Jeff Rainey

I’ve spent my career on the infrastructure that regulated businesses can’t afford to have go down: directory services and identity, remote access, virtualization, and backup and recovery. Most of it has been in mortgage servicing, banking, healthcare and utilities, where the work has to hold up for users, InfoSec and the auditors (usually in that order of patience).

I’ve run the full lifecycle, from evaluating and sizing a platform, through deployment and patching, to proving it can actually be recovered (the part that tends to get skipped). I’ve also led teams twice, a seven-person infrastructure team at a bank and a Citrix team supporting multiple hospitals. Both times I stayed hands-on, mostly because I like it, and partly because someone has to read the logs.