This document provides a summary and work history for Fred T. Gwyan. He has over 10 years of experience in data center operations and networking. His most recent roles include working as a Data Center Ops/Trading Floor Consultant for NASDAQ and as a LAN Analyst/Network Technician for Wells Fargo. He has extensive experience racking and stacking servers and networking equipment, performing break/fix duties, and basic server and network configurations.
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ASE has a team of qualified CAD Engineers, Design Engineers and Managers with good exposure of various CAD projects to deliver creative CAD solutions in the facets of engineering disciplines including Telecom Infrastructure Design - for wireless GSM and UMTS sites, Copper Wire Infrastructure Design, MEP, Architecture & GIS. Adding to our technical capability, our strength in project management and quality procedures ensure accuracy of design and timely delivery. In this specialized turf, ASE has some unique advantages as an execution partner for Telecom infrastructure & engineering design houses
1. Fred T. Gwyan
519 Spruce Avenue, Upper Darby, PA
19082. (610)-203-4276
fgwyan@yahoo.com
Summary:
• 10 years plus experience in Data Center operations
• Organized and attention to details
• Can work alone and capable of making difficult decisions in critical times
• Available to work any shift or time
• An excellent communicator
Education/ Certification:
Associate of Science, Telecommunication and Networking
Delaware County Community College 1998-2000
Network+ Training New Horizon institute, PA 2006
CCNA Training, Delaware County Comm. College, PA 2007
Professional Experience:
Client: NASDAQ - Philadelphia, PA
Duration: January-2013 - Now
Position: Data Center Ops/Trading floor Consultant
Responsibilities:
• Servers break and fix responsibilities.
• Racked and stacked all brand of Network equipment.
• Attended project meetings.
• Cut CRs and POs for designated projects working with Project Managers and Engineers..
• Labeled all cables, assigned asset tag to equipment in the Data Center, provided grid location and
position of each cabinet.
• Configured both the DRAC and the ILO connections on the Dells and HP servers.
• Performed some break fix duties
• Circuit turn ups
• Racked Dell Power edge M1000 Blade Server.
• Performed basic configurations on Dell R610 and M1000 servers and Blade chassis with IP
addresses
Client: Wells Fargo Corporate - Philadelphia, PA
Duration: June-2010 - December 2013
Position: LAN Analyst/Network Technician
Responsibilities:
• Racked and stacked all brands of servers.
• Racked and stacked all brand of Network equipment.
• Attended project meetings.
• Cut CRs and POs for designated projects working with Project Managers and Engineers.
• Installed Avocent’s KVMs, Cyclades, ANSR and cabling.
• Labeled all cables, assigned asset tag to equipment in the Data Center, provided grid location and
position of each cabinet.
2. • Configured both the DRAC and the ILO connections on the Dells and HP servers.
• Performed some break fix duties
• Turned up various circuits, from Level 3, OC3, Verizon and XO.
• Racked Dell Power edge M1000 Blade Server.
• Performed basic configurations on Dell R610 and M1000 servers and Blade chassis
• Built fibers trunks designs for the datacenter.
• Installed and monitored distributed power systems for Data Center.
Client: SunGard Computer Services
Duration: Nov 2006-June 2010
Position: Hardware Specialist/Configurations
Responsibilities:
• Designed and installed trunk cables network as a backbone to provide patching capabilities to
support network infrastructures.
• Designed and installed fiber trunk network to provide patching capabilities for Cisco MDS9500
series of fiber switches.
• Racked and stacked the Cisco NEXUS 7000 series of blade servers.
• Racked and stacked the IBM blade center H.
• Ran both P-cons and F-cons fiber cables to Directors and San Servers.
• Installed Avocents KVMs and Cyclades, all Dell series of Power edge servers, Sun Microsystems
series of Sun Fire servers, Cisco switches and routers.
• Labeled all cables, assigned asset tag for all equipment in the Data Center, provided grid location
and position of each cabinet.
• Racked and stacked Sun Micro-system Blade Center.
• Performed major upgrades on various servers and network equipments.
• Gained exposure to Data Center’s heating and cooling technologies for the under and above floor
network designs.
Client: CTDI (Merrill Lynch PA Data Center) (Verizon Mobile Switching Centers)
Duration: December 2004- May 2006
Position: Installation Technician
Responsibilities:
• Installed various series of Cisco CRS systems for various Verizon wireless switching centers.
• Build cabinets for Cisco’s 6500 series catalyst routers and switches.
• Installed wired, power up and tested Cisco routers and switches.
• Installed, wired and power up HP 300 and 500 Series Servers and Arrays.
• Installed, wired and power up Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 Server.
Client: Bank of America VOIP Project
Duration: April 2004-Oct 2004
Position: Field Engineer
• Built and racked Cisco’s 3745 series routers and switches.
• Upgraded routers with 256K memory and AIM CUE cards.
• Installed APC 2200 UPS equipment.
• Installed, tested and configured 7960Gs Global IP phones and integrating them to the network
• Interfaced phones with smart jacks.
• Interfaced “c” switches using 1000Base-SX short wavelength GBIC Cisco fiber cable.
Client: Sunrise Assisted Living Homes ( Jointly owned LLC where I worked on
3. a on call basis).
Duration: May 2004 – November2004
Position: Installation Technician,
• Participated in the migration of various Sunrise Assisted Living Homes’ platforms to Citrix
Metaframe Presentation Server for the Join Domain and Beaconization Project (DAB)
• Extensive experience in LAN/VOICE installation, deployment and testing T1s, install Nortel
equipment, install and cross-connect on 110 and 66 blocks and etc.
• Traced dial tone from the De-Mac to client space, and performed Line Station Transfer.
Competent with tracing involving system troubleshooting and testing T1, DSO, DS1 and DS3.
Client: Parr Inspections (FEMA) Relief Worker, Hurricane Rita &Katrina
Dec, 2003-July 2004, August 2005-January 2006
Client: TV Guide, Inc.
Duration: June 1998 – Feb 2004
Position: Make-Up Editor
• Electronically built TV Guide magazines using various platforms (including UNIX)