Christopher Killian Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

Seattle, WA, US

Seattle, WA, US

London, GB

I am the infrastructure automation and data center lead for a large Federal IT program. I manage a team of engineers responsible for the design and deployment of a complex, secure hosted VDI solution. Key areas of interest include operations labor reduction through automation with PowerShell, plus software defined storage and networking.

San Diego, CA, US

I consult for internal customers, advising them on secure architecture principles, separation of privileges, network segmentation, and threat mitigation.I perform security and risk assessments for internal and external services.

Falls Church, Virginia, US

I managed a data center chartered to evaluate and incubate a variety of emerging virtualization, networking, and storage technologies.I designed and built a containerized, multi-petabyte computing and storage system for an Intelligence Community customer, working as a system architect and network engineer from program proposal through OCONUS delivery.

London, GB

I managed a data center chartered to evaluate and incubate a variety of emerging virtualization, networking, and storage technologies. Key technologies of interest included enterprise storage, high performance clustered storage systems, cloud storage platforms, cross-platform identity management, converged Ethernet, and network virtualization.I also.

London, GB

I provided network and application performance analysis and engineering for a variety of programs and new business capture efforts. Typical tasks included network performance modeling during early architecture development, as well as in-the-field analysis and engineering for prototype and production systems.

• I provided part-time help with Windows Server 2003 migrations and rollouts, and Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003 migrations.
• I wrote and presented the design proposal for a Windows Server 2003 network including Exchange 2003 that landed a large client contract, and then worked closely with full-time consultants to implement my design.
• I provided expert technical advice regarding network, web server, and security issues to other consultants within the company.

Houston, Texas, US

• I maintained a production server farm which served and processed over 200 million pages per day for the WebtrendsLive (WTL) hosted analytics product on a Windows 2000 / IIS / SQL Server 2000 platform.
• As a technical lead, I developed and documented hardware and software configurations for high-volume IIS web servers, and was responsible for server security and hardening.
• I observed rigorous change control and customer data protection procedures.
• I was responsible for providing 24 hour escalation support for several technical disciplines including global DNS load balancing across multiple datacenters, web server, SQL server, and SAN issues.
• I lead an efficiency and optimization project for IIS; this increased performance by a factor of ten and greatly reduced the physical server footprint.

Irvine, CA, US

• I designed and maintained a Windows and Mac network for a medical device manufacturing company. I also managed all information technology and telecommunications vendor relationships, and one assistant network admin.

• I designed and implemented a Windows NT based WAN connecting eleven worldwide locations for a large Australian travel company. As a senior administrator, I mentored other staff and championed e-mail communications and.

• I worked with a team that provided network consulting services to a wide range of professional clients, including law firms, manufacturing companies, retail stores, and medical offices.