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Director of Customer Solutions..., Switch and Data Facilities Company
Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Professioneel overzicht

Bob Landstrom
Director- Customer Solutions Engineering
Switch and Data Facilities Company

Expertise
• IT/Business Alignment, Strategic Planning, IS Security
• Business Continuity Planning, Disaster Recovery Planning
• IT infrastructure engineering and operations
• Data Center Planning, Consolidation, Operations
• Strategic technology assessments
• Converged Communications, Wireless

Experience
• 25 years in the technology industry, over 10 years in senior leadership roles as well as board-level positions
• Verticals include retail, health care, telecommunications and wireless, software, consumer services, financial services, manufacturing, aerospace, real estate, defense
• Significant experience in voice and data networks, and large scale data processing infrastructures
• Business Continuity Planning, Strategic Planning, IT/Business Alignment
• Data Center Consolidation

Credentials, Misc.
• CGEIT
• CISSP
• COMPTIA Security+
• CISSP
• ITIL v3
• US Patent- data error detection and correction algorithm

Education
• Masters Certificate in IS Security Management, University of Villanova, 2007
• Masters of Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri, 1983
• Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 1981

IT/IS Business and Technology Consultant- Practice Lead, Strategy and Planning, Advocate Networks, LLC. Specialties include Enterprise Architecture, Data Center, IT/Business Alignment, IT Strategy and Planning, Business Continuity/ Disaster Recovery Planning, Convergence, IS Security

Professional Artist, exhibited and collected internationally- www.boblandstrom.com

Father of two boys.

Amateur ice hockey player- Atlanta Knights: AAHL Div A2
Youth ice hockey coach- USA Hockey Level III certification

Contactgegevens

E-mail
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Telefoon
404-510-7980 (mobiel nummer (werk))
404-806-6420 (werk)

Werk/opleiding

Werkervaring

Switch and Data Facilities Company / Director of Customer Solutions Engineering
2009 - Nu
Advocate Networks / Practice Lead- Strategy & Planning
2006 - Nu
Principal Consultant, serving Clients in the areas of Data Center Planning, Data Center Consolidation, Enterprise Architecture, IT/Busines Alignment. Technology Roadmaps, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning, IS Security
The Home Depot / Director of Infrastructure Technology/ Enterprise Architect
2002 - 2005
Directly responsible for managing infrastructure technology enterprise-wide. Led seven direct and 70+ indirect reports. Controlled budgets up to $100 million. In this role, he led the strategic planning of network, telephony, mainframe, mid-tier, desktop
Sparkfly, Inc. / Vice President- Technology
2000 - 2002
Sparkfly was an online retailer, content provider, and HR BPO serving F500 client organizations. Bob Landstrom was responsible for all technology aspects of the business, including infrastructure solution concepts, engineering and implementation, technica
Linuxcare, Inc. / Sr. Director of Technical Operations and Infrastructure
1999 - 2000
Overall responsibility for direction of technology infrastructure department, including engineering, 24x7 technical operations, staffing, budgeting and planning. Led four direct and 60 indirect reports.
E*TRADE Financial / Director of Network Operations and Engineering
1999 - 1999
Responsible for engineering and operations of data and voice infrastructure for E*TRADE domestically and internationally including strategic, tactical and budgetary aspects.

* Led construction and 24x7 operations of the next generation E*TRADE Financia
CheckFree Corporation / Director of Production Data Networks
1997 - 1999
Responsible for Network Engineering, Network Operations and Client Engineering departments, including strategic, staffing and budgetary aspects. Led four direct and 40+ indirect reports.

* Designed network infrastructure and operations framework for co

Opleiding

Master Certificate, CISSP Security Management, 2007
Master of Science, Electrical Engineering, 1983
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, 1981
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Bob Landstrom heeft een blog geschreven 3 dagen geleden

Shell Building Property as Data Centers: When to Just Walk Away

Many firms have gone looking for core/shell property with the intent of renovating these structures for use as a data center.  These projects are very capital intensive, and in many cases the benefits of having the existing structure are almost nil when viewed in the context of the broader project... more »

Bob Landstrom heeft een blog geschreven 24-11-2009

GoDaddy Adding Business Incorporation Services

Internet domain hoster and registrar, GoDaddy, has recently added business incorporation services to its palette of value added services. It’s reasonable to assume that individuals shopping for low cost domain hosting are launching small businesses. If you’ve shopped for a domain name lately... more »

Bob Landstrom heeft een blog geschreven 10-11-2009

Smart Grid Jolting IPv6?

The Smart Grid concept is getting a boost from the Obama administration in the form of (with matching of private sector funds) approximately $8B capital investment over the next three years.  The United States Department of Energy is making a number of Smart Grid publications widely available, and... more »

Bob Landstrom heeft een blog geschreven 30-10-2009

The War of the Currents

Posted by Bob Landstrom: CISSP, CGEIT


This week I was in New York City attending a meeting with the Executive Communication Group.  One night I decided to go for a walk, and as I was walking I reflected upon the fact that right there, in the streets of Manhattan where I walked, there was once a... more »

Bob Landstrom heeft een blog geschreven 25-10-2009

Jim Cramer? C’mon Man!

Well, now I know why I’ve never come out on top whenever I buy one of Jim Cramer’s recomendations.
In a recent (10/22/2009) Mad Money piece on CNBC, Jim Cramer used the Equinix acquisition of Switch and Data to make the point that data centers are obsolete.  In his diatribe about why anyone... more »

Bob Landstrom heeft een blog geschreven 17-10-2009

Where should we build that data center?

When launching a new data center build project, where the data center will be located is a fundamental issue.  There are many factors in deciding where the data center will be, but all of these factors can arguably be consolidated into two issues- Risk and Cost.
We mention risk in terms of Risk... more »

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