Network Engineer Manager

**** *. **** **., *********, Wisconsin ***** 414-***-**** **********@***.***

James R. Scalf

Objective

To help my employer meet its business objectives by leveraging current expertise against todays

Information Technology challenges.

Career Strengths/Achievements

US Navy Veteran – Attained the rank of Petty Officer 1st Class first 6 years of enlistment

Associate Field Engineer promoted to Senior Field Engineer in 18 months of employment

Performed computer asset relocations and designed the new data center in support of our strategic, national intelligence, electronic data analysis systems and peripherals.

Top Secret Crypto clearance advanced to a Top Secret SCI clearance.

Senior Instructor VSI/HP OpenVMS Operating Systems, Servers designed VMScluster courseware.

Senior Instructor providing courseware and training to individuals working in field service

and self-maintenance.

Designed/Built Cisco Networks for new manufacturing plants and data centers.

Deployed vendor solution for Internet and IP/VPN services new to our company.

Managed project to move Corporate mission critical services to cloud services.

Managed projects to onboard over 60 healthcare providers Oracle/Cache’ to enterprise hosting environment. Standalone servers as well as High Availability environments.

Successful deep-dive fault diagnosis and troubleshooter of complex enterprise network environments. Reduced Network-based backup times from 10 to 4 hours for 1.5 TB full backup data. Streamlined backups on 35 other servers cutting backup times on all within 6 hours or less.

Expert project management and consulting in, data center migrations and outsourcing.

Ability to tackle technical projects on any equipment I have never seen before, standing it up and being the expert without any formal training or certification.

From sitting on the pallet to up and running in production less than 30 days.

Performance of Operating Systems and Network on 40 enterprise database servers hosting approximately 70 large hospitals and practices

Participated on a Hi-Trust Security team to assist and train internal auditors. This resulted in GE Healthcare obtain Hi-Trust Certification of the hosting environment.

Experience

July 2008 to Present

GE Healthcare/Compucom

Wauwatosa, WI

IT Infrastructure Architect

Design/Build/document the OpenVMS Itanium Architecture for Centricity Hospitals and Large Practices application hosting environment

Design/Build/document the HP-UX Itanium Architecture for Centricity Electronic Medical Records application hosting environment

Incorporate to technology stacks unfamiliar to GE Healthcare and incorporated them into the standard operational environment and monitoring solutions.

Standardize the build of HP-UX and OpenVMS Integrity servers resulting in a build cycle under 8 hours. Order to run of 10 days.

High Availability implementation of an OpenVMS Cluster/Intersystems Cache’ environment.

Design build and configure Disaster Recovery systems to support customers with the DR contract

July 2007 to June 2008

Cisco Network Engineer Robert Half

Deploy/maintain Cisco network WAN/LAN infrastructure switches, routers, Pix/ASA on a temporary basis for Guaranty Bank/OSI Incorporated

Deploy/maintain Cisco WAN/LAN infrastructure and Juniper Networks IDP and Firewalls at Synercomm

Attended CCNA Bootcamp

Certified Juniper Networks IDP Security specialist

July 1999 to June 2007

Master Lock Company

Milwaukee, WI

Systems & Network Engineer/Manager of Computer Operations/Compliance Coordinator

Migrate VAX systems to OpenVMS Alphaservers to support Oracle 11i applications

Migrate a DEC shared network infrastructure to Cisco redundant core solution supporting data, VoIP and video conferencing globally.

Relocate complete corporate IT infrastructure from Milwaukee to Oak Creek.

Project Lead for IT disaster recovery planning and testing at Sunguard for mission critical, phone and internet facing systems.

Deployed remote access and alert monitoring of all mission critical IT servers and network equipment globally

Migrated 3 manufacturing facilities into one large facility Nogales Mexico.

Designed and built the network and server infrastructure at a new distribution center Nogales Mexico

Developed IT Controls and operating procedures for SOX Compliance

Project Lead for Migration from in-house system to Oracle On-Demand Hosted solution at Oracle

Education

1972-1976

1984-1988

Milwaukee Trade & Technical High School

Tidewater Community College

Milwaukee, WI

Virginia Beach, VA

References are available on request.

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