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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.

• 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