Kristopher Harris Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Tx, Us

Lead Technical resource responsible for developing IT approaches that support Manufacturing Laboratory Equipment, Industrial Controls and SCADA Systems in the Chemicals and Manufacuring space.Working closely with IT Security, Architecture, Project Management, and Business counterparts, I provide analysis, design, and operational expertise for the domains of Datacenter, Field, Laboratory, and End User technologies.

Calgary, Alberta, Ca

Senior Technologist responsible for developing IT approaches that support Industrial Controls and SCADA Systems in the Energy Pipeline space.Working closely with IT Operations, Project Management, and Business counterparts, I provide analysis, design, and implementation expertise for the domains of datacenter, field, and End User technologies.

Solutions Technologist responsible for providing high-quality, reliable, and appropriate infrastructure solutions to customers. Well versed in a wide range of datacenter, field, and end user technologies, I work closely with stakeholders in order to provide requirements analysis, design, and implementation services.

Senior Technical Resource \ Systems Engineer for the Halliburton Real Time Operations Center (RTO), an applications hosting unit that serves major oilfield customers through the provisioning and operation of software based tools and support for the customers' global drilling activities. I develop customer solutions by establishing systems architecture, facilitating deployment of and providing support to a virtualized hosting infrastructure consisting of more than 70 physical host servers and 600 virtual windows guest servers utilizing technologies from VMWare ,HP, EMC, Netapp and Microsoft.Also serve as a subject matter expert for both internal and external customers in the areas of application development virtualization using VMWare Lab Manager.

Worked with developers of Commercial Workflow Applications serving more than 6,000 Users. Design and deploy the production Windows application server . •Identifying and resolving Hardware, Operating System, SAN, Networking, Application, Server and Client issues for the production, and development environments. Mail, Database, Web and Application Servers.coordinates inf. activities with the development and QA staff. directly supported 80+ developers, trainers and product champions by providing them with the general IT services. Creating and distributing scripts and templates for various applications in server management, developer machine backups and virtual machine configuration. I developed an integrated virtual testing environment that not only has aided in testing and development within multiple development groups as well as contractors in India. This virtual infrastructure has become the de facto method of virtual Development and Quality Testing for many of these groups.

Trained end users on general use of PC ,backup systems, Electronic-Mail , Word Processing, Database and other application including:• Perform Microsoft Mail maintenance. • Perform special request backups to CD and tape. • Assist with Microsoft Network maintenance. • Provide group user training sessions with new software. • Computer Help Desk. • Network Installation and Troubleshooting• Server Capacity Planning and Administration• Workstation planning and administration • Light Database Administration