Travis Merrill Email & Phone Number

Texas, United States

Irvine, California, Us

Frisco, Texas, Us

Providing strategic direction for IT services and infrastructure, applications and supportResearching and Implementing products and services that add value and support company initiatives Data and System SecurityCloud & Mobile Computing InitiativesVirtualization (Server and Desktop)Managing IT teams and projectsContract negotiationDepartment & Project budgetingDisaster Recovery / Business Continuity PlanningService & Support KPIs

* Virtualization: Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI): Architect, Selection, Procurement, Implementation and Management of a VDI solution designed for a 1,000 seat VMware View environment. Implementing virtualized applications. Significantly improving the user experience and providing always-on connectivity to critical applications, centralizing data, increasing security, availability, recovery, and mobile accessibility.100% Virtualized Server Infrastructure: Reducing costs through consolidation with virtualization, increasing reliability and high availability, providing agility and simplified growth. Dramatically reducing provisioning time for new systems, to just minutes. Implementation of automated monitoring and remediation tool sets, to maintain an optimal system state.* Cloud Technology: Design, test and implement: migration from on premise Exchange to Office 365 cloud services. Providing same-day upgrade to Office 2013 Suite using app deployment automation.* Desktop Optimization: Managed a project to reduce client system outages by 75%, increasing standardization, utilizing software automation and provisioning of packaged applications and customized OS.* Enterprise Network & Storage Systems: Upgrade to 10Gbps network infrastructure, and multiple storage system upgrades providing increased data access speed, as required for business systems, applications and functions.* Disaster Recovery: Architect for a DR plan to provide near zero downtime for all critical applications and systems. Successfully performed multiple DR tests.* Mergers & Acquisitions: Successfully completed multiple acquisitions and the merger with Martin Marietta. Project lead for data center migration - moving 100+ virtual servers with minimal downtime and 100% success rate.

Irving, Tx, Us

* Data Center Refresh: Complete redesign/refresh of the datacenter, racks, power, cooling, servers, storage, network* Creation of IT Technical Roadmap: Create system standards and align department’s strategic plans to business requirements and objectives* Architect for R&D and Test Environments: Design and implement server and client environments to provide non-prod and test / QA clones of production, for development, testing and support of corporate applications and changes.* Server Virtualization: VMware solution deployed to consolidate servers, reduce costs, and improve system availability.

Meridian, Idaho, Us

* Windows System and Network administration, WAN and LAN switching / routing. * Procurement and system design for servers and networking infrastructure* Level 3 Technical support, administrator training, process creation/documentation* Application Development – purchasing, maintenance, helpdesk, remote assistance, and asset management

Computer Information Services

Computer Engineering

High School Diploma