Chris Meredith's Resume (Last updated September 27th 2007)

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CHRISTOPHER MEREDITH

Garland, TX 75041 - USA
http://datadisconnect.com/

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SKILLS 

Team Building
IT Design and Implementation
System Architecture
Enterprise Systems Integration
High Availability Systems Support

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WORK EXPERIENCE 

One Network Enterprises, Dallas, TX

10/2006 - Present

Senior Technical Operations Associate
  • Senior technician for a multinational asp with over $1 Billion in sales
  • Built and supported enterprise systems from the bottom up
  • Part of a team that designed and implemented a national disaster recovery system to guarantee customer SLAs
  • Designed and implemented a multisite monitoring system
  • Designed a multi tiered alert and notification system
  • Designed and implemented a custom user interface for the monitoring and alert system tailored to each department within the company
  • Implemented a central logging system with full text searching to support the distributed systems across the enterprise
  • Implemented a central knowledge repository for technical information for the company
  • Deployed corporate Intranet and customer extranet
  • Assisted in the design of a multilevel change control process
  • Worked to deploy an enterprise grade ticketing system for internal and external escalations

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Digital Standard, Inc., Plano, TX

1/2005 - 10/2006

Chief Technology Officer
  • Acted as the primary technical architect for all projects
  • Designed and implemented a high availability application environment supporting over 1 Million users
  • All project delivered on time and under budget
  • Trained call center employees and support technicians
  • Worked with technical writing staff to build all company documentation
  • Transitioned from a standard server system to a clustered blade system

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Geeks On Site, LLC., Plano, TX

9/2001 - 1/2005

Founder/Chief Technical Officer
  • Provided corporate leadership and overall vision
  • Built a team from the ground up to support IT needs for all levels, from home users to multinational corporations
  • Handled all technical training and certification
  • Acted as technical project manager for all major projects
  • Built long term relationships with clients, partners and vendors
  • Build a profitable pipeline almost immediately
  • Designed internal infrastructure and software to support all corporate needs

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Rare Medium, Inc., Dallas, TX

4/2000 - 9/2001

Director of Central Region (IT)
  • Rose from Executive IT support to Director in 1 year
  • Provided technical planing and support for all executive (C level) needs
  • Primary pre-sales IT for corporate projects
  • Handled several corporate expansions, including opening international offices

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University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

4/1996 - 4/2000

Computer Specialist
  • Advanced from entry level to Department Manager within 2 years
  • Implemented and maintained OU's first online grades and schedule system for students
  • Managed and redesigned the universities first online support and help desk system
  • Integrated custom trouble ticket system with Remedy Ticketing System
  • Trained and certified help desk staff
  • Trained and worked in every department within the university IT systems
  • Taught various computer classes for OU staff at large

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KEYWORDS 

mcse,mce,microsoft,cio,cto,management,project management, team, team building,microsoft,windows,linux,integration,migration,solaris,redhat,oracle,sql,ms sql,mysql,postgres,windows 2003,windows server,enterprise,blades,high availability,vmware,esx,redhat,centos,oracle,oracle linux,mac,osx,macos,gnome,kde,help desk, call center, rememdy, noc, network operation center

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CERTIFICATIONS 

Microsoft Certified System Engineer

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COURSE WORK 

University of Oklahoma
Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering

Previous coursework:
University of South Carolina
University of Maryland

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