Andrew Dahlgaard

About Andrew Dahlgaard

Results-oriented Principal Solutions Architect / Systems Engineer with more than 20 years of experience developing, implementing and coordinating the support/troubleshooting of diverse, complex computer and network systems.Skilled versatalist, with a history of designing, installing and maintaining customized computer systems and system architecture components across diverse platforms and environments.Skilled and diverse enterprise technologist who works at an expert level across the technology stack.Strong leadership and communication capabilities, with a background of holding enterprise-admin rights and supervising/mentoring multi-disciplinary technical teams. Broad knowledge and success in a variety of enterprise-level network environments, utilizing a wide array of compute, networking, and storage technologies.Extensive background designing, building and upgrading OS and network/server infrastructures.Cloud builder, with broad experience extracting existing physical workloads to virtualized on premise, hybrid or full cloud instantiation.Proven expertise in system analysis, presenting innovative solutions to complex problems and implementing disaster-recovery and data-backup measures.Excellent technical support/customer service skills, articulating complex technical concepts to audiences ranging from knowledgeable to inexperienced end-users.Established talent for fast ramp-up across diverse technologies and ability to document and transfer knowledge to subordinates.Skilled at programming and debugging scripts in a wide array of languages

Experience

1. Distinguished Architect

   Casne Engineering

   Nov 2016 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Distinguished architect consultant for Casne. Casne Engineering specializes in datacenter and controls management. Recent projects include- Provide Omega support and guidance for Microsoft Data Centers (Azure.)- Architected and implemented hybrid virtual controls system for PayPal. Supported divestiture of resources from eBay to PayPal. Supported divestiture of PayPal resources to BCS- Architected and implemented augmentation of controls system for Digital Realty / Telx- Provided Infrastructure / Cloud escalation support for other clients including BNSF, Port of Seattle (SeaTac airport,) BizzyBee and Boeing.

Education

• Montana State University-Bozeman

  Industrial and Management Engineering, Computer Science

Skills

• Veritas Storage Foundation
• Performance Tuning
• Vendor Management
• Windows
• Microsoft Exchange
• Disaster Recovery
• Vmware Esx
• Active Directory
• Unix
• Windows Server
• IT Management
• Dhcp
• Troubleshooting
• Sql
• Linux
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Cisco Technologies
• Vmware
• Networking
• Hp
• Server Architecture
• Project Management
• Solution Architecture
• Virtualization
• Veritas Cluster Server
• San
• IT Service Management
• Cloud Computing
• Microsoft Technologies
• Databases
• Storage
• Tcp/Ip
• Cluster
• Hyper-V
• Vmware Infrastructure
• System Deployment
• Servers
• Itil
• Security
• Enterprise Software