North Carolina Senior Technical

BRIAN FRENCH

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Mint Hill, North Carolina 28227

(704) 957–9924

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SUMMARY

A driven and highly infrastructure engineer with vast experience in systems analysis, budget planning, installations, integrations, testing, software development, project management, and user support and troubleshooting. Excels at server builds and migrations, system performance monitoring, and operating system patching and upgrades. A technically skilled producer whose ability to remain up to date with legislative, industry, and operative changes ensures continued technology advancements and company growth. TECHNICAL SKILLS

Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office Suite, Visio, IPAM, UNIX, HP-UX, Linux, RH, Oracle, ERP, CRM, Cloud (AWS, GCP), Virilization (VMware, OVM, KVM). Pending Bootcamp with UNCC coding, Data Analytics EXPERIENCE

Federal Reserve Bank

Senior Technical Build Engineer, 2024 - present

• VMWare vCenter, VSAN Server

• Infrastructure Build Engineering experience with RHEL systems experience

• Firewalls, Backup, BC/DR, Cisco

• Active Directory, TCP/DNS

• The ability to drive infrastructure build forward based on agreed technical design.

• Orchestration / Automation Experience (e.g., DevOps and Agile practices)

• Demonstrated problem-solving skills with the ability to think critically and make recommendations to improve workflow and service levels

• Actively participates in orchestrating and operationalizing engineered IT solutions through simplification and standardization.

• Advance pre-build engineering tasks, reducing infrastructure risk by customer requests Bank of America

Senior Technical Engineer, 2020 – 2024

• Troubleshooting and maintenance of Bank of America Cloud.

• Server builds with Foreman Red hat satellite 6 (Physical and Virtual)

• General ticket management queue in Remedy for Linux Environment

• RHEL 5, 6, 7 and 8

• DNS, IPv6, IPv4

• Virtualization (e.g. VMware vSphere, KVM)

• Orchestration / Automation Experience (e.g. DevOps and Agile practices) RENTOKIL, INC, Charlotte, North Carolina

Senior Technical Engineer, 2017–2020

• Patched Red Hat servers (RHEL 5, 6, and 7) and led troubleshooting and maintenance of VMware on HP hardware.

• Migrated servers to the colocation data center (both physical and virtual) Brian French, Page 2

• Installed patch management server and Red Hat Satellite 6

• Developed and created going forward for Linux environment.

• DNS, IPv6, IPv4

• Container Technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)

• Virtualization (e.g. VMware vSphere, KVM)

• Advanced knowledge and experience with application and network monitoring/visualization tools HEARST MEDIA, Charlotte, North Carolina

Senior. Technical Engineer, 2015–2017

• Patched Red Hat servers (RHEL 5, 6, and 7) and performed troubleshooting and maintenance of Cisco hardware.

• Migrated servers to the colocation data center (both physical and virtual).

• Installed patch management server and Red Hat Satellite 6.

• Created go forward for Linux environment.

• Helped configure servers in AWS VCP

• Virtualization (e.g. VMware vSphere, KVM)

FAMILY DOLLAR, Charlotte, North Carolina

Senior. Technical Engineer, 2012–2015

• Patched Red Hat servers (RHEL 5, 6, and 7) and performed general troubleshooting and maintenance of IBM hardware.

• Setup private cloud in NC datacenter and IA datacenter (test and DR) using Oracle Virtual Machine based off ZEN virtualization platform.

• Moved ERP application from HP-UX to Red Hat 6.4 running in OVM Virtual Server.

• Created 107 virtual systems from December 2012 to January 2013.

• Utilized 17 physical hosts with 126 virtual systems running.

• Access to IPAM service.

• Moved to IT engineering group in May 2014 and handled Linux footprint and vendor management.

• Led new project implementation with documentation and led turnover to the operation team for support.

• Created go forward roadmap for Oracle Virtual Machine, including P to V for all systems still running on the physical host. SCOR, Charlotte, North Carolina

Senior. Technical Engineer, 2012

• Patched Red Hat servers (RHEL 4 and 5) and performed general troubleshooting and maintenance of Dell Enterprise hardware running VMware ESX virtualization software. Led successful migration applications and servers to raincloud. local at Peck 10 data center.

• Oversaw application support and production deployments off Linux/Oracle environments. IBM, Dubuque, Iowa

Senior. UNIX Administrator (HP-UX and Red Hat), 2011–2012

• Supported client servers, applications, and data across multiple data centers worldwide.

• Installed, troubleshot, and configured clusters and file systems.

• Responded to various tickets produced by IBM on-call support team. WELLS FARGO BANK, Charlotte, North Carolina

Technical Project Manager, 2011

• Utilized wholesale and international service delivery supporting technology delivery to Wells Fargo Securities. Brian French, Page 3

• Delivered project sizing, server order, networking port configuration, DCI cabling documentation and request, LNS/DNS request, hardware/software monitoring request, storage allocation documentation and request, updating Project Tracking Portal, resolving issues real-time using global NOC, Driving Operational Readiness process to completion prior to Application going live.

• Operated system patching and upgrades, troubleshot system problems, installed third-party products, performed backup and recovery tasks, maintained user accounts, completed Logical Volume Manager tasks, and maintained procedures and documentation on HP UNIX and Linux platforms.

BANK OF AMERICA, Charlotte, North Carolina

Design Team Lead, 2010–2011

• Delivered accurate and timely project artifacts based on PMM workflow and request process management workflow.

• Worked closely with technology project manager and other technology SMEs and provided fully documented infrastructure technology solutions based on standard product offerings.

• Served as subject matter expert for the design team and maintained responsibility for documenting and understanding the environment for each design request.

