Data Center Network Engineer

Fred Keller

Palace Acquire Graduate, MSEE

*** ***** **** ****, ******, OK 73071 Phone: 405-***-**** E-Mail: ****.******@****.*** Education

Oklahoma State University, Master of Science Electrical Engineering 1995-1997 Stillwater, OK 74078

University of Oklahoma, Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering 1991-1993 Norman, OK 73019

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Eddie Huebsch, *****.*******@*********.***, Business Solutions Manager at CNI (former CIO for the University of Oklahoma), 405-***-****

Kip Flanders, *********@*******.***, 214-***-****

Lee Kessinger, **********@*********.***, 405-***-**** Experience

Employer: Rose State College in Midwest City, OK

Job Title: Professor of Information Technology

Start Date: August 19, 2019

Stop Date: Still working here

Subject areas I teach include IT Networking, Cybersecurity, and Engineering (signal processing, etc.) courses.

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Employer: University of Oklahoma in Norman, OK

Job Title: Director of IT Facilities and Network Engineer Start Date: April 15, 2001

Stop Date: April 10, 2019

Average Work Hours per Week: 50 hours

Lead SAN Engineer

Responsible for the design, implementation, data migrations, and administration of a PB storage area network (SAN) design, to ensure a very highly available production solution. Our SAN included Hitachi, IBM, and DDN storage arrays totally 1PB of storage, dual Brocade fabrics, and NetBackup for tape backups. Storage usage included core IT, HPC

(high performance computing), general research data, and recorded video repository. Lead Data Center, Cable Plant, and Facilities Engineer Responsible for implementing high-available data center and comm closet solutions in terms of power, cooling, security, etc. Responsible for developing standards for UPS and generator testing, infrastructure cable labeling, and physical access and security. Functional areas included campus security cameras (2,000 plus cameras), inside and outside cable plants, new construction, and work orders/tickets. Responsible for as many as 44 team members. o Data Center Skills

• New data center design requirements

• High availability

• SCADA (BMS) data points

• Power plant monitoring to include phase loads and currents, pf, etc.

• All alarms reporting and actions

• Intrusion detection

• Generator testing and monitoring

• UPS maintenance and monitoring

• Installation of new equipment including facility UPS’s, network switches, structured cabling, access monitoring control systems, and rack-and-stack servers.

• Decommissioning and removal of equipment

• High availability data center designs and improvements

• Data center mechanical (CRAC, power, genset) system load calculations and monitoring (SCADA) for high availability

• Documentation surrounding all aspects of the data center Page 3

o Specialized Experience and Accomplishments

• High-density cooling solutions

o Lead engineer for design and implementation of a 220kW, 65-ton, high- density cooling system in the former mainframe data center to support a new HPC system in under 32 days.

• New power solution for supercomputer

o 500-kVA UPS

o 750-kW genset (generator, transfer switch, transformers, etc.)

• New high-density cooling solutions

Network Engineer

Cisco certifications included CCNA, CCNP, CCDA, and CCDP. Responsible for design and implementation of core routing nodes at our MDFs and edge switches in 100’s of IDF locations.

Employer: Planning Technologies Inc (PTI)

Start Date: April 2000

Stop Date: April 2001

Average Work Hours per Week: 50 hours

Lead Network Engineer

Lead network engineer responsible for design, installation, troubleshooting, documentation, and customer training for large scale complex multiple million-dollar networks. This including designing completed customer network solutions to include WAN, backup and recovery, actual router and switch configurations, and training customer personnel including detailed documentation as part of hand over. Employer: Department of The Air Force (Tinker AFB) Start Date: January 1995

Stop Date: April 2000

Job Title: Lead Network Engineer

Pay Grade: GS-12, Step 02

Average Work Hours per Week: 50 hours

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During my tenure, I received several performance awards that included both pay and time-off awards. Lead engineer for design and implementation of Combat Information Transport Systems (CITS) for locations both in the United States and overseas. Duties included supervising employees, commander briefings, hands-on switch and router configurations, fiber installation and terminations, etc. Lead engineer in the design and implementation of an OC-48 SONET ring for Space Command at Peterson AFB in Colorado Springs, CO.

Lead engineer in the design and implementation of the CITS (Combat Information System) for Schriever AFB and Cheyenne AFB in Colorado Springs, CO. Both ATM and Gigabit Ethernet networks.

Employer: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) - Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center Start Date: March 1994

Stop Date: January 1995

Job Title: General Engineer

Accomplishments: General Engineer supporting traffic control systems including runway lighting systems, traffic control systems, etc. Proposed engineering modification to fix a “electronic flyback” circuit to eliminate recurring ATC keyboard failures. I left the FAA for Tinker AFB and the Palace Acquire program. Under the Palace Acquire program, the DoD paid for my Maters Degree in Electrical Engineering. Skills

My skills include leadership skills with a focus on team building, mentoring, and success to achieve core values and goals. In addition, technical skills include 20 years of Network and SAN design/administration experience working with Brocade and Cisco fabric switches as well as multiple vendor storage arrays including HDS, EMC, XioTech, IBM, and DDN (Data Direct Networks). Well versed in IT power, generators, and high-availability designs as well.

• Problem Solver

• Router and Switch expertise

• High Availability Designs

• Data center administration

o Maintenance scheduling, SCADA, access security, redundant testing, etc.

• Team oriented with an emphasis on the success all team members. Page 5

• Network Expertise

• Brocade and Cisco FC switch expertise

• IBM Cloud SAN provisioning

• HDS storage product line expertise

• IBM SVC proficient

• Data Migrations using IBM SVC and HDS TSM

• NetBackup solutions for data backup and restores

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