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Travis Martinez

Sr. Systems Administrator

Lees Summit,
Missouri,
United States of America

Member Since: 2014/09/03

Industry: Computer & IT

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Professional Background

Sr. Systems Administrator

January 2013 – Present

Blue Springs MO

Storage Administrator

Layered Technologies

April 2014 – July 2014

Kansas City Missouri

If you can't say anything good; best not say anything at all...

Lead Storage Administrator

DST Systems Inc

January 2013 – January 2014

Kansas City Missouri

Very conservative group that I wish all the best to!

Storage Engineer

UnitedLex

August 2018 – January 2013

Lees Summit Missouri

HPSD Solutions Architect

Hewlett-Packard

August 2008 – January 2013

Kansas City Missouri

Pre sales technical side of a two man sales team. I figured out; I'm an engineer and not a salesman. I was good at it though and put some good architectures together for some great clients.

Systems Engineer

3PAR

August 2008 – October 2010

Kansas City Missouri

Had the great opportunity to move from the customer side to the vendor side to which the position was 50/50 pre and post sales support. They were a global company of 600 employees, took pride in their product, and a very close and tight group of individuals.

The scenery changed fairly quickly after the purchase by HP...

It's challenging to integrate with a company the size of 350,000 employees world wide and the silos of politics and bureaucracy associated.

It was a great experience, got to be involved in some very interesting corporate environments, and very fortunate to have had the experience!

IT Infrastructure Archtitect

EMBARQ

July 2006 – October 2008

Overland Park Kansas

Hired on when the Sprint Nextel merger was going through and was part of the initial seed employee base to which the vast majority were executives with very few peers.

Responsible for standing up multiple test/release environments prior to the employee badge over from Sprint.

I was instrumental in the build of 6 different environments, in about 20% of the floor space originally, and less $6 million in cost...

IT - Telephony - Call Center - Operations

Sprint

June 1995 – July 2006

Overland Park Kansas

Started out 18 months on graves in the contact center for Interactive Toll Free and Pre Paid Card Services.

Left as a primary troubleshooting resource for the Call Center silo that was under direction from hatchet man Stout to be led by IBM services. Reduced a 20 man team to 5, brought in 40 badged IBM employees and the best way to describe that "success" is this statement made on a conference call...

Project Manager:

"...Timing, okay, timing is important... So what time zone, central because you all are in Kansas? Is the central time zone considered Stratum 5?"

Response:

"No! Stratum 5 is Mountain!"

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Full Biography

All things geek... If you can get a terminal window or console to it; more than likely I can test/design/deploy/maintain/troubleshoot it. I'm not creative at all; however, I do have a talent for taking different systems that were designed for one purpose, string them together, and enable additional functionality.

Increasing system efficiency as well as tracking down, isolating, accurately defining, and follow on corrective actions of deeply entrenched and chronic system and platform issues have become a strong point of mine.

Although I'll be the fist to admit, left without anyone to challenge me, I'll find the Hebrew Torah Code in a "Where's Waldo" book if left to studying it long enough...

It's a good thing to know your, well, limitations... It can be difficult sometimes having a limitation that's also your strongest quality!

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