As a solutions provider, Zirous works closely with clients to tailor innovative solutions for their business problems by aligning the proper technology for the solution. Headquartered in West Des Moines, Iowa, Zirous focuses its resources and has developed best practices in Cloud Adoption, Cloud Migration, Data Analytics, Service Integration Architecture and Identity Management Governance. At Zirous, our accomplished team of employees collaborate to ensure that each client receives not only their tailored solution, but best-in-class service and support, making certain each client sees substantial return on investment. Our staff is always willing to listen to your business needs in order to develop a custom solution, just for you.

Drive successful infrastructure design and implementation with Oracle products delivering the Oracle on Oracle message to our customers.

Provide customers with Oracle Fusion Middleware infrastructure design and implementation services

Design and lead implementation for the Enterprise Architecture Integration environment utilizing Oracles Service Bus, B2B, BAM, and Service Registry 11G componentsProvide leadership for the Linux systems and middleware storage infrastructure teamProvide Enterprise Architecture guidance for Infrastructure Systems, working with appropriate Solution Architects along with developing an Enterprise Architecture Strategy and Governance processEnsure all in-scope Linux and F5 devices are PCI compliance, to include system configuration standards and detailed Red Hat iptables firewall configuration to ensure systems are locked down

Provide support and direction for the Unix and Linux server infrastructure, F5 Infrastructure, Apache, WebLogic and Endeca platforms. Our primary platform is our 3 E-Commerce web sites:- www.orientaltrading.com- www.terrysvillage.com- www.funexpress.comThe day-to-day care from an infrastructure perspective is our #1 priority and ensuring it meets the needs of both our customers and our business.

Provide leadership, direction, and oversight for the E-Commerce systems infrastructure and the systems team. This included management of the UNIX systems team and ensuring the E-Commerce architecture met the demands of the the business at all times with minimal downtime.

Manager of 10 skilled SUN engineers support First Data Resources and TeleCheck businesses.

Manage day-to-day operations of the Data Center services and Systems Infrastructure. This included Project Management activities for business application deployments and coordination of outsourced systems operations and managing multiple Data Center relocations.

Provide day-to-day Database Administration on Sybase RDBMS. This included providing leadership and coaching to the other Sybase Database Administrators and ensuring services were operational 24x7 for our business.

Provide day-to-day support of the mission critical intelligence Sybase database systems supporting the US Strategic Command. This included performance and tuning of the database systems and systems administration and scripting on Solaris.