Ryan Farrington Email & Phone Number

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Plano, Tx

• Deep integration with the development teams to document processes and generate data flow diagrams• Brought a heavy focus to the SAN environment, highlighting inefficiencies while working solutions out of existing overhead. • Design and manage custom object based storage tier• Principle owner and driver of a project to reduced operating expense by $156,000 yearly by optimizing cloud based infrastructure and automating on demand bursting of production environments • Created custom monitoring application for Operations systems. Technologies included Powershell, C#, Perl, VB, PHP and SQL.• Deployed XCP1.49 to initially support Development, QA and UAT environments. • Proven stability of XCP1.49 as a production capable platform. Average of 80% virtualized in the entire enterprise. • Support multiple EMC storage arrays as well as Cisco switch hardware in multiple live datacenters• Build 1 year projection of SAN usage metrics and growth patterns• Designed, acquired and implemented creative solutions to budget strapped projects.

Brought inventorying and organization of all physical server and network assets. To accomplish this I developed a web portal and back-end database that made data entry and automated discovery simple and provided a platform for easy integration with third-party management software. When an issue needs to be researched and an RCA identified I am the first and last person called upon. Most situations I may not be deeply involved in the product or process but I have the skill-set and knowledge necessary to ask the right questions and if required I can perform the discovery myself. Designed and improved the SAN infrastructure for the entire enterprise. I developed and implemented a centralized data store for all performance and growth related metrics. The data I provide to the business allows them to manage their data efficiently and provides the foundation for any additional purchases or capacity discussions.

Managed day to day operations relating to upkeep and troubleshooting for the main Match.com website, which yielded a rate of 99.9% uptime.Lead role for research and engineering of the development of new technologies directly effecting the reduction of operating expenses and website optimization.Created custom monitoring application for Operations systems. Technologies included Coldfusion, Perl, and SQL.Managed internal & external groups, while playing an integral role in plan execution, in order to increase site uptime & response time from 90 - 100% by migrating from internal based DNS systems to UltraDNS services.Created, managed and executed the Disaster Recovery Model for Match.com.Managed the load balancing of the Match.com website between two data centers, in order to create redundancy which will result in seamless customer impact in the event of an emergency or disaster. This will also lower operating costs by dividing the hardware & floor space required at each datacenter.Managed the deployment of VMWare ESX 3.5 to support Development and QA, in an effort to lower operating costs through the utilization of VMWare's technology of server virtualization.Managed the setup of new hardware and overall environment for the new Chemistry.com website.