Valery Filipchuk, MS 847.722.8074 | vf15d43a6@westpost.

net ______________________________________________ Top-performing, seasoned IT professional with many years of experience and a ver y strong track record of demonstrable success in positions of progressive respon sibility in the IT field, rising from the ranks of a technician to the manager o f data center (20,000 sq.f.) for a major corporation. Honest, dependable, and de dicated self-starter with proven technical acumen and celebrated for proactively going above and beyond to deliver exceptional service. Energetic team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, cap able of managing Data Center infrastructure support and operations teams. - Professional Experience IT Facilities Manager, CSC/Motorola, Schaumburg, Illinois 2003 - 2010 Directed and oversaw all installations, removals, and re-locations of servers an d storage, backup, network, and auxiliary equipment at Motorola's corporate data center. Oversaw electrical contractor personnel (Cont inental Electric) working on Motorola/CSC projects in main corporate data center . Proactively worked with project managers, Unix and Windows system administrato rs, storage and backup administrators, network engineers, vendors, and facility contractors to meet all of client's service requests. Controlled physical access to the data center. Served as focal point for knowledge and expertise on all issues related to manag ement of data center. Worked with electrical contractor personnel (John Lang Lasalle) to resolve power and cooling issues in CSC data center. - Played an integral role in two major power upgrades, as well as a complex SAN infrastructure refresh - Provided ideas and solutions during power upgrade to eliminate requireme nts for planned 13 hours downtime Proposed an alternative fiber cabling layout with $25,000 saving for SAN infrast ructure upgrade, accepted and implemented by vendor (EMC) Manged relocation of computer equipment from a small Motorola's DR data center t o the new location - Received numerous formal recognitions from client (Motorola) for excelle nce in providing services - Successfully passed every annual SAS 70 audit Data Communication Analyst, Motorola, Schaumburg, Illinois 1999 - 2003 Provided 24-7 monitoring and first-level troubleshooting for various IT services including, but not limited to, WAN connections, MS Exchange email service, web e-business, web-content delivery, voicemail servi ce, Windows infrastructure, and remote access at the Motorola Global Network Management Center. Computer Integrated Manufacturing Technician, Motorola, Libertyville, Illinois 1 996 - 1999 Provided wide range of technical support for computer equipment in a cellular-ph one production factory. Communication Technician, Motorola, Libertyville, Illinois 1993 - 1996 Tested, inspected, troubleshooted, and repaired to component level cellular phon es. Electronics Technician, EDM, Inc., Schaumburg, Illinois 1992 - 1993

Tested, inspected, troubleshooted, and repaired to component level electronic bo ards for gaming machines. Before 1992 was employed by Lvov Electronics Apparatus Plant as a shift manager responsible for directing and overseeing personnel on eight assembly lines producing electronic-measuring equipment for electric po wer stations. Prior to this, served as an assembly-line supervisor for Lvov Telecommunications Equipment Company, and held responsibility for supervising personnel on an electronics assembly line. - Education Master of Science, Telecommunications - DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois (Earned Master of Science degree while working full-time) Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering - Lvov Polytechnic Institute, Lvov, Ukraine