Company name

Phillips Technology Solutions

My company is best described as a:

Datacenter consultancy

Company website

http://www.phillipstechnologysolutions.com

Jobtitle/position

Chief Architect

My role is best described as:

Design/Engineering, Operations/Support

I am:

Independent Data Center Consultant (not tied to a vendor), Considered a Subject Matter Expert (see areas of expertise)

Relevant qualifications & certifications (Please list certification authority + dates)

Greg Phillips has been in Information Technology since 1984 in the areas of Electronics and Control Systems, Satellite Communications, Software Engineering, Systems Performance Testing and Storage and Network Engineering. He has provided technical consulting services to clients in the Federal government and the private sector. He currently specializes in Storage Networking Architecture and Data Center Fabric Technologies, Storage Resource Management, and the use of virtualization and cloud technologies as an enabler for services based infrastructure design. He is also a member of numerous standards working groups including SNIA’s SMI-S protocol and Cloud Storage technical working groups, and the Open Grid Forum.

Greg began his technology career in 1984 when as a commercial and industrial electrician he began specializing in fire protection and control systems implementation. His interest in control systems, PLC’s and their associated ladder logic soon led him into the U.S. Navy’s Advanced Electronics Program where he served on active duty from 1990 to 1996 with the last 4 years of that aboard the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) where he was the lead Electronics Technician for the ship’s Tactical, Intelligence and General Message Processing satellite communications systems.

During his service he received two Naval Achievement Medals for supporting secure communications equipment for the CIA and Special Operations Units during Operation Desert Storm and holding the role of Electronics Quality Control Inspector during the overhaul and RF alignments for all UHF communications equipment during the Kennedy’s complex overhaul at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in 1994.

Greg Phillips' Private sector positions have included: Principal Engineering Consultant to Brocade Communication; architecting Fibre Channel routing and SAN extension over IP solutions for Main Frame and Open Systems SANs for many of the nation’s largest financial, commercial and health care organizations. Senior Performance Test Engineering Consultant to Raytheon Missile Systems, Wachovia, and numerous others; providing systems performance testing, analysis, and tuning of mission-critical enterprise systems. Sr. Satellite Communications Engineer at Intelsat’s Global Operations Center in Washington DC and Comsat World Systems at the Clarksburg TTC/M earth station in MD; providing RF, network, and electronics engineering services.

Greg Phillips' Federal government sector positions have included: Principal Systems Architect for U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Enterprise Data Center Operations Group. Technical Engineering Lead for Internet Operations on the U.S. Treasury’s TCS project, designing and implementing secure networking and complex load balancing and traffic management solutions. Principal Systems Architect for the U.S. Mint, where he contributed to the design and launch of the Mint’s first geographically load balanced e-commerce site, as well as engineering the network and telecommunications infrastructures for the at the time newly constructed HQ buildings at 799 and 801 9th St. in Washington, DC.

Greg is married, holds numerous industry certifications from Cisco, Brocade and Microsoft, holds a VA Master Electrician’s license, enjoys GOD, FUEL TV, Intelligent Design, The Elegant Universe, DOOM on his iPhone, phrack, rootkit development and wreck diving off the MD, VA & NC coastline.

My main areas of expertise are:

Cables/Connectors/Wiring, Cloud Computing, Networks, Power Generation/Distribution, Servers, Storage, Test/Measurement, Tools, UPS, Virtualisation

More about me (How long have you been in the industry, expertise, career history, ambitions, website/blog, etc)

I'm speaking at:
"Convergence in the Next Generation Data Center
Thursday, February 17, 2011
The Willard InterContinental Hotel, Washington, DC"

Greg Phillips

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