Item M5
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
Meeting Date: May 16, 2006
Division:
County Administrator
Bulk Item: Yes -X- No
Department: County Administrator
Staff Contact Person: Connie Cyr
AGENDA ITEM WORDING:
Approval/confirmation of Mickcy Bakcr as Technical Services Director.
ITEM BACKGROUND:
Florida Stature 125.74(l)(k) requires Board of County Commission confirmation of department head
appointments made by the County Administrator.
See Attached Resume.
This position has been vacant.
PREVIOUS RELEVANT BOCC ACTION:
CONTRACT/AGREEMENT CHANGES:
ST AFF RECOMMENDATIONS:
Approval
TOT AL COST:
N/A
BUDGETED: Yes
NolL
COST TO COUNTY:
N/A
SOURCE OF FUNDS:
REVENUE PRODUCING: Yes
No X
AMOUNT PER MONTH_ Year
APPROVED BY: County Atty _ OMB/Purchasing _ Risk Management _
DIVISION DIRECTOR APPROVAL:
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(Thomas J. Willi)
DOCUMENT A TION:
Included
X
Not Rcquired_
DISPOSITION:
AGENDA ITEM #
Revised 2/05
Mickey Baker
1448 SE 13th Street, Fort Lauderdale, Fl33316
Phone: 954,765,6570
Highly motivated, intelligent technologist with 20+ years of Information Technology experience designing,
deploying and managing Information Technology projects and leading organizations for world wide
enterprises. Natural, motivator end leader, strong in all facets of enterprise technOlogy; superb engineer
with extensive experience; great communicator; shrewd but polite negotiator.
Accomplishments in the past 24 months include:
. AnalYSiS and documentation of process and infrastructure management procedures
for organizations with hundreds of servers with worldwide iocations.
.. Design and development of pilot project for backup and recovery of over 300TB of
live Orade databases (8, 9i, 109) with RMAN and D2D2D at large frnancial services
client. Resulting project avoided $30M capital expenditure in FY 2005.
e Research and writing of purchase analysis and advisory opinions for client technology
purchases.
. Design and deployment of complex duster solutions using MSCS (Microsoft Cluster
Server), Verltas Cluster Server, VMWare, Oracle Data Guard and other options.
. Creation of RFP's, evaluation of responses, purchase and implementation of large-
scale server, storage and network infrastructures.
. Design, documentation and deployment of Disaster Recovery and Business
Continuity plans for global corporations using Tivoll Storage Manager (TSM), Veritas
NetBackup, and Legato Networker.
.. Technica! project leader for "state of the projectl' analysis for Pentagon Continuity of
Operations project - $250M funded! more than 2 petabytes active storage and 1500
servers.
'" Author of White Paper for backup of manufacturer of Data Warehouse server.
Ii Design of backup schemes and publishing of whitepaper for Data Warehouse
appliance vendor.
.. Storage Classification and Tiering projects with SAN, NAS, and iSCSI Components,
'" Quoted about storage strategies in "PCConnectff and "Storage" magazines.
. Project Management of multiple simultaneous complex projects.
Experience
Senior Consultant, GlassHouse Technologies, November 2004 to Present
Mentor and leader for elite strategic infrastructure management consulting organization" Recognized as
Subject Matter Expert in infrastructure management Enterprise database protection, New/ark Attached
Storage, and i8CSI Storage, SAN and NAS, Continuit'f of Operations, led enterprise consulting
engagements including: Evaluation of Continuity of Operations Plan for a large government agency;
Oracle Disaster Recovery Pfan Details for a large insurance company with 300 Oracle instances; storage
management and backup policies/procedures for large bank; author of whitepaper for database system
manufacturer, several backup and recovery evaluations, evaluation of backup management software.
Worked within most technical environments rncluding Windows, Solaris, AIX and HPfUX operating
systems, ElVIe, Hitachi (HOS), Network Appliance, and IBM storage,
Managing Director, Safe Data Services, LtC, May 2003 - November 2004
independent planning, architecture, implementation and management of IT infrastructure projects.
Implemented SAN, NetBackup and Disaster RerAvery, Digital Asset Management for media company.
