Aaron Ayers
Senior IT Director @JBS
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WORK HISTORY
Senior IT Director @JBS
Responsible for leading IT services at JBS, including- Enterprise-wide data center strategy and expertise to successfully grow and maintain 24/7 operations of JBS/Pilgrims data center services- Leading support teams for servers in the US/Canada on 6+ platforms (AS400/AIX/HPUX/Linux variants/Unix/Windows), directing all support staff for data center server, storage and networking support- Disaster recovery leader - successfully implemented and tested enterprise-wide data center availability and failover strategies- Bottom-line data center facility, server, storage, and network equipment maintenance, contract management and budgeting for 60+ vendor relationships- Leading development of strategic acquisition infrastructure integration into JBS environment, specifically around IT infrastructure - Evaluate and implement emerging data center, server, storage and network technologies to optimize JBS data center services- Leader for Enterprise Infrastructure services: VMware, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Citrix Infrastructure, Backups, Multi-platform (Windows, Linux, HPUX, Unix, AS400, AIX) server operating systems, server provisioning, server monitoring and maintenance, printing, System Center for server operations, and Backup/recovery services- Led consolidation efforts for 7 data centers into central metro-cluster strategy with disaster recovery- Built and implemented Cyber Defense team (starting in 2022)
EDUCATION
Baylor University
Partial Bachelor's degree, Medicine
City University of Seattle
Completed Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Business / Information Technology
University of Washington
Partial Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science
University of Washington
Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services
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