Noah Xu

Enterprise Architect and Manager

About me

Technology is a tool not a solution, throwing money, time, and the latest tech often does not solve the real issue.

I believe in working with people to fully understand their needs before working on a solution, this enables successful implementations.

 

Noah Xu

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: noah@noahxu.com

: linkedin.com/in/noahxu

: Chicago, IL
  USA

Noah Xu

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HOBBIES & INTERESTS


  • Music


  • Travel


  • Coffee


  • Gaming


  • Tech


  • Cuisine

My resume

Experience

Interim Director of Infrastructure

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine2013 - 2014

Lead project teams and manage centralization efforts Provide budget and technical guidance on infrastructure projects

Storage and Server Engineer

Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation2011 - 2012

Technical Architect of Disaster Recovery Solution - Designed EMC SAN, HP blade servers, VMware, Hyper-V and Citrix disaster recovery solution - Reduced project timeline from 2 years to 9 months and reduced acquisition costs over 40% by running an aggressive implementation schedule for project team SAN, Virtualization, and Server Engineer

Senior Systems Administrator

Chicago Tribune Company2004 - 2010

Architect and implementer of enterprise VMware ESX 3.5/4 HA platform Lead Veritas NetBackup Administrator for Chicago Tribune Storage Administrator for production and backup environments

Enterprise Systems Manager

Northwestern Memorial HealthCare2014 - Current

Provide centralized infrastructure design and strategic direction on major platforms Lead team of architects and engineers for major infrastructure disciplines Manage monthly and yearly budgets for all infrastructure spending

Lead Systems Architect

Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation2012 - 2014

Architect of Campus Infrastructure Solutions Data Center Operational Manager Infrastructure Team Manager and Budget Management

System Administrator II

Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation2010 - 2011

SAN, Virtualization, and Server Engineer

Education

Master of Science - Business Information Technology

DePaul University2012 - 2014

Chicago, IL

Bachelor of Science - Telecommunications Management

DeVry University2001 - 2003

Chicago, IL

Milestones Achieved

2868 Cups of Coffee
39602 Meals Experienced
15 Countries Visited
94 Games Played

Skill

86%

EMC SAN

VMAX, VNX, XtremIO, Isilon, DataDomain

81%

VIRTUALIZATION

vSphere, HyperV

74%

ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE

Infrastructure, Software

89%

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGIES

Messaging, Infrastructure, SQL

Work Process

IDEA

CONCEPT

DESIGN

DEVELOP

TEST

LAUNCH

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  • noah@noahxu.com

  • Chicago, IL

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