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Texas, United States

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

Dallas, Texas, Us

Topgolf is a $3.996B rapid-growth global sports entertainment community and Topgolf Callaway Brands (NYSE: MODG) subsidiary operating over 85 venues in the United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Thailand, the UAE and China. Innovative Topgolf games are fun for players of any age and skill level. Balls are shot from the tee using real Callaway golf clubs into 11 dartboard-like targets, ranging in distance from 20 to 215 yards in the landscaped outfield to score points leveraging a unique combination of RFID and Toptracer ball tracing technology. Extended reality gaming further enhances the guest experience, featuring stunning AAA titles like Angry Birds. Topgolf venues feature climate-controlled hitting bays, food and beverage service, and a full bar.

Dallas, Texas, Us

Topgolf is a $2.6B rapid-growth global sports entertainment community and Topgolf Callaway Brands (NYSE: MODG) subsidiary operating over 70 venues in the United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Thailand the UAE. Innovative Topgolf games are fun for players of any age and skill level. Balls are shot from the tee using real Callaway golf clubs into 11 dartboard-like targets, ranging in distance from 20 to 215 yards in the landscaped outfield to score points leveraging a unique combination of RFID and Toptracer ball tracing technology. Extended reality gaming further enhances the guest experience, featuring stunning AAA titles like Angry Birds. Topgolf venues feature climate-controlled hitting bays, food and beverage service, and a full bar.Charged with designing and creating enterprise architecture with a focus on Software Defined Data Center solutions, I am a key contributor and executor for the full lifecycle management of the SDDC; with an emphasis on technical innovation and conceptual design, technical design, implementation and technical team leadership.Responsible for delivering the technology roadmap for all infrastructure products, services and platforms; and participating in budgetary reviews, architecture reviews, procedure reviews and process reviews with the expectation to provide recommendations, feedback, and input on technology solutions and their implementations.

Dallas, Texas, Us

Topgolf is a privately owned, rapid-growth global sports entertainment community with an estimated value of $2.6B, and currently operating over 60 venues in the United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, Australia and the UAE. Innovative Topgolf games are fun for players of any age and skill level. Balls are shot from the tee using real Callaway golf clubs into 11 dartboard-like targets, ranging in distance from 20 to 215 yards in the landscaped outfield to score points leveraging a unique combination of RFID and Toptracer ball tracing technology. Extended reality gaming further enhances the guest experience, featuring stunning AAA titles like Angry Birds. Topgolf venues feature climate-controlled hitting bays, food and beverage service, and a full bar.Principal infrastructure engineer responsible for enterprise virtualization, storage, enterprise infrastructure, and venue technologies. Primary responsibilities include Dell EMC VxRail HCI appliances running VMware Horizon GPU-enabled VDI workloads for rendering the Toptracer product at scale.

Virtually Stable is a technology blog focusing on virtualization, hyperconvergence, cloud computing, end-user computing, automation and IT certification.

Texas, Us

PrimeLogic IT is an Information Technology consulting firm servicing small and medium business customers in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex.

Coppell, Texas, Us

At Home Group (NYSE: HOME) is a $1.2B emerging growth big box retail chain specializing in home décor products serving 40 states, and operating 262 stores nationwide.Responsible for requirements gathering, designing, planning, documentation, communication, implementation, architecture and deployment of infrastructure systems, with focus around leveraging and optimizing the use of the VMware hypervisor on-premises and Microsoft Azure in a 98% virtualized environment, and enterprise storage leveraging HPE Nimble hybrid arrays. Redesigned key infrastructure systems to ensure best practices and peak optimization including the storage and VMware environments, Veeam Backup and Replication, Active Directory, Group Policies, DNS, DHCP, Microsoft RDS, Duo two-factor authentication and other infrastructure systems. Implemented automated solutions for domain cleanup, maintenance, health checks and reporting. Designed dynamic policies in Turbonomic to automate workload placement, VM right-sizing, resource contention remediation and capacity planning both on-premises and in the AWS and Azure clouds. Standardized and documented enterprise naming conventions for all IT environments.Major initiatives include the relocation of the production data center into a colocation facility enabling the business to scale, the migration from vSphere 5.5 to 6.5, the deployment of vRealize Operations manager including plugins for compliance and various applications, the deployment of VMware Integrated Containers in support of various development and infrastructure initiatives, the redeployment and optimization of Veeam backup architecture, the redesign of Active Directory, the deployment of a DHCP failover cluster, the redesign of Group Policy in support of a larger standardization and automation effort, the redesign of Sites and Services, the redeployment of the Nimble storage architecture including the implementation of QoS and VVols and the optimization of protection templates.

Miami, Florida, Us

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits is the largest wine and spirit distributor in North America, operating in 44 states, the District of Columbia, Canada and the Caribbean, and distributing over 5K brands. Privately owned, it is an $18B company.Moved into a new role after the Glazer's and Southern Wine and Spirits merger. Responsible for data center design, maintenance and consolidation. Responsible for enterprise storage platforms including NetApp and Tintri storage arrays. Responsibe for enterprise data protection solutions including EMC Avamar and Commvault systems. Responsible for assisting in the design and implementation of a new infrastructure combining legacy Southern Wine & Spirits and Glazer's Distributors infrastructures into the new combined infrastructure for Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits.

