Steve Shinsel
For the past 5-1/2 years, Steve has been the Infrastructure Manager for Anthro Technology Furniture located near Portland, Oregon.
He has managed Information Technology (IT) groups at Intel and Mentor Graphics, providing support for CAD/CAE design engineers and Corporate Datacenters (with Enterprise business applications such as SAP-ERP & CRM, Business Objects, and Corporate Web servers), as well as an extensive hands-on background in all computer systems from Infrastructure design to Hard-disk forensics.
Steve's current expertise is in:
· Virtualization and Blade server technology.
· SANs, NAS, iSCSI, FibreChannel, and Data center ‘greening’.
· Database administration (Microsoft SQL Server 2005-2008 r2)
· Hardware/software procurement and inventory control
· Hardware performance analysis and tuning (BIOs, CPU, RAM,Disks, System Bus).
· Systems Data Recovery, Forensic analysis
· Networking: vLans, DMZ Security, WiFi
· Negotiating and establishing SLAs, policies, and metrics to measure success
· Multi-million dollar budgetary experience
· Enterprise-wide, Mission-critical project management such as SAP upgrades, Active Directory migrations, and Middleware deployment, on time and within budget
· Supervision and leadership of IT Staff, including Helpdesk, Network, and Engineering
· Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery
Steve was a member of the Pitney Bowes team that installed the first computerized OCR mail processing system in the United States (in the Los Angeles Postal Distribution Center) in 1982, and was presented the Chairman's Award from Mentor Graphics founder and CEO, Tom Bruggere, for his design and implementation of the first fully-isolated QA/Test environment for bug duplication.
Steve received his education from California State University - Northridge, where he studied Electrical Engineering, and post-graduate level courses in Computer Science at Portland State University.
His hobbies are Video conversion technologies, woodworking and home improvement, and automobile performance driving.
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