Daniel Worden Email & Phone Number

Greenwood Village, CO, US

• Director, Project Engineering for the Microsoft Cloud and the Infrastructure Projects team.Play a critical dual role a leader and mentor within the Professional Services department. Responsible for overseeing and.
• Lead, mentor, and manage the project engineering team, balancing hands-on technical contributions with leadership responsibilities to ensure high performance and professional growth.
• Cultivate a collaborative and innovative team culture aligned with company goals.
• Develop and implement strategic plans in alignment with the company’s goals.
• Primary escalation point and resource for direct reports, ensuring swift resolution of issues.
• Oversee performance management, recruitment, team building, and the professional development.

Greenwood Village, CO, US

Provide design, implementation, troubleshooting and support of infrastructure including servers, switches, routers, firewalls, wireless networks and unified communication systems.Manage the performance of a team of Network Engineers in the areas of utilization, client satisfaction, and Service Level Agreements.Manage my own and my team’s submission of.

Glendale, CA, US

• As Senior Network Engineer provided complex technical support functions related to the installation, customization, testing, and debugging of Glenair’s local and wide area enterprise networks; assisted in monitoring.
• Proposed solutions to ensure all communications requirements based on future needs and current usage, configuring such solutions to optimize cost savings.
• Created and ensured that appropriate network documentation existed, including operational instructions.
• Provided monitoring and network analysis regarding short- and long-range planning for in-house systems.
• Perform troubleshooting and resolution of network infrastructure and associated systems.
• Implemented and troubleshoot LAN technologies such as VLANs, Trunk, Access (port tagging), Spanning-Tree, and Port Security.

• In this role, I successfully architect and implement network designs using industry and vendor best practices in medium to enterprise environments. I build and employ new and existing networks supporting a variety of.
• Develop new and existing networks supporting a variety of network devices,including firewalls, routers, switches, and wireless access points.
• Mitigate / resolve network connectivity and performance issues relating to firewalls, VPNs, switching, and wireless access points.
• Designed VPNs between locations to ensure secure communications while alleviating unneeded services / applications.
• Architect and apply new VMware vSphere environments using industry / vendor best practices in medium to enterprise environments.
• Engineered latest cloud environments in Azure and AWS while focusing on costs, performance, and network security.

• I consulted with companies on ways to optimize, utilize, and manage their network infrastructure while advising them on new technologies, industry best practices and business / data flow processes. I also designed.
• Assist organizations in remediating Ransomware attacks while designing and implementing new network / system solutions to prevent future attacks.
• Deliver Active Directory support and provide EMR Solutions for medical clients.
• Oversee Exchange Servers and SQL Servers and provide physical network infrastructure installations, maintenance, and support.
• Serve as a virtual CIO for organizations and a business analyst between clients and developer teams.
• Lead IT and network Built and implemented VMWare vSphere solutions on various server hardware and storage solutions ranging from HP, Dell, IBM, Cisco, Equal Logic, Left Hand, EMC, and NetApp

San Jose, California, US

• As a security analyst, I managed a process improvement project for Symantec’s Web Security Service (WSS) and supporting information security management system (ISMS). I also consulted with the Ops group on the VMware.
• Played a key role by contributing to ISO 27001 certification and SOC 2 attestation reporting for cloud services.
• Successfully reviewed existing controls for ISO27001 and created / updated documentation library for information security management system. The initiative provided a single source of reference for operational.
• Advised group on best practices and use of VMware API features. Aided with the implementation of suggestions and monitored environments for results based on the implementation of advisements.
• Engineered network and process diagrams to better describe data flows and customer data storage throughout the service. Network diagrams were combined with process diagrams to show topology and how processes worked.

• I was contracted to deliver VMware consulting and training services to military, local governments, and private companies including fortune 500's. I successfully architected solutions for new and existing environments.
• Engaged with users to gather requirements and partnered with development vendors and teams.
• Partnered / collaborated with business development by taking responsibility for functional and technical elements for FRIs/RFPs.
• Successfully delivered numerous classes while receiving excellent evaluations due to students consistently passing CVE certification exam.

Santa Clara, California, US

• As a VMware Solutions Architect, I developed white papers, best practice guides, reference architectures, and lab validations for cutting-edge technology. I also provided hands-on end-to-end proof of technology, which.
• Delivered test plan, lab reports that enabled the team to achieve objectives for improving performance while reducing $100MM in overall cost and saving 200 hours in project costs for a documentation project.
• Devised and delivered test plans, lab reports, technical presentations, analyst briefings, and white papers to address various areas of HDS storage solutions.
• Composed lab validation report for VMware auto-deploy, designed, built, and tested Hitachi UCP for VMware on HUS VM, and delivered reference architecture.
• Successfully planned, designed, implemented, and executed complex enterprise-level storage, network, and blade server solutions from configuration and testing to support of the developed solution.
• Commended by leadership for engineering, building, and testing Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select for VMware vSphere and Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select for Citrix XenDesktop.