Jay Everson

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Jay Everson’s Summary

Highly efficient dedicated professional with an unusual breadth of IT-related experience and a proven track record of getting the job done. Visible achievements developing high-caliber, peak-performing organizations through excellent leadership, communication, and team management skills. Managed numerous successful projects, in both functional and matrix environments, through the consistent ability to gather requirements, optimize schedules and resources, manage risks, and respond to complex issues quickly and effectively. A fundamental belief of leading by example, and not afraid to get hands dirty by opening up a server, racking a system, configuring a RAID, or writing a script or two.

Possesses in-depth knowledge of corporate IT infrastructure, complex acquisition integration requirements, and divestiture requirements. Skilled at understanding performance metrics and developing SLAs. Frequently cited by community, supervisors and colleagues for strong decision making, fair and consistent leadership, industry knowledge, and the ability to remain calm and productive under pressure.

Career Overview: Over 23 years IT experience, with nearly 12 years experience managing staff, over 7 years experience managing enterprise projects, and a solid technical system administration background. Possesses a wide range of knowledge in system administration and infrastructure architecture. This includes a variety of operating systems (Windows, UNIX, and Linux), infrastructure services (DNS, NIS, DHCP, SNMP, etc.), network devices (switches, routers, and load balancers), file services (NAS/SAN), web server software (apache and IIS), and best practices and standards (such as ITIL). Currently obtaining PMP certification from PMI.

Jay Everson’s Specialties:

* Data Center Production Operations
* Data Center Design and Construction
* R&D/Software Development Lab Support
* Production & R&D Environment Integration
* Windows/Linux/UNIX Infrastructure Architecture
* Project Management of Enterprise Projects
* Project Management Tools (MS Project, Visio, etc.)
* Acquisition/Integration/Divestiture
* Employee Relations/Staff Development
* BSM/ITIL
* SLA and Metric development
* Virtualization
* Networking
* System Monitoring