Tyler Hunstad

Experience

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  System Support Group, INC

  Feb 1998 - Mar 2000

  Lead IT Specialist

  • Developed and installed more than 600 local and wide area networks.• Configured and implemented all NT Server Services, including DHCP, WINS, DNS, IIS, and Clients for Netware.• Built more than 400 workstations and over 70 servers customized to meet clients’ needs.• Configured several NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and Advanced Servers.• Implemented IIS servers in a farm environment with clustering.• Performed customer support for platform and hardware troubleshooting. • Ran cable and terminated more than 10,000 feet of fiber and cat five cable.• Installed and configured a wide variety of medical, accounting, and governmental software programs.• Administered multiple types of database applications across a network. Show less

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  New Horizons Computer Learning Centers

  Apr 2000 - Mar 2001

  Senior Technical Instructor

  • Taught Comptia’s Course material for the A+ and Network + Certification.• Taught all Microsoft courseware for the Microsoft Certified System Engineer Track on Windows 2000.• Taught the Bay Networks course for “The fundamentals of Nortel Routers.”• Taught all Microsoft Office 2000/XP classes.

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  L-3 Communications

  Mar 2001 - Dec 2005

  • Performed project planning, budgeting, and resource allocation of approximately $500K - $4M per year.• Contributed significant portions to IT sections of winning DoD contract proposal worth over $1.3B over 10 years.• Recognized for consistently building teams and consensus among subordinates, co-workers, managers, contractors, government, customers, and auditors.• Configured multiple Cisco switches and routers to allow trunking and channeling across the SOFSANet.• Implemented SOFSANet new Citrix Farm to include a 12-node server cluster. Show less

  • Senior Computer Analyst

    Mar 2003 - Dec 2005

  • Computer System Technologist

    Mar 2001 - Mar 2003
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  Hewlett-Packard

  Dec 2005 - Sept 2014

  • Explore and evaluate customer storage environments to provide highly available and scalable solutions to meet the explosion of data in corporate IT and create proposals to address challenges.• Analyze SAN fabrics, design complex environments, formulate Recover Point and Recovery Time Objectives within a customer’s backup environment, and assist in the planning for automation of tiered data across both file and block storage. • Deliver technical “Deep Dive” presentations and open floor discussions for storage provisioning, capacity planning, de-duplication, and thin provisioning across HP’s Storage portfolio, as well as HP’s corporate strategy for storage. Show less • Tested, upgraded, monitored, configured, troubleshot, and repaired complex hardware and software events to ensure continuous functionality in a rapidly changing environment. .• Designed, installed, configured, and administered HP’s Cloud System Matrix in an HP R&D Software Lab, providing a Self Service Portal for infrastructure as a service.• Installed, configures, monitored, maintained, and repaired the Storage Area Network to include hardware maintenance, performance monitoring, performance tuning, firmware and driver updates, and storage presentation to server resources. Perform the backup and recovery of network data for all servers and the Storage Area Network utilizing HP Data Protector 7.x Show less • Performed multiple assessments from data classification and server consolidation to virtual desktop infrastructure proof of concepts for a various number of customers.• Implemented extremely complex configurations around C Class Blades and Virtual Connect infrastructure components at multiple customer sites.• Implemented and designed virtualized data centers using a combination of software and HP C Class Blades.• Provided quarterly and yearly reviews for customers showing value in the delivery of HP’s mission-critical service. Show less • Performed reactive and proactive calls to all customers in the coverage area.• Performed several statements of work engagements, including:o Active Directory Implementationo Cisco switch layout redesign in customer environmento Multiple RDP and HP SIM installs using HP Blade Technologyo Configuration of many blade interconnect switches for customers to work in their environmento Reconfiguration of Cisco 9509 MDS for customers SAN, utilizing best practiceso Configuration of Storage Essentials and Proliant Essentials, including RDP, PMP, VMM, SMP, IPM, VC, Blade Essentials, and HP SIMo Implementation of Openview Operations for Windows and HPUX o Vast knowledge on Network Node Manager• ISEE District Focal Show less

  • HP Storage Solution Architect

    Sept 2012 - Sept 2014

  • Senior Systems Engineer (HP R&D Extream Software)

    Jun 2010 - Sept 2012

  • Mission Critical Account Support Manager

    Mar 2007 - Jun 2010

  • Customer Support Engineer

    Dec 2005 - Mar 2007
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  Dell Technologies

  Sept 2014 - now

  • Enterprise Account Manager

    Aug 2023 - now

  • Advisory Engineer

    Sept 2016 - Aug 2023

  • Senior System Engineer- Isilon

    Sept 2014 - Sept 2016