Marc Hall

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About Marc Hall

An experienced leader, systems architect, and engineer with hands-on expertise in IT strategy development and execution, requirements gathering, specification development, solution design, documentation, detailed implementation, operations, maintenance, and decommissioning activities for enterprise-scale systems in the cloud or on premises. Currently: leading a global infrastructure team in support of managed services agreements at multiple enterprises, with onshore and offshore support in 24/7/365 environments. This includes strategic planning, budgeting, tactical technology decision-making, hiring, promotion, coaching, mentoring, retention, contract management, vendor management, and related responsibilities. Network and system infrastructure architecture, engineering, and administration on premises, co-located, and in the cloud in support of hundreds of internal and public-facing mobile apps, websites, and other applications with millions of users generating billions in revenue.Previous career path: IT infrastructure leadership for a global social media company. Linux and Windows system architecture and engineering for a Fortune 300 hospitality firm. DevOps supporting reservation and flight operations for a national airline. Full-stack infrastructure for an Alaska-wide WiFi network. At a global financial news organization, full-stack DevOps support of multiple public-facing brokerage applications. For a major brokerage house, centralized data distribution capabilities across the data management enterprise. For a regional medical center, managed the datacenter, executed an enterprise-wide SAN migration, doubled power and cooling capacity to accommodate new workloads, implemented all-new backup infrastructure, and engineered multiple new application platforms - in addition to routine system administration and operational responsibilities. For a global payments processor, developed physical and virtual infrastructure orchestration tools. For multiple non-profits: web-slinging, public and media relations, writing, editing, training, and fund raising. More generally: technical leadership; enterprise-scale application development and infrastructure; writing; editing; and training.Specialties: Enterprise system architecture and implementation; platform-agnostic web development; monitoring solutions; business continuity/disaster recovery planning & testing; system automation; Unix/Linux system architecture, engineering, & administration; storage virtualization, configuration, & management.