Ken Lindquist
Tacoma,WA
Summary
Strategic and accomplished Technical Project Manager with over 4 years of experience, adept at achieving ambitious goals in challenging IT environments. Known for diligence, forward-thinking, and adaptability to dynamic company, customer, and project needs. Proven success in motivating teams to meet demanding timelines.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Technical Project Manager 4
Comcast Technology Solutions
11.2019 - Current
- Completed 2022 - 2023 - 70 Million dollar project working with Automation, Network and Deployment teams to install 300+ devices each for 3 large Data Center deployments; including switches, Dell BME/Compute Nodes. Work with Automation team to provide Network and Deployment team Ansible playbooks for the hardware deployment
- Working on NAS Refresh Project deploying 6 sets of NetApp Arrays within various Data Centers. Working with vendors and other internal groups managing the delivery and deployment of new C800 units for CTS Unified Ingest team
- Working on new OpenStack Deployment which will include deployment of 250+ Dell Servers in three large Data Centers. Managing hardware procurement obtaining quotes, and processing them through our procurement process. Coordinating with Dell, WWT, Comcast warehouse, and Data Center Deployment teams to meet timely deadlines.
- Communicated project plans and progress to key stakeholders and project contributors.
- Partnered with project team members to identify and quickly address problems.
- Use agile methodologies within Comcast in order to better understand how to be effective in the role and apply experiences of others in improving team performance.
- Assist product owners to ensure that work requests are properly articulated, prioritized, and detailed.
- Engage with Comcast vendors: Dell, Cisco, VMware, NetApp to help remove obstacles for deployment team being able to deliver on stated goals and influences working agreements.
- Developed project plans and managed project scope using methodologies to guide projects from conceptualization to implementation and maintenance.
- Served as technical liaison, supporting engineering, management, procurement, sales and marketing, quality assurance and supply base.
Systems Engineer
Comcast Technical Solutions
04.2007 - 11.2019
- Manage our extensive VSphere 6.0 Environments with multiple clusters, 3 Data Centers, and 5000 VMs
- Experience with major Data Center build outs, London, Euro DC UK & Philadelphia DR Data Center
- Responsible for Capacity planning
- Responsible for planning, implementation, and overseeing the set up and configuration VMware ESXi 6.0 environments, installing VSphere, Upgrading VCenter from 5.1 to 6.0, installing/configuring ESXi hosts, setting up clusters, network and DataStores, VM Templates & Using Update manager for Remediation of patches and upgrades
- Use Agile Methodologies for project work i.e
- Rally, Pivotal Tracker, Scrums
- Support and Maintain Cisco UCS servers for our ESXi VMware environment located in 3 globally located Data Centers to support our geo-balanced applications and DR Sites
- Configure Cisco UCSM features; Installing Fabric Interconnects setup and configuration, Creating Service Profiles, Server Pools, Vlans and Service Profile Templates, Complete Firmware upgrades from Fabric Interconnects to configuring and applying Host Firmware Policy to Service Profiles, setting up boot policies, Installing ESX server using boot from SAN
- Installing/configuring/cabling Cisco UCS Blade Chassis, blade servers, Fabric Extenders for installing C220 standalone servers
- Managed large HP Blade Server environment including HP DL servers
- Trouble shooting any Server hardware/network issues, and perform break/fix replacement of parts as needed
- Linux Administrator of a large scale deployment of Production servers with CentOS version of Redhat Linux
- Experience with NetApp OnCommand System Manager setting up RDMs luns, NFS shares, exports, and growing thin provision volumes within our Production Environment
- Experience with HP Command View for Volume extensions and Hard drive replacements
- Set up of Linux LVM wrapped partitions for large Database server environments
- Experience with Chef and using knife commands.
- Documented system configuration, mapping and processes.
- Supported system users, educating employees on troubleshooting and problem-solving protocols.
Operations Analyst
Siemens-Microsoft Account
01.2005 - 04.2007
Education
BA in Business Administration - Human Resources Management
University of Washington
Seattle, WA01.1994
Skills
- Schedule Management
- Project Leadership
- Strategic Planning
- Stakeholder Relations
- Project Management
- Risk Mitigation
- Vendor Relationship Management
- Agile Project Management
- Resource Coordination
- Project Team Coordination
- Documentation and Reporting
- Work Planning and Prioritization
Certification
- 2003 MCSE
- 2000 MCSE
- MCSA
- Comptia A+
- Comptia Server+
- Comptia Network+
Systems Proficiency
Server 2003, Server 2008, Server 2012, CentOS, Cisco UCS Chassis & Blade Systems, UCS C220s, HP BL/DL Servers, Dell Servers, Cat5 and Cat6, fiber, all internal server components, VMware 5.1, Cisco UCSM, Active Directory, DNS, Terminal Services, VPN
References
Professional and Personal references gladly provided if needed
Timeline
Technical Project Manager 4
Comcast Technology Solutions
11.2019 - Current
Systems Engineer
Comcast Technical Solutions
04.2007 - 11.2019
Operations Analyst
Siemens-Microsoft Account
01.2005 - 04.2007
BA in Business Administration - Human Resources Management
University of Washington
- 2003 MCSE
- 2000 MCSE
- MCSA
- Comptia A+
- Comptia Server+
- Comptia Network+
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