Brandon Riley Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

I was recruited initially to stand up (install, configure, and manage) a new data center in NC after 9/11. The Clearing House is owned by and serves 20+ of the largest banks in the US, supporting interbank movement of $2 Trillion US daily in high value payments and ACH Services. My outstanding leadership in a technical capacity led to being selected by management to assume the VP level Sr. Principal Engineer role on the infrastructure team in NY and NC. I oversee engineering for a complex infrastructure that includes VMware, storage, AWS, Windows Server, and x86 compute. Cloud and VM Transformation📌Accelerated the path to the Cloud for TCH by implementing VMware Cloud on AWS. Provided technical leadership on the critical build processes necessary for this transformation, including developing infrastructure build and hardening automation around Cloud.Innovation📌Part of a team that introduced the first successful Real-Time Payments (RTP) rail in the US in 2018, which became the basis for the Federal Reserve's own RTP solution. TCH continued to provide guidance as the Fed piloted their now live version of RTP. 📌Saved the company millions of dollars by capitalizing on extensive industry contacts to research, architect, and procure very performant, low latency, high IOPS storage solutions. Organizational and Support Performance Gains📌Provided high availability and consistent service for all x86, VMware, EMC VMAX3, PowerMax storage, fiber channel, backup, and recovery for the entire firm. Directed the Installation and relocation of infrastructure for multiple tier 4 data centers.Team Productivity Improvement📌Introduced best practices and SOPs that reduced time to resolve storage and infrastructure vulnerabilities from 120 days to less than 30. Met all audit and vulnerability remediation deadlines.

Writing instructional, and opinion / review content for Virtual Insanity, voted by the community as a top virtualization blog.

Hudson, Ohio, Us

Field Day events bring together innovative IT product vendors and independent thought leaders to share information and opinions in a presentation and discussion format. Independent bloggers, freelance writers, and podcasters have a public presence that has immense influence on the ways that products and companies are perceived and by the general public.Selected as a delegate for the events below:📌Tech Field Day 7📌Virtualization Field Day 2📌Tech Field Day Roundtables at VMWorld 2012📌Storage Field Day 3

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Administer a 4000+ user, multi-domain Windows 2000 network in an Active Directory based LAN/WAN/VPN environment.📌Ensure availability and meeting financial institution SLA's with a company best 99.996 % uptime on mission critical systems in a 24/5 manufacturing environment.📌Support legacy Digital VAX/VMS manufacturing systems in a production environment.📌Play key role in several projects including the rollout of a new manufacturing process based on Microsoft SQL Server, and Windows 2000/SMS 2.0.📌Training and support of IT staff from other locations within the United States and internationally.

Salisbury, Md, Us

Y2K remediation, MAC, and installation of compute and network infrastructure for one of the largest US banks, as well as a top 3 financial services firm. 📌 Lead a team of technicians in a 14,000 seat distributed technology refresh for a large FI.