
Infrastructure Manager at The Advisory Board Company
Washington D.C. Metro Area

Infrastructure Manager at The Advisory Board Company
Washington D.C. Metro Area
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.
Unix and Storage/SAN systems engineering, system integration, performance analysis/tuning, managed services
(Public Company; ABCO; Hospital & Health Care industry)
April 2009 — Present (4 months)
(Public Company; FNM; Financial Services industry)
November 2003 — January 2009 (5 years 3 months)
Roles in Unix and SAN systems engineering including Sr Engineer, Architect, and Manager. Managed team responsible for 24x7 SAN/storage operations for 4.5 PB of EMC and Hitachi storage and 8000 Brocade ports in multiple data centers, including budgeting as well as vendor and change management. 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. Led server and storage consolidation efforts, as well as high-performance and virtualization storage efforts.
(Public Company; ADO; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2002 — November 2003 (1 year 11 months)
Contracted via MYTA (purchased by Ajilon) to Fannie Mae as an Infrastructure Architect on 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 for high volume databases.
(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
(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
(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.
(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.
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Education Management industry)
June 1986 — May 1988 (2 years)
MS , Computer Science , 1990 — 1995
Concentration in Artificial Intelligence
BS , Computer Science , 1985 — 1988
Concentration in systems software science
Computer Engineering 1984 — 1985
Motorcycling, Scuba diving, skiing, performance driving, and flying
AOPA, ARRL, DAN, USENIX Association
Eagle Scout, 1984