justin grogan

senior principal engineer

About

A Senior Solutions Architect and Technical Leader with a wide range of IT systems and solutions experience and knowledge ranging from traditional multi-region data centers to cloud computing. Functions as a team leader and team member on a long list of high-profile projects for various federal government customers. Experienced with Cloud Architectures, Enterprise Architectures, Systems Design, Systems Life Cycle, Data Center Architecture/Operations, Amazon Web Services, Platform as a Service and a numerous technologies used within the Enterprise today. Adept in understanding what is going on "today" in an organization and not only producing the road map of where they should be "tomorrow", but leading the transition effort as well. Uses a "lead from the front" approach to working within a team, and mentors junior team members to help them achieve success.

Country

united states

City

saint louis

Industry

information technology and services

Skill

enterprise architecture, systems engineering, project management, program management, security clearance, cisco ucs, vmware, virtualization, emc storage, windows server, cisco nexus, red hat linux, solaris, microsoft sql server, data center, system architecture, integration, vmware esx, security, disaster recovery, vmware infrastructure, system life cycle, dodaf, technical leadership, team mentoring, information assurance, amazon web services, cloud computing, dod, san, requirements analysis, enterprise software, network security, computer security, networking, system administration, military, itil, troubleshooting, pivotal cloud foundry, paas, cloud computing iaas, cloud foundry, vormetric encryption, u.s. department of defense, vxrail

Experience

principle systems engineer

bae systems

2004-3 - 2009-1 · 4 yrs 11 mos

Provided Systems Engineering and Computer Engineering support to a federal customer. Programs included very large data libraries that hosted multiple petabytes of information. Worked in various data centers to remedy ongoing problems, and provide crisis support during numerous system outages.

senior systems engineer

digitalnet

2000-3 - 2004-3 · 4 yrs 1 mo

Senior Systems Engineer contracted to the State Department’s Foreign Operations Bureau. Developed and led a highly successful technology refresh/recap to upgrade not only workstations and printers but servers and network equipment for thousands of users.

forward observer and information system analyst

us army

1992-2 - 2000-6 · 8 yrs 5 mos

senior principal engineer

emc

2017-12 - Present · 8 yrs 10 mos

Solutions Architect for Dell EMC operating within the Federal sector. Delivering Hyper-Converged solutions such as VxRail, VxRail Azure Stack, and other Software-Defined Data Center solutions to Federal Government customers.

senior solutions architect

njvc-llc

2009-1 - 2017-12 · 9 yrs

* Senior Solutions Architect responsible for various Systems Designs for a federal government customer. Projects include enterprise identity consolidation for a global infrastructure, numerous physical system to virtual projects, cloud architecture and implementation, Amazon Web Services (C2S as well as commercial AWS), and providing a long list other systems solutions to a federal customer with global offices. Designed, implemented, and provided support to a large data center built around Cisco UCS technology. Developed and implemented a Virtual Desktop solution that is capable of advanced graphics and high resolution while operating over high-latency Wide Area Network conditions. Work in various worldwide locations. * Senior Solutions Architect for numerous cloud projects * Senior Architect for Platform as a Service initiative for large federal customer * Senior Architect for High Performance Virtual Desktop solution * Engineering Lead for High Performance Computing project * Chief Engineer for West IT Modernization * Lead Engineer for Enterprise Domain Consolidation

Education

lindenwood university

2006-1 - 2008-1 · 2 yrs 1 mo

the george washington university

engineering

2010-1 - 2014-1 · 4 yrs 1 mo

The systems engineering program provides broad knowledge of the \"systems approach\" for designing and managing large-scale engineering systems throughout the life cycle. It incorporates \"systems thinking\" into problem solving and decision making.","Graduate coursework included Program and Project Management, Decision Making with Uncertainty, Risk Management, etc..."]