Quentin Smith
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Michael K.
Quentin was a key person on the team maintaining our Sun Solaris environment and storage transition from EMC to NetApp as well as the planning for the future growth and technology transitions. He continued to look for creative solutions to effectively manage costs and to do more with less. He effectively kept hardware productive longer in supporting our environment without adding additional costs. Quentin has had many successful opportunities to resolve issues for support for deployment of our systems around the globe. He has been effective in getting user and deployment issues resolved. He works well with both those within Benchmark Electronics as well as with outside vendors. Tasks he takes on get done on time and are done well. He is one who can be counted on for providing the support the company needs in the areas he is responsible for. Quentin has shown his ability to look to the future and meet the challenges of upgrades and support of hardware and OS version upgrades on our Unix platforms. He continues to improve the uptime of our systems by being proactive in his support of the systems. As a part of our disaster recovery planning, he integrated new technologies to create more efficiency in our backups as well as working on various means of replication to an offsite location. Given his experience, he will be an asset to any organization.
Dennis Davis
Quentin Smith was recruited by Benchmark Electronics to take ownership of the world-wide UNIX environments. These environments had been managed in a piece-meal manner but had grown in such complexity and importance to justify fulltime management and administration. Quentin took ownership of the environments and brought the expected professional management and service by using good business practices, dedication, and technical expertise. He owned our UNIX world and supported it 24 X 7 as needed. He proved his ability to work individually assuming all responsibility for a major part of the Benchmark network as well as a team player. In times of crisis, such as during hurricane preparation, he raised his level of service to the level of a professional that understands that a section of the business depends on him. During normal times, he was diligent to watch and anticipate issues as well as manage costs effectively. He provided budget planning, worked with vendors, and kept current on trends, expanding his expertise as virtual environments were implemented. I highly recommend Quentin to an organization that needs a good team player that brings detailed UNIX expertise as well as the aptitude and ability to manage the complete environment.
Michael K.
Quentin was a key person on the team maintaining our Sun Solaris environment and storage transition from EMC to NetApp as well as the planning for the future growth and technology transitions. He continued to look for creative solutions to effectively manage costs and to do more with less. He effectively kept hardware productive longer in supporting our environment without adding additional costs. Quentin has had many successful opportunities to resolve issues for support for deployment of our systems around the globe. He has been effective in getting user and deployment issues resolved. He works well with both those within Benchmark Electronics as well as with outside vendors. Tasks he takes on get done on time and are done well. He is one who can be counted on for providing the support the company needs in the areas he is responsible for. Quentin has shown his ability to look to the future and meet the challenges of upgrades and support of hardware and OS version upgrades on our Unix platforms. He continues to improve the uptime of our systems by being proactive in his support of the systems. As a part of our disaster recovery planning, he integrated new technologies to create more efficiency in our backups as well as working on various means of replication to an offsite location. Given his experience, he will be an asset to any organization.
Dennis Davis
Quentin Smith was recruited by Benchmark Electronics to take ownership of the world-wide UNIX environments. These environments had been managed in a piece-meal manner but had grown in such complexity and importance to justify fulltime management and administration. Quentin took ownership of the environments and brought the expected professional management and service by using good business practices, dedication, and technical expertise. He owned our UNIX world and supported it 24 X 7 as needed. He proved his ability to work individually assuming all responsibility for a major part of the Benchmark network as well as a team player. In times of crisis, such as during hurricane preparation, he raised his level of service to the level of a professional that understands that a section of the business depends on him. During normal times, he was diligent to watch and anticipate issues as well as manage costs effectively. He provided budget planning, worked with vendors, and kept current on trends, expanding his expertise as virtual environments were implemented. I highly recommend Quentin to an organization that needs a good team player that brings detailed UNIX expertise as well as the aptitude and ability to manage the complete environment.
Michael K.
