Brian Stein Email & Phone Number

Ashburn Va.

• I am the only technician on site over the last 4 years.• Responsible for installing, maintaining, monitoring, analysis and troubleshooting of data center equipment.• Plan, direct and coordinate daily activities for the Data Center, project or team depending on the task or business need.• Lead a team of engineers and technicians and play a proactive role in identifying best practices to Data Center Management.• IT proficiency includes knowledge of hardware, operating and networking systems.Accomplishments:• Through proprietary support ticketing system process tickets with an overall accuracy rate of 100% • Saved company over $200,000 by refurbishing used hardware and technological equipment• Diagnosed hardware failures and resolved technical issues with a 95% success rate.• Ensure compliance with standard data center operating procedures with an accuracy rate of 100%• Handle racking and unracking of servers and blade enclosures for 42 projects in the past 3 years.• Manage many system upgrades, enhancements, migrations, integrations to QA, Production and DRBC environments.• Successfully minimized server downtime to 2%• Perform firmware and driver update for servers in the data center including HP and Dell.• Project Lead on teams in planning, designing and implementing complex subsystems.• Primarily work on HP and Dell machines running Windows operating systems.• On call 24/7 based on schedule rotation.

Las Vegas, Nevada Area

• Project Lead for Sun's state of the art multi-million dollar Data Center build.• Designed facilities layout for new Data Center build including bill of materials, statement of work, creating documentation of SOPs, sourcing and hiring of contractors and coordinating the structure of workflow.Accomplishments• Completed a scheduled six month project in six weeks.• Skillfully supervised and managed seventeen Sun employees and three contractors performing various installation processes.• Implemented and operated the physical infrastructure for Sun's four local Data Centers to include installation, cabling, powering of and maintenance of all Sun equipment and hardware in all four Data Center.• Maintain CMDB (Configuration Management Database) of all hardware, MAC and IP addresses and cable ports.• Ensured operation of physical infrastructure and implement all installations according to plan: cabling, powering and maintenance of equipment and hardware in all four existing data centers.• Acted as Security Liaison between employees and Switch Communications personnel in the City of Las Vegas.

Sterling Virginia

• Supervised crews of 3-12 technicians on numerous, highly complex and technical network installations for Sprint/Nextel.• Projects included: Build out of a server farm for the National Academy of Science.• Complete Data Center build for GSA.• The GSA data center build out encompassed over 12 stories and 3,500 drops/stations: Installed cabinets, cabling (cat3, cat5e, cat6, 300 pair, 100 pair, 25 pair and fiber),and all equipment (Cisco, Sun, Dell, HP and Avaya, among others).• Supervised projects from start to finish: cabling infrastructure, including punch down, wire wrap fiber installation and RJ45 termination on projects.Accomplishments• On General Services Administration project finished $1.25M under budget -saving the company over 700 man hours by completing ahead of schedule.

Prepared and administered budgets for salaries, wages and F&B inventory items. Responsible for hiring, scheduling and training of staff Managed inventory levels and prepared weekly projections for supplies. Increased monthly sales by 18% during a six month period byimproving employee training, decreasing food waste and shrinkage, properly managing floor staff and kitchen staff and increasing customer service levels resulting in the store rising from the number 5 in the country to the number 3 store in the US. Monthly sales jumped from approximately $54,000 to $63,000 a month.

Prepared daily activity reports. Ensured product and service quality.Monitored weekly sales performance and inventory levels

Prepared daily sales and revenue reports, controlled labor costs.

Managed a 160 room hotel facility with monthly room revenue of $87,000 and increased revenue to $135,000 by negotiating airline contracts, creating a sales department to bring in conventions and seminars such as Trans Am Club, Button Society, Scottish Terrier Club, Ham Radio Operators, BF Goodrich and NCR. The increased room reservations resulted in the impact of increased revenues in the hotel restaurant and bar sales. The bar inventory went from $8,000 a month to $15,000. Created a catering department to increase hotel sales. Implemented a full time maintenance staff to cut down on out of order rooms by 100%. Upgraded the laundry facility with new/additional equipment and a 24 hour staff to eliminate costly outsourced laundry service. Co-founded a *park and fly* program which also increased hotel room sales. Set up a Servsafe training program for the kitchen and restaurant staffs. Reduced labor costs and food costs by 25% by cutting down on food waste and increasing staff efficiency. Supervised entire kitchen and restaurant, conference facilities, front desk, sales, housekeeping and catering departments. Calculated and disbursed weekly payroll. Purchased food and beverage, created menus for restaurant and banquet facilities. Prepared daily revenue reports. Handled reservations for all hotel, conference and banquet facilities. Liaison for various vendors and suppliers. Oversaw meal preparations, Supply procurement and general site maintenance. Education

Servsafe Certified (food handlers certification)