Dallas, Texas, Us

Glazer's Distributors is one of the largest beverage distributors in North America, operating across 15 states. Privately owned by the Glazer family, it is a $4.3B company and #96 on the Forbes Largest Private Companies list.Responsible for requirements gathering, designing, planning, presentation, documentation, communication and implementation of innovative and highly automated solutions, with focus around leveraging and optimizing usage of the VMware and Hyper-V hypervisors in virtualized environments, NetApp and Tintri enterprise storage, Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, hosted enterprise communications systems, and other integrated enterprise systems. Responsible for resolving complex technical issues and implementing enterprise level infrastructure solutions. Primary focus included VMware, Citrix XenApp, Cisco UCS, Active Directory, Group Policy, Windows Server, NetApp storage, EMC Avamar data protection and Dematic integrated automated supply chain technologies. Major initiatives include the in-place upgrade of production and disaster recovery NetApp filers, and VMware vSphere 6.0 upgrades.

Irving, Texas, Us

Union Standard Insurance Group is a $250M operating unit of W. R. Berkley Corporation (NYSE: WRB), a Fortune® 500 company and one of the nation's premier commercial lines property and casualty insurance providers.Moved from a client support role into a systems administration role after two years. Responsible for designing, planning, purchasing, documenting, implementing, architecting, deploying, administration and monitoring of infrastructure systems including a VMware virtual environment, storage area network, backup infrastructure leveraging Symantec NetBackup and Quantum tape libraries, Windows and Linux servers, Citrix XenApp, Avaya Telecom systems, Active Directory, Group Policy and others. Also responsible for purchasing, standardizing, deploying, and supporting fixed assets, client and network systems as required including workstations, printers, Avaya phones, switches, and routers. Responsible for IT operations at ten regional offices across the southern United States and aided in the support of sister-company offices in various locations around the globe. Maintained documentation, business continuity and disaster recovery plans and security compliance. Implemented, maintained and tested high-availability and disaster recovery solutions. Created and maintained software packages and images for deployment to clients and servers. Built and maintained vendor relationships, negotiated contracts for new hardware and services.

Irving, Texas, Us

Union Standard Insurance Group is a $250M operating unit of W. R. Berkley Corporation (NYSE: WRB), a Fortune® 500 company and one of the nation's premier commercial lines property and casualty insurance providers.Responsible for client-side infrastructure including desktops, laptops, printers and peripherals. Standardized client systems including image and software deployments which reduced incidents by 80% and improved customer satisfaction exponentially. Scheduled asset replacements company wide to ensure that branch offices and departments were on the correct replacement cycle, and assisted in budgetary planning. Negotiated contracts for client-side equipment with vendors, ensuring minimal markup and maximum return on investment.

Richardson, Texas, Us

SPE International is the largest individual-member organization serving managers, engineers, scientists and other professionals worldwide in the upstream segment of the oil and gas industry.Worked as the lead analyst in a team of 4 technicians to resolve diverse end user issues. Responsible for maintaining and updating enterprise fixed assets including computers, printers, and phones. Installed and supported technology at various Oil & Gas Conferences including SPE events and Conferences such as the SPE Annual Technologies Conference, and Offshore Technology Conference. Supported and maintained office locations in Houston, TX; London, UK; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Calgary, Canada; Dubai, UAE; and Moscow, Russian Federation.

Irving, Tx, Us

TXU Energy is a $25M subsidiary of $2.3B Vistra Energy (NYSE: VST), and is the #1 choice for retail electricity in Texas serving nearly 2M business and residential customers throughout the state.Planned and executed a mass migration of 8,500 Dell laptops, desktops and servers from all previous windows platforms to Windows XP and Server 2003. Also migrated clients and servers from the IBM Lotus software suite to Microsoft Office and Exchange. Assisted in the planning and development of a process to replace and reimage client machines. Created a virtual environment to aid in the development of tools to increase project productivity. Developed and tested a wide range of scripts and applications to automate 85% of the workload and expedite the replacement and reimaging process, thus allowing the project to complete 8 months ahead of schedule and saving TXU tens of thousands of dollars. Developed and hosted an extensive intranet to track project progress, and host tools and documentation. Standardized the load set and images across multiple Dell platforms. Conducted onsite and phone interviews of clients across the company to assist in creating custom software profiles. This included the installation and configuration of multiple third party applications and custom applications designed specifically for TXU, based on their departmental and individual needs.

Irving, Tx, Us

Exela Technologies, Inc. (formerly BancTec, Inc.) is an Information Technology and Services company specializing in accounts payable automation, business process automation, digital transformation, workflow management, and technology. Exela serves over 3,700 customers, including 60% of the Fortune® 100, along with many of the world's largest retail chains, banks, law firms, healthcare insurance payers and providers and telecom companies, across more than 50 countries, through a secure, cloud-enabled global delivery model.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Eagan, Mn, Us