Don Ely

About Don Ely

An IT Infrastructure professional with twenty six years of proven senior level hands-on administration, architectural design, engineering, and leadership experience. Extremely proficient in designing, provisioning, supporting and documenting complex enterprise systems. Readily adapts to evolving business requirements leveraging experience, reasoning, and strategic thinking to provide elegant technical solutions with fiscal responsibility and methodical issue resolution. An organized, enthusiastic, innovative technology practitioner that can work independently or in a team environment and requires minimal direction. Excels in demanding environments, delivers on commitments while managing multiple projects and contributes to a culture of excellence and team evolution.Specialties: CISSP certifiedExpertise designing, administering, and engineering complex business systems utilizing appropriate the technology, while demonstrating consistent growth in technical aptitude and organizational responsibilitiesExperienced in ITIL Service Management concepts, processes, and procedures resulting in architectural or functional changes to support business objectivesTranslates initiatives and requirements into budgets, project plans, resource planning, and timely solutionsProven experience managing expectations and coordinating across internal customers, external customers, vendors, and partnersComfortable communicating with the spectrum of users, technologists, managers, executives, and vendorsExperienced security professional able to design and implement standard security practices while meeting business goals and objectivesMaintains regular and consistent communication with stakeholders and efficiently completes assigned tasks

Experience

1. Lead Network Engineer

   REI

   Aug 2018 — Present

   Core member of the data center transformation team tasked with designing a state of the art secure, software defined redundant data centersSuccessfully transitioned the firewall responsibilities for both the enterprise and retail stores while minimizing the impact, ensuring no loss in services and creating cross-training documentation for the teamProvided leadership and mentoring to other team members in both networking and security subjectsRecognized as a strong business partner within the Technology OrganizationSuccessfully deployed multiple remote access systems to replace a deprecated systemKey contributor on the team to design and deploy a highly resilient SD-WAN solution on time and under budgetActed as the highest tier of support for all network issues resulting in shorter outages and training opportunities for network staffEstablished strong vendor relationships ensuring in strong vendor support for the goals of the Co-Op

Education

• Highline College

  Computers and Business Administration

  1993 — 1996

• Western Governors University

  Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Management Information Systems, General

  2011 — 2015

Skills

• Vulnerability Assessment
• Computer Security
• Network Architecture
• Network Engineering
• Storage Area Networks
• Vpn
• System Administration
• Network Administration
• Vmware Esx
• Wireless Networking
• Network Security
• Hyper-V
• Technical Support
• Wsus
• Iis
• Group Policy
• Cisco Technologies
• Firewalls
• Cisco Voip
• Dhcp
• Networking
• Hp
• Disaster Recovery
• Cissp
• Storage Architecture
• Microsoft Technologies
• Netapp Filers
• Tcp/Ip
• Troubleshooting
• Lan-Wan
• System Deployment
• Servers
• Itil
• Infrastructure
• Data Center
• Windows 7
• San
• Dns
• Active Directory
• Windows Server