Infrastructure Manager at Fannie Mae
Washington D.C. Metro Area
- Current
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- Storage Manager at Fannie Mae
- Past
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- Network Services Manager at UUNET Technologies, Inc
- Member Technical Staff at Corporation for Open Systems
- Student Systems Engineer at Old Dominion University
- Education
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- The George Washington University
- George Mason University
- Old Dominion University
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Connections
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- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
James R Revell Jr’s Summary
IT systems management professional concentrating on enterprise server, storage, and network infrastructure in internet environments. Experienced in delivering cost-effective solutions, managing technology resources, and leading teams responsible for mission-critical support. Familiar with running a world-class data center and managing IT operations at small and global organizations.
James R Revell Jr’s Specialties:
Unix and Storage/SAN systems engineering, system integration, performance analysis/tuning, managed services
James R Revell Jr’s Experience
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Storage Manager
Fannie Mae
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; FNM; Capital Markets industry)
November 2003 — Present (5 years 2 months)
Roles from Sr Engineer to Manager in Unix and SAN systems engineering. Currently managing team responsible for 24x7 SAN/storage operations for 4 PB of EMC and Hitachi storage and 8000 Brocade ports in multiple data centers, from supervision to vendor management and budgeting. Responsible for design, purchase, and deployment of all new storage solutions, engineering of disaster recovery and business continuity, as well as increasing utilization and driving down costs.
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Infrastructure Architect
Ajilon
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2002 — October 2003 (1 year 10 months)
Contracted to Fannie Mae via MYTA (later purchased by Ajilon) as an Infrastructure Architect for J2EE "Core" project. Developed infrastructure solutions, coordinated deployments, and provided high-level troubleshooting for servers, SANs, networks, and a range of enterprise software (Oracle, Weblogic, ETL). Work included lots of HA, DR, and business continuity solutions, as well as detailed I/O performance analysis of high volume databases.
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Unix Manager
EYT
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2001 — November 2001 (10 months)
Unix and Storage engineering and administration for application/managed service division
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Consultant
Revell Industries
(Information Technology and Services industry)
April 1997 — January 2001 (3 years 10 months)
Provided internet services consulting and management of BSD Unix servers (BSDi and OpenBSD) and internet/web services. Involved in managed services strategy
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Network Services Manager
UUNET Technologies, Inc
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; UUNT; Computer Networking industry)
November 1989 — January 1997 (7 years 3 months)
3rd techie at the first commericial ISP, holding several roles. I managed Network Services -- all operations, engineering, and customer support for the original UUCP business as well as common infrastructure services (mail, news, ftp, DNS, hostmaster/postmaster) and IT from founding thru VC investment. I oversaw configuration and documention for 3rd party internet software, as well as database and service development projects. I later managed corporate Unix systems and data center infrastructure until the WorldCom purchase. Before creation of an international services division, I also acted as sole international field engineer, jump-starting internet services for strategic foreign partners.
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Member Technical Staff
Corporation for Open Systems
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Computer Networking industry)
May 1988 — November 1989 (1 year 7 months)
Development of X.25 and ISDN protocol conformance test systems. SunOS and network administration.
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Student Systems Engineer
Old Dominion University
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Education Management industry)
June 1986 — May 1988 (2 years)
James R Revell Jr’s Education
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The George Washington University
MS, Computer Science, 1990 — 1995
Concentration in Artificial Intelligence
- Activities and Societies:
- Artificial Intelligence Honor Society, Published two papers on machine learning
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George Mason University
Computer Science 1989 — 1989
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Old Dominion University
BS, Computer Science, 1985 — 1988
Concentration in systems software science
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Computer Engineering 1984 — 1985
Additional Information
James R Revell Jr’s Interests:
Motorcycling, Scuba diving, skiing, performance driving, and flying
James R Revell Jr’s Groups:
AOPA, ARRL, DAN, USENIX Association
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The George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science -
UUNET Alumni -
Denizens of Doom, MC -
ex-UUNET
