Brian Culp Email & Phone Number

Neskowin, Or, Us

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 selected.• 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 predecessor.• 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.• Mitigated ransomware risks by establishing a workflow for geographically isolated, immutable copies of both management databases and data.• Enhanced accessibility by making data available through various access points such as API, NFS, SMB, Web and thick client. Boosted user acceptance by offering powerful search capabilities with customized interfaces tailored to each content group’s technical proficiency and requirements. • Empowered stakeholders by developing targeted documentation and trained administrators, support staff, and customers. Reduced operational costs and time to resolution as a result.

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 tasks including specification, deployment, patching, HPC batch job management, hardware & software troubleshooting, etc.• 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 average of 140x.• 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 operations and significant cost savings.• 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. • Drove robust system monitoring solutions, automated recovery, security controls and SPOF elimination.• Other technologies included BigFix, Powershell, Linux shell scripting, Oracle HA.• Common daily tasks included managing server and filer builds, version upgrades, security patching, problem resolution, and servicing customer requests.Sampling of accomplishments:• Built second datacenter on the campus, migrated servers and filers to second datacenter, rebuilt first DC, then migrated half of the equipment back for a dual-DC HA configuration. Critical contributor at all stages, including design, planning, and physical moves. High granularity planning and flawless execution enabled us to complete the entire process with no unplanned disruptions to manufacturing.• Completed comprehensive security audits and remediation of 300+ NAS/SAN environments, strengthening access control compliance and mitigating vulnerabilities, all while maintaining seamless service continuity.• Achieved significant downtime reductions and minimized service impacts by enhancing system reliability through implementing robust solutions for metrics accumulation, baselining, and alerting.• Engaged with end users and developed a variety of job optimizations. An example tool replaced a manually maintained spreadsheet with a DB and web frontend, leading to better data validation, consistency, and user experience.

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. Implemented MS SQL Server Reporting Services for platform monitoring and metrics.Recognized with the prestigious TMG Excellence Award for successfully launching Intel Foundry Services, showcasing exceptional project management and innovative strategies enabling a significant new business opportunity.

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 dramatically reduced factory impacts.

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) chair. • 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 windows scripting.Beyond my daily responsibilities, I developed a few tools to help the IT organization in our mission to provide support to the factory.• 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 error strings was slow, and postmortems lacked detail. This time predated standardized corporate chat systems. I developed a simple web page that allowed authorized users to create "events" with a problem statement as the event name. Participants could then read the entries to date, or add entries. Timestamp and username were automatically added to each entry. The system proved very useful not only during the events, but as a basis for post-mortems and continuous improvement. Primarily written in Perl.• 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 transaction times. I developed code to parse these logs and deliver relevant data to a central location. I then developed code to aggregate the code, creating by-the-minute average and third standard deviation for critical transactions. Finally, I created real-time charting and alerting for those datapoints. Both IT and factory management found the tool hugely useful. I took great pride when one of the upper level folks commented that "this is better than anything on TV!" Primarily written in Perl. Both of these tools proved quite popular, and were quickly adopted by other factories inside of Intel.

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