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Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Inherited visionary responsibilities of organization’s previous senior director. Provided strategic direction, growth management, team leadership, and operational oversight. Charged with optimizing converged infrastructure by modernizing storage, virtualization, and backup solutions. Partnered with executive management, technical teams, and business units to recommend solutions and guide delivery of on-time, on-budget deployments. Organized largescale budget for technical refresh… Show more Inherited visionary responsibilities of organization’s previous senior director. Provided strategic direction, growth management, team leadership, and operational oversight. Charged with optimizing converged infrastructure by modernizing storage, virtualization, and backup solutions. Partnered with executive management, technical teams, and business units to recommend solutions and guide delivery of on-time, on-budget deployments. Organized largescale budget for technical refresh. Technical Project Management Headed effort to slash weekly performance and capacity issues to zero by refreshing overutilized, aging NetApp storage and NetBackup environments. Saved 79TB of data in data center after facing storage deficiency. Led seamless conversion of VMware infrastructure to NFS datastores. Championed efficient solutions, including deduplication, thin provisioning, and compression.Cut expenses and streamlined operations by spearheading largescale consolidation of two UK data centers in only six months. Collaborated with project management to migrate data and compute workloads.People-Centered Leadership Motivated global team of 14 engineers and managers to operate at peak performance throughout research, test, and approval stages of industry-leading technologies.Fueled internal talent pipeline by hiring and training while celebrating accomplishments throughout compensation planning and performance reviews. Show less

Eagan, Minnesota, United States

Cultivated collaborative team of NAS storage engineers to research innovative storage solutions while simultaneously migrating entire business unit out of company’s data centers. Managed $5M budget for business growth and technical refresh. Partnered with management, technical teams, and business units on complex issues and deployments. Defined and documented storage standards for streamlined process agreement. Hired, trained, and reviewed annual staff performance. Continuous… Show more Cultivated collaborative team of NAS storage engineers to research innovative storage solutions while simultaneously migrating entire business unit out of company’s data centers. Managed $5M budget for business growth and technical refresh. Partnered with management, technical teams, and business units on complex issues and deployments. Defined and documented storage standards for streamlined process agreement. Hired, trained, and reviewed annual staff performance. Continuous EnhancementsPrevented unnecessary $400K of expenses and saved 100TB of space, obliterating capacity concerns by auditing environment for unused, reclaimable storage space. Eradicated human error by automating CIFS storage allocation process. Diminished over 600 incident tickets in one month by changing thresholds and erasing alerts for non-actionable tickets. Show less

Eagan, Minnesota, United States

Led testing of new SAN and NAS technology, features, and hardware prior to production and served as escalation point for support team. Known for willingness to step forward to take on whatever needed to be done. Documented new SAN and NAS technologies and maintained storage lab.Operational Improvements & SupportProvided leadership with technical refresh planning, migration planning, and capacity management.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Bloomington, Mn

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