Quentin was a key person on the team maintaining our Sun Solaris environment and storage transition from EMC to NetApp as well as the planning for the future growth and technology transitions. He continued to look for creative solutions to effectively manage costs and to do more with less. He effectively kept hardware productive longer in supporting our environment without adding additional costs. Quentin has had many successful opportunities to resolve issues for support for deployment of our systems around the globe. He has been effective in getting user and deployment issues resolved. He works well with both those within Benchmark Electronics as well as with outside vendors. Tasks he takes on get done on time and are done well. He is one who can be counted on for providing the support the company needs in the areas he is responsible for. Quentin has shown his ability to look to the future and meet the challenges of upgrades and support of hardware and OS version upgrades on our Unix platforms. He continues to improve the uptime of our systems by being proactive in his support of the systems. As a part of our disaster recovery planning, he integrated new technologies to create more efficiency in our backups as well as working on various means of replication to an offsite location. Given his experience, he will be an asset to any organization.
Dennis Davis
Quentin Smith was recruited by Benchmark Electronics to take ownership of the world-wide UNIX environments. These environments had been managed in a piece-meal manner but had grown in such complexity and importance to justify fulltime management and administration. Quentin took ownership of the environments and brought the expected professional management and service by using good business practices, dedication, and technical expertise. He owned our UNIX world and supported it 24 X 7 as needed. He proved his ability to work individually assuming all responsibility for a major part of the Benchmark network as well as a team player. In times of crisis, such as during hurricane preparation, he raised his level of service to the level of a professional that understands that a section of the business depends on him. During normal times, he was diligent to watch and anticipate issues as well as manage costs effectively. He provided budget planning, worked with vendors, and kept current on trends, expanding his expertise as virtual environments were implemented. I highly recommend Quentin to an organization that needs a good team player that brings detailed UNIX expertise as well as the aptitude and ability to manage the complete environment.
Michael K.
Quentin was a key person on the team maintaining our Sun Solaris environment and storage transition from EMC to NetApp as well as the planning for the future growth and technology transitions. He continued to look for creative solutions to effectively manage costs and to do more with less. He effectively kept hardware productive longer in supporting our environment without adding additional costs. Quentin has had many successful opportunities to resolve issues for support for deployment of our systems around the globe. He has been effective in getting user and deployment issues resolved. He works well with both those within Benchmark Electronics as well as with outside vendors. Tasks he takes on get done on time and are done well. He is one who can be counted on for providing the support the company needs in the areas he is responsible for. Quentin has shown his ability to look to the future and meet the challenges of upgrades and support of hardware and OS version upgrades on our Unix platforms. He continues to improve the uptime of our systems by being proactive in his support of the systems. As a part of our disaster recovery planning, he integrated new technologies to create more efficiency in our backups as well as working on various means of replication to an offsite location. Given his experience, he will be an asset to any organization.
Dennis Davis
Quentin Smith was recruited by Benchmark Electronics to take ownership of the world-wide UNIX environments. These environments had been managed in a piece-meal manner but had grown in such complexity and importance to justify fulltime management and administration. Quentin took ownership of the environments and brought the expected professional management and service by using good business practices, dedication, and technical expertise. He owned our UNIX world and supported it 24 X 7 as needed. He proved his ability to work individually assuming all responsibility for a major part of the Benchmark network as well as a team player. In times of crisis, such as during hurricane preparation, he raised his level of service to the level of a professional that understands that a section of the business depends on him. During normal times, he was diligent to watch and anticipate issues as well as manage costs effectively. He provided budget planning, worked with vendors, and kept current on trends, expanding his expertise as virtual environments were implemented. I highly recommend Quentin to an organization that needs a good team player that brings detailed UNIX expertise as well as the aptitude and ability to manage the complete environment.