Storage and Oracle Data Warehouse Server for major office supply company. Scripted custom
management of TimeFinder with ElVIe Symmetrix for backup and recovery of Oracle databases.
Technical work in Sun Soiaris. AIX, and Windows environment - EMC, QLog!c, IBM, HItachi Data
Systems (HOS) and SUi! storage.
Director of System Services, Spherlc", Corporation, August 2002 - May 2003
Managed an organization of approximately 60 people. Responsible for all system management and web
services for a $2B staffing company - Windows 2000 with Active Directory, AIX. Introduced VMWare for
server consolidation and disaster recovery. BuHt AIX team and initial infrastructure for PeopleSoft 81082
implementation including JAVA development for Websphere and DirectTalk, Linux, A1X, Windows.
Deployed Citrix MetaFrame for Spherion Office, NeUQ and Tivoli (TSM, TEC, TSRM) products, EMC
Cellera, Symmetrix 8800, CLARiiON, McData, TimeFinder, Veritas products. Hand-on in a mentoring,
organization building role. $30M capital, $25M expense budget responsibility.
Director of Strategic Solutions, Champion Solutions Group, September 2000 -
August 2002
Practice Manager of Technical Consultants for Solution Design - Citrix (primarily MetaFrame) Tivoli
(TSM) and Veritas NetBackup products, Windows/Exchange 2000, Sun HighGround SRM, legato, OTG
Disk Extender in Windows and AIX environments. Developed standardized products for repeatable
delivery. Designed and deployed system, network and data storage projects. Directly managed all senior
consultants - revenue responsibility of Si0M in services. Six direct reports.
Vice President of Operations, Ursus Telecom, March :lO(JD - September 2000
Responsible for startup and development at Voice over IP (VoIP) telephony carrier start up. Custom web
development of VoIP gateway - CH, JAVA, Websphere, Oracle. Deployed Cisco VolP technology over
T1/E1's and ATM, IBM RS/6000's, Sun E10K, and Windows/Exchange 2000. BMC Patrol, TSM. Created
Operational Policies and Procedures documents. Managed 50 employees in organization. Responsible
for $1aM capital and expense budgets. Short term of employment due to personal injury (lightning strike).
Advisory Engineer, Kemper National Services, January 1,999 - March 2000
Managed Managed major technology upgrades and performed server consolidation - IBM RS!6000's and
storage infrastructure to SP2 Nodes with AIX 4.3. Implemented EMC Symmetrix with TimeFinder, Fibre
Channel SAN and migrated data from SSA storage. Deployed ADSMITSM on IBM 3494 library, Oracle
Data Warehouse, EMC Symmetrix. Hired system administration team. Wrote coding standards and
examples. Built System Adminrstration organization for large AIXlOrac!e enterprise with 5 direct reports.
Vice President, sage Research Corporation, September :J.992-December 1998
Design, architecture and implementation of projects including major retail P~S ronout for 200 store retail
chain, several projects for United Parcel Service, multiple Sun Solaris, SunOS, Clariion, ADSMITSM and
Legato depioyments, Y2K assistance, and development in Kem Shell, JAVA and Oracle tools. Design of
networks using Cisco routers and switches, Frame Relay and ATM. Hired and supervised engineers,
DBAs, system administrators and developers. Became highly proficient with early Windows crustering
(ATF and WolfPack) and popular UNiX clustering products, including IBM HACMP. Managed up to 20
people in my organization.
Account Engineer, Data General Corporation, September 1983 - September 1.992
New account representative, penetrated major accounts in F!orida. My strength was the abiiity to architect
and deploy innovative solutions. Exceeded goal aU years in sales. Started as systems engineer, specialist
is communications protocols, progressed to pre-sales then marketing positions, Promoted to sales in
1989, earned Sales Club recognition in 1990 and 1991. Sold and implemented first CLARitON storage!n
Florida.
Education: Georgia Institute of Technology, 1976 - 19811' Electrica! Engineering
Personal achievements: Private Pilot with Instrument RatingI' Extra Class Amateur
Radio license.