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John Davis 8508 236th Avenue NE Redmond, WA 98053 jdavis96@gmail.com Mobile:(425)466-0677  |
| Lead Technologist |
| OBJECTIVE | A career that leverages my knowledge of product integration and technical management while utilizing my passion for learning and adapting new technologies with an emerging company. |
| TARGET COMPANY | Company Size: | No Preference |
| Category: | Information Technology |
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Description of my ideal company: A company that creates an environment for its employees to learn and grow. As well a company that rewards employees for loyalty, hard work and dedication. |
| LOCATIONS | Relocate: | No |
| LOCALLY | US-WA | US-WA-Seattle | US-WA-Bellevue/Redmond |
| Travel Restrictions | Willing to travel Internationally from 25-75% as needed. | ||
| WORK STATUS | I am authorized to work in this country for any employer. |
| EXPERIENCE | 1/2006 - Present | EDS Corporation HP Corporation | Bellevue, WA |
| Lead Technologist |
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• Provide Architecture expertise to Top Gun consultants on Microsoft
solutions and projects directly affecting the portfolio offerings at
EDS. • Pre-sales engineer working with sales team to define technical deliverables and answer customer’s questions. Specifically focused on internal work at Microsoft. • Provide Leadership to the Agility Alliance team at HP on building solutions that integrate with the Alliance members and show the value of integrating with each of these partners. • Provide Leadership and mentoring to over two hundred fully trained senor architects; discovered millions of dollars in savings and revenue contributions. Over the last 3 years, participants have progressed through many and varied projects and technologies with the following results: 2006 - 75 participants, 40 projects, $75 million business value uncovered 2007 - 90 participants, 33 projects, $105 million business value uncovered 2008 - 50 participants, 45 projects, $135 million business value uncovered • Work with Top Gun consultants in Mountain View, California on project environments working directly with Sun, Oracle, Fujitsu, and CISCO affecting EDS offerings here as well. • Managed and worked with various groups inside EDS to provide technical leadership to create a design and implementation plan for two separate office moves to new locations. • Established and implemented an internal community for EDS on Virtualization technology around Microsoft and EMC’s Virtual Server software. • Managed and Lead a team putting in place a dog food environment for Live Communication Server and Team Foundation Server and work with product teams on break/fix issues. • Establish and create new projects for future programs based on technology trends of Microsoft and other Alliance partners for EDS. • Participate in various TAP programs sponsored by Microsoft around Longhorn server and System Center Suite as well as Exchange 2007 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. |
| 3/2005 - 12/2005 | Ciber Inc. | Bellevue, WA |
| Senior Consulting Engineer |
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• Pre-sales Technical engineer working with sales team to define
deliverables and answer customer’s technical questions. Specifically
focused on internal work at Microsoft. • Providing Technical leadership to Microsoft SharePoint support teams. Dealing with the escalation path of support for SharePoint Team, Portal and Project Server sites worldwide. • Conducted an audit of the current Microsoft SharePoint and Collaboration environment. Designed and implemented plan to increase operational efficiency for the groups. • Working across organizations to implement needed changes to new and emerging technologies as well as perform needed operations to assist group in becoming more stable. • Managed and Lead a team putting in place a dogfood environment for Office 12 and continue to work with the product team on break/fix issues. • Managed the relationship between the support teams and engineering. Host team meetings with members from all teams dealing with the design and implementation of all services supported. • Developed and Maintained a process to determine when servers warranties where up and when the servers became end of life in the data center. • Worked with several teams on determining Roles and Responsibilities for the group and what the needed head count would be to staff the group appropriately. • Created new relationships with the product groups for the team so that the team is aware of any new changes and issues that would affect support and change the service we offer to users. |
| 9/2002 - 3/2005 | eQuest Technologies | Redmond, WA |
| Senior Consulting Engineer |
