Brad Horsley

Current

Senior Systems Engineer at Pillar Data Systems
Managing Partner at Randley LLC

Past

Systems & Storage Architect at Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.
Consultant - Systems Architect at Briar Cliff University
President at TechnologyOne, Inc.

Board of Directors at Briar Cliff University
President at InetUSA, Inc
Director of Sales and Service at Executive Computer Systems

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Education

Briar Cliff University
Morningside College

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer Hardware

Websites

Brad Horsley’s Summary

18 Years IT Experience
Enterprise Architecture
Project Leadership
Enterprise Resource Planning
Customer Relationship Management
Business Process re-engineering
Business Continuance
Project Planning, budgeting and scheduling
Systems Analysis
Systems Design
Network Design
Systems Auditing
IT Security Planning and management
Storage Administration
Business Intelligence
Data Mining
Data Warehousing

Brad Horsley’s Specialties:

Storage Architectures - Pillar Axiom, HDS, NetApp, HP, Brocade, Emulex, QLogic
Cisco® MDS 9000 Series FC fabric switches and directors
SAN, Backups, Replication, D-R, ILM, SRM, NAS, CIFS, NFS, DeDup, CDP, Mirroring, Snapshots, SnapClones, QoS
Databases - Oracle, SQL, MySQL
VMWare ESX, Vi, Motion
Veritas Clustering, Netbackup
Microsoft Clustering, AD, Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint
FalconStor VTL, SIR and IPStor
InMage DR-Scout
Citrix XenServer, XenApp, XenDesktop
DataDomain

Brad Horsley’s Experience

Senior Systems Engineer

Pillar Data Systems

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

October 2005 — Present (2 years 11 months)

Founded in 2001, Pillar Data Systems develops midrange and enterprise network storage systems. The company's Pillar Axiom solution, driven by its innovative policy-based management capabilities, integrates SAN and NAS into a centrally managed storage platform. Pillar Axiom systems consolidate multiple tiers of enterprise network storage into a single, easily managed system capable of scaling to hundreds of terabytes of capacity. Pillar Data Systems is privately funded by Tako Ventures, LLC, the venture arm of Larry Ellison.
Managing Partner

Randley LLC

(Partnership; 11-50 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

2001 — Present (7 years)

Randley is a private investment group, focusing primarily on real estate, financial and technology investments.
Systems & Storage Architect

Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BUD; Food Production industry)

1997 — 2005 (8 years)

Plan, design, and analyze the organization’s storage infrastructure, while ensuring high levels of data quality and availability. Also responsible for capacity planning, backup and restore process design, performance analysis, and developing data disaster recovery plans. Develop, implement, and oversee policies and procedures to ensure consistent storage provisioning and uptime.
Consultant - Systems Architect

Briar Cliff University

(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1995 — 1997 (2 years)

Develop and maintain the high-level design plan for the overall logical and technical IT architecture. Provide technical leadership and consulting across the organization, from strategic decision making down to the project planning level. Organizational commitment for all high-level infrastructure plans, and initiate and participate in projects to evaluate technologies and methods for implementing these plans.
President

TechnologyOne, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1995 — 1997 (2 years)

We strived to ensure our clients invest in technology that aligns with their business objectives and makes sense from a practical and financial perspective.
The company provided Technical Services and Internet Hosting.
Board of Directors

Briar Cliff University

(Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

1997 — 1997 (less than a year)

Staff Chairperson 1997
President

InetUSA, Inc

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

1992 — 1995 (3 years)

Internet Service Provider serving 24,000 clients in midwest.
Sold client base to National Service Provider.
Director of Sales and Service

Executive Computer Systems

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1988 — 1992 (4 years)

As Director of Sales and Service I was responsible for the overall coordination, the functional management and leadership of all of the sales and service activities of the business. The position reported directly to the President.

Responsibilities:
Establishment of both annual and monthly sales objectives in coordination with the Company's business plan. Providing an annual Sales Plan and providing quarterly updates, revisions and modifications to the Plan. Coordinating the specific objectives of the Sales Plan with all of the functional departments of the company and, most specifically with Manufacturing and Finance. Successful management of the needs of the Company's customers in order to meet the objectives of the company's overall business plans and strategies. Managed all of the field and in house sales/service functions of The Company's facilities.