Daniel Rief Email & Phone Number

Denver, Co

• Developed detailed engineering solutions of server systems and appliances for numerous clients.• Managed the standard server model configurations production data center.• Worked with various application development teams to plan multiple large application migration projects from obsolete datacenters into the new lights-out datacenter.• Collaborated with various application development teams to scale the virtual server loading and sizing requirements.• Acted as primary Firewall Engineer subject matter expert by providing development teams secure access for the application environments.• Developed the F5 load balancer architecture and management environment.• Provided ad hoc network architecture training to various software and database engineering support teams.• Supported numerous sales pursuit efforts by generating yellow-pad architectural designs and high-level cost estimates for new server environments.• Architected a new Disaster Recovery (DR) environment that successfully completed a DR drill for the first time in 10 years. • Engineered a mainframe replacement project on midrange systems.• Managed team of 60 U.S. based technical engineers.• Supervised, trained, and directed a team of 24 offshore technical engineers in India. • Developed a training program which reduced new engineering training time by more than half, from 12 months down to 6 months.

Louisville, Co

• Managed a team of 36 UNIX Systems Administrators (local and remote).• Managed 3 data centers and approximately 2000 UNIX desktops located at 2 sites.• Architected a server consolidation plan as part of the contract re-negotiation to reduce the number of servers by more than fifty percent.

Louisville, Co

• Team Lead of the UNIX Tier 3 Server Support and Engineering virtual team.• Co-Team Lead of the UNIX Level 2 Service Desk and Deskside virtual team. • Engineered a UNIX NIS Domain consolidation project consolidating 6 NIS domains which had 200 UNIX servers and 1200 UNIX desktop machines, into just one domain.

Boulder, Co

• Responsible for installing, configuring and maintaining a heterogeneous network which consisted of UNIX and Microsoft Windows servers and desktops.• Installed and configured a network firewall system over a T1 line.• Designed and implemented a complete remote access system for sales force automation and software development needs.• Designed the network architecture for the company’s new office building.

Seattle, Wa & Aurora, Co

• Responsible for developing business processes and procedures for a remote operations center.• Performed Systems Administration on SUN UNIX, VAX VMS and Windows PCs.• Performed system level software testing of proprietary software systems.• Responsible for developing test requirements, writing formal test procedures, conducting software system tests, and generating written test reports, for formal software testing of aircraft control systems and weapons control systems.

Management

EDS Best Shore Management and Migration Workshop

Leadership

EDS Leader Internship Program

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE) Courses

Computer Operating Systems

Multiple UNIX & VMS System & Network Administration Courses

Embedded Software Engineering Training Program

Accelerated course to re-train/cross-train existing engineers to be Software Engineers

Bachelor’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: American Society of Mechanical Engineers - Treasurer & President of Student Chapter Society of Automotive.