Richard Brown

3896 Vinyard Trace

Atlanta, Georgia 30062

(770) 216-8522                       rick@daloft.com                     Cell: (678) 992-9174

 

 

SKILLS PROFILE

¯  Strong technical background in both hardware and software with over 20 years of industry experience

¯  Proficient in project management and team leadership

¯  Adept at working with interdependent departments and organizations to develop and implement programs and projects

¯  Strong base in Solaris and Redhat Enterprise Linux administration and integration

¯  Enthusiastic problem solver utilizing new technologies to their fullest potential

¯  Extreme depth and breadth in architecting and implementing storage technologies

¯  Experienced in multiple server virtualization platforms

 

Experience

  1992-Present

 

 

 

 

 

 

Georgia Institute of Technology – Office of Information Technology, Core Infrastructure

Senior Systems/IT Architect Manager (Apr 2003 - Present)

¯  Managed and mentored team of 6 people responsible for server virtualization, enterprise storage and backups, and server configuration management for 1500+ servers

¯  Created and documented Business Continuity architecture involving redundancy, load balancing, and failover across multiple physical sites 

¯  Implemented server statistics gathering and graphing solution for all servers

¯  Extended SAN infrastructure to include 26 switches across multiple physical sites utilizing both array and host based replication and snapshotting

¯  Implemented FCoE (Fiber Channel over  Ethernet) in mixed  Qlogic and Cisco Nexus environment.

¯  Deployed multiple clusters of Unified Storage (Netapp) appliances for NFS/CIFS/iSCSI/FC/FCoE services for linux, Solaris, and Windows clients.

¯  Deployed NAS (Isilon) clusters with multi-site replication.

¯  Implemented storage monitoring and alerting software products including SANscreen, Akorri BalancePoint, and OnCommand

¯  Developed and implemented cost-sharing models and service level agreements  to deliver storage and tape backups to other departments on campus.

¯  Managed various teams including administrators for three tier applications and Oracle database servers for Banner student information system and PeopleSoft financials and HR, storage, backups, Vmware virtual server hosting, and core infrastructure.

¯  Worked on multi-factor authentication utilizing smartcards and PKI, smartphones, OTP tokens, and YubiKeys.

¯  Gave input on architecture decisions for campus initiatives such as Zimbra Collaboration Suite.

¯  Created intrusion prevention system using Snort, iptables, and snortsam on linux

¯  Obtained Management and Supervisory development certificate

¯  Negotiated deals for new purchases and renewals of maintenance agreements

 

 

 

 

System Support Specialist III (June 2000 - Apr 2003)

¯  Implemented F5 BigIP Load balancers to scale Banner, PeopleSoft and other three-tiered applications.

¯  Deployed HP EVA SAN with cross-site replication.

¯  Deployed EMC SAN for Oracle database servers.

¯  Utilized NetApp NAS devices for shared NFS and CIFS/SMB

System Support Specialist II (Sept. 1999 - June 2000)

¯  Managed SGI Origin Complex including kerberos implementation, TP9100 SAN, and CXFS for distributed shared file services.

¯  Created scripts and utilities to assist in day-to-day operations

Unix Cluster Coordinator (1995-1999)

¯  Scheduled User Assistants hours to maximize coverage and minimize overlap

¯  Configured hardware specs for new labs and lab upgrades

¯  Configured and packaged software for lab installation

¯  Created scripts for refreshing lab machines OS and software installations

User (Student) Assistant (1992-1995)

¯  Assisted students, faculty, and staff with computer software questions in public  labs.

¯  Diagnosed and repaired printing problems

    1992-1999

Atlanta Network Solutions

Owner/Systems Administrator

¯  Built a small ISP from the ground up

¯  Configured routers, DNS, email/webmail, ftp, and httpd (Apache) servers distributed on various Sparc and x86 machines running Linux and load balanced using ipvsadm and high availability daemons.

    1990-1992

ComputerSouth

Technician

¯  Troubleshot and repaired nonfunctional computers and printers

¯  Assembled new machines both in the field and at the workshop

¯  Priced and ordered parts according to the needs of the company and the customer

¯  Acted as a temporary Salesperson during peak times and seasons.

 

Education

Bachelor of Computer Engineer, Georgia Institute of Technology (1999)

Technical Skills/Software

DNS (bind, proteus, bluecat), email (sendmail, qmail, postfix), NFS, CIFS, NNTP, NTP, PPP, VPN, IPSec, httpd (apache), ftp (vsftp, proftp), routers (Cisco, linux based), firewalls (iptables, ipfilter, ipchains, Cisco PIX), load balancing/high availability (GTM, BigIP, ipvsadm), NAS (linux and Solaris based, NetApp, StorageTek), SAN (EMC, HP, SGI, AC&NC, HDS, StorageTek, Netapp, and Sun arrays.  Brocade, McData, Qlogic, and  Cisco Nexus switches),  iSCSI (NAS and FC->iSCSI gateways), distributed filesystems, C, C++, assembly (x86, RISC, PIC, Motorola), shell script (ksh, bash, zsh), html, ldap, Kerberos (MIT and MS-AD), IPS (snort, Cisco), server virtualization (VMware ESXi 4/5, KVM, Solaris zones/containers)