Kevin Verhoff Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, Mo, Us

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Key accomplishments include overhaul and organization of our client’s aging data center in their world headquarters in order to align with industry best practices and standards.• Responsible for developing, documenting and enforcing policies, standards, procedures and processes.• Coordinate and plan all moves, adds and changes occurring in the data center.• Anticipate problems and implement preventative measures.• Expedite delivery in response to urgent requests while still meeting HPE global standards.• Maintain tight physical security of the data center.• Volunteer as Emergency First Responder for client’s building.• Train two part-time data center assistants who have increased our data center coverage.• Researched, planned and implemented a series of changes to establish hot and cold aisles according to industry best practices, resulting in increased air conditioner efficiency.• In a key communication role, coordinated the client’s facilities team and HPE internal teams, in order to plan multiple UPS shutdowns related to major headquarters renovation, while ensuring no user impact during shutdown, start-up and testing.DNS Management• Manage and implement global internal and external DNS services.• Manage and implement changes for additions and removals.• Brought forward a solution where internal users, based on their IP address, get different addresses for the same record to direct them to a more appropriate resource

Overland Park, Ks

Key accomplishments include overhaul and organization of our client’s aging data center in their world headquarters in order to align with industry best practices and standards.• Responsible for developing, documenting and enforcing policies, standards, procedures and processes.• Coordinate and plan all moves, adds and changes occurring in the data center.• Anticipate problems and implement preventative measures.• Expedite delivery in response to urgent requests while still meeting HPE global standards.• Maintain tight physical security of the data center.• Volunteer as Emergency First Responder for client’s building.• Train two part-time data center assistants who have increased our data center coverage.• Researched, planned and implemented a series of changes to establish hot and cold aisles according to industry best practices, resulting in increased air conditioner efficiency.• In a key communication role, coordinated the client’s facilities team and HPE internal teams, in order to plan multiple UPS shutdowns related to major headquarters renovation, while ensuring no user impact during shutdown, start-up and testing.DNS Management• Manage and implement global internal and external DNS services.• Manage and implement changes for additions and removals.• Brought forward a solution where internal users, based on their IP address, get different addresses for the same record to direct them to a more appropriate resource

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Data Center Facility LeaderKey accomplishments include overhaul and organization of our client’s aging data center in their world headquarters in order to align with industry best practices and standards.• Responsible for developing, documenting and enforcing policies, standards, procedures and processes.• Coordinate and plan all moves, adds and changes occurring in the data center.• Anticipate problems and implement preventative measures.• Expedite delivery in response to urgent requests while still meeting HPE global standards.• Maintain tight physical security of the data center.• Train two part-time data center assistants who have increased our data center coverage.• Researched, planned and implemented a series of changes to establish hot and cold aisles according to industry best practices, resulting in increased air conditioner efficiency.• In a key communication role, coordinated the client’s facilities team and HPE internal teams, in order to plan multiple UPS shutdowns related to major headquarters renovation, while ensuring no user impact during shutdown, start-up and testing.DNS Management• Manage and implement global internal and external DNS services.• Manage and implement changes for additions and removals.• Brought forward a solution where internal users, based on their IP address, get different addresses for the same record to direct them to a more appropriate resource UNIX System Administration• Provided design, installation, configuration, administration and security of thirty-plus physical and seventy-plus virtual AIX and Solaris servers. Developed and maintained procedures and standards.• Continue to provide expertise and consultation above and beyond my data center management role.SAN AdministrationUtilized prior expertise, on request, by supporting our internal storage team with administration, allocation and zoning when a new HP XP24K storage system was installed.

UNIX System Administration• Provided design, installation, configuration, administration and security of thirty-plus physical and seventy-plus virtual AIX and Solaris servers. Developed and maintained procedures and standards.• Continue to provide expertise and consultation above and beyond my data center manager role.DNS Management• Manage and implement global internal and external DNS services.• Manage and implement changes for additions and removals.

UNIX System Administration• Provided design, installation, configuration, administration and security of thirty-plus physical and seventy-plus virtual AIX and Solaris servers. Developed and maintained procedures and standards.• Continue to provide expertise and consultation above and beyond my data center manager role.