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Brian Metras

Hi, I am Brian Metras, a Senior Infrastructure Analyst at AlaskaUSA Federal Credit Union.

Brian Metras is involved in Enterprise Architecture, Capacity Management and Peformance Monitoring at AlaskaUSA Federal Credit Union.

Brian Metras's Background

Brian Metras's Experience

Volunteer - AlaskaUSA Federal Credit Union Club's Vice President of Education at Toastmasters International

July 2012 - Present | Anchorage, AK

A Presidential Distinguished Club for 3 years in a row, the Toastmasters Club at AlaskaUSA Federal Credit Union Club develops public speaking and leadership talents. Talents achieved though individualized coaching, team motivation and a well- tuned learning environment. This is the role of the Vice President of Education.

Volunteer - President of AIIM Alaska Chapter at Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM.org)

July 2010 - Present

Board of Directors for the AIIM.org's (Association for Information and Image Management) Northwest Chapter and is the President of the Alaskan branch. Alaska's market focus is automated records retention schedules, information management and affiliated workflow automation. In this role, I've organize local Records Management technology-related certification classes, annual site records department walking tours and outreach efforts such as tradeshows and World Paperfree Day (Twitter #WPFD hash tag) twitter jams fests. Look here for education, research and certification that information professionals need to manage and share information assets in an era of mobile, social, cloud and big data. The association mission is to ensure that information professionals understand the current and future challenges of managing information assets in an era of social, mobile, cloud and big data. Established in 1943, today, AIIM is a global, non-profit organization that provides independent research, education and certification programs to information professionals. AIIM represents the entire information management community, with programs and content for practitioners, technology suppliers, integrators and consultants. Join the conversation at AIIM's online communities where you'll find expert bloggers, training tracks, discussions, wikis and buyers guides. (http://www.aiim.org/about)..

Volunteer - Board Member and Secretary for Chapter 150 at Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP)

August 2009 - Present

Sponsor Chapter of 1st place winners of .NET competition at the premier 2012 United States National Collegiate Conference. (Twitter #AITPNCC hash tag) Ask me about Alaska Information, Technology, and Business Expo 2012 on October 25, 2012 at the Dena'ina Center, Anchorage, Alaska. AK IT/B 2012 Alaska's most attended IT event, providing a comprehensive understanding of the latest innovations in: security, infrastructure, programming, communications, storage, collaboration, virtualization, and Cloud computing.

Data Systems Supervisor at Municipality of Anchorage Police Department

April 2002 - October 2009

Managed program budget, contracts, operations, and 8 staff, computers and telecommunications for Anchorage's 34 sites. Planned, organized, coordinated, and reviewed critical 911, Law Enforcement internal and interagency (i.e. Fusion Center) data processing systems. Administered 650-user intranet and security on Unix, Active Directory, Windows 2003, Exchange and Sharepoint. 2005 APD Unit of the Year.

IS Manager and Systems Engineer at Jacobs Engineering

June 1996 - February 2002

Managed 2-5 staff, computers, applications, telecommunications and helpdesk for Anchorage and 12 remote sites. Administered 150-user intranet and security on Windows, Exchange, IIS, NetWare and Cisco. Employee of the Quarter. IT lead for Alaska and Y2K projects that received 2 coveted Master Builder Awards. Proposed, deployed and maintained 500-station Avaya PBX and vmail. Directed 5 design and deployment efforts using Oracle, Delphi, ArcGIS and websites. Programmed and maintained IT asset management RDBMS with billing reconciling. Rapidly procured and deployed seasonal IT/telco solutions to 72 remote Arctic drop zones. Forecasted and administered IT budget on $35M in annual revenues. Managed 500% server and switch infrastructure growth from 26 to 150 people. Implemented objectives under 4 management teams and revenues of $180M. Planned, bid and managed a dozen $80,000+ office expansions.

Member at ISACA Anchorage Chapter

1996 - 2002

Long before IT security was on the radar screen, as a past member at ISACA Anchorage Chapter, my Saturdays were spend in intensive security studies with peers devising how to most appropriately implement risk-based Cobit protocols in Law Enforcement, Banking and the Oil and Gas Industry. Together also as charter members of Infraguard, we fostered early development the Alaskan Infragard group.

Senior Infrastructure Analyst at Alaska USA Federal Credit Union

November 2010

Provide enterprise architectural analysis and systems monitoring of electronic banking technology in 3 datacenters serving 459,000+ members' $5.1 billion in assets globally through on-line banking, 5 Financial Centers and 64 branches in Alaska, California, and Washington. Lines of service supported include consumer & commercial deposit & loan services, as well as mortgage & real estate loans, insurance, investments & investment management, and title & escrow closing services. My monitoring and analysis provides technical and board-level actionalble situational awareness into the health of technologies underpinning AlaskaUSA Mortgage Company, AlaskaUSA Insurance Brokers, AlaskaUSA Title Agency, and AlaskaUSA Trust Company and Alaska Option (ATM and Visa processing services). If you have strong work ethic and are committed to excellence, consider joining AlaskaUSA with its career opportunities, competitive compensation and comprehensive benefit programs. (https://www.alaskausa.org/about/employment.asp)

Owner at Network Medics

February 2002

Develop IT comprehensive networking and planning systems. Strategic Consulting, including IT capital planning & network programming. Other areas included below. Primary NAICS Code: 513310, 541511 541512, 541513 334111, 334112, 421430, 513330, 514210, 541512, 541513, 541611 Primary SIC Codes: 4813 Secondary SIC Codes: 3571, 3575, 4812, 4822, 5045, 7373, 7374, 7376, 8742 Keywords: Computer, GIS, Satellite Imagery, Software, Web applications, consulting, services access, computer, conversion, custom, data, data base, database, developer, documentation, electronic, integration, interchange, internet, microsoft, oracle, query, report, simulation computer, construction, information, software, technology base, computer, data, document, electronics, engineering, facility, food, integration, laboratory, maintenance, network, operations, precision, supply, support, telecommunications Computer, Network, System Integration, Telecommunications

Brian Metras's Education

State University of New York College at Brockport

1987 – 1990

B.A.

Concentration: International Business and Economics


Onondaga Community College

1984 – 1987

A.S.

Concentration: Engineering Science


SUNY Onondaga Community College

1984 – 1987

A.S.

Concentration: Mathematics & Science


University of Alaska

Certificate

Concentration: Continuing Education


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