Brian Carter

Education: BA

Mathematics

Occidental College

1991 : 1995

Experience: 2023 : Present

Manifest

Director Information Security

2017 : 2023

Manifest

Sr Systems Administrator and Director of Information Security

2014 : 2017

Manifest

Senior Systems Administrator

• Planned and executed datacenter consolidation project to centralize administration and lower overall datacenter costs by moving most critical servers from multiple remote locations to two central locations

• Migrated virtual servers from remote locations to the new centralized ESX environment and converted remote physical servers to virtual servers using vRanger and vReplicator tools

• Architected and configured network topology and server redesign that allowed the company to achieve PCI compliance

• Installed, configured and managed multiple SAN environments for both MS SQL clustering and VMware clustering

• Installed, configured and managed production and pre-production MS SQL database installations in high-availability clustered environments

• Installed, configured and managed firewall and VPN solutions used in the production and pre-production environments

• Installed, configured, and managed centralized AV, LEM, and WSUS solutions

• Utilized both proprietary and off-the-shelf tools to perform 24x7 monitoring of both the production websites and the hardware and software supporting the websites

• Designed and implemented a department web portal using C# and MS SQL that allowed for asset tracking, IP address management, and real-time patch management coordination

• Performed troubleshooting of application issues in both pre-production and production environments in collaboration with the development teams

2011 : 2014

Turning Technologies

Manager of Systems Administration

• Managed a team that performed the day to day operations of production and pre-production environments for several proprietary multi-million dollar website products that included district-wide K12 performance testing, corporate surveys for large companies (including Fortune Global 500 customers), and e-commerce websites

• Architected, configured and managed network topology and server infrastructure to support up to 50 thousand concurrent website users while maintaining 99.99% uptime excluding planned outages

• Installed, configured and managed several generations of SAN environments for both MS SQL clustering and VMware clustering

• Installed, configured and managed production and pre-production MS SQL database installations in high-availability clustered environments, including a four-node cluster with multiple concurrent SQL instances

• Installed, configured and managed IDS, AV and log correlation tools for the website environments

• Utilized both proprietary and off-the-shelf tools to perform 24x7 monitoring of both the production websites and the hardware and software supporting the websites

• Created, tested and refined a DRP for the production website environment

• Created department documentation to outline policies and procedures

• Designed and implemented a department web portal using C# and MS SQL that allowed for the submission and tracking of work items, deployment checklists that displayed real-time updates, online chat rooms for deployments, and department calendar maintenance

• Collaborated with various website development teams to ensure that all SDLC policies were followed per company standards

• Performed troubleshooting of application issues in both pre-production and production environments in collaboration with the development teams

• Managed vendor relationships for hardware, software, and colocation facilities used by the Web Operations team

2000 : 2011

Scantron

Web Operations Manager

Company: Manifest

Years of Experience: 25