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Managed upgrades and expansions in premise and collocated BCBS Data Centers. Duties included:• Project Managed Data Center construction work.• Coordinated and managed the move of existing gear to allow for the installation of new CRAC units and PDU’s.• Managed the coordinated internal and external resources for the installation of new cabinets and racks for multiple Data Center sites.• Coordinated and participated in the installation of new network and server hardware in both Data Centers.• Managed the installation of new EMC disk and IBM mainframes in both Data Centers• Performed Discovery and Documented equipment installation using Rackwise.• Trained existing staff on Data Center procedures and practices.• Implemented new Environet Data Center monitoring tool. • Key contributor in migrating out of a Colocation site.• Coordinated the de-commission and removal effort of end of lifed PDU’s in the data center.• Installed and decommissioned various manufactures of network, storage and servers in the data centers. • Assisted platform owners with troubleshooting.• Key representative of the Data Center Group at Change Management meetings.

• Managed and maintained Tennant’s data center and colocation facilities.• Coordinated preventative maintenance, repairs, tests and upgrades for data center equipment such as, generators, CRAC units, UPS system and PDU’s.• Managed and provided direction for the Help Desk, Service and Delivery Team and Level 2 Support Team. Developed reports using Avaya CMS supervisor and FrontRange ITSM reporting features.• Managed the Tennant on-call process, including scheduling and holding turnover meetings.• Managed the vendor relationships for tools and services supported by the IT operations group.• Managed several global projects, including standardizing network and server infrastructure, and client lifecycle at remote locations.• Provide direction for support of the mobile platform, Blackberry, iPhone, notebook data cards.• Physically secured the Data Center and remote server/network closets and IDF’s.• Monitored all Infrastructure equipment locations which included environmental conditions and video surveillance.

• Managed and maintained Tennant’s data center and colocation facilities.• Coordinated preventative maintenance, repairs, tests and upgrades for data center equipment such as, generators, CRAC units, UPS system and PDU’s.• Managed and provided direction for the Help Desk, Service and Delivery Team and Level 2 Support Team. Developed reports using Avaya CMS supervisor and FrontRange ITSM reporting features.• Managed the Tennant on-call process, including scheduling and holding turnover meetings.• Managed the vendor relationships for tools and services supported by the IT operations group.• Managed several global projects, including standardizing network and server infrastructure, and client lifecycle at remote locations.• Provide direction for support of the mobile platform, Blackberry, iPhone, notebook data cards.• Physically secured the Data Center and remote server/network closets and IDF’s.• Monitored all Infrastructure equipment locations which included environmental conditions and video surveillance.

• Part of the TTS Team maintaining Target’s Corporate 45,000 SqFt Tier III Data Centers and computer rooms.• Coordinated preventative maintenance, repairs, tests and upgrades for data center equipment such as, generators, centrifugal chillers, CRAC and CRAH units, UPS systems, PDU’s and fire suppression system.• Member of the planning and building team to build the new Target Data Center. Attended construction design meetings, providing input on construction activities. Monitored construction activities.• Point of Contact and Process Manager for the oversight of the commissioning effort regarding the new Elk River Data Center.• Created change requests and represented the Data Center team at change meetings.• Maintained Dashboards for raised floor power and space capacities.• Built, configured and installed 2500+ Windows servers.

• Designed and built production NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and Windows 2003 systems to corporate standards.• Assisted in implementing a SAN solution at Target Corporation which included Brocade switches, EMC, and Hitachi disk subsystems. • Moved production systems from distributed server rooms to Target’s Technology Center. • Coordinated new Wintel and UNIX implementations in the Technology Center.• Assisted in the design of new Wintel server farm racks and network infrastructure at Target’s Technology Center.• Responsible for Wintel implementations in all new Target corporate HQ locations, distribution centers, financial institutions, and regional offices. Most of these offices are lights out data centers and have been designed to be supported from a central location in Minneapolis via Dell remote management cards.• Migrated Target Direct from Novell to Microsoft Windows 2000.• Evaluated new server hardware, load balancing devices and external disk subsystems that will be used in the production environment at Target Corporation.• Implemented SMS 1.2 and 2.0 at HQ locations.• Assisted in the NT workstation rollout at all Target distribution centers.• Developed and documented a DR plan for the BARR print system used to print charge statements and payroll.