Franchise Owner

• Mar 2020 - Present

Solutions Architect

• Nov 2017 - Mar 2022

Consultant - Backup and Disaster recovery for CHS (large hospital system)

Solutions Architect

• Sep 2017 - Nov 2017

Consultant for Backup and Disaster Recovery, for Crawford and Company

Solutions Architect | Avamar | Data Domain | Networker

• 2016 - Sep 2017

Solutions Architect for the State of Texas Solutions Architect for the State of Texas

Advisory Solutions Architect

• 2013 - 2016

• Designed, built, and implemented some of the largest Avamar EMC migrations/technical refreshes to date. Including 220+ grids for major financial customers, ensuring maximum availability of critical business data with no unplanned downtime. • Completed evaluation of Old National bank’s backup and disaster recovery (DR) processes, resulting in new DR process that automated 80% fail over processes in case of disaster. • Architected and delivered complete technical refresh of backup and disaster recovery environment for CDW, consisting of 6 primary Avamar grids that included tape out via Avamar Extended Retention.• Headed and executed largest backup technical refresh in Citi Bank history, with over 65 Avamar grids migrated into 16 grids located in 6 different geographic areas.• Led and orchestrated migration of 90 Avamar grids into 33. Coordinated planning and writing, of consolidation script, and set up all environments for each client.• Completed evaluation of State of Tennessee’s backup and disaster recover practices state-wide, including over 20 different agencies, and culminating in account proposal of over $500M in changes and upgrades. Show less

Senior Solutions Architect

• 2010 - 2013

Advised clients and company associates and specified technical requirements during pre-sales and / or post-sales cycle. Designed and delivered backup solutions for large and medium companies located across Americas, including software installation, backup policy consultation and configuration, and client training. Evaluated Avamar beta product releases.• Mentored new boot camp individuals as key Avamar instructor for EMC education department. • Taught classes on how to deliver Avamar to newest and oldest delivery personnel.• Participated in developing EMC certification exam for all Avamar products with EMC Education department.• Worked in geographically diverse locations with minimal supervision, delivering on schedule and maintaining strong team atmosphere. Show less

Senior Practice Consultant

• 2007 - 2010

Served as technical and consultative lead for EMC technical solutions opportunities on range of complex IT consulting engagements, including requirement analysis, implementation, customization, integration, and documentation for customer. • Partnered with sales, project managers, technical service personnel, and customer, delivering approximately 40 Avamar systems each year, ensuring smooth implementation and transition from start-up and integration to production.• Selected as primary trainer for client documentation and knowledge transfer, consistently receiving outstanding customer feedback. • Wrote the first Avamar certification exam for EMC. Show less

EMC / Legato Networker Administrator - Subject Matter Expert (SME)

• 2006 - 2007

Completed redesign of DigitalGlobe's backup strategy and architecture, included resizing of existing servers and tape libraries, setting up cloning, staging and sending tapes offsite for DR purposes. • Implemented new instances of SQL backups for SharePoint databases. • Evaluated and increased efficiency of Exchange and SAP backups. • Implemented Dedicated Storage Node for largest client, reducing overall time backup time and network traffic. Completed redesign of DigitalGlobe's backup strategy and architecture, included resizing of existing servers and tape libraries, setting up cloning, staging and sending tapes offsite for DR purposes. • Implemented new instances of SQL backups for SharePoint databases. • Evaluated and increased efficiency of Exchange and SAP backups. • Implemented Dedicated Storage Node for largest client, reducing overall time backup time and network traffic.

EMC Networker / UNIX / NAS / SAN Storage Administrator

• 2004 - 2006

- Responsible for design, architecture and setup of backup strategies for enterprise level datacenter. As well as SAN and NAS administration. - Design and architecture of backup and disaster recover strategies. - Sizing of backup servers and storage node servers to sizing of tape libraries and calculating network loads. - Reasonable for granting space on the NAS and SAN. - Initiated a project to roll out Oracle RMAN throughout GE Industrial Systems.

Windows System Administrator/LAN Administrator

• 2000 - 2004

Responsible for NT/2000 administration for over 1000 servers globally and 150 servers located in Ft. Wayne data center. Tasks ranging from Building Application Servers, DHCP Servers, WINS Servers and Hardware support to as low as resetting passwords. Work with Network Team to setup IP addresses, masks, and proper VLAN and DNS setup.

Software Distribution Specialist / Webmaster

• 1999 - 2000

- Responsible for 150 globally located mirror servers that were designed as a web-based system that allowed any GE Industrial Systems employee to install GE approved packaged software from anywhere in the world. - Responsible for creating these software packages using a program called Wise, which is a scripting/repackaging tool that allowed us to fully automate and customize the install so there was no need for user intervention. With this tool we standardized software installs across the business. Show less