1. Daniel rief
3393 W. 62nd
Ave., Denver, CO 80221
303-990-9656 | dan_rief@yahoo.com
INFRASTRUCTURE ARCHITECT
IT professional functioning as an infrastructure architect for over 13 years in industry-leading
technology corporations, including multinational organizations; coupled with 30 years of overall IT
experience. Outstanding leader, engineer, and architect for IT data center solutions for various sized
organizations. Excellent presentation and documentation skills.
CORE COMPETENCIES
 Server Architecture
 Sales Architecture
 Data Center Migration
 Solution Engineering
 Requirements Analysis
 Process Analysis
 Firewall Engineering
 Coaching & Mentoring
 Leadership & Development
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Hewlett-Packard (EDS Corporation), Palo Alto, CA (Denver, CO based)
INFRASTRUCTURE ARCHITECT 11/2002 – 7/2015
 Developed detailed engineering solutions of server systems and appliances for numerous clients.
 Managed the standard server model configurations production data center.
 Worked with various application development teams to plan multiple large application migration
projects from obsolete datacenters into the new lights-out datacenter.
 Collaborated with various application development teams to scale the virtual server loading and
sizing requirements.
 Acted as primary Firewall Engineer subject matter expert by providing development teams secure
access for the application environments.
 Developed the F5 load balancer architecture and management environment.
 Provided ad hoc network architecture training to various software and database engineering support
teams.
 Supported numerous sales pursuit efforts by generating yellow-pad architectural designs and high-
level cost estimates for new server environments.
 Architected a new Disaster Recovery (DR) environment that successfully completed a DR drill for
the first time in 10 years.
 Engineered a mainframe replacement project on midrange systems.
 Managed team of 60 U.S. based technical engineers.
 Supervised, trained, and directed a team of 24 offshore technical engineers in India.
 Developed a training program which reduced new engineering training time by more than half, from
12 months down to 6 months.

2. Hewlett-Packard (EDS Corporation), continued
UNIX DELIVERY MANAGER 12/2000 – 11/2002
 Managed a team of 36 UNIX Systems Administrators (local and remote).
 Managed 3 data centers and approximately 2000 UNIX desktops located at 2 sites.
 Architected a server consolidation plan as part of the contract re-negotiation to reduce the number of
servers by more than fifty percent.
LEAD UNIX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR 03/1997 – 12/2000
 Team Lead of the UNIX Tier 3 Server Support and Engineering virtual team.
 Co-Team Lead of the UNIX Level 2 Service Desk and Deskside virtual team.
 Engineered a UNIX NIS Domain consolidation project consolidating 6 NIS domains which had 200
UNIX servers and 1200 UNIX desktop machines, into just one domain.
Visual Numerics Inc., Boulder, CO
SENIOR SYSTEMS ANALYST 01/1995 - 02/1997
 Responsible for installing, configuring and maintaining a heterogeneous network which consisted of
UNIX and Microsoft Windows servers and desktops.
 Installed and configured a network firewall system over a T1 line.
 Designed and implemented a complete remote access system for sales force automation and software
development needs.
 Designed the network architecture for the company’s new office building.
Boeing Company, Seattle, WA
Lead Software Engineer 06/1981 – 01/1995
 Responsible for developing business processes and procedures for a remote operations center.
 Performed Systems Administration on SUN UNIX, VAX VMS and Windows PCs.
 Performed system level software testing of proprietary software systems.
 Responsible for developing test requirements, writing formal test procedures, conducting software
system tests, and generating written test reports, for formal software testing of aircraft control
systems and weapons control systems.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering 1981
Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Embedded Software Engineering Training Program 1985
Boeing Computer Services, Seattle, WA
EDS Leader Internship Program 1999
EDS Training Services, Louisville, CO
EDS Bestshore Management and Migration Workshop 2005
EDS Training Services, Lakewood, CO
Microsoft Azure Disaster Recovery Bootcamp 2015
Microsoft Training Services, Denver, CO