Elijah Golden

About Elijah Golden

Progressive, analytical IT Systems Engineer and Leader with 20+ years of experience in planning, architecting, and implementing enterprise IT solutions for Fortune 500 companies. A collaborative nature with an innate ability to effectively communicate complex technical and business solutions, gain consensus across an organization and share best practice knowledge with internal teams.Consistent successes identifying early solutions in storage, backup, and recovery to minimize project cost and risk, building effective team partnerships to align solutions with enterprise capabilities and applying diagnostic talents to infrastructure (Cloud & On-Prem), information security management, networking, application, and database layers to address challenges and change.

Experience

1. Director - Information Technology Infrastructure

   Catalist

   Jun 2023 — Present · DC, US

   The Leader of Systems, Operations & Architecture including Information Security. Responsible for core infrastructure which includes cloud (AWS, GCP), server/storage, database engineering (Vertica, Postgres, Google Big Query, Hadoop), network hardware, operating systems, core applications, backup/recovery & disaster recovery. SOC2 Lead. Responsible for yearly project management of compliance efforts focusing on the “Trusted Services Criteria. Deputy CISO & Primary owner of information security initiatives and information security management. Manage & Mentor core infrastructure staff including adjacent technology team members for alignment for optimum project delivery. Contract Management, Vendor & Partner relationship management.Vendor/Partners: Lucid, Open-Text(Vertica), Thales, HPE, Parkplace Technologies, Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft, Tableau, Adobe, Atlassian, Salesforce, Qlik, CDW, NTT, AWS, GCP.

Education

• Community College of Philadelphia

  A.A.S., Business / Computer Science

  1984 — 1986

• Millersville University of Pennsylvania

  Computer Science

  1982 — 1984

• Overbrook High School

  Diploma, College Preparatory

  1978 — 1982

• Spring Garden College

  B.S., Computer Science

  1988 — 1990

• Camden County College

  Certification, EHR - Implementation Specialist

  2011 — 2012

Skills

• Clariion
• Hds
• Netapp
• Storage Area Network (San)
• Storage
• Cisco Technologies
• Solaris
• Vmware
• Ibm Aix
• Replication
• Storage Area Networks
• Nas
• Network-Attached Storage (Nas)
• Hp
• San
• Aix
• Netbackup
• Brocade
• Symmetrix
• Unix
• Hp-UX
• Sun
• Linux
• Data Center
• Emc Networker
• Emc Storage