Travis Kreikemeier Email & Phone Number

Omaha, Ne, Us

Omaha, Nebraska

• Manage a team of talented solutions engineers that cover some of the largest accounts at F5• Runner up F5 North American Solutions Engineer Manager of the Year Award• 2022 Platinum Club Winner• Partner and collaborate with our customers to provide them with the best solutions to provide business value and solve their biggest application issues

Omaha, Nebraska

• Winner of the F5 North American Solutions Engineer of the Year Award• 2019 Platinum Club Winner

Omaha, Nebraska

• Clearly articulated technical elements of the F5 value proposition to customers and partners.• Built extensive customer relationships and trust.• Delivered presentations and demos of F5 products to customers and industry conference attendees.• Identified F5 solutions to meet customer business objectives.• Provided complex design and systems engineering configurations.• Managed many successful Proof of Concepts with customers.• Solved complex networking and application issues for customers.• Worked proactively with customer and support to resolve production issues quickly.• Worked closely with my team, manager, subject matter experts and solution architects.• Consistently provided world-class customer service during pre-sales, implementation, and post-sales activities.• Partnered with sales team to maintain detailed account profiles including organizational charts, customer products, strategy and technology needs.• Hosted many customer training and user group events around the country.• Created training material for F5 Products.• Taught yearly classes at F5 Agility Conferences.• Subject Matter Expert (SME) in many F5 Products and Solutions.

Omaha, Nebraska

Top 100 Largest Online Ecommerce Companies• Led direct report managers to manage our rock star team of engineers and administrators.• Developed long term IT Infrastructure strategy, annual IT plans and budgets; with a focus on improving revenue and reducing IT costs.• Defined and managed multi-million dollar opex and capex budgets.• Ensured effective management and best practices of the IT infrastructure environment.• Developed and maintained effective procedures and strategic objectives for the IT Infrastructure in alignment with business objectives.• Collected and communicated priorities for resolving issues presented.• Prepared and presented team accomplishments and objectives at company review and planning meetings.• Communicated regularly to executives, peers, and team.• Developed, implemented, and maintained policies, procedures and associated training plans for infrastructure administration and project management.• Ensured that projects were completed on schedule and within budget.• Proactively managed and interacted with the business to monitor service level and identify ways to improve.• Lead the technology selection process.• Ensured adherence to company policies, standards, and procedures.

Omaha, Nebraska

• Hired and built a rock star team of engineers and administrators.• Planned IT projects in detail and drove projects to completion within deadlines.• Strategized plans for future growth and needs of the business.• Budgeted projects and designed them to fit within set budgets.• Trained network engineers, administrators and desktop support team members.• Defined and administrated security policies for systems, data centers, applications, web-applications, and our virtual environment.• Developed and managed change management controls, approvals and workflow for system changes.• Conducted audits of change management process to meet compliance requirements.• Audited network, systems and applications to validate compliance to security policies.• Conducted penetration/vulnerability testing to validate security confidence.

Omaha, Nebraska

• Designed, implemented, and maintained over 500 servers in 3 data centers.• Effectively designed, implemented and administrated a corporate network consisting of over 700 desktops.• Diligently designed redundancy in network stack and servers for high availability.• Designed and implemented redundant active/active data centers for ultra-availability.• Designed, implemented and maintained F5 BIG-IP LTM, GTM, and ASM.• Accomplished near 100% uptime of network, web sites and applications.• Designed network that accomplished over 400 million in sales in a fiscal year.• Designed, implemented and maintained multiple EMC and NetApp SANs.• Implemented and managed Cisco firewalls, IPS, routers, and switches.• Managed and cultivated relationships with vendors and consultants.• System administrator for Linux and Windows servers.• Documented and diagrammed processes and network infrastructure.• Implemented processes and security across the network to meet compliance.• Conducted penetration testing against the network internally and externally.• Administrator for Linux servers hosting Oracle E-Business Suite.• Designed, implemented and managed enterprise data backup procedures.• Diligently worked with other departments to make sure their needs were meet within the given timeframes.• Managed and guided fellow team members on projects and tasks.

Omaha, Nebraska

• Operated and managed the company including strategy, marketing, sales, client services, billing, accounting, and filing financial reports.• Designed, implemented, and administrated many business IT environments. • Brought on an employee and managed contractors to facilitate day to day business operations.• Provided technical support to clients over the phone, in person, and on-site.• Served as Systems Administrator for many businesses.• Built trusted relationships with clients through showing dependability and demonstrating proficiency while serving their technical needs.• Effectively communicated technical concepts to all levels of end users.• Diagnosed and repaired many computers.• Designed and built new custom computers and servers for clients based on their individual needs and specifications.

Omaha, Nebraska

• Operated and managed the company including strategy, marketing, sales, client services, billing, accounting, and filing financial reports.• Implemented and managed servers co-located in data centers in Dallas, Chicago, and Ashburn, Virginia.• Programmed internal software for customer management, automation of many business processes and billing with online customer portal access through our corporate web site.• Brought on two employees to manage and facilitate day to day business operations.

West Point, Nebraska

• Designed, implemented, and administrated a multitude of business IT environments. • Diagnosed and repaired over 2,000 computers.• Coached, motivated and trained a team of internal technicians.• Provided technical support to clients over the phone, in person, and on-site.• Served as Systems Administrator for many businesses, schools, and libraries.• Built trusted relationships with clients through showing dependability and demonstrating proficiency while serving their technical needs.• Effectively communicated technical concepts to all levels of end users.• Designed and built new custom computers and servers for clients based on their individual needs and specifications.

Bachelor Of Science – Triple Major, Information Technology

Magna Cum Laude Computer Information Systems Networking Computer Information Systems Web-Based Networking Computer Information Systems.

Associate Of Applied Science, Computer Systems Networking And Telecommunications