Bryan Giordano

About Bryan Giordano

CCIE Data Center #41854VMware Certified Professional #79873End to end Data Center expertise with 20+ years working with several of the largest providers in business.Data center network architecture, 3rd Party and hybrid cloud, SDN/Underlay/Overlay, Application/content delivery, Routing, Switching and Security.Cisco Nexus, Catalyst, Arista, Cumulus, EOS, NX-OS, IOS. Security with OVS, Cisco ASA/Firepower, Juniper SRX. Load balancing with Citrix Netscaler, F5, NGINX. WAN optimization, WAAS, SilverPeak. CLOS/Fabric, Underlay/Overlay, SDN. VMware, KVM, Openstack, Cloudstack, OVS.Distributed database design related to networking architecture.Storage networking, NFS, Scale IO. Fibre channel, MDS, Brocade, Terradata, Isilon, Netapp, EMC.On prem and off prem(AWS/GCP) networking and hybrid cloud/SDN architecture. Cloudformation and Terraform.General data center operations/security, data center design including power/cooling/structured cabling. Building management/electrical management systems(BMS/EPMS). Operational support for data center environmentals. Physical layer tap/aggregation, gigamon and threat detection/mitigation techniques.

Experience

1. Cloud Network Design Ops

   Apple

   Jan 2012 — Present · Raleigh, NC, US

   Data center network overlay and 3rd party hybrid cloud design, site reliability, deployment and operations. Massively scalable network, firewall and load balancer architecture for globally distributed environments.Consulting, design and deployment for teams of all sizes supporting most data center technologies with a proven track record of delivering consistent high quality results.

Education

• North Carolina State University

  Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering

  1999 — 2004

Skills

• Linux
• Virtualization
• Ibm Servers
• Nas
• Ace
• Vmware
• Hp
• Cisco Ios
• Data Center
• Fibre Channel
• Cisco Ucs
• Juniper Networks Products
• Routing
• Cisco Systems Products
• Switches
• Cisco Technologies
• Cisco Mds San Switches
• System Architecture
• Network Architecture
• Waas
• Border Gateway Protocol (Bgp)
• Cisco Nexus
• Citrix
• Vdi
• Netapp
• Cisco
• Load Balancing
• Akamai
• Flexpod
• Blades
• Vmware Esx
• Juniper
• Windows
• Emc Storage
• Bgp
• Virtual Servers
• Vblock
• Ospf
• Firewalls
• Cloud Computing