• Worked with product design (MSIE) team to understand current technology trends and review company technology standards. ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

SPX, Charlotte, North Carolina, Senior Linux Administrator, 2008–2010. Oversaw server migration, documentation, reporting, operating system patching and upgrades, installing third-party products, and project management. Utilized Redhat2.x, 3.x, 4.x, and 5.x as well as Red hat Cluster, SUSE 9.x, and 10.x. Migrated ERP (oracle financials) from Horsham, Pennsylvania to Scottsdale, Arizona using Oracle clone scripts. The improved overall speed of migration by using rsync scripts and running multiple streams of data. Utilized Windows. Led administration of Windows 2000 and 2003 servers, including Active Directory. Maintained and managed the administration of large VMWare ESX environment running on HP and Dell Blade Servers. UCB/SCHWARZPHARMA, Raleigh, North Carolina, Senior Software Consultant, 2005–2008. Facilitated project management, server validation documentation, software validation documentation, SDLC, status reports, executive updates, operating system patching, and upgrades, installing third-party products, and maintaining procedures and documentation. Installed SAS 9.1.3 on the UNIX environment to increase performance and reduce time to create large SAS datasets. Provided 24/7 administration, maintenance, and support for the corporate SAS environment. Utilized two Hewlett Packard R-class (HPUX 11.2.3) SAS servers, and four Windows 2003 application servers.

AOL, Dulles, Virginia, Senior Systems Administrator, 2004–2005. Oversaw operating system patching and upgrades, installation of third-party products, backup and recovery tasks, maintaining user accounts, Logical Volume Manager tasks, and maintaining procedures and documentation on HP UNIX platforms. Utilized 800 Sun Microsystems (Solaris) database/application servers, 800 Hewlett Packard (HPUX 11.x, 10.20) database/application servers, 800 Egenera (RH Linux) database/application servers, and Windows XP/NT and 2000 Workstation 4.0. Worked with and utilized MC Service Guard, Samba, Omniback, Oracle, Informix, database servers, WebLogic, Abinitio, Application Servers, and Shell Scripting as required (( CARMAX, Richmond, Virginia, Senior Systems Administrator, 2003–2004. Oversaw operating system patching and upgrades as well as troubleshooting system problems, installing third-party products, performing backup and recovery tasks, maintaining user accounts, completing Logical Volume Manager tasks, and maintaining procedures and documentation on HP UNIX platforms. Utilized 44 Hewlett Packard L-class (HPUX 11.i) application servers, 40 Hewlett Packard D-class (HPUX 11.0) application servers, 80 Hewlett Packard K-Class database servers, and Windows XP/NT and 2000 Workstation 4.0. Incorporated MC Service Guard, Samba, Omniback, Oracle, Informix, database servers, and application servers. EDS, Charlotte, North Carolina, Senior Systems Administrator, 2001–2003. Oversaw technical team lead activities, including schedule staff duties, project management, installation of third-party products, backup and recovery tasks, Logical Volume Manager tasks, configuring and maintaining highly available systems, and maintaining documentation on HP UNIX platforms. Utilized six V-class (HPUX 11.0) database servers, 50 HP L-class (HPUX 11.i) application servers, 60 HP N-class (HPUX 11.0) Brian French, Page 2

application server, and 20 HP K-Class Database servers. Utilized SureStore FC, XP, EMC (8000 Series), Autoraid, SAN, and NAS. Met with clients on regular basis. Acted as a member of the software and hardware migration team. FIRST UNION, Charlotte, North Carolina, Systems Administrator, 1999–2001. Oversaw operating system patching and upgrades. Installed third-party products, performed backup and recovery tasks, maintained user accounts, completed Logical Volume Manager tasks, and maintained procedures documentation on HP UNIX platforms. MERISEL INC., El Segundo, California, Senior Software Consultant, 1998–1999. Oversaw production scheduler installation. Installed production-scheduling application to run nightly batch jobs. Trained three shifts to run application and report errors. Provided project plan using MS Project to implement MAESTRO scheduling tool into core production environment. Integrated Maestro application with corporate ERP solution (SAP). Coordinated across corporate departments to produce nightly batch billing cycle. PROJECT VISTA: Online Report Viewer. Installed online report viewer for all reports generated in nightly production batch processing. Trained three shifts to run application and report errors. TURNER ENTERTAINMENT DISTRIBUTION SERVICES, Culver City, California, Software Consultant, Digital Imaging, and Multi- Media Department, 1995–1997. Evaluated online digital image viewing applications. Evaluated and selected OOP applications development team. Re-designed digital image application from standalone to client/server and installed across corporate infrastructure. Re-designed image scanning process to increase application performance. Utilized Sun Enterprise 3000 (Solaris 2.5) database servers, Windows95 and NT Workstation 4.0, Win 3.x, Apple, and Mac/OS 7.5 . Evaluated online image viewing and archiving solutions for corporate still images.

UNION TRANSPORT, Rancho Dominguez, California, Systems Administrator, 1994–1995. Oversaw project for migrating main applications server to new office. Oversaw Hewlett Packard (HPUX 9.x), Novell NetWare 3.5, Cisco, Win 3.x, and Windows95 . TRW, Redondo Beach, California, System Administrator/BEOC, 1990–1994. Updated all Cadre (CADCAM tool) software on SUN workstations and set protections on drawings developed within Cadre. Coordinated data transfers between SUN and Macintosh using Appletalk. Software Developer/System Aadministrator, project 3290. Designed, coded, and integrated software written in FORTRAN on HP1000/A900s using RTE-A operating system. Took project from preliminary design to test integration as well as overseeing move from written to test signal-processing equipment.

Systems Administrator, HP9000, using HP-UX operating system UNIX/PC Network Administrator, using NFS over TCP/IP via Ethernet.

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