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Hillsboro, Oregon, United States

• Designed and deployment of archive solutions protecting tens of petabytes of critical data.
• Primary engineer driving deployment of low cost, tape based long term archive solution to provide customers self service recovery of petabytes of data spanning decades.
• Selection process started with 100 requirements and 30 potential solutions. Through a serious of elimination tests, the two strongest candidates were selected for a paper pilot, out of which a final candidate was.
• Optimized hardware and software configuration to surpass throughput targets by 50%. Future-proofed the solution with scalable architecture, delivering 15x faster throughput at a fraction of the cost compared to the.
• Reduced time to restore archives from 5 days to 20 minutes and saved 24 person days a year by developing an always-available, self-service storage system.
• Minimized data loss risk by designing 2Key/2Lock workflows, stakeholder notifications, and a waiting period before destruction. Collaborated with the vendor to integrate this workflow into their core product offering.

Hillsboro, Oregon, United States

• Design, deployment, and administration of storage and BAR solutions protecting tens of petabytes of critical data. As part of my role in the larger team, I was also responsible for Linux server and client management.
• Led the transition from tape-based backup systems to disk-to-disk solutions for daily backups. Reduced restore times from days to minutes, decreased production performance impact by 90%, and reduced backup times by an.
• Attained a 4x reduction in storage infrastructure costs through performance tuning and collaborating with customers to optimize workloads.
• Enabled business growth from 12 to 200 filers and scaled data capacity from 4PB to 80PB without increasing headcount by driving automation, standardizing processes, and empowering end-users, resulting in streamlined.
• Partnered with compute engineer to implement and manage Linux JBOD NAS solution, providing high speed scratch space at low cost.

Hillsboro, Oregon, United States

• Support and Ownership of IT infrastructure for Intel Aloha.
• Management all phases of hardware and software lifecycle for a few hundred servers
• Linux servers primarily consisted of RedHat, with smaller numbers of other variants.
• Server hardware was primarily rack-mounted name brand servers.
• Storage management included NetApp (NAS) and HPE (SAN) large scale storage systems.
• BAR ownership, primarily relying on NetBackup and Tape.

Hillsboro, Oregon, United States

Founding member of the IP Repository & Reuse team in the Windows System Engineer role. Core team member involved with all aspects of the teamcenter-based deployment from the time of inception until application implementation and deployment. Managed system procurement and landings, OS installs and tuning, developed application management documentation..

Hillsboro, Oregon, United States

Part of a highly experienced core team of 4 members who was charted to reduce or eliminating customer impacts through process improvements, proactive actions and automated recovery. We created on documentation at all levels, from User to L3. We hardened the automation systems through root cause analysis and automated symptom resolution, resulting in.

Aloha, Oregon, United States

• L2 Unix supporting implementation, management, oncall and troubleshooting of Factory Linux/Unix infrastructure composing of more than 500 nodes. I was also the Unix site group lead and Virtual Factory (company wide).
• OSs included Linux, Solaris, NCR, and HPUX.
• Hardware was varied, including dumb terminals, PCs, and mainframes.
• Responsibilities included automation of common tasks, creating standardized alerts and responses
• Role also included project management varying from year-long projects to by-the-minute downtime management schedules.
• Created first of a kind graphical indicators for metrics like uptime, compliance, and QOS.

Aloha, Oregon, United States

• Support shift lead for high pressure environment. Troubleshooting the entire suite of factory automation hardware and software. Linux, Unix, Windows, and VMS on a variety of hardware types. Perl, Linux shell, and.
• Crisis Chronology. I observed that during crisis event phone bridges, communication was all verbal. This resulted in late joiners asking the same questions over and again, conveying technical information like specific.
• Impact-O-Meter. I observed that we often only learned of system outages or slowness in our manufacturing systems after customers called. I found that on each of our several hundred clients, the logs contained.

Roseburg, Oregon, United States

Implementation and maintenance of Windows servers using Novell Netware across 6 branches (Main office & 5 branches). Role included managing server landings, maintaining wan infrastructure, installing and maintaining bank specific software, and fielding user questions.

Roseburg, Oregon, United States

Bs, Information Technology, Web Management

Graduated with Honors

As, Digital Systems