Kelly Sparks
Columbus,Ohio
Summary
Dynamic Director oversees every facet of production with strong project management and decision-making skills. Brings comprehensive knowledge of [Type] production writing, planning and technical operations. Skilled at coordinating production plans and personnel resources to complete work under tight deadlines.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Director of Storage and Data Protection
Lincoln Financial Group
05.2020 - 02.2024
- Full responsibility for the LFG Storage and Data Protection estate
- The team consisted of 16 onshore/offshore Storage and Data Protection Engineers
- I managed the MSP offshore team to ensure proper level 1 operational support for our customers
- The onshore team provided solutioning, engineering
- Project and Level 2 support for the Storage and Data Protection estate.
Director Operational Engineering
JPMorganChase
09.2017 - 05.2020
- Responsible for Operational Engineering and L4 support of the Compute Hosting Integrated Platform which is a converged stack solution including Network, Compute and Storage(ScaleIO, SoldFire)
- Also provided full support for on premise Cloud Storage which included ECS, StorageGrid, Cypherbucket, Amazon S3 and Azure
- The vision was to improve operational efficiency and increase site resiliency for all business applications.
Director Infrastructure - GTI SAN L3
JPMorganChase
09.2015 - 09.2017
- Provided L3 storage support for the GTI ESX environment with over 600PB of storage
- The environment includes EMC, HDS, HP 3PAR, Cisco, and Brocade.
Service Account Manager
EMC Corporation
09.2013 - 09.2015
- Responsible for all service related activities on key enterprise accounts
- Act as customer advocate within EMC and drive customer issues to complete resolution.
Storage/Backup Sr. Manager
Nationwide Insurance
01.2010 - 09.2013
- Served as the Distributed Storage and Backup Sr
- Operations Manager for Nationwide Mutual Insurance
- Utilized leadership skills to lead a team of 17 Storage and Backup Engineers
- Responsible for availability of the Distributed Storage and Backup environment
- Drove problem resolution of all issues impacting the environment.
Solutions Architect
Advizex Technologies
02.2007 - 01.2010
- Served as the Solutions Architect for the Ohio Valley Region, which included Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania with 5 regional offices
- Responsibilities included acting as a Solutions Architect and technical reference to major customers that included corporations in the Automotive Industry, Electric Power, Health Care, Credit Bureau, and Fast Food industries.
Manager of Infrastructure Build
JPMorganChase
03.2004 - 02.2007
- Served as SAN/Storage Infrastructure Build Manager in a 14 Petabyte storage environment with over 73,000 switch ports in 20 major data centers and multiple remote locations
- Held full responsibilities for all build and decommission of the JPMorganChase global storage infrastructure
- This includes tactical planning, global strategic alliances, standards development, and resource allocation
- Directed all operations for the design, installation, configuration, and decommission of all storage infrastructure including storage arrays, switches, and structured cabling.
Education
Major: Organizational and Interpersonal Communication -
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio06.1987
Skills
- Strategic Thinker
- Emerging Technology
- Process Creation
- Leadership
- Solution Engineering
- Collaboration
- Team Leadership
- Delegating Work
- Financial Administration
- Administrative Management
- Budget Management
- Employee Motivation
Additional Education
- Kepner-Tregoe ITSM Problem & Incident Management
- Apollo Root Cause Analysis Methodology
- AMA Management Skills for New Managers
- AMA Making the Transition to Management
- AMA Fundamentals of Accounting for Non-Financial Managers
- NetApp SoldFire Administration
- EMC ScaleIO Administration
- EMC Advanced Control Center for Unix
- EMC Advanced SRDF and TimeFinder for Unix
- EMC SE Fundamentals Accredited
- EMC Centera Implementation and Migration
- EMC Avamar Implementation and Configuration
- EMC Data Domain Fundamentals
- EMCU Business Writing
- EMC XtremIO Product and Architecture
- EMC Virtual Data Center Planning and Design
- EMC Cloud Infrastructure Planning and Design
- VMWare – Technical Sales Certification
- Cisco – Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices
- Sun Solaris 2.x System Administration I
- Sun Solaris 7 System Administration II
- Sun Solaris TCP/IP Network Administration
- Sun Shell Programming for System Administrators
Timeline
Director of Storage and Data Protection
Lincoln Financial Group
05.2020 - 02.2024
Director Operational Engineering
JPMorganChase
09.2017 - 05.2020
Director Infrastructure - GTI SAN L3
JPMorganChase
09.2015 - 09.2017
Service Account Manager
EMC Corporation
09.2013 - 09.2015
Storage/Backup Sr. Manager
Nationwide Insurance
01.2010 - 09.2013
Solutions Architect
Advizex Technologies
02.2007 - 01.2010
Manager of Infrastructure Build
JPMorganChase
03.2004 - 02.2007
Major: Organizational and Interpersonal Communication -
The Ohio State University
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