Cordell Brown
Fort Lauderdale,FL
Summary
Reliable & Highly skilled Data Center Technician with comprehensive understanding of data center operations, including system monitoring, preventive maintenance, and issue resolution. Strong ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues and ensure minimal downtime. Proven record of enhancing data center efficiency through strategic planning and process improvement. Demonstrated skills in managing server infrastructure, implementing security protocols, and maintaining hardware systems.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Data Center Technician II
DataBank
Atlanta, GA
01.2023 - Current
- Assemble and/or disassemble equipment racks (rack builds and rack decomms).
- Run and install ethernet and fiber optic cable per defined process.
- Disassemble broken or failed hardware equipment and replace parts per defined process using hand and/or power tools.
- Follow detailed instructions and perform other tasks as directed by workflow.
- Neatly log and organize inventory of spare parts.
- Physically destroy media after replacing them with new media.
- Replace broken motherboard, CPU, NIC, RAM, HDD, SSD, and many more with good parts. (Maintenance)
Data Center Technician
Google
Atlanta, GA
08.2022 - 01.2023
- Assemble and/or disassemble equipment racks (rack builds and rack decomms).
- Run and install ethernet and fiber optic cable per defined process.
- Disassemble broken or failed hardware equipment and replace parts per defined process using hand and/or power tools.
- Follow detailed instructions and perform other tasks as directed by workflow.
- Neatly log and organize inventory of spare parts.
- Physically destroy media after replacing them with new media.
- Replace broken motherboard, CPU, NIC, RAM, HDD, SSD, and many more with good parts. (Maintenance)
I.T Specialist
City of Atlanta
Atlanta, GA
11.2021 - 07.2022
- Company Overview: Fulton County
- Diagnosed and repaired hardware/software with desktops, notebooks, netbooks, monitors, and tablets.
- Skillfully utilized company database software on a daily basis to open, update, and close customer trouble tickets based on clear and concise reports of findings, and to ship repaired units to customers.
- Loaded and unloaded programs, software, and drivers.
- Installing new software and hardware components.
- Regularly evaluating our IT systems to ensure they meet the necessary demands.
- Resolving all issues coworkers have with their IT systems and software.
- Fulton County
Education
Information Technology -
Palm Beach State College
Palm Beach, FLEngineering - Electrical and Telecommunication Engineering
Georgia Tech
Atlanta, GaSkills
- Cisco ASA Firewall
- Switches
- Access Points
- Netgear Switches
- Servers
- Linux
- Windows
- DNS
- DHCP
- SMTP
- SSH
- VPNs
- STP
- VLANs
- Inter-VLANs routing
- IEEE 802 standards
- Cisco
- MS Office products
- Kali Linux
Certification
- Certified I.T Specialist & on track in becoming a Cisco Certified Network Associate
- Comptia A+
- Network +
- Security + (Currently Obtaining)
Timeline
Data Center Technician II
DataBank
01.2023 - Current
Data Center Technician
Google
08.2022 - 01.2023
I.T Specialist
City of Atlanta
11.2021 - 07.2022
Information Technology -
Palm Beach State College
Engineering - Electrical and Telecommunication Engineering
Georgia Tech