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Bryson CV

TEREN BRYSON

[email protected]  425–654-1439  http://blog.packetqueue.net

SUMMARY

EXPERIENCE

WORLD WIDE TECHNOLOGY, INC. (WWT) 2014 — current
Consulting Systems Engineer

 

ZETEC 06 / 2007 — 2014
IT Direc­tor
Assumed man­age­ment posi­tion over Zetec Infor­ma­tion Tech­nol­o­gy depart­ment in all facil­i­ties world-wide when pri­or IT Man­ag­er left. Large­ly hand­ed over serv­er man­age­ment respon­si­bil­i­ties for all bare-met­al servers to direct reports, how­ev­er, retained own­er­ship of the net­work, stor­age, and vir­tu­al­iza­tion pieces at the same time as tak­ing on tra­di­tion­al man­age­ment duties includ­ing:

• Staff man­age­ment, train­ing, and men­tor­ing
• Set­ting IT pol­i­cy
• Man­age­ment of Sar­banes-Oxley doc­u­men­ta­tion and process­es
• Bud­get­ing
• Con­tract nego­ti­a­tion

Key accom­plish­ments and ini­tia­tives:

• Mem­ber of IT Pol­i­cy board for par­ent com­pa­ny Rop­er Indus­tries. This involves set­ting IT pol­i­cy for all com­pa­nies in the group, as well as nego­ti­at­ing larg­er con­tracts to take advan­tage of scale.
• Imple­men­ta­tion of NetApp stor­age sys­tem for Sno­qualmie cam­pus
• Imple­men­ta­tion of Cis­co UCS for Sno­qualmie cam­pus
• Con­ver­sion of over 75% of all servers to vir­tu­al
• IT project leader on major ERP sys­tem con­ver­sion from pure Ora­cle, with Ora­cle finan­cials, to Tier‑2 sys­tem (IFS) uti­liz­ing Ora­cle at the data­base lay­er.
• Con­ver­sion of phone sys­tem to pure IP with Cis­co Call Man­ag­er, Uni­ty, IPCC and SIP trunks
• Net­work build-out for Shang­hai, Chi­na fac­to­ry
• Net­work restruc­tur­ing for offices in Paris, France; Seoul, South Korea; and Que­bec City, Que­bec, Cana­da.
• Nego­ti­a­tion of Microsoft Enter­prise Agree­ment renewals and true-ups, as well as Cis­co Smart­net and oth­er large IT con­tracts.

ZETEC 07 / 2006 — 2007
Sr. Net­work Engi­neer
This posi­tion involved hands on with a vari­ety of tech­nolo­gies and ven­dors, but was large­ly a net­work engi­neer­ing role focused on Cis­co rout­ing, switch­ing, and secu­ri­ty techolo­gies.
Orig­i­nal­ly hired as Sr. Net­work Engi­neer, specif­i­cal­ly to fix world­wide OSPF rout­ing design for mul­ti-nation­al man­u­fac­tur­ing com­pa­ny and fin­ish migra­tion from EIGRP. Took imme­di­ate own­er­ship of all infra­struc­ture includ­ing secu­ri­ty, tel­co, rout­ing and switch­ing, and servers includ­ing HPUX, Sun Solaris OS, Win­dows, and Lin­ux.

Key Accom­plish­ments and Ini­tia­tives:

• Con­vert­ed entire rout­ing infra­struc­ture from EIGRP/RIP/Static/OSPF to pure OSPF
• Imple­ment­ed VMware viru­tal­iza­tion tech­nol­o­gy uti­liz­ing iSC­SI Equa­log­ic SANs for stor­age. Began tran­si­tion­ing serv­er infra­struc­ture at Sno­qualmie Cam­pus to vir­tu­al.
• Restruc­tured and moved entire distribution/DMZ net­work to ven­dor-neu­tral facil­i­ty in the West­in Build­ing, Seat­tle. All world-wide WAN and Tel­co links for Zetec flow through here. This tran­si­tion was there­fore a major project with stake­hold­ers on mul­ti­ple con­ti­nents. Secu­ri­ty, exter­nal DNS, Web, Mail Gate­ways, etc., had to be moved in a min­i­mal­ly con­se­quen­tial way.
• Imple­men­ta­tion of VRF mod­el for traf­fic iso­la­tion at layer‑3. Uti­lized MP-BGP for redis­tri­b­u­tion of routes as need­ed. 1‑to‑1 map­ping of VLAN to VRF, with the excep­tion of man­age­ment traf­fic which was left in the glob­al table.

LANIER 2006 — 2007
Sr. Net­work Engi­neer
This posi­tion was a mix of pre-sales engi­neer­ing and post-sales imple­men­ta­tion for a new­ly start­ed VAR busi­ness prac­tice at an estab­lished com­pa­ny. Respon­si­ble for net­work design from ini­tial specs through imple­men­ta­tion, includ­ing VoIP infra­struc­ture.

Key accom­plish­ments and ini­tia­tives:

• Flown to Min­neso­ta to design and imple­ment failover net­work for Check­point Secu­ri­ty System’s alarm mon­i­tor­ing cen­ter. This was a large-scale build-out involv­ing mul­ti-lay­er Cis­co Switch­es, fiber trunks, and com­plex rout­ing rules.
• Designed sev­er­al suc­cess­ful mul­ti-office VoIP net­works involv­ing coor­di­na­tion between ven­dors, tel­cos, and clients— all with stel­lar results.

FIRST AMERICAN CORE LOGIC 01 / 1996 — 07 / 2006
Sr. Tech­ni­cal Engi­neer

Recruit­ed for tech­ni­cal knowl­edge and flu­id­i­ty in cus­tomer rela­tions. Respon­si­ble for high-lev­el, on-site net­work sup­port for top-tier clients through­out a mul­ti-state geo­graph­i­cal area. Worked in ambigu­ous, high-pres­sure, ever- evolv­ing set­tings constantly—with dead­lines to have equip­ment and ser­vices oper­a­tional.

Key accom­plish­ments and ini­tia­tives:

• Assumed respon­si­bil­i­ty for help­ing our clients U.S. wide make the tran­si­tion to Win­dows 2000 with­out adverse­ly affect­ing oper­a­tions or rev­enue.
• Instru­men­tal in design and devel­op­ment of sev­er­al key indus­try prod­ucts, includ­ing Met­roScan, Real­ist, Realquest, Win2Data, Leads-to-Loans and more.
• Designed and pre­sent­ed sev­er­al cor­po­rate train­ing pro­grams to nation­al audi­ences on net­work analy­sis, trou­bleshoot­ing, secu­ri­ty, and TCP/IP mechan­ics.
• Per­formed secu­ri­ty analy­ses for clients to deter­mine readi­ness for soft­ware upgrades and/or new ser­vices.
• Respon­si­ble for all pre and post-sale tech­ni­cal analy­sis, doc­u­men­ta­tion, and imple­men­ta­tion as well as sales pre­sen­ta­tions to a vari­ety of principals—board mem­bers, pres­i­dents, IT staff.