Howard Kaler, Cdcmp Email & Phone Number

Dallas, Tx

• Provided 24/7 onsite support of Network infrastructure in a 50Ksf datacenter, monitoring and maintaining a 30K+ node network• Executed projects, which included design, cost analysis, racking and stacking of equipment–cabling and power management, network drops, and supporting and troubleshooting of layers (1&2) of the Production network understanding all aspects of the equipment• Rigorously supported and troubleshot a WAN environment and switched backbone infrastructure • Installed, monitored and maintained physical layers, network, systems and storage equipment with 99.99% uptime • Managed physical access to datacenter facilities and racks; designed rack layouts and maintained relevant documentation along with network and SAN storage equipment, including OS/Windows/hardware upgrades and/or replacements• Provided and maintained data cabling and associated documentation; monitored power draw,; oversaw stock inventory that ensured non-critical and critical parts availability• Performed Asset Management Lifecycle, retiring/decommissioning of infrastructure assets at end-of-life• Acted as Datacenter Site Steward in Dallas; managed and coordinated regional and global changes • Performed backups, cable management, upgrades and parts replacement; resolved cooling issues, working with HVAC Techs• Isolated and resolved hardware issues; assessed, prioritized, debugged and worked escalated ticket issues • Acted as Lead on large-scale projects, including environment split due to STP recalculation issues; performed CatOS and iOS upgrades for over 60 Catalyst 6509’s; provided capacity planning and implementation, which included site-to-site VPN router deployments, SAP server and mainframe upgrades and installations, Data Hall Cisco Nexus/Juniper Qfabric installation, NDR (Network Device Replacement), DMZ upgrades, etc

Dallas, Tx

• Large scale corporate infrastructure installations, including twisted pair, various coax topologies, fiber optics• Routinely provided fiber-optic services including terminations, splices and certifications, • Designed copper/fiber infrastructure

Greater Denver Area

• Provided team supervision for work crews in and out of State• UUNET tech for Denver, CO and Salt Lake City, UT sites• Nationwide installations of IBM POS systems for McDonald's Corporation.• Successfully installed sixty miles of 120-strand fiber-optics for CSX Railroad Corporation. • Installation of commercial voice and data infrastructure

Greater Denver Area

• Residential voice and data cabling installations and quality control• Copper backbone installations for local phone companies• Participated in the design and installation of infrastructure upgrade (Colorado State University)• Responsible for Company Vehicle / tools / material