh as well as new technologies.

●Helped drive the implementation and rollout of VDI. Providing virtual desktops for employees as well as remote contractors.

●Replaced our traditional tape backup with backup to Disk using Data Domain. This decreased the backup window and greatly sped up restores.

●Brought in Email security that provided virus protection, phishing protection, backup, archiving, and E-Discovery.

●Moved all servers off premises and reached a goal of 100% virtualization in private cloud.

●Worked with and coordinated with our International divisions in Mexico, Poland and Romania.

●Worked to renegotiate the Microsoft EA for a 15% reduction and a $678K savings.

●Renegotiated datacenter contract for a yearly savings of $94K.

●Managed a yearly budget that averaged $2 million.

●Performed yearly audit and always finished on time with no failures.

Lead System Administrator (2002 – 2007)

●Worked to move production servers of premise to Collocation facility Downtown providing the company with better data protection and increased uptime.

●Introduction of virtualization to run our test and dev environments.

●Expanded network Plant wide with installation of Fiber Optic Network

●Responsible for two data centers and one collocated data center.

Senior LAN Administrator (1996 – 2002)

●Responsible for local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN) including twelve NT servers, seven Novell servers (local and remote), two Citrix servers, and one exchange 5.5 server.

●Responsible for the switches, hubs, routers, and the copper and fiber backbone.

PC Administrator (1993 – 1996)

●Purchase, install, backup, upgrade, and repair PC’s, printers, and other peripherals while performing all asset management.

EDUCATION:

Washington State University, Pullman, WA

Bachelors of Science in Business Information Systems

COMMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT:

SIM Portland Chapter - Society for Information Management (2008 – Present)

●SIM Regional Leadership Forum

●SIM STEM Outreach Program

●SIM Golf Tournament Committee: Raised $700K for the SIM College scholarship

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