Lane Inman, Ph. D. Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

San Jose, California, Us

Normalization of Security Service OfferingsService Development

Reading, England, Gb

Actively participated in identification of SAP centric CIS deviations and normalizing the deltas between various CIS benchmarks including forensic deconstruction of different versions, cloud vs. standalone, and OS considerations.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Responsible for creating governance structure, establishing standards, and working with business unit leadership to remediate contract escalations VMware Cloud Services.Responsible for forensics review of Cloud Services Client base for compliance to Federal Sanctions pertaining to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Pre-Sales Role for Global Growth organization for us top 5 bank.- Responsible for tech representation and coordination of diversified product portfolioLifecycle Architect for VMware Cloud Services

San Francisco, California, Us

Quantifying the quality of cloud and automating the normalized measure.- Building cross provider normalized metrics to rate agencies based on client need.- Directed automation of back-end service infrastructure and initiated basic metric to measure success- Drove component testing methodologies and standardized gates to more effectively enable agility- Leveraged R, QlikView to establish data-based test harnesses- Worked closely with various technologies (GitLab, JIRA, Ansible, Terraform) towards the automation of Industry Indices measuring Azure, AWS, GCP, SoftLayer, KVM, VMware, Private Clouds, and Competitive Intelligence teams.- Responsible for technology guidance through complex workloads leveraging multiple tiers of service and building consistency checks across multiple providers for the same workloads.

San Francisco, California, Us

Responsible for setting strategic direction and messaging of Krystallize Technologies Portfolio

London, England, Gb

Worked with major financial institution to map out and provide Capacity and Demand management for their private cloud. Integration with CMDB and Program office to identify points of breach, inefficiencies and ongoing data center migration project.

Advising in digital strategy and implications of GDPR compliance, ISO 27001certification, and infrastructure management to healthcare logistics company leveraging multi cloud environments, kafka event stores, mifi, nifi, cassandra, and hadoop and amazon kms.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Responsible for Platform Engineering Converged Platform for PNC as a whole. Responsibilities include completion of Datacenter migration program, normalization of infrastructure services, enterprise adoption of enterprise capacity management policies and instrumentation.Drove enterprise utilization up 10% over 18 month period and normalized purchase model to mitigate idle capacity.Actively worked with Corp Technical Risk to identify and comply with regulatory concerns.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Formed, recruited, and hired converged operations team of 8 within PNC to address merge functions of storage, network, and compute within the enterprise. Initiated success metrics to reduce TTR and reduced engineering escalations 80% within first six months. Identified successor and 18 month plan to collapse level 3 escalation and 7 x 24 staffing rotations.Created capacity management and business reporting team leveraging Tableau, Turbonomic, ServiceNow, Archer, BPPM, and re-vectored Enterprise Utilization Metrics to better track technology asset and resource consumption.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Drove adoption of BIAN, TOGAF, and ITIL through realignment Enterprise Architecture team driving institutional transformation. Drove adoption and decomposition of BIAN capabilities to baseline standard technology portfolio of the enterprise.Leveraged frameworks guiding platform rationalization and established framework for building strategic roadmaps; leveraging Troux, Tableau, and ServiceNow technologies. Created the Enterprise Information Architecture team to identify information services leveraged throughout all Enterprise Service Domains within the institution; and break down institutional silos.

Portland, Oregon, Us

Key member of leadership providing insight to corporate direction and growth. Duties include reviewing new product material and providing guidance to leadership team.

Portland, Oregon, Us

Founded boutique consultancy in large scale cloud architectures delivering IaaS to Fortune 500 clients. - Incorporated - Established Payroll - Managed Partner Agreements - Key Contributor to Aisle Five Consulting Technical Infrastructure Reference Architecture and Architecture Rationalization MethodologiesCoordinated efforts for large scale cloud architectures leveraging KVM and VMware.- Reference Cloud Architecture for Juniper- Cloud Architecture for Nvidia- Sold Consultancy

Foster City, California, Us

Transformation agent to private cloud-based infrastructure within a traditional project-based IT delivery organization.- Managed global architects in driving corporate vision of "anything, anywhere, anytime" leveraging converged infrastructure (VCE vBlock), UCS, EMC, HDS and Exadata.- Reduced Capital Cost of Infrastructure by 40% while reducing Time to Deploy from 6 months to 6 hours.- Drove standards-based provider model monetizing delivery infrastructure and pushing operational models for capacity, demand, event, incident, and problem management.- Drove for multi-tenant physical private cloud in high compliance environment.- Guided adoption of normalized capacity management techniques to quantify effectiveness of overall infrastructure.- Defined Key Performance Indicators to assess the effectiveness of the transformation program- Operationalized previously ad-hoc requests and pushed the environment to adopting an internal provider model.

