Chad Brown Email & Phone Number

Kansas City Metropolitan Area

Kansas City Metropolitan Area

Having been out of the Radio Broadcast Industry since November of 2015 I could not be more excited to get back to working in the Broadcast Engineering field. A lot as changed and a lot has not changed!

Kansas City Metropolitan Area

This will be a new venture in my career. Will be working in a governance and compliance role. I am looking forward to helping out KCS with all of their initiatives. Being able to stay in multiple public clouds as well as on premise is a dream come true. Thank you Kelly and McKenzie at GDH https://gdhinc.com for helping me land the opportunity. I look forward to a long career with a Kansas City staple.

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Excited for this amazing opportunity with a company that is helping children throughout the world escape poverty. I am fortunate to have been selected as part of a team that will utilize the global reach of Microsoft Azure to make helping children throughout the world more efficient and cost effective. I look forward to a career of great things here.

Overland Park, Kansas

Grateful for the opportunity to be working in a major data center environment with thousands of hosts and virtual machines across the country. Excited for the knowledge explosion that is happening.

Overland Park, Kansas

Support of Internal IT InfrastructureIncluding: • Design, implement and maintain Veeam Backup and Replication VMware backups as well backup copy process to offsite AWS and Azure Repositories. • Migration of on-premise data center to VMC Cloud on AWS as well as Native Azure and AWS Cloud Infrastructure environments. • Implementation of Qualys and Rapid7 Virtual Scanning Appliance as well as all Cloud Agents in Azure. • Configuration of Event Hubs to move SIEM data to Alien Vault and Splunk from Azure. • Configuration of Azure Security Center to meet best practice based on requested compliance standard. • Worked hand in hand in Microsoft Azure Product teams as well as a Dedicated Support Engineer to enhance Azure skillsets. • Design and rollout of 200+ User Citrix VDI solution running strictly in Azure connecting various endpoint from zero clients, Chromebooks or desktops. • Migrate newly acquired company’s Azure Tenant to purchasing companies Tenant. • Rolling firmware upgrades of Cisco UCS B Series infrastructure with 40+ hosts in two data centers running 2000+ virtual machines. • Backup of varying instances of Azure resources via built-in Azure tools. • Migration of On-Premise Data Center VM’s to Azure using Azure ASR. • Design and implementation of Azure Express Route in Equinix Chicago data center connecting to multiple VNets in Various Regions. • Network configuration at host VLan infrastructure layer including UCS Manager layer. • Restoration of thousands of virtual machines during a major SAN failure.

Kansas City, Missouri

Maintain a datacenter in Cavern technologies underground data center suitesHas 4 four-blade fx2 Dell chassis connected to IBM v7000 and v5000 storageAdded new hosts to storage via WWN naming and fiber channel mapping. Fabric is BrocadeBuild and configure VMs for developers and clientsManage entire VMWare infrastructure responding to emergency situations as neededManaged client on premise infrastructure which is generally VMware running on HP servers attached to storage via fiber channel or ISCSIManaged clients Active Directory and SQL implementations as related to Pulse EHR softwareManage in house Active Directory and Exchange Servers for 300 plus employeesRollout of Nutanix cluster in a client environment converting from HP DL Servers. Subsequently live migrated live VMs across Hosts and Storage

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Server Virtualization using VMware vSphere and Dell Equallogic ISCSI SAN producing a significant cost saving in upfront capital, and ongoing maintenance and utility costs. Subsequent migration of Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint an Active Directory to the virtualized environment. Multi-site/multi-domain Active Directory Forest for 7 markets with point to point WAN and Branch Office VPN Tunnel connectivity. Clustered multi domain Exchange Server 2007 rollout. Large multi server farm SharePoint rollout. Maintain all technical aspects of Broadcast Engineering infrastructure.