Bob Rose
Platform Architect at Comcast Cable
- Role
- Platform Architect at Comcast
- Location
- Elkins Park, PA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Bob Rose
Senior Information Systems professional with over 30 years of hands-on experience in:…
Experience
Platform Architect
Jul 2009 — Present · Philadelphia, PA, US
Responsible for vendor management, hardware & software evaluations and recommendations, procurement and setting enterprise-wide guidelines & standards for server technologies, operating systems and virtualization products. • Work with user community to recommend optimal server platforms & replace end of life servers. • Negotiated enterprise license agreements providing unlimited use for virtualization tools.• Recommended server strategies that were adopted to reduce power, space and cooling in national data centers.• Developed and published standard server evaluation and selection criteria.• Worked closely with the procurement team to develop server forecasts and standard configurations used to support server reverse auctions and establish multi-vendor servers support program.• Managed servers, storage and networking technologies supporting a lab used test, evaluate and demonstrate virtualization technologies and techniques.• Developed an enterprise-wide VMware licensing management program.• Developed the enterprise-wide Virtual Desktop architecture that supports call center agents. • Recommended a converged server platform used to support a large-scale virtual infrastructure supporting servers and VMs. • Evaluated and recommended a virtual infrastructure management and capacity planning tools supporting enterprise wide solutions.
Education
Academy Of Advanced Traffic
Transportation/Traffic Mangement
1975 — 1977
Montgomery County Community College
General Business
1975 — 1976
Skills
- Storage
- Tcp/Ip
- Virtualization
- Voip
- Data Center
- Oracle
- Cloud Computing
- High Availability
- Leadership
- Solaris
- Integration
- System Deployment
- Servers
- Program Management
- System Architecture
- IT Operations
- Vendor Management
- Storage Area Networks
- Telecommunications
- System Administration
- Negotiation
- Security
- Enterprise Software
- Enterprise Architecture
- Unix
- Hardware
- Project Planning
- San
- Pre-Sales
- Infrastructure
- Linux
- Vmware
- Disaster Recovery
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