Career Profile
Pragmatic system architect and administrator with more than 25 years of experience working in IT managing and supporting everything from PCs to servers, storage, networking, and cloud. Designed, built, and maintained data centers and production systems for SaaS and managed-service customers for many years at multiple companies. Self-motivated and self-directed with a keen attention to detail.
Experiences
As an architect, I work with product managers, application owners, product-support teams, and my IT teammates to design, document, and implement systems and services for our cloud hosting service, R&D, and IT. I’m able to support a wide variety of infrastructure solutions and technologies in our environment, including: Linux, Solaris, Windows, NAS and SAN storage, VMware vSphere and Horizon VDI.
Determined strategy, designed systems, and managed infrastructure for a SaaS web-publishing provider. Provided resource and capacity planning, budgets, documentation, and design assistance to senior management and peers. Designed an architecture to improve performance and reliability.
Brought consistency and standards to the server and network environment. Worked very closely with the application-development manager to improve reliability and performance of our application servers. Designed, developed and maintained a scalable email-delivery product that provided a significant portion of company revenue.
Worked, primarily for three large accounts, to develop and maintain several web-based applications running on Windows and Solaris platforms. Designed, developed, tested, and implemented several high and low-stakes tests and assessments, which were delivered via the Internet.
Managed a five-person team to install and maintain all network equipment, Netware servers, and PC hardware and software on a PC, Mac, and AS/400 Ethernet LAN at the corporate headquarters; a PC LAN in a manufacturing facility; LANs at the distribution centers; independent Ethernet LANs at 36 retail locations; and, single PCs at several remote sites. Installed, configured, and maintained an eight-circuit frame-relay and point-to-point WAN and Internet access, security and software. Designed and maintained the intranet and DNS for over 30 domains. Managed the help desk to ensure fast, quality support.
Responsible for installing and maintaining all hardware and software on an 180-node PC and Mac network, a 30-node PC network at the National Testing Laboratory in Eagan, and single-PC remote sites. Performed administration tasks, including: adds, changes, and deletes of user’s NetWare and email accounts for all sites. Installed and configured remote control and remote mail dial-in access.
Projects
Here is a sample of the projects I've recently helped complete at Landis+Gyr.