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).
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

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