Daniel Boring Email & Phone Number

Knoxville, TN, US

Oak Brook, Illinois, US

Contract Consulting for Infrastructure Strategy, Cloud Workload Migration, Resiliency Program, Cloud Selection Framework, Data Center Assessments

Knoxville, TN, US

Ministry Brands is the largest provider of cloud-based software and payment solutions to faith-based organizations (FBOs), non-profit, and for-profit organizations. Ministry Brands supports more than 96,000 customers with more than 800 employees throughout North America by delivering critical, cloud-based software, digital giving platforms, digital.

Maryville, Tennessee, US

Knoxville, TN, US

• Member of the Enterprise Architecture team primarily supporting company platforms of private and public clouds. My role focuses on supporting digital transformation through adoption of public cloud, and modernization.
• Primary facilitator of the Architecture Review Board [ARB] ensuring cohesive architectural standards for every project and design changes. Ensures company and industry best practices are being satisfied.
• Create conceptual and as-built architecture canvases to steer strategy for future state. Work to identify and reduce technical debt.
• Member of the Culture Focus Group, Innovation Community of Practice and UX Community of Practice. Winner of the 2020 Innovation Challenge.
• Actively create and foster trusted partnerships across the enterprise with both business and IT stakeholders.
• Attend external career fairs representing TeamHealth Technology talent recruitment. Mentor interns with processes, procedures, and technical tasks.

Memphis, TN, US

• Lead a team of 5 engineers managing daily operation of projects, break/fix incidents, infrastructure upgrades, reporting, team building and mentoring.
• Extensive knowledge in designing, standardizing, and upgrading of server infrastructure of a multi-vendor environment (HPE/Dell).
• Managed over 70 ESXi servers hosting over 2,000 virtual machines and hundreds of Horizon View/RDS VDI users. Planned and executed vSphere environments upgrade from 6.0 to 6.7 U2.
• Performed yearly disaster recovery testing in a bubbled environment using Site Recovery Manager & Zerto.
• Managed UTK Internship program for Distributed Systems team mentorship weeks.

Knoxville, TN, US

• Delivered innovative, value-generating solutions for business application and IT infrastructure projects by gathering business and customer requirements.
• Led the Data Center Refresh project to standardized compute and storage infrastructure in different stages of lifecycle to a Flashstack reference architecture using Cisco UCS & Pure Storage.
• Lead engineer for VMware vSphere environments. Upgraded a fragmented VMware vSphere environments from 5.x to 6.
• Administered Pure Storage, Tegile, Kaminario, and Dell EqualLogic storage arrays.
• Migrated multiple data centers spread across the country to the primary data center in Knoxville, TN
• Spearheaded automation efforts towards reduction of server deployment time from weeks to days.

Washington, DC, US

• Lead Engineer for VMware vSphere, Horizon View, HPE blade servers, and NetApp storage array.
• Assisted in the creation of disaster recovery to offsite location in Chicago.
• Deployed primary application used by Office of Science for money distribution to research departments.

Memphis, Tennessee, US

• Ensured VMware and Microsoft Window environments were continuously operational.
• Engineered and administered VMware Horizon View environment for offshore developer contractors.
• Conducted research on VMware and Microsoft related products, services, protocols and standards to remain abreast of developments in the industry.
• Planned and executed the build-out of upgrading HP FlexFabric modules to Flex-10d and implementation of HP OneView for administration.

Memphis, Tennessee, US

• Monitored, analyzed, and responded to system issues in support of mainframe, distributed infrastructure, and network systems.
• System operations for IBM Mainframe troubleshooting alarms and abends using ASG ZEKE scheduler.
• Facilitated Root Cause Analysis meetings to determine root causes and permanent corrective measures to prevent future issues.

Louisville, TN, US

• Diagnosed and repaired laptops, workstations, and servers in high volume.
• Certified ASP Technician for hardware including IBM/Lenovo, HP, Toshiba, Fujitsu, and Apple Computers.
• Lead dialogue with internal teams to provide input for various tasks that included creating backup solutions and infrastructure design for clients.

Franklin, TN, US

• Provided 24x7x365 infrastructure support over manufacturing plant.
• Managed financial costs of plant IT operations coming under spend budget.
• Implemented disaster recovery plans on key systems preventing production downtime.
• Designed and implement new concepts within the IT function supporting Kaizen and Lean initiatives throughout the company.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Responsible for the setup, training, and deployment of all RSA SecurID Tokens for the entire company.
• Provided Helpdesk and Desktop Support for employees worldwide.
• Support supplied through telephone, e-mail, and in-person.

Maryville, Tennessee, US

• Assisted the IT department with a wide range of everyday duties such as repairs, upgrades, installation and troubleshooting of equipment.
• Experience was gained from working in a corporate IT environment and the demanding tasks to keep it operational.

Miami, FL, US

• Provided technical and customer service for NASCAR.com Track Pass customers worldwide.
• Technical support duties include troubleshooting errors, setup of required software, installation and account maintenance.