Brad Horsley

Brad Horsley

Enterprise Architect, TopLinked.com, brad.horsley@gmail.com

Greater St. Louis Area

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
Education
  • Briar Cliff University
  • Morningside College
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 2005Present (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)

    2001Present (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)

    19972005 (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)

    19951997 (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)

    19951997 (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)

    19971997 (less than a year)

    Staff Chairperson 1997

  • President

    InetUSA, Inc

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

    19921995 (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)

    19881992 (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.


Additional Information

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Brad Horsley’s Interests:

New Technology, golf, professional networking, reading

Brad Horsley’s Groups:

Association of Storage Networking Professionals www.asnp.org

  •    Executive Suite
  •    PartnerPoint - An online community of over 8,000 Microsoft Partners
  •    LInked Business Strategists
  •    CISCO Affiliates
  •    Fidelity Investments Networking Group
  •    TopLinked.com (Open Networkers)
  •    VMware Virtual Community
  •    St Louis Information Technology Network (STLITNET)
  •    GroupLinked.com
  •    Facebook network
  •    Storage: SAN, NAS
  •    Vyatta Users
  •    Data Storage Professionals Group
  •    BlackBookBerry Fans

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