Daniel Alan Fleming
132 Cottontail Lane
Nederland, CO.  80466-9726
(303)/258-8076 
jobs@dorje.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/alanf





PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY


A proven people leader with extensive experience working with technology.
Demonstrated track record in technology planning and execution to meeting
strategic business goals.  Expertise in building cohesive and effective
support teams. Skilled in management of both CapEx and OpEx budgets. 
Excellent relationship management and problem solving abilities. Core
strengths include:

Data Center Operations
Team Management
Network Architecture
Internet Security
Systems Administration
Web Site Support
CableTV R&D
Budget Management





TECHNICAL SKILLS


Platforms: Virtually all flavors of unix, including Redhat Linux,
Solaris, HPux and AIX. Systems virtualization with both VMWare and Redhat
KVM. Also familiar with both Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh.
Applications: Sendmail; named/DNS; mailman mailing list management;
Apache/httpd web server; Veritas NetBackup; Amanda backup; nagios monitoring;
some Oracle administration.
Network Equipment: Cisco Routers and switches running IOS;
Brocade/Foundry Routers, switches and load balancers; Brocade SAN switches;
Checkpoint Firewalls; Network Appliance NFS filers; Network Instruments
network sniffers.
Cable TV Equipment: Cisco/Scientific Atlanta headend; Motorola headend;
Big Band Networks BMR; Terayon DM6400; Cisco DCM muxes; Concurrent VoD server;
Arris/CCOR/nCUBE VoD server; Cisco/Arroyo VoD server; Motorola/Broadbus VoD
server; Tandberg/N2Broadband catchers, BMS and AMS; Cisco CMTS; Big Band SDV
server; Cisco/SA SDV server; Trilithic EAS system; Monroe EAS system; S&T
TSBroadcaster; Time Warner Cable MystroTV system.





PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:


Time Warner Cable ATG (previously MystroTV), Broomfield, CO       2002 - 2011
Director, Lab Support: Managed support team of 14 engineers overseeing
a cutting-edge R&D data center supporting Time Warner Cable video
organization's software development, test and field support operations.  The
team was responsible for doing the specification, design and support of the
development lab infrastructure, providing tier IV field support and doing
hardware architecture for deployed products. Equipment used includes multiple
Scientific Atlanta headends, Motorola headends, Video-on-Demand servers,
ISA-complaint subsystems, Switched Digital Video systems, OCAP infrastructure,
Cable modem/DSG infrastructure, over 100 Sun enterprise servers, over 300 Linux
servers, a multi-layer network with more than 30 Brocade, Foundry, Cisco and
Riverstone routers as well as many more pieces of equipment specific to the
cable TV industry.


Designed, built, staffed and operated $20 million dollar 5,000 sq ft
cable TV industry data center. Created specifications including calculating
space, power, air conditioning and cabling requirements.
Designed, built, staffed and operated a $5 million dollar, 1,000 sq ft
cable TV industry data center.
Coordinated two building moves with no outages or loss of productivity.
Oversaw the build-out of office space, working with architects, general
contractors, sub-contractors, cabling vendors, leasing company and legal
departments.
Responsible for managing all vendor relationships for the lab.
Managing a multi-million dollar CapEx and OpEX budget.
Managed design and implementation of hardware virtualization project
tasked with developing next generation solution to deploy into Regional data
centers.
Responsible for specification, vendor selection, pricing and purchase
for all data center equipment.   


Infobeat (www.infobeat.com), Denver, CO                                  2001
Senior System Administrator: Responsible for designing and implementing
an email/web network including security, network infrastructure, hardware
selection, vendor negotiation and system standards.  Part of three person team
responsible for managing existing Infobeat web site including backups, system
monitoring, firewall and network security and development environment.


Designed system and network architecture to support next generation email
platform.

 
Mancala, Inc (aka WordOfMouth.com), Boulder, CO                          2000
Sr. System Administrator and Operations Manager: Responsible for
support of all office equipment, the development environment and the planning,
deployment and administration of the web site. The site was 100% Sun/Solaris,
Foundry load balancer and networking equipment, Oracle running on Network
Appliance NFS filers, Netscreen Firewall, Cisco routers, Apache web servers
and Vignette middleware.


Responsible for evaluation, contract negotiation and purchase of all
server and network hardware.
Designed and implemented website network and security architecture.
Developed website management procedures, maintenance plans and
backup/recovery system.


MapQuest (www.mapquest.com), Denver, CO                           1999 - 2000
Contract Senior Unix System Administrator: One of five tasked with
Systems Administrator, Network Administrator and Webmaster duties for the
MapQuest web site.  Responsible for maintaining all the servers, networking
equipment and software necessary to run the site.


Led Installation Checkpoint Firewall-1 firewall.
Led evaluation of F5 Labs Big/IP and Foundry ServerIron load balancer
hardware.
Managed Sun and Linux server hardware, Cisco routers and 3Com switches.


Additional Related Experience:


   TCI Careertrack, Boulder, CO
   System Administrator

   US West, Denver, CO
   System Administrator

   AT&T Tridom, Marietta, GA
   System Administrator





EDUCATION:


 Georgia State University: Completed 2 years toward BA Philosophy/Religion. 

 Georgia Institute of Technology: Completed 3 years toward BS Information and
    Computer Science.