Brian Adams Email & Phone Number

Santa Clara, California, US

• Served as primary technical support resource for enterprise surveillance systems of major municipalities, corporations, and cities nationwide, including but not limited to City and County of Denver, CO; City of Dallas.
• Supported multiple video management system (VMS) software platforms including Milestone, Genetec, and ONSSi
• Assisted in product development and implementation of Hitachi VMP (Video Management Platform), a full-scale VMware based headend solution designed specifically for recording surveillance video
• Configured, deployed, and maintained Hitachi Unified Compute Platform storage solutions for virtualization and VMS video storage
• Supported and deployed Hitachi Visualization Suite, a solution which ingests video, IOT data, and analytics in a geospatial mapping environment to improve public safety in real-time
• Served as Project Manager for City and County of Denver’s Milestone VMS integration, including planning, coordinating, and delivering greenfield VMS software solution

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Maintained and supported the video surveillance infrastructure at O’Hare and Midway International Airports, including Verint, Milestone, and Pixel Velocity video management systems
• Supported direct attached, fiber channel SAN, and iSCSI SAN environments
• Provided end user video system training and technical support
• Used troubleshooting skills to pinpoint and resolve server, networking, and video management system issues.
• Served as lead engineer in designing and implementing VMware vSphere 5 virtual environment at Midway Airport.
• Assisted in design, implementation, and maintenance of VMware vSphere 5 virtual environment at O’Hare Airport.

Naperville, Illinois, US

• Served as IT support contractor for Northrop Grumman Corporation and System Development Integration
• Configured and installed DVR surveillance camera systems at Cook County police stations
• Supported and maintained Milestone video management systems
• Assembled and wired audio/video devices to be installed in law enforcement vehicles for Cook County’s Project Shield

Falls Church, VA, US

• Provided IT support for the second largest defense contractor for the US government at a facility that employs over 2,400 end users
• Imaged, configured, and deployed new workstations according to specific mechanical engineer and employee specifications
• Provided Microsoft Windows based help desk technical support through Peregrine ServiceCenter and Ionix problem ticketing system
• Used Active Directory to track and manage systems
• Used Symantec Ghost Imaging to create, store, and restore system backups
• Worked on Northrop’s managed print initiative which included removing and installing personal and network printers

New York, NY, US

• Set up and maintained multiple computer labs using desktop computers running on Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard, Windows XP, and Windows Vista
• Gained experience troubleshooting and repairing workstation system issues
• Installed and configured software including Apple applications, Adobe Creative Suite, and Avid Media Composer
• Installed hardware including SATA and IDE hard drives, CD-ROM drives, RAM, and video cards
• Gained experience accessing and maintaining network servers