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About Me

Over twenty years of technical and business experience managing people, complex projects and customer relationships inside and outside of small, medium, and large companies.

Work History

  • DSM
  • Manager of Compliance
  • April 2007 to Present

  • Managed all aspects of day to day operation of Internet data center, including critical maintenance activities, security, air conditioning, UPS units, and electrical systems.

    Developed and implemented maintenance and security checklist process for recurring datacenter activities insuring compliance to provide an auditable information source. Successfully passed a SAS70 Type II Security Audit with no exceptions utilizing developed policies and procedures.

  • EMC
  • Mangager of Hosting
  • Febuary 2001 to March 2007

  • Managed EMC's application hosting data center including oversight of network, telecommunications, SAN, power, cooling, and security. Supervised Solutions Architects responsible for designing customer environments for data center deployment.

    Designed highly available network, server and SAN production environments incorporating EMC technologies. Translated business requirements into technical plans for data center builds. Managed and tracked multiple complex projects for customers to provide on time and on budget implementations of their production sites.

Education

  • Central New England College of Technology
  • Certificate in Computer Science, Computer Science
  • 1982 -
  • Northeastern University
  • Certificate in Data Communications, Data Communications
  • 1990 -
Interests
Basketball coaching, web site development, network security and cryptography, Apple computers
Favorite Quote
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right - Henry Ford
Specialties
• Management and administration of Microsoft Windows, from NT through 2003 for servers and Windows 7 on the desktop along with Active Directory and SAMBA management and integration • Linux server and desktop experience with RedHat, Fedora, and Suse, and CENTOS distributions • Apple OS X network, desktop, and server integration • MS Exchange server, Sendmail, Ipswitch Imail, and Postfix mail servers • Apache and IIS web server • MS SQL Server deployment and management including backup, DR, and HA • EMC SAN Infrastructure design • LeftHand SAN infrastructure and general iSCSI SAN management • Silverback and Nagios monitoring and reporting tools • Remote application and site management and monitoring • Microsoft Office Suite, Visio, Project, and InfoPath • SharePoint deployment, management, customization, and integration with other knowledge management systems. • Dreamweaver, and Sharepoint Designer web site development experience • EMC Retrospect, and Backup Exec software in a backup to disk, and disk to tape environment. • Local and wide area network design and implementation • High availability server infrastructure design and implementation • Citrix and Terminal Server application deployment, management, and administration • VMWare based virtual deployments including hybrid high availability systems based on physical servers with virtual fail over partners • Disaster recovery and business continuance site design implementation and management, based both on traditional monolithic servers, and VMWare virtual infrastructures • Delivery of large group and executive level technical presentations • Knowledge of SOX, HIPAA, and SAS70 regulations and auditing practices in a data center environment • ITIL best practice procedure and implementation • Adaptation of COBIT best practices within data centers

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