Vern Dark

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Vern E. Dark1026 Dresslerville Rd. Gardnerville NV, 89460 • • Cell 937-993-6643E-mail (Vern.Dark@gmail.com)Job ObjectiveCurrently seeking a position as a Mission Critical Facilities Engineer/ManagerSummary of QualificationsInformation Technology Professional with 23 years of experience in Data Center Operations, Business Reporting. and Facilities Administration. Successfully completed projects to reduce site facilities maintenance costs by 10% yearly, asset tracking for 65 remote sites, and to determine decommissioned equipment at remote sites to recover maintenance costs resulting in a yearly company savings of 29k per year. Successful track record in project management, quality assurance, risk mitigation, data center disaster recovery, business resumption planning, Critical Infrastructure Support and Asset Management. SpecialtiesIT Infrastructure and Data Center optimization, consolidation, and efficiency improvement.Managing IT transformation programs requiring co-ordination of local and remote staff and contractors, service providers, and hardware\software vendors.Team Building and LeadershipCustomer Relations & Satisfaction Change ManagementCAD (Aperture)/CMDBSAS70, SSAE16 AuditAsset ManagementExperienceJune 2005 Facilities Engineerto present. Siemens IT Solutions and Services, Cincinnati, Ohio: Provide tactical design services and operations support for data center hardware and critical infrastructure systems in production, disaster recovery, and test data centers.(This includes, but is not limited to design and support for power, cooling, fire suppression, space allocation, connectivity, physical security and physical rack and stack of Data Center Hardware.)Oversight includes all installation, maintenance and operations of CRAC units; electrical distribution, including generators, UPS, and PDU's; fire detection and suppression, space allocation, connectivity, and physical and logical security, for multiple data centers and communications rooms. A primary responsibility is to ensure that client specifications are met though adherences to policy and procedure guidelines for facility operations, maintenance, change control and customer service.