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Scott Wells

Fairland,IN

Summary

Accomplished IT Disaster Recovery & Infrastructure Leader with over 25 years of experience architecting, testing, and maintaining high-availability, mission-critical systems and network resilient frameworks. Former Senior Principal Engineer at Dell Technologies with deep expertise in enterprise data protection, business continuity planning (BCP), and disaster recovery (DR) strategy. Combines hands-on carrier networking experience with real-world municipal infrastructure management. Adept at conducting Business Impact Analyses (BIA), executing tabletop DR exercises, ensuring strict regulatory compliance, and aligning technology recovery with operational reliability requirements.

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience

Work History

Network Engineer

Brighton Broadband
Greencastle, IN
03.2025 - Current

Oversee core network transport, routing, and firewall resilience for a regional Wireless & Fiber Internet Service Provider (ISP).

Architect redundant routing paths (BGP/OSPF), automated failover links, and multi-site transport topologies to maintain 99.9%+ network availability.

Participate in incident response, outage mitigation, and post-event root cause analysis to continuously enhance infrastructure resilience.

Principal Consultant / Founder

Technology Solutions Midwest
New Palestine, IN
02.2020 - Current

Direct business continuity and disaster recovery strategies for municipal government clients and critical public sector infrastructure.

Conduct comprehensive Business Impact Analyses (BIAs) to define critical systems, establish RTO/RPO targets, and map interdependencies across essential services.

Design, document, and test incident response plans, data backup verification systems, and failover workflows to ensure operational continuity during disruptions.

Facilitate discussions on disaster scenarios and application of recovery runbooks.

Senior Principal Engineer, Solutions Architecture

Dell Technologies / EMC Corporation
Hopkinton, MA
08.2000 - 08.2024

Served as enterprise technical authority for high-availability infrastructure architectures, data protection strategies, and continuous availability deployments.

Partnered with enterprise clients to design multi-site storage replication, disaster recovery failover architectures, and business continuity frameworks.

Developed comprehensive DR runbooks, recovery testing protocols, and procedural documentation for mission-critical enterprise environments.

Led post-incident reviews and root cause analysis (RCA) following major system events, implementing corrective action plans to prevent repeat failures.

Mentored cross-functional teams on resilience engineering, disaster recovery standards, and operational risk mitigation.

Education

Associate of Science - Aviation Maintenance Technology

Aviation Training Academy
Indianapolis

Skills

    Expert in enterprise business continuity strategy and tactics

    Operating system management, configuration and troubleshooting of Windows, Linux and all major Unix variants

    High availability architectures including replication, storage arrays and virtualization platforms

    Infrastructure and network routing, switching, firewalling and segmentation

Timeline

Network Engineer

Brighton Broadband
03.2025 - Current

Principal Consultant / Founder

Technology Solutions Midwest
02.2020 - Current

Senior Principal Engineer, Solutions Architecture

Dell Technologies / EMC Corporation
08.2000 - 08.2024

Associate of Science - Aviation Maintenance Technology

Aviation Training Academy