Tim Needham Email & Phone Number

Round Rock, Texas, US

• Provided technical expertise in support of pre-sales activities globally. Provide analytics, design, and development of fully integrated Data Protection technology solutions. Emphasis on Account Manageability, Support.
• A specialist in Data Protection technologies with expertise in the total transformation
• Managed multiple Enterprise accounts Globally with diverse Infrastructure Environments
• A Proven Professional with specialized knowledge of Hardware, Software, and technologies spanning from the Datacenter to the Cloud
• Critical involvement in customers Disaster Recovery and Cyber Recovery initiatives. Providing knowledge for multiple environments and technologies including open systems, mainframe, iSeries, databases, applications.
• Key presenter in educating customers and audiences onsite and at events focused on Data Protection, Disaster Recovery in the cloud, workloads in the cloud, Cyber/Ransomware Attack (air gap) prevention, Archiving, and.

Engineer responsible for overall protection of corporate backup and recovery strategy. Part of the storage team involved with daily administration of data lifecycle management and archiving.Lead the effort to create working VCB environment for backing up VM Guest infrastructure to help support an aggressive P2V initiative.Renegotiating Iron Mountain master.

US

2006 - 2009Hands on manager in charge of the corporate Data Protection Team responsible for all backups, restores, and archiving for multiple Datacenters and remote locations. Part of the SAN team involved with daily administration of EMC NAS and SAN storage devices.Re-designed entire backup and recovery infrastructure to help ensure completion of data.

• Primary operations for corporate enterprise datacenter which includes all Active Directory administration, systems monitoring, maintenance, project implementation and environment control encompassing both corporate and.
• Primarily responsible for the corporate backup solution and data recovery directive. Direct contact for information archiving/vaulting/management and offsite data protection through Iron Mountain.
• Secondary lead for large scale Active Directory Migration from NT4 and Server 2000 to Windows Server 2003 with several child domains for multiple application and development business units.
• Re-designed and implemented internal and DMZ backup zones for both corporate and hot site data centers.
• Implemented data library clusters using ADIC i2000 Scalar fabric libraries (LTO3)
• Created core root DFS shares for corporate business units within Netapp data movers

Responsible for corporate LAN/WAN/WLAN infrastructure including maintenance, daily functions and operations, backup and restoration of data, network design and implementation, design of business continuance procedure, and overall health monitoring.Designed, developed, tested and implemented a corporate wide migration from Novell to Windows 2000 and Windows.

Developed and documented procedures and processes for the configuration and installation of multiple Corporate Networks Solutions; Primary contact for implementation of documents for the deployment of products into customer networks; Responsible for network design, validation, pre-staging, configuration, and deployment; Provided technical guidance to sales.

Troubleshoot problematic KyoceraMita business equipment throughout Los Angeles and Orange Counties; Installed digital equipment within different network environments and protocols; Demonstrated superior customer relation skills while generating sales leads from new and existing customers and acting as corporate liaison for jeopardized accounts. Provided.

Computer Science

Computer Science

Education record

Computer Science Technologies And Electro/Mechanical Engineering