Joel Dibbern-Kramer

Consulting to a start-up company that is applying for a gTLD.

I was project lead for Vodafone Office IT department on the Qatar project. It was a pilot project that would use local vendors to setup the office infrastructure in Qatar with help and guidance from technical personnel within Vodafone to Vodafone Office IT design standards. Also as part of my duties was to back up other projects while other project leaders for Office IT department were on vacation.

Worked on the New Data Centre project within the GCO area. The project is to consolidate a great many small data centers from around the continent into two major data centers. Since being part of the Governance and Control Office my tasks are to make sure that the move, and fallback plan that the vendor submits which is tasked with providing the move services is, one feasible, and secondly, to be sure that all components (manpower, hardware, software) are in the proper place, and allocated as well.

Worked on the rolling out, which consolidated into one network, new hardware to the trading floor and other high risk departments, which have application platforms connected to various networks. The project was to consolidate all the various hardware onto one network and if possible onto the fewest number of machines per position. The project also included the shutting down and migrating the assets of the old network that the users were attaching to.

Started an MIS dept, developing dept infrastructure, controls, and procedures for all aspects of data center computer operations. Responsible for overall designing, planning, implementation, and all operational aspects for computer & networking services, data & voice communications. My duties which included leading a project with the help of a great many others, in the planning, and implementing for the relocation from a single data center to fully redundant DCs, which covered the entire continental US.

Designed, implemented, & administered a multi-site disaster recovery facility for use by the banking and financial industry duplicating trading floors and back offices. Participated in the overall implementation and admin. of the LAN/WAN infrastructure that supports these sites. This WAN, spread across four locations, constitutes 1k+ nodes. Designed a generic yet flexible workstation and file server specifications, which allowed for multiple configurations to cater to the needs of different corp. customer

Designed & had implemented a wide area network for City of New York Department of Sanitation Bureau of Motor Equipment. Trained and scheduled senior computer operations personnel. Planned, assigned and reviewed the work of senior operations staff. Supervised project teams engaged in the installation, maintenance, enhancements of LAN/WAN, and computer equipment for data processing.