IT Director
Myriad Development, Inc.
Myriad Development is a data warehousing company serving the insurance industry, managing large-scale databases used to analyze floodplain, earthquake, and fire-lane risk factors. As Director of Information Technology, I led the design and management of the company’s infrastructure.
Highlights
- Applied lessons learned at RW3 to build a private cloud infrastructure manageable by non-specialist staff
- Ran two internally hosted mail servers on a single-domain Active Directory (2010) environment, segmented into firewalled subnets for Production, Staging, Test, Development, and Office Operations
- Built a virtualized infrastructure on Force10 switches, Dell R815 servers, and EqualLogic iSCSI storage, managed with VMware
- Supported a mixed OS environment across Windows Server 2012 R2 and 2003, CentOS, and Red Hat
- Implemented Active Directory Administrative Center for streamlined PowerShell-based user management (late 2014)
- Refreshed compute infrastructure onto a Datrium hyper-converged SAN and assisted with an Oracle Database upgrade to 12.x (late 2017)
- Led a hardware-level migration from Oracle 9i on Solaris 9 to the latest Oracle release on CentOS x64, running in VMware
- Upgraded network backbone from 1GB to 10GB VLAN’d switching for iSCSI and IP traffic
- Deployed Sophos UTM 9 for IPS, IDS, and load balancing
- Standardized infrastructure management using Spacewalk 2.7, Check_MK 1.4, Windows GPO, VMware (upgraded 5.5 to 6.5 U1), 10GB multi-layer VLAN switchgear, VMware Horizon View, and DFS/DFSr
- Supported systems integration during CoreLogic’s acquisition of Myriad