Kimberly Gates
Conway,AR
Summary
Industrious Senior IT Systems Engineer eager to contribute to continuous improvement efforts in Storage and Backup Administrator role. Expertise includes installing, configuring and monitoring complex storage and infrastructure components. Offering successful career history comprising more than 25 years.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
2
2
Certification
Work History
Sr. IT Systems Engineer
Acxiom
Conway, AR
08.2019 - Current
- Collaborated with members of all internal IT teams to plan, design and migrate entire data center from one city to another within time allotted resulting in large savings to company
- Member of 24x7 support team supporting over 5PB of multi-vendor storage for multiple clients across several locations. Team also provides infrastructure support for 7 Cisco UCS and several hundred Dell servers.
- Successfully led team comprised of engineers from several areas of IT in migrating 2PB of data from one storage platform to another
- Storage Admin SME in SAN and NAS storage systems. Responsibilities include installation, provisioning, maintenance, upgrade of several storage system brands such as: Netapp, IBM, EMC, Infinidat
- Applied ITIL framework to improve release and deployment cycles including change management processes for infrastructure and storage updates.
- Consistently adapting to vendor changes as company adapts to best platform for current business.
Sr. Systems Engineer
Acxiom
Conway, AR
05.2015 - 08.2019
- Storage and Infrastructure support for internal Cloud platform, multi-site virtual environments, and client specific stand alone systems.
- Collaborated with customers, internal staff and other stakeholders to plan, implement and integrate 40 physical migrations into virtual environment.
- Storage Admin Subject Matter Expert in SAN and NAS storage systems. Responsibilities include installation, provisioning, maintenance, upgrade and refresh of several storage system brands such as: Netapp, IBM, EMC, Infinidat
Education
Bachelor of Science - Psychology
University Of Central Arkansas
Conway, AR1995
Skills
- High level technical written and verbal communication skills
- Multitasking Abilities, highly organized with ability to led multiple complex projects simultaneously
- Strong leadership and mentoring skills, providing solid guidance to other team members
- Ability to communicate and collaborate with diverse groups of people to reach common goals
- Skilled in Cisco UCS, VMware, Dell/EMC Isilon and ECS, Brocade switches and BNI, IBM v7000, v9000, COS, Spectrum Insights, SANnav, Infinidat, Netapp
Certification
AWS Cloud Practioner, VMWare Certified Professional 6.5 DCV, Empowership Women's professional training
Affiliations
Member of Acxiom Women Lead
Timeline
Sr. IT Systems Engineer
Acxiom
08.2019 - Current
Sr. Systems Engineer
Acxiom
05.2015 - 08.2019
Bachelor of Science - Psychology
University Of Central Arkansas
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