Brian J. Anker Email & Phone Number

Foster City, California, Us

Systems Engineer III Aug 2020 - Present• Perform rounded systems engineering IT duties throughout the organization. This includes Network Engineering via Arista, Cisco, Palo Alto, Meraki, and Dell network devices. Virtualization Engineering via Nutanix, vCenter, ESXi, VxRail, CloudBolt and OpenNebula. As well as the management of other IT owned systems, such as Okta, AWS services, zScaler, SQL, PRTG monitoring, Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, Radius, Certificate Management, Cohesity Backups, and more.Notable Projects: • Datacenter migration – Major involvement in our datacenter migration project, which included the consolidation of 36 server racks into 12, 300+ systems migrated to a colocation, including customer facing business critical systems. • Full Datacenter switch replacement of over 26 switches running a mixture of Dell OS 6, Dell OS 9, and Cisco IOS to Arista switches. • Remote colocation rack redesign and migration. Responsible for the network design, switch replacement from Dell to Arista, and the deployment of a new VxRail cluster. • Deployed a tertiary Nutanix virtual environment to provide data recovery and availability of business-critical services.• VMware Cluster Replacements – Overhauled multiple Nutanix and VMware clusters over the period of 2 years. Involved in every aspect of the replacement, from switch configurations to VM migrations between clusters. • CloudBolt VM Orchestration Tool deployment. Automated the deployment of server builds via Cloudbolt python scripts to increase productivity and improve the security posture throughout the business.

Foster City, California, Us

• Perform troubleshooting of the LogRhythm SIEM, including Microsoft SQL, API Calls, Elasticsearch, Ansible, HashiCorps Consul, Linux, Windows Server and a vast array of supported devices. • Deliver information security solutions and technical expertise to support LogRhythm’s customer base.• Engage with premier and class A customers to resolve highly complex issues. • Serve as a mentor for Technical Support Engineers by providing guidance and case assistance.• Projects: Assisted in the development and deployment of the Customer Success VM lab using OpenNebula and VMware.

Waltham, Massachusetts, Us

• Provided company-wide support for strategic systems and related services to keep them operating at the highest levels. • Secondary support for network infrastructure components such as HP/Cisco Switches, Cisco 1921 Routers, & ASA firewalls.• Participated and assisted data recovery site migration, and co-location maintenance. • Projects: Implemented Aruba HA Wireless Solution in the corporate office, planned and implemented MDT 2013 imaging server for company-wide Windows 10 Images, designed PowerShell scripts for task automation and workflow improvements.

• Provided technical support to district employees for supported IT systems, applications, and end user devices. • Managed short and long-term projects for a 2000 user district consisting of 400 PCs, 40 virtual servers and other devices.• Liaison for multiple vendors providing wireless implementation, desktops, VOIP, and software licensing.• Administered servers in VMware environment, NAS, SANs, switches, routers, and firewalls for maximum uptime.• Projects: HP ProCurve switch deployment, VLAN design and implementation for wireless, VMware ESXi host + cluster configuration.

• Responsible for imaging laptops and desktops, troubleshooting PC’s, running/terminating Cat6 cabling, setting up desktops, installing various software, and setting up audio/video equipment.

Bachelors Of Science(B.S.), Computer Information Systems, Concentration In Networking Administration And Management

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Information Technology, Concentration In Computer Networking