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Brandon Showers

Meridian, ID 83646 · (208) 595 7469 · bshowers@bshowers.com

A results oriented professional with a demonstrated history of working in the Information Technology industry. Skilled in Microsoft server technologies, virtualization, high-performance storage systems and cloud computing. Strong technical leadership abilities and experience leading complex projects and talented people. Education includes Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology (magna cum laude) from New Mexico State University.


Experience

Director, Account Technology Strategist

Microsoft

Virtual CTO - Technology Thought & Strategy Leader supporting the U.S. Department of Energy

• Align customer business objectives with Microsoft technologies
• Provide strategic advisement on Zero Trust, Cloud Migration, and Digital Transformation
• Sales Leadership and account orchestration across the various Microsoft business and sales units

January 2023 - Present

Principal Enterprise Architect

Idaho National Lab

Enterprise Architect responsible for business and technology allignment for infrastructure and operations.

• Perform the vital implementation, facilitation, analysis and design tasks for strategic projects.
• Serve as a strategic and technical specialist to Information Management (IM) in developing departmental standards and solutions based on laboratory needs.
• Provide leadership and guidance to IM to ensure IM’s strategic direction is being followed from an operational perspective.
• Lead multi-functional teams for the promotion, development, and implementation of architecture standards, technical solutions, and process improvement opportunities for the laboratory to achieve its mission and strategic objectives.

February 2021 - January 2023

Federal Systems Engineer

Pure Storage

Helping Organizations realize the Pure benefits that enable innovation, optimization, and modernization for their business.

• Right size high performance storage solutions for the data workload and performance requirements.
• Trusted advisor to my customers on the right fit, even when it isn't Pure.
• Deliver superior engineering support for deployments, issues, or tech talks.
• Consult on advanced end to end architectures leveraging deep expertise in Cloud computing, DBA, scale-
   out web services, server virtualization, and storage systems.
• Build automation scripts, templates, and workflows.
• Cloud SME for DOE west SE team.

January 2020 - February 2021

Principal Solutions Architect

Sandia National Labs

Primary Responsibility

Enterprise Cloud Architect
Focusing on Azure and Azure Stack

Leadership Responsibilities

• Collaborate on overall development of the cloud strategy and architecture (public and private)
• Advocate and communicate cloud value to Sandia line of business. Drive cloud adoption
• Identify use-cases, make recommendations on architecture, assist in development
• Develop cost models, forecasts, chargeback and showback for cloud services
• Identify and mitigate risk
• Vendor relationship management

Technical Responsibilities

• Lead the deployment and productionization of AzureStack on premises
• Contribute to automation efforts needed in Azure and AWS
• Identify, evaluate, and lead procurement of new cloud software and tooling

November 2017 - January 2020

Acting Manager – Enterprise Cloud Services Department

Sandia National Labs

• Developed the structure, vision, strategy, and roadmap for the new Cloud Services department.
• Foster and leverage cross-organizational relationships for effective collaboration.
• Manage multi-million dollar budget.
• Implemented public cloud consolidated billing and chargeback service.
• Coordination of training, hiring consultants, and vendor relations to enable delivery of complex services.
• Work directly with cyber policy to help gain approvals for public and private cloud services.
• Apply a broad array of IT experience to help guide adoption of emerging cloud tools and services.
• Performance management and coaching of staff
• Provide leadership with integrity, transparency, and consistency.
• Highly organized using GTD principles, SharePoint consolidated team sites, and task driven project management.

March 2017 - November 2017

Principal Information System Architect

Sandia National Labs

Project lead for Enterprise Cloud Management Services (10/2015 - 03/2017)
• Lead a multifaceted technical team that is comprised of SMEs from multiple organizations.
• Facilitate and manage the direction, goals, and deliverables of 17 staff members.
• Report on status, risks, and goals to direct management all the way up to CIO office.
• Apply a broad array of technical experience with various technologies to facilitate integrations into complex systems.
• Responsible for the delivery of an enterprise cloud management solution that provides automated, elastic, agile, and reliable IT services to the Labs.


Lead Architect for Sandia's Enterprise SharePoint Technologies (12/2012 - 10/2015)
• Architect large scale, high availability, corporate MS SharePoint Farms.
• Built, Manage, and support 8 SharePoint farms on 4 networks.
• Business Intelligence (SSRS, Excel Services, PowerPivot, PerformancePoint, etc…)
• Task automation and application development with MS PowerShell
• Plan and implement SharePoint and SQL migrations from version to version.
• Provide Tier IV support to developers to assist in building complex SharePoint applications.

December 2012 - March 2017

Senior System Engineer

GAITS

• Architect large scale, high availability, corporate MS SharePoint Farms.
• Built, Manage, and support 8 SharePoint farms on 4 networks.
• Lead for the Business Intelligence sector of SharePoint 2010 (SSRS, Excel Services, PowerPivot, PerformancePoint, etc…)
• Task automation and application development with MS PowerShell
• Plan and implement SharePoint and SQL migrations from version to version.
• Provide Tier IV support to developers to assist in building complex SharePoint applications.

October 2008 - December 2012

Senior System Engineer

RESPEC Consulting

• Work on a team of 15 engineers supporting 600+ Windows servers. Manage and support 14,000 employees in an Active Directory environment.

June 2005 - October 2008

Systems Administrator / Technical Lead

SAIC

• Manage 17 Windows based servers. Duties include: Hardware and software upgrades and migrations.
• Technical Lead to desktop technicians to assist and advise them when needed. Also informing them of new technologies and techniques for troubleshooting and resolving customers computing issues.

August 2002 - June 2005

Education

New Mexico State University

Bachelor of Information and Communication Technology
Magna Cum Laude

GPA: 4.0

August 2000 - May 2005

Hot Spring High School

High School Diploma
August 1990 - May 1994

Skills

Programming Languages, Platforms, & Tools
Others
  • Azure, Azure Stack, AWS
  • Automation with Powershell, Ansible, and Bash
  • Visual Studio Code
  • IaC using ARM and Terraform
  • Agile Project Managment & Scrum
  • Leadership

Interests

Apart from being an IT professional, I enjoy most of my off time with my wife and children. I believe in staying active as long as I'm able, so I like to ride my bike and lift weights. I also enjoy working with my hands. When I can find the time I piddle with wordwoorking and home improvement projects.

I follow a number of movies and television shows, I am an aspiring pit boss (pellet smoker), and I spend a large amount of my free time exploring the latest technology advancements in the cloud computing world.


Certifications

  • Certified Architect Professional - FlashBlade - Pure Storage
  • Certified Architect Professional - FlashArray - Pure Storage
  • Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert AZ-300 & AZ-301 - Microsoft
  • Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate AZ-103 - Microsoft
  • Configuring and Operating a Hybrid Cloud with Microsoft Azure Stack MS70-537 - Microsoft
  • ITIL Foundations Certified - ITIL Foundation
  • Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator MCSA Windows 2000 - Microsoft