Reid Rowan Email & Phone Number

Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

I am a pre-sales solutions architect for Oklahoma and Arkansas, focusing on enterprise storage and servers.

Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

Pre-sales architect specializing in EMC and Cisco solutions for the data center.

Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

Pre-Sales Technical Architect, specializing in storage, SAN, virtualization, backup/recovery/archiving, and cloud infrastructure.I meet with customers to discuss how their business is impacted by their datacenter and work with them to provide IT solutions to business problems. I work with and design solutions around Pure Storage, HP, EMC, HDS, IBM, VMware, Cisco, Meraki, Brocade, Silver Peak, and many other manufacturers/vendors to design best-of-breed solutions that make my customers' lives easier.

Tulsa, Ok

Storage administrator for EMC distributed SAN in private cloud. Responsible for end-to-end management of all storage/SAN devices. Management of replicated EMC Symmetrix DMX and VMAX via SRDF/S. Management of fibre channel and iSCSI SAN, VMAX and Clariion storage systems, Cisco and Brocade switches. Design, storage allocation and presentation, replication, and migration experience. DiskXtender/Centera administration. Extensive experience implementing and troubleshooting multiple EMC hardware platforms and software solutions. Member of team responsible for implementing and maintaining hot failover disaster recovery site, including synchronous storage replication, global Windows clusters, and distributed VMware ESX farms with failover using Site Recovery Manager. Reduced RTO from five days to less than 90 minutes. Responsible for installation and administration of Windows and VMware servers at MCG’s central office and remote branch offices. Responsible for identifying hardware requirements and designing configurations, installation of hardware and software, and ongoing support. Administration of distributed Windows clusters and standalone servers, VMware ESX clusters, and virtual machines - over 300 servers total. Administration of Citrix farm and published applications. Responsibilities include evaluating new technologies and providing guidance for future adoption; working directly with vendors to provide direction for long-term strategy, utilization, growth, and capacity planning; server consolidation and reduction of server sprawl through virtualization, optimization, consolidation of business processes, and leveraging the private cloud to enable business agility. Active Directory administrator of MCG Organizational Unit within parent company’s domain, and Enterprise Administrator of MCG’s Active Directory forest. Management of user and computer accounts, group membership, group policy, DNS, and security.

Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

Consultant for small-medium sized businesses for all things IT related. Set up and managed servers, Active Directory, Exchange, SQL, firewalls, LANs, data backup and recovery, threat management, workstations, laptops, mobile devices, etc. Provided one-on-one support both on an ad hoc basis and on contracted terms to over two dozen customers. Interfaced directly with CEOs, business owners, and end users in end-to-end customer support. Augmented customers' existing IT resources to fill in missing skillsets, and in many cases managed the entire infrastructure of small companies which had no IT staff of their own.

Worked in a team of four DBAs to provide 24-7 support for mission-critical SQL Server databases, including both standalone SQL instances and clusters. Supported over 500 database instances for internal and external customers.