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• Lead, implemented and trained more than ten top leading service providers
on the business and technology advantages of the Microsoft Solution for
Windows based hosting. Information covered Server deployments; Service
provisioning, Server monitoring, Patch management, Active Directory
Management, and Hosted Exchange 2003. Microsoft Solution for Windows based
Hosting including Hosted Exchange 2003 • Designed and Delivered presentations on ASP.NET integration for service providers worldwide with the focus around hosting with the .NET framework and Internet Information Server 6.0. • Manage partner relationships to develop solutions to optimize Microsoft’s go-to-market strategies in the Microsoft Partner Solution Center. • Architected and developed with six other partners a service continuity solution white paper on Windows 2003 and Exchange 2003 and EMC Storage. • Authored and designed a Keyboard Video Mouse solution to integrate with the Microsoft Systems Architecture Internet Data Center solution on behalf of Avocent Corporation. • Perform technical gap analysis for customers on the Microsoft Systems Architecture Internet Data Center solution. Resulting in recommendations for implementation and future company work. • Managed process of creating Architectural Design Sessions for the Service Oriented Architecture for the communications sector of Microsoft that shipped as Connected Services Framework. |
| 4/2001 - 7/2002 | Microsoft Corporation | Redmond, WA |
| Program Manager |
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• Core development architect responsible for the technical aspects
of the Microsoft’s Solution for Windows Web Hosting (MSWWH) designed
for the service provider sales vertical. • Developed, scheduled and delivered multiple technical training seminars to potential worldwide web hosting customers. • Designed and architected the Prescriptive Architecture Guide for the MSWWH to help lay out the framework for others to easily understand and implement the solution. • Managed a consulting team on multiple projects resulting in internal Microsoft solution certification. • Mediator of the Microsoft Provisioning System beta program for 2 beta customers. • Developed a rapid server deployment solution strategy based on Automated Purposing Framework into the MSWWH. • Managed a bi-monthly chat service on web hosting topics and various services that Microsoft offers to members of the Windows Web Hosting Program (WWHP). • Implemented external support newsgroups for the WWHP and established an internal critical response group to monitor the newsgroups and provide answers to posted questions. • Designed a field sales demo kit allowing System Engineers or Technology Specialists to demonstrate the solution to potential customers. • Developed and managed customer escalation process to achieve satisfactory customer resolution. |
| 1/2000 - 4/2001 | Intel Online Services | Chantilly, VA |
| Senior System Engineer |
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•Worked with customers on integration of servers and software applications into the data
center. • Developed and implemented an automated build process for NT servers and supporting software. • Shift team lead and manager; ensured that SLA’a were met for customer issues and proactively monitored customers for other potential issues. • Back-up/Recovery manager and engineer for the data center, responsible for the disaster recovery procedures for Windows 2000 and Solaris platforms using Tivoli Storage Manager. • Managed the customer advisory board dealing with issues and implementation questions. • Co-Managed the customer allocation of EMC Symmetric and Celerra product offerings. • Management lead responsible for educating customers on data center procedure and policy. • Configured and assisted in maintenance of Cisco switches and routers, performing basic troubleshooting as needed. • Managed several projects implementing new support tools to the data center assisting support engineers. • Designed and taught an internal operations class about the migration to Windows 2000 from Windows NT4 to the operations groups. |
| 5/1998 - 1/2000 | Vanguard Research | Farifax, VA |
| Senior Systems Engineer |
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•Redesigned the domain registration structure to allow all satellite offices to operate freely from HQ. •Managed the IT department responsible for maintenance and up keep of 4 satellite offices and HQ. •Developed and delivered IT training to all offices. •Designed, implemented and migrated the network and mail services to Windows NT 4.0 and Microsoft Exchange 5.5. •Developed and implemented the Y2K strategy for the corporate network. •Responsible for network security and implementation of an Intrusion Detections System for notification. •Assisted the design and implementation of a Video on Demand System using parallel processing nCube servers, DSL modems, and Cabletron ATM switches. •Implemented a network management solution using SNMP and HP OpenView. |
