• Responsible for data center design and operations. Handled project initiation, complete end-to-end project management for several West Coast and East Coast sites.• Owned the complete lifecycle of data centers, including the closure of legacy data centers following the launch of new the new generation of data centers• Responsible for maintenance and repairs of network hardware, server hardware, and infrastructure components• Proposed various cost saving initiatives resulting in 20% savings of TPM support, 25% reduction in Data Center monthly costs• Primary Interface with vendors for negotiation, planning, maintenance. Generated Annual data center budget and was the point of contact for asset management• Worked with various Engineers from different departments to plan their hardware requirements, an requirements for special projects and capacity planning• Created Request for Pricing, Purchase Orders, and approved invoices• Generated process and procedure documentation as well as trained co-workers

Personal Time

• Designed, and built out the lab's redundant network, as well as maintaining the configurations, OS versions, and trouble tickets with vendors • Successfully project managed various projects including the build out of new data center space and infrastructure, migration of data center, installation of infrastructure and upgrades of core network components • Achieved significant cost savings by utilizing new vendors when ordering various network hardware for Engineering projects • Maintained various hardware in the lab including Linux servers, Windows servers, Mac OSX servers, VMWare, Netapp, Cisco, Force10, Arista • Configured and maintained Nagios, Rancid as well as various documentation • Resolved trouble tickets and requests generated by Engineers

• Responsible for the monitoring, diagnosing, troubleshooting and repair of a Linux cluster consisting of 1500 storage servers • Designed and planned data center build outs as well as maintain facility • Generated trouble tickets and escalated problems as needed • Supported inter-company groups of Engineers for various data center needs • Managed vendor contracts, tracked inventory and RMA