Brian Langdon Email & Phone Number

Rochester Hills, Michigan, United States

Greater Chicago Area

• Responsible for:
• Unix/Linux infrastructure supporting mission-critical Oracle systems for the Americas.
• Highly available IBM Power 740 and Power 750 managed systems running both AIX and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Tivoli Storage Manager used to protect data residing on AIX systems.
• CUPS print servers used by Oracle systems across the country.
• VMware infrastructure running roughly 90% of our core servers.

Greater Chicago Area

• Virtual platform architecture, implementation, and administration of several separate Hyper-V clusters across the enterprise infrastructure dedicated to development servers, enterprise applications, and client-facing.
• Administration of Dell PowerEdge 710, 720, 820 and more from basic administration to complete remote OS rebuilds via DRAC interface.
• Administration of the enterprise server infrastructure across multiple datacenters across the country.
• Dell EqualLogic SAN design and administration.
• System Center Data Protection Manager infrastructure redesign and implementation.
• Heavy documentation of enterprise infrastructure closely following ITIL standards.

Chicago, IL

• Continuous development of and implementation of strategic plan spanning several years in advance.
• Server administration of over 100 servers running Windows Server 2000 to 2012 (core and full) as well as Mac OSX.
• Advanced infrastructure documentation authoring and upkeep including best practics, disaster recovery and business continuity, network diagrams, training materials, etc.
• Cisco administration included VLAN design, routing, trunking, load balancing, ACLs, firewall rules, etc.
• Team management and task delegation regarding major and minor projects as well as day-to-day productivity.
• Weekly proactive maintenance, detailed record keeping, and trend analysis used to prevent major issues before they become a problem to users.

Grand Rapids, MI

• Administration of network infrastructure including application deployment, procedural documentation, network and data security, data protection, disaster recovery planning, server refreshes, etc
• Advanced project planning, implementation and management tasks
• Major installations and system refreshes of servers including those used for Terminal Services, SQL, CRM and backup solutions
• Planning and implementation of policies and procedures regarding data protection, maintenance, and disaster-recovery
• Development and implementation of procedures regarding the security of the network infrastructure including firewall policies, email security, spam filtering, and data/file security levels resulting from user roles.
• Network infrastructure hardware management including switches, firewalls, and application servers including those for web-filtering / proxy servers, email filtering, data protection, etc.

Montrose, MI

• General computer consulting
• Small to mid-sized network installations
• System refreshes and business software planning
• Authoring of policy and procedural documentation regarding data protection, network security, disaster preparedness and recovery, refresh cycles, etc.
• System upgrade, building, maintenance, etc.

Chicago, IL / Naples, FL

• Authoring of technical documentation, instructional papers, and support propositions. Different documents were developed to address IT staff, vendors and end-users.
• Analysis of existing network infrastructure, recommending modifications as needed which often included hardware and software changes.
• Design and implementation of Terminal Services and Citrix for application deployment.
• Classroom training of staff in regards to point-of-sales software, reporting, and meal application processing; groups were generally 5 to 25 users.
• Troubleshooting of hardware and software as needed including detailed network analysis.
• Designed and deployed Windows 2000 and 2003 servers on various hardware profiles.

Flint, MI

• Customer installations involving restaurant point-of-sale, K-12 point-of sale, digital video surveillance systems, check cashing systems and small to moderate sized LANs.
• Desktop and server performance tuning, upgrades, and new deployments.
• Resolution of various unresolved ticket items on a daily-basis.
• Coordination of work force, weekly scheduling of assignments, office management and customer relations.
• Researched and implemented new technologies that benefit existing office infrastructure involving technical benefits while keeping the total cost of ownership in mind.