Highly accomplished Senior Level Director with over 14 years of technology/engineering management and implementation experience, strong communication and organizational skills. Able to understand business needs and translate to technology that will provide solid solutions with a high ROI. Able take technology needs and translate between both executive teams and business units to help drive adoption.
Proven infrastructure architect and software developer with hands-on, progressive experience in systems design, implementation, integration, consolidation, deployment and maintenance. Ability to quickly comprehend and apply new and emerging technologies in an effective manner. Strong team leader with experience in building team member cohesion, communication, productivity, organization and structure. Bridges gaps between clients, co-workers and team members. Produces results by leveraging skill set and impeccable work ethic in timely, cost effective manner. Innovative application of knowledge and existing skills resulting in adaptable, robust, time proven solutions
Infrastructure Specialties:
• Fiber Channel Storage Area Network design and maintenance.
• EMC VMAX and VNX along with NETAPP FAS
• VMware Vsphere , Vcenter and SRM deployment and maintenance.
• Recover Point for SAN replication
• Network Architecture and Implementation focused around security
• High Availability architecture designs
• Data center design and deployment
Software Specialties:
• Languages - C#, PHP, C++, VB, ASP.net Javascript, Prototype, JQuery
• Databases - Oracle, SQL and MySql database architectures design and deployment.
• Web Servers- IIS6.0-7.5, Apache and Sun Java System
Engineering Specialties:
• Board Layout: High density, High Speed digital circuit design, 22+ layer designs
• Processors: Motorola FreeScale processors and Legacy 6800 processors.
• FPGA: Altera and Xilinx TQFP and BGA's with over 1 million logic elements.
VP Cloud Architecture @ From June 2015 to Present (6 months) Greater Denver AreaSr Systems Engineer @ From December 2013 to June 2015 (1 year 7 months) Greater Denver AreaDirector of Infrastructure @ Design and implementation of financial software using .net and LAMP stack technologies.
Bring long term vision and security IT infrastructure analysis along with implementation of new enterprise architecture designs.
Manage multi-million dollar budget and maintain vendor relationships to ensure infrastructure is ultra secure and on the leading edge.
Provide leadership and set career paths for multi-functional 12 person team, consisting of Server and Network Administrators, down to the IT customer service team.
Maintain and build Storage Area Networks and replication schemes using EMC VMAX and Recover Point along with VMWare Site Recovery Manager.
Build and maintain all IT security and DRBCP policies.
Keeping executives and high level decision makers informed of new technologies that can help enhance productivity for end users, that give a high ROI.
Ensure high availability of enterprise services that maintain low RTOs and high RPOs to ensure business continuity. From August 2008 to December 2013 (5 years 5 months) Greater Denver AreaAssociate Engineer @ Worked primarily on the James Webb Space Telescope. It is scheduled to launch 2018 and it will replace the Hubble Telescope.
Performed radiation and cryogenic testing of flight level part lots to ensure mission life success.
Development of custom control electronics, included FPGAs, and CPLDs.
Design, implementation and test of Ground Support Electronics.
Designed multiple FPGA cores for a high speed memory and communication software test bench. From July 2003 to August 2008 (5 years 2 months) Boulder CampusAssociate Engineer @ During my tenure, I was part of the Hardware Critical Support Team and Internal Support R&D Team.
Performed intense code and hardware reviews with other engineers to recreate the "Bug" found and implement a hardware/software fix and report back to the customer.
Using Tornado VxWorks to debug live microprocessor code as it executed and the use of various low level logic testing equipment.
Redesigned a hardware interface board (EthCon) that would allow Firmware Engineers to remote execute new code loads to the Infinity PBX motherboard from their offices and debug/troubleshoot more effectively.
Redesigned PWA's to incorporate new components for end of life components and to perform cost reduction on current parts with new smaller less expensive footprint parts. From August 2000 to August 2002 (2 years 1 month)
Mathematics @ FRCC From 2006 to 2008 BS, Computer Science - TBD on resuming class schedule for Computer Science Major. @ University of Colorado at Denver From 2001 to 2002 Electronics Engineering @ SCC Milford From 1997 to 1999 Joe Sueper is skilled in: C#, Visual Basic, .NET, OOP, C, JavaScript, Database Design, VHDL, Digital Hardware Design, Microprocessors, Network Architecture, VMware Infrastructure, IT Infrastructure Management, EMC Storage, RecoverPoint