Experience
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CD-adapco
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United States
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Software Development
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100 - 200 Employee
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Senior Systems Adminsitrator
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Sep 2012 - Present
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Inside sales
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2001 - 2015
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Senior Systems Adminsitrator
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2012 - 2012
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Benchmark Electronics
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Angleton, Texas
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Unix systems, Storage, Disaster Recovery Administrator
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Jun 2004 - Jan 2012
Designing and managing Netapps, EMC Clariion technologies, also VMware support. Manage system backups and storage corporate and world wide. Design/implement ability to manage total system infrastructure remotely world wide. Designing and managing Disaster and Recover sight. Works under general direction of senior management. Establishes/recommends policies and procedures for system use and services. Provides the technical lead and /or supervision for system… Show more Designing and managing Netapps, EMC Clariion technologies, also VMware support. Manage system backups and storage corporate and world wide. Design/implement ability to manage total system infrastructure remotely world wide. Designing and managing Disaster and Recover sight. Works under general direction of senior management. Establishes/recommends policies and procedures for system use and services. Provides the technical lead and /or supervision for system administrators, system programmers, or others. Had purchasing authority and responsibility for purchase for corporate infrastructure. Show less Designing and managing Netapps, EMC Clariion technologies, also VMware support. Manage system backups and storage corporate and world wide. Design/implement ability to manage total system infrastructure remotely world wide. Designing and managing Disaster and Recover sight. Works under general direction of senior management. Establishes/recommends policies and procedures for system use and services. Provides the technical lead and /or supervision for system… Show more Designing and managing Netapps, EMC Clariion technologies, also VMware support. Manage system backups and storage corporate and world wide. Design/implement ability to manage total system infrastructure remotely world wide. Designing and managing Disaster and Recover sight. Works under general direction of senior management. Establishes/recommends policies and procedures for system use and services. Provides the technical lead and /or supervision for system administrators, system programmers, or others. Had purchasing authority and responsibility for purchase for corporate infrastructure. Show less
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Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
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Austin, Texas
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Unix Systems Administrator
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Jun 2003 - Jun 2004
Resolves problem (evaluate symptoms, identify problems, correct problem, document the fix, provide info to customer) for computer hardware and software; resolves system exceptions on AIX and Linux platforms. Installs, configures, deploys, troubleshoot, upgrade, customizes maintaining operation system and application software test software prior to deployment. Enforce security rules and IT standards, and determine and implementing security standards Evaluate/test new products… Show more Resolves problem (evaluate symptoms, identify problems, correct problem, document the fix, provide info to customer) for computer hardware and software; resolves system exceptions on AIX and Linux platforms. Installs, configures, deploys, troubleshoot, upgrade, customizes maintaining operation system and application software test software prior to deployment. Enforce security rules and IT standards, and determine and implementing security standards Evaluate/test new products, documents strengths and vulnerabilities Sets up new accounts, modifies, deletes account information, evaluate need for access right, validates, secures appropriate permissions. Created security profiles, maintain security controls over e-mail, backup systems, maintaining records of system performance and operation. Recommend procedures, standards and techniques, research and analyze specific tools to solve business solution. Monitored system performance, capacity utilization, manage disk storage system, implement efficiency improvements, direct performance of routine backup, recovery, and archival of file storage. Implementation of schedules for software upgrades, worked with vendors to resolve product solution and interfaces with business systems. Show less Resolves problem (evaluate symptoms, identify problems, correct problem, document the fix, provide info to customer) for computer hardware and software; resolves system exceptions on AIX and Linux platforms. Installs, configures, deploys, troubleshoot, upgrade, customizes maintaining operation system and application software test software prior to deployment. Enforce security rules and IT standards, and determine and implementing security standards Evaluate/test new products… Show more Resolves problem (evaluate symptoms, identify problems, correct problem, document the fix, provide info to customer) for computer hardware and software; resolves system exceptions on AIX and Linux platforms. Installs, configures, deploys, troubleshoot, upgrade, customizes maintaining operation system and application software test software prior to deployment. Enforce security rules and IT standards, and determine and implementing security standards Evaluate/test new products, documents strengths and vulnerabilities Sets up new accounts, modifies, deletes account information, evaluate need for access right, validates, secures appropriate permissions. Created security profiles, maintain security controls over e-mail, backup systems, maintaining records of system performance and operation. Recommend procedures, standards and techniques, research and analyze specific tools to solve business solution. Monitored system performance, capacity utilization, manage disk storage system, implement efficiency improvements, direct performance of routine backup, recovery, and archival of file storage. Implementation of schedules for software upgrades, worked with vendors to resolve product solution and interfaces with business systems. Show less
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Education
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2002 - 2004
Our Lady of the Lake University
MBA, E-Commerce -
1984 - 1988
American International College
BS-BA, Marketing
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