| 3/1995 - 5/1998 | EIS International | Herndon, VA |
| Senior Platform Engineer |
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•Provided engineering escalation support to worldwide Tier 1 Telco customer call centers. •Accompanied field sales as a technical resource to provide assistance to in the knowledge in key customer wins. •Analyzed requirements and provided design and functional specifications for customer call center deployments. •Installed, set-up and maintained UNIX servers for various OEM’s. •Member of engineering beta test group dealing with Telephony OEM’s on specification changes with AT&T G3 and Nortel Meridian phone switches. •Managed and trained the central and eastern region Systems Engineers. •Architected a research lab to emulated and troubleshoot customer sites issues.•Performed on-site project management and installation of automated call centers. |
| 8/1994 - 3/1995 | CACI International | Arlington, VA |
| Systems Engineer |
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•Part of development team to design client/server configurations in various network settings depending on contract type. •Provided internal help desk support to multiple divisions in the company. •Provided internal technical assistance on UNIX servers. •Educated users on internal IT supported software. |
| 1/1993 - 7/1994 | Hand Held Products | Richmond, VA |
| Junior Design Engineer |
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•Researched, designed, and assembled electronic Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) for product testing. •Soldered and tested SO and DIP packages in the bar code product line. •Tested and wrote a variety of C programs used throughout the product line. •Maintained Web sites for various customers in house. |
| EDUCATION | Appalachian State University |
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BS Industrial Technology, December 1992 Electronics Concentration Minor Computer Science |
| CERTIFICATION | 8/2002 | Microsoft Certified Professional |
| 9/2002 | Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator 2000 |
| 2/2006 | Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator 2003 |
| SKILLS | Skill Name | Skill Level | Last Used | Experience |
| Windows Server 2008 | Expert | Currently used | 2 year | |
| Windows Server 2003 | Expert | Currently used | 7 years | |
| Windows 2000 | Expert | 2 years ago | 9 years | |
| UNIX | Intermediate | 1 year ago | 13 years | |
| Linux | Intermediate | 1 year ago | 8 years | |
| Windows Vista | Expert | Currently used | 3 year | |
| Windows XP | Expert | Currently used | 9 years | |
| Visual Basic | Beginner | 3 years ago | 2 years | |
| Networks | Expert | Currently used | 9 years | |
| Exchange | Expert | 1 year ago | 4 years | |
| SQL 2000 | Intermediate | 2 years ago | 4 years | |
| SQL 2005 | Intermediate | Currently used | 1 years | |
| XML | Intermediate | Currently used | 3 years | |
| HTML | Expert | Currently used | 6 years | |
| Windows NT | Expert | 3 year ago | 8 years | |
| Disaster Recovery | Expert | 1 year ago | 4 years | |
| System Center Configuration Manager 2007 | Intermediate | Currently used | 2 years | |
| Systems Management Server 2003 | Intermediate | 1 year ago | 2 years | |
| System Center Operations Manager 2007 | Intermediate | Currently used | 2 years | |
| Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 | Intermediate | 2 years ago | 4 years | |
| Active Directory | Expert | Currently used | 8 years | |
| Windows 9X | Expert | 4 years ago | 7 years | |
| Automated Deployment Service | Expert | 1 year ago | 3 Years | |
| Security | Expert | Currently used | 5 years | |
| Scripting | Intermediate | Currently used | 4 years |
| REFERENCES | Jerrod Carr | 3Par | Storage Architect |
| Phone Number: | (703)628-xxxx (by Request) |
| Email Address: | Carr_Jerrod@3par.com |
| Reference Type: | Professional & Personal |
| Lloyd Spencer | Coroware Inc. | President - CEO |
| Phone Number: | (425)706-xxxx (by Request) |
| Email Address: | lspencer@coroware.com |
| Reference Type: | Professional & Personal |
| Bala Balabaskaran | Microsoft Corporation | Architect |
| Phone Number: | (425)705-xxxx (by Request) |
| Email Address: | balab@microsoft.com |
| Reference Type: | Professional & Personal |
| Andy Chu | Microsoft Corporation | Director of Mobile Marketing |
| Phone Number: | (425) 705-xxxx (by Request) |
| Email Address: | andychu@microsoft.com |
| Reference Type: | Professional and Personal |
