Kyle Ruby

About Kyle Ruby

Seasoned data center architect currently working for the second largest cable service provider in the United States. At present, my responsibilities include the design and implementation of multiple large-scale service provider data centers to support next generation customer applications and services. I am constantly developing my knowledge and experience with data center technologies identifying the best technology stack to support projects from application and customer product teams by deploying and testing new hardware, products and services. I enjoy the challenges of testing and designing new solutions or analyzing present ones, finding new ways to improve system performance, compliance, security and/or business continuity. Over the years, I have had the opportunity to train/certify and work with offering from various vendors allowing to become versed in many areas of large enterprise data center architecture and solutions. Recent projects have had me focused on developing and supporting large private/hybrid cloud implementations with a heavy emphasis on secure multi-tenant high-density and high-performance virtualization environments running on converged/hyper-converged platforms.Specialities:Converged/Hyper-Converged - FlexPod, vBlock, Hitachi UCP, HP ConvergedSystem, Nutanix, Simplivity, Pivot3, HyperFlex, and VxRail.Storage - NetApp FAS/AFF/SDoT/SolidFire, EMC VMAX/ISILON/SCALEIO/XTREMIO, Dell Compellent, Nimble, & Pure.Compute - UCS, HP, Dell, IBM, Oracle SPARCNetwork - Cisco Catalyst/Nexus/ACI, Big Switch, Arista, and VMware NSXVirtualization/Automation - VMware, OpenStack, Hyper-V, Cisco VACS, Cisco NSO, UCS Director, vRealize Automation and Chef

Experience

1. Principal Engineer Ii

   Charter Communications

   Mar 2017 — Present · Denver, CO, US

Education

• Colorado Technical University

  ASIT, Information Technology

  2008 — 2010

• Colorado Technical University-Online

  Master of Science in Information Technology, Information Systems Security

  2012 — 2014

• Colorado Technical University

  BSIT, Information Technology, Network Management

  2010 — 2011

Skills

• Sccm
• Network Administration
• Juniper
• Haas
• Pernix
• Windows Server Migration
• Healthcare IT
• Backup Solutions
• Windows Server 2008
• Citrix
• Sonicwall
• Windows 7 Rollout
• Netapp
• Business Continuity
• Hp Server Hardware
• Hp Sim
• Network Security
• Server Administration
• Enterprise Architecture
• Oracle Rac
• Chef
• Disaster Recovery
• Vmware Esx
• Altiris
• Storage Architecture
• Dell Poweredge Servers
• Data Center
• Penetration Testing
• Checkpoint
• Cisco Devices
• Cloud Computing
• Hyper-V
• Linux Server Administration
• Flexpod
• Microsoft Exchange
• Converged Infrastructure
• Itil
• Blackberry Enterprise Server
• Watchguard
• Managed Services