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Greater Denver Area

INFRASTRUCTURE ARCHITECT | JANUS HENDERSON INVESTORS (ON CONTRACT FROM APEX SYSTEMS) | 2018 - PRESENT· Enterprise architect focused on infrastructure projects for a large, multinational investment firm· Writing high level design and detailed design documents for projects· Working with stakeholders to develop requirements documents for projects· Reviewing solutions to determine if they meet the requirements· Working on multiple projects at a time and keeping them on time· Working with different groups within the IT organization, such as information security and engineering to make sure specifications meet the requirements· Cultivating strategic relationships with stakeholders

Greater Denver Area

· Converged infrastructure includes: converged, hyperconverged, storage, data protection, and disaster recovery· Successfully implemented the insourcing of virtualization, storage, and backup teams from offshore IBM resources to internal hires over the course of a year, resulting in millions of dollars in savings· Transitioned large SAP environment from external support company to internal team management · Manage the relationship between projects and the infrastructure teams, assigning appropriate resources to specific projects as needed to ensure work is completed· Represent infrastructure at technical review board, approve design, raise questions, and enforce standards for new service offerings· Team Lead for a group of 13 converged support administrators, managing the Xcel virtual and converged environments · Ensure adherence to project timelines and addressing any issues as soon as the arise· Documenting policies and procedures for future onboarding · Planning optimization and implementation of best practices and prioritizing based on potential risk· Cultivating strategic relationships with vendors who provide equipment, professional services, and training

· Installing, configuring and maintaining storage arrays and storage equipment including NetApp FAS3250, Isilon NL400, Hitachi Data Systems VSP G600, Nexsan SATABeast, and HP LeftHand SAN. Deploying, monitoring, maintaining Cisco UCS with NetApp storage for new virtual environment including both virtual server and virtual desktop environments· Installing, configuring, and maintaining VMWare vSphere environment with 78 hosts and 1000+ virtual machines, both desktop and server, Windows and Linux· Developing, deploying and maintaining storage solutions for internal clients including standalone arrays or shared storage using CIFS, NFS, or iSCSI· Act as a liaison between Research Computing and the Office of Information Technology supporting collaboration between departments and finding solutions to best meet the storage needs of our campus· Supported and maintained the CU Boulder Research Computing PETA Library and Janus supercomputer· Develop plans for dealing with future growth of both our storage and virtual environments· Research, test and recommend a unified backup solution for storage and virtual environments

· Installing, configuring and maintaining storage arrays and storage equipment including EMC CX4- 960 SAN, VNX 5700, 5600, and 5300, NAS, EqualLogic iSCSI arrays, and Dell Compellent SC8000 SAN· Designing and deploying solution for PeopleSoft database storage and full migration from EMC Symmetrix to EMC CX4-960 with no unplanned downtime· Installing, configuring and maintaining Brocade fiber channel switches including fiber channel zoning and LUN masking· Installing, configuring and maintaining a VMware 5.x environment including approximately 800 Windows and 200 Linux virtual servers· Researching, installing, and configuring Site Recovery Manager (SRM) for VMware 4.1 through 5.x. Maintaining a VMware Application Discovery Manager environment· Coordinating support with external vendors. Serving as part of a 24/7 365 on call rotation supporting storage and virtual environments· Troubleshooting using a variety of techniques including log analysis, packet captures, trending and diagnostics and resolving hardware and software issues affecting a large number of faculty, staff and students· Preparing sizing and IOPS requirements for replacement hardware· Server and application tuning for peak performance· Daily monitoring and monthly reporting of key performance metrics· Environment review for improvement and optimization· Supporting collaboration between groups in within the Division of IT

· Maintaining server environment of 300+ servers and 3,000+ clients· Supporting Windows and Linux servers, Microsoft Active Directory, and VMware ESX· Managing and upgrading Citrix XP server farm. Migrating servers and environment from NetWare to Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003· Migrating from NDS to Microsoft Active Directory· Disaster recovery planning, testing and documentation for Active Directory· Implementing, utilizing, future planning for TSM backup solution