Richardson, Texas, Us

- Responsible for driving technology adoption and integration of converged infrastructure throughout the enterprise. - Responsible for creating and packaging service delivery options to round out overall service portfolio and establishment of Advanced Consulting Services as a strategic endeavour for fortune 100 clients.- Responsible for identification and selection of key talent to execute vision including program management and IT Technical Infrastrcuture architects.- Responsible for delivery of adoption strategy for large Financial and Pharmaceutical organizations with projected/realized initiative spends in excess of ten (10) million.- Responsible for establishing instrumentation strategy for converged infrastructure through tool rationalization and integration.- Responsible for leading Sr. Technical Resources across Compute (UCS), Network (Cisco), Storage (EMC), Virtualization (VMware - vSphere/vCD), Orchestration (Tidal/Newscale) in large scale enterprise transformation project to private cloud infrastructure.- Responsible for creating rules to scale and driving scalable converged solutions with global span.- Created VCE Advanced Services Service Delivery Framework

- Was key to bringing Fortune 5 business creating virtualization strategy for global roll-out- Enabled expanded market reach through capturing Fortune 10 business.- Guided SMEs in creation of referencable industry white papers intended on guiding clients and others in virtualization of exchange, leveraging of Avamar, and operational adoption of converged infrastructure.- Planned global infrastructure roll-out strategy for multinational manufacturing companies European and American headquarters. Including facilities, WAN, LAN, and platform Rationalization of mixed infrastructure leveraging pSeries, x86, Cisco, Wintel, and Lintel.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Sr. Consultant for VMware Professional Services Organization - Lead in Development of Operational Readiness Practice - Key developer in VMware Maturity Model, VMware Operational Framework, Assessment and Accelerator Services. - Focused on development of viable capacity and financial models for virtualization

Took operational control of dining establishment to ensure company was in the black. - Handled day to day operations including till, accounts receivable, and accounts payable. - Resolved short term fund misappropriations and coordinated banking migration. - Worked with Payroll vendor to ensure seamless operation to employees (~20) - Updated and maintained POS. - Coordinated Menu Change, POS, and staff awareness - Provided POS Technical Support. - Enabled and established Operation Contingency Fund - Enabled migration to first sustainable and certified Sushi Restaurant (Bamboo Sushi) in North America

San Jose, California, Us

Responsible for setting global direction of HA, Data Protection, and Data Recovery Technical Infrastructure consulting within an organization of over 100+ technical consultants specialized in implementation of enterprise backup, disaster recovery, and availability solutions.- Served as Global PSO SME Lead in legal proceedings- Productized standardized common cross platform (HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, RHEL, and Wintel) framework for packaging of availability agents -> Created, Coordinated, and Executed Knowledge transfer and field enablement to Customer Support, Sales Engineering, and Field Consulting. -> Created, Coordinated, and Maintained 7x24 level three support infrastructure. -> Support model had less than 1% level three escalation in over 200 installations.- Created, Coordinated, and Managed release of standardized backup catalog bunkering technology leveraging replication by leading a cross functional team ( DR, Data Protection, and Replication )- Responsible for Productization of VERITAS StorageTRAK -> Led team of 4-5 field consultants in an effort to standardize delivery results. -> Implemented a standard release management strategy, reducing time to deploy and field implementation errors by over 70%. -> Leveraged Native Packaging and automation of process to use single source cross platform reporting solution. -> Enabled and executed Field to Engineering transition of product which served as the Functional Prototype for VERITAS CommandCentral Service; enabling customer support for field created product. -> Managed replication solutions for NetBackup Hitatchi and EMC storage.- Global Principal Architect - Utility Computing -> Executed Definitive Engagements in Utility Computing thorugh workload rationalization, catalog creation, adoption strategy creation.

Provided Global Support for Fortune 500 Clients during after hours- Responsible for providing world class support to world class customers for Sequent NUMA, Ballance, and Symmetry systems- HW Fault isolation- HW Fault Diagnosis- HW Fault Remediation Coordination.- Handled escalation for high availability, storage, and system issues for Dynix/PTX- Performance, Incident, and Fault diagnosis- Crash dump analysisCreated and maintained lab checkout and identification tool - Located systems matching key configuration elements for SME debugging of client problems - Performed an inventory of a small lab ( <200 midrange unix based servers ) - Maintained configuration inventory - Allowed for checkout of lab items

M.S., Engineering Management

High School Diploma

B.S., Mechanical Engineering

Ph.D., Systems Science