Aaron Castro
Accomplished, resourceful leader providing mentoring, architecture, and delivery of IT solutions. Having over 25 years’ experience including a billion-dollar global gaming company, the US Navy, Tokyo Disneyland, and a global manufacturing company, brings a thoughtful perspective and a blend of engaging personality and tech savvy. Empathetic solution provider at heart and a team player recognized for impassioned approach and colorful ideas.
Summary:
• 25+ years working in Information Technology Industry
• 15+ years of Global Infrastructure Management
• 9+ years with the Federal Government (US Navy)
• 5+ years managing a global IT operations team
• Large Scale Data Center Design and Architecture
• Extensive Project Management experience
Notable Experience and Accomplishments:
• Created, managed, and mentored a cohesive global IT operations team.
• Headed the architecture, deployment, monitoring and management of over 2000 servers worldwide.
• Architected, negotiated, and initiated a solution restructuring over 2 petabytes of file data globally.
• Established global standards for Active Directory, file data, backup retention, and many others.
• Automated the provisioning and deprovisioning of Active Directory accounts based on Human Resources data in Oracle, lessoning the lead time required as well as improving accuracy.
• Designed and implemented high availability and disaster recovery solutions for critical systems by utilizing VMware virtualization, SAN, and WAN acceleration technologies, allowing for instant recovery of downed servers or a 4-hour recovery for the loss of an entire site.
• Lead a team of programmers in the development of revenue and admission control systems for Tokyo Disneyland.
• Improved manufacturing processes by designing new equipment, automating processes using PLCs and interfacing with an ERP system, saving the company over a quarter of a million dollars annually.
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