John Burton Email & Phone Number

Highlands Ranch, Colorado, United States

Denver, Colorado, United States

Responsible for coaching, mentoring and training a distributed team of Provisioning Analysts to ensure internal customers needs are addressed. Lead the provisioning team to proactively purchase and coordinate the deployment of computers and mobile devices, both new and replacements. Work with the provisioning team to purchase and deploy licenses and.

Greater Denver Area

• Led a large international team (12) of enterprise level IT Engineers across network, virtualization, database, and storage disciplines. Collaboratively worked with operational and application teams on multiple project.
• Initiated a workflow to reduce the footprint of middleware software saving over $200K in operational andlicensing costs all while… Show more Led a large international team (12) of enterprise level IT Engineers across.
• Initiated a workflow to reduce the footprint of middleware software saving over $200K in operational andlicensing costs all while maintaining established KPI measurements.
• Engaged to implement a functional analysis of the storage environment to incorporate a tiered solutionwhich reduced storage costs by $130K from the previous year.
• Coordinated a plan to migrate a large amount of data to updated technology and Azure cloud-basedinfrastructure maintaining SLA and performance metrics.
• Successfully directed a large infrastructure effort (POC in place) including cross-departmental staff tomove load balanced traffic from F5 to Citrix NetScaler reducing the licensing footprint and potentiallysaving over.

Denver DTC

• Successfully designed and architected a large migration (~7 Petabytes) of production data from legacy storage systems utilizing NetApp’s 7-mode Transition Tool (7MTT) for migration to CDOT 8.x and 9.x
• Negotiate with upper-management on storage-related purchases
• Develop an understand all storage technologies relating to the company’s implementations as it pertains to all operational teams
• Acted as the SME/mentor for other storage administrators to provide an environment to grow… Show more
• Acted as the SME/mentor for other storage administrators to provide an environment to grow overall knowledge and skill utilizing structured learning sessions
• Manage different platforms of storage arrays (NetApp, Nimble, IBM, EMC)

Greater Denver Area

• Commands an in-depth knowledge of NetApp's 7-Mode and CDOT architecture and code while maintaining certifications in both versions.
• Architected multiple NetApp environments (both FAS and E-Series architecture) from the ground up for performance, sustainability, and redundancy. Maintained an up time of better than 99.99%.
• Engineered ongoing monitoring of the storage environment in data centers across the country with a customized third party application using SNMP traps as well as… Show more
• Engineered ongoing monitoring of the storage environment in data centers across the country with a customized third party application using SNMP traps as well as integrating the use of NetApp's OnCommand suite of.
• Maintains a working knowledge of VMWare 5.x environments.
• Wrote many Unix scripts for ongoing monitoring of the environment.

Lead technical Netapp engineer responsible for onsite customer installations and implementations using NetApp 7-Mode code. Trained new customers to bring them up-to-speed on storage technology as well as how to interact with their new NetApp platform.

Progressed from Systems Administrator responsible for server installation, administration, and maintenance to becoming the resident storage expert with NetApp and support for EMC. Supported Citrix, Symantec (Veritas) NetBackup, and Windows with an MCSE certification.

Responsible for networked servers (Novell) and user PCs and laptops. Additional duties included administered the documentation governing the USAF KC-135 contract while working directly with the Department of Defense.

Assisted the Trust Operation Officer in the administration of the Trust customers for the bank.

Teller/Collections Teller responsible for various teller responsibilities.

Member of the Presidential Honor Guard and held a Presidential Security Clearance.