Brian Shaner
Strategic Infrastructure Leader, specializing in Big Data Storage & Network
- Role
- Principal Systems Engineer at Expedia Group
- Location
- Redmond, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Brian Shaner
Strategic infrastructure leader with proven success transforming enterprise-class environments. Specialized in evaluating emerging technology, collaborating with end-users to define requirements and anticipate future use cases, budgeting, planning for seamless integration, and finally developing standards and operational policies that ensure business units have secure, reliable, flexible, and resilient data storage. Innovative: Able to integrate individual network and storage tools, including hardware on-site, into a comprehensive solution that’s economical, correctly sized, and factors for growth. Optimization: Distinctive talent for designs, and developing automation, aimed at simplifying operations, streamlining processes, reducing risk, increasing man-hour efficiencies, and managing hardware lifecycle. Solution Evangelist: Gifted in meeting the customer at their knowledge base, clarifying complex technical options, and fostering confidence across business functions. Vendor Management: Broad and deep experience in vendor oversight, including planning and directing POCs, managing support, and partner road mapping. Technical Leadership: Demonstrated skills in mentoring, training, team education, project delegation and oversight. Risk Mitigation: Eager to embrace the potential of new technology, while consistently focused on data protection, and minimizing exposure for critical business activities.~ Technical Competencies ~ Storage Platforms & Software: Cloud: Amazon Cloud Services, Azure EMC Storage: Isilon, ScaleIO, ECS, XtremIO, Symmetrix platforms (DMX,VMAX, all-flash), CLARiiON, Celerra, VNX EMC Software: ViPR SRM and Controller, Virtual/Thin Pools, Automatic Storage Tiering, SRDF, Time Finder PureStorage: Flasharray NetApp: FAS2240, FAS3270 HP-UX: LPARs, VPARs, and Integrity Virtual Machines HP/Hitachi: XP2400 utilizing SSD and BCP Solaris: LPARs and Containers AIX: LPARs and VIO Servers Also, please see resume for: Networking/Fabric Server Hardware and Operating Systems Automation/Programming
Experience
Principal Systems Engineer
Mar 2017 — Present · Bellevue, WA, US
Education
Portland State University
BS, Electrical Engineering
1987 — 1990
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