Nicholas Weaver

Current

Manager, I.T. Infrastructure at ThinkCash

Past

Systems Engineer at Daystar Television
IT Analyst at James Avery

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Nicholas Weaver’s Summary

Information technology professional with a broad knowledge of technology and passion for excellence. Strong experience as infrastructure architect implementing virtualization, environment refactoring, messaging, business intelligence, and business application platforms. Management experience leading teams of network, telephony, systems, and database engineers.

Skills:
- Excellent communicator for both business and technology audiences. Successfully designed, presented, and implemented infrastructure proposals for a wide array of critical services.
- Specialized experience designing solutions using VMware VI3 and vSphere for core information technology components including Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, OCS 2007, BizTalk, and .NET-based lending platform.
- Very strong understanding of storage system design, sizing, and implementation in a virtualized environment.
- Cisco expertise designing Unified Wireless, Routing and Switching, and ASA firewalls

Achievements:
- Adopted Agile methodologies normally employed by development teams into an operations-focused method. Designed framework outlining goals and merged Kanban methods into process. Successfully trained and led infrastructure team into the adoption. Documented results include morale boost across team, higher productivity, and better standardization of implementation and support policies
- Brought culture changing designs using VMware VI3 to migrate development environments, Microsoft Exchange, applications, databases, and infrastructure servers. Built upon each success to bring current employer to a >80% virtualized datacenter
- Core member of architectural decision team designing new lending platform to leverage BizTalk, SQL server, third-party rules engine, and .NET component services in a 100% virtualized data center.
- Led team of engineers to extremely successful Exchange 2007 migration using VMware VI3 and EMC Clariion Storage.

Nicholas Weaver’s Specialties:

Certified: VCP3, VCP4, MSCE 2k3, MSCA 2k3, CCNA (current)

• Networking: WAN, LAN, Cisco WLAN, Cisco PIX/ASA, ISA 2004, SSL/IPSec/L2TP VPN
• Enterprise Monitoring: SCOM 2007, Cacti, PRTG, Hyperic, MOM, Zenoss
• Security: RSA, GuardianEdge, Enterasys Dragon
• Messaging: Exchange(2000,2003,2007), StrongMail
• Storage: EMC, Isilon - FC,iSCSI,FCoE
• Development: PHP,VB.NET,C#, Python, Perl, Bash, PowerShell
• Virtualization: VMware VI3, vSphere
• Databases: SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL

Nicholas Weaver’s Experience

Manager, I.T. Infrastructure

ThinkCash

(Privately Held; Financial Services industry)

November 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)

Manager of Information Technology Infrastructure leading multidisciplinary engineering team of systems, network, database, and telephony engineers. Implemented hybrid Scrum/Kanban project management process and improved teams velocity and morale. Managed relationships with vendors and negotiated pricing and budgeting for major projects. Lead infrastructure architect with success across multiple implementations.
Systems Engineer

Daystar Television

(Partnership; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

January 2006 — November 2006 (11 months)

Lead systems engineer with top-level responsibilities including Windows 2003 Active Directory domain, email gateways, Exchange cluster, SAN, clustered NAS, LAN routing and switching, internal and edge firewalls, VPN access, backup systems, application systems, distributed server farm, database, and development.
IT Analyst

James Avery

(Privately Held; Retail industry)

June 2004 — January 2006 (1 year 8 months)

Lead engineer for Windows systems including administration of Windows domain using remote administration tools, group policies, DNS, DHCP, and file replication across multiple company locations. Assisted team with installation and troubleshooting of WAN, LAN, and WLAN equipment.