Richard Day

Developed comprehensive skill set in fast-paced entrepreneurial environment. Expertise in strategic planning and financial management, with strong capabilities in client relationship building and project coordination.

Information Technology Solutions: Design, Develop and Deploy; both commercial and governmental IT Workforce Management: Direct Hire, Contract, Managed Services, Outsourcing, Service Desk IT Project Management: Network Design & Operations, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity Data Center: Design/Build, Virtualization, Consolidation, Migration, Operations and Finance IT Solutions Consulting: Data Center SME, Microsoft Azure Apps & Infrastructure, Functional Management

Five Major Career Accomplishments:

Complex SAN and Fibre Channel Extension Atlanta, GA and Chicago, IL 2011-2013

Major Soft Drink Manufacturer

Consult in the Planning and Implementation and of a complete SAN redesign and Business Continuity Solution

• Included in the opportunity by channel business partner (Level 3 Communications)
• Along with Level 3, completed SAN design for RFP (boxed out Cisco MDS competition by using 10GE)
• Invited by customer to participate in “Red Team” review of RFP responses
• EMC winning bid included Brocade SAN and Brocade Professional Services.
• Drove implementation of the SAN and Fibre Channel fabric extension implementation (inadequate PM budget)
• SAN and Fibre Channel Extension implementation included:
• IBM Mainframe (locally and remote-attached VMAX and VTL; plus two independent SRDF streams)
• AS400 local and remote-attached VMAX and VTL; Backup and Recovery
• HPUX/Wintel local and remote-attached VMAX and VTL; separate SRDF instances
• FCIP Fibre Channel Extension over four independent 10GE connections (two separate geographic paths)
• Customer Reference: Chris Norris. Infrastructure Manager. 678-646-8397, chris.norris@rocketmail.com
• Reference: Frances Connor, Brocade Account Manager, 770-331-6689

Mission-Critical Disaster Recovery Solution Atlanta, GA and Durham, NC 2011-2013

Major Banking Group headquartered in Atlanta

Design, Planning and Implementation of Mainframe Fibre Channel SAN FCIP Extension Project

• Complete replacement of obsolete and inefficient existing USD-X Fibre Channel Extension Solution
• Replace with highly-available DCX-based SAN Director-based solution (99.999% availability)
• Sold through IBM. Implemented with Brocade Professional services.
• Customer Reference: Dave Kenmore, Storage Manager, 404-935-8710
• Reference: Frances Connor, Brocade Account Manager, 770-331-6689

Customer Satisfaction Turn-Around Atlanta, GA and Denver, CO 2012-2013

Major Internet Travel Reservations Provider headquartered in Atlanta

Repaired deteriorating relationship with major end user of Brocade SAN equipment (near expulsion from site).

• Cause: no support available for Cisco UCS through Hitachi Data Systems (resident OEM reseller)
• At stake: large open systems and mainframe director-based SAN. Impending technology refresh.
• Worked Brocade and HDS engineering to provide Statement of Support for Cisco UCS SAN attachment
• Provided roadmap to customer for POC fibre channel NPIV (Cisco terminology: NPV) connectivity
• Customer relationship was saved, enabling >$5 million revenue in ensuing years through both HDS and IBM.
• Customer reference: Tom Kleckner, Sr. Storage Engineer, 404-322-4143

Federal Agency $1 million/yr Staff Augmentation Greenbelt, MD 2007-2008

Cisco Direct Sale to Federal Intelligence Agency

Contract “red-badge” Cisco Personnel (fulfilled through partner) supplement to agency IT staff

· Engaged early in sales cycle as Data Center SME consulting in professional services offerings.

• Key element of sale (add-on to $10million product sale) – $10million out-year revenue potential
• Unique, first-time Statement of Work (SOW) for partner engagement as Cisco contract employees.
• Develop new management framework for “red-badged” staff augmentation contractors.

USDA $12 million Enterprise Data Architecture McLean, VA 2004–2005

New, agency-wide standard architecture for computer storage networking, including multi-site mutual failover DR

Customer Solution Lead in the pursuit and eventual win of the EDARCH RFP award to EMC

• Computer Science Corporation directed the RFP effort on behalf of the USDA
• Coordinate project resources from CSC, StorageTek (provider of tape robotics), USDA and services provider
• Provided oversight for implementation when Project Management budget was exhausted.
• Ongoing revenue of $2million/yr over five year life of the contract (with opportunity for renewal).
• Reference: Sean O’Donnell, EMC Sales Account Manager 703-298-1600