Andy Karras Email & Phone Number

Tampa, Florida, United States

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Currently serving as Deputy Program Manager for Leidos supporting the United States Department of Veterans Affairs the Office of Information Technology (OIT), Development, Security, Operations (DevSecOps) Infrastructure Operations, Platform and Operating Systems. Responsibilities include overseeing the following divisions Enterprise Storage, Windows, VMware, Citrix, Core Infrastructure, Architecture, Cloud, Middleware, Linux, Unix, Solaris, Mainframe, DBA's, Backup Management Division, Service Line, Media Management. Oversee procurement activities, engineering, testing, infrastructure development and supervision of contractors throughout day to day operations. Manage and supervise all steady state operations for enterprise verticals while security principles, standards, policies, procedures and guidelines are fully implemented. Provide leadership to a diverse staff of Program Managers and 150+ highly technical and skilled IT specialists.• Participate in IT Federal acquisitions and budget planning to include proposal review and contract specifications in order to participate in development of SOW and PWS • Facilitate weekly project team meeting to review plans of action, milestones, project progress, evaluate budgets, analyze assumptions / risks and review contingency plans to ensure project(s) stay on schedule and within cost.

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Managed the implementation and reconfiguring newly installed backup infrastructure. Ensured performance and delivery in the following IT infrastructure divisions: Windows Servers, VMWare, Unix/Linux Servers, Mainframes, Databases, Web Hosting, Network, Client Stations, Enterprise Storage and Backup, and support to the Chief Technology Officer. Built and managed relationships with customers• Implemented and reconfigured Tape libraries, DD Boost and Data Domains • Architect solution for customers, ensure long term disk retention / remediation solutions, deduplication and replication for disaster recovery• Cross functional documentation developed and provided across all pillars

Orlando, Florida Area

Planned and facilitated enterprise wide projects to replace legacy CBI backup technology with DPS implementing local digital disk based backup process with backup replicated to remote Disney Data Centers for 5,600 servers including 32 petabytes of storage in the Orlando Fl, Kings Mountain NC, Burbank CA, Anaheim CA, New York NY data centers• Implemented Cisco 10GB Ethernet redundant switches, New Media Servers, NetApps FAS 3270, VMware functionality for Netbackup agent, upgraded to LT05 Tape Libraries for monthly Tape Out and EMC Data Domain 990 Disk storage Technology with encryption and replication to all Walt Disney World data centers

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Performed multiple migrations of SAN EOL / EOV hardware, software and programs with a cost savings of millions annually. Increased support on SAN Network open systems infrastructure from 3,500 to 7,500 servers • Managed the Brocade and Macdata infrastructure • Developed a cost-efficient blend of centralization of Information Technology resources • Complete Network Solution (LAN / WAN) integration and support of Internet and Intranet protection• Outage review and root cause analysis for outages

Served as the Technical Manager for a team of 65 diverse employees. Provided technical training for new and tenured employees• Oversaw implementations for Timefinder, SRDF and Virtual Tape Libraries • Software service support and monitored GTE / Verizon open systems• Provided technical documentation for ISO certifications• Coordinated with business executives, help desk and data source teams in a 24 x 7 availability environment