Brian D. Davis Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Redondo Beach, California, United States

As a Principal Windows Systems Administrator at Northrop Grumman, I played a pivotal role in strengthening our defense and technology infrastructure. Entrusted with the management and integrity of high-availability Windows systems, my responsibilities encompassed overseeing system installation, configuration, and optimization for critical projects, ensuring seamless operations across various departments.A significant part of my role involved proactive system monitoring and complex troubleshooting, where I applied forward-thinking solutions to mitigate downtime and enhance system performance, fortifying our network's resilience against cyber threats. Furthermore, I led collaborative efforts in policy development and implementation, setting high standards for system security in line with industry best practices and regulatory requirements.I excelled in providing technical leadership, offering mentorship, and guidance within our team, and cross-functional support to diverse business units, fostering an environment of knowledge-sharing and collective growth. My contributions were instrumental in driving the strategic expansion of our IT capabilities, ultimately supporting Northrop Grumman's mission of security and advanced innovation.

Point Mugu, California

As an IT Specialist, my task is to provide strategic analysis and consulting services on a project primarily implementing 7 QNAP data retention, effectively capitalizing on best practices that eliminate bottlenecks and ensuring that strategic milestones are executed with a high level of efficiency and technical excellence. Here, I have been configuring hardware listing and network drawings through JIRA comprehensively, ensuring a 90% track rate of systems and software. My job also includes facilitating monthly reports generation and dissemination, bringing in recommendations, from optimization, tuning, and capacity planning to management, fostering and maintaining an organized structure to manage data effectively, and ensuring it's clean, consistent, and accurate.

Oxnard, California, United States

In my most recent job at Saalex, I essentially functioned as a Technical Lead on 75+ network projects, working hand-in-hand with 7 highly-skilled IT staff to administer research, development, and application systems that continually resulted in improved performance and achievement of overall business goals. Here, I was involved in identifying and correcting network faults and malfunctions to quickly restore connectivity to individual users and entire facilities, ensuring high system availability that avoided at least $1.5M in downtime losses. During my time, I was entrusted with supervising a broad range of mission-critical network tasks, including vulnerability and application patching, data backups, and network configurations for cloud-hosted and on-site Linux servers, ensuring optimal performance and uptime (70% average).

Oxnard, Ca, United States

In my capacity as a Windows System Administrator, I was able to receive multiple commendations for efficiently monitoring a wide array of server event logs, performance logs, and growth of data on the network, including checking the status of server backups, slashing traffic volume, issues, failed services, etc., which paved the way for better and more pleasant user experience. Some of my tasks include providing specialized and effective IT user support, including asset re-imaging, software installs, and virtualization solutions.

Bakersfield, California Area

In my previous role as an Information System Technician at the U.S. Navy, I was distinguished for successfully spotting and replacing over 90 damaged systems that helped restore network services following the two major earthquakes that affected Naval Aviation Weapons Station China Lake in July 2019, leading to a cost savings of at least $500K. As a Technician, it is my job to manage and maintain the accurate account information for 425+ cross-functional users in Windows Active Directory, consistently achieving zero breaches while nailing high integrity of all classified materials, including safeguarding top secret data flow and highly sophisticated networks and systems.

Merillville, Indiana

Gary, Indiana

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Information Technology

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Business Administration And Management, General