Brad Dyke

Brad Dyke is a highly experienced IT professional with a strong background in storage and virtualization architecture. Brad has worked in various roles throughout their career, starting in 1996 as a System IT Ops Manager and Storage Architect Contractor at GAl Inc. DOD Contractor, where they built major IT system platforms for the US Air Force. Brad then worked as an IT Architect Manager at Howard Systems, designing disaster recovery solutions for IBM/EMC storage systems.

In 2006, Brad joined ITS Financial LLC as an IT Ops Manager OA, overseeing IT operations for the company until 2009. Brad then worked at HP IT Solutions as a Contractor Storage Deployment Engineer, where they migrated Nortel data to the US1 data center and oversaw new storage array deployments.

From 2010 to 2014, Brad worked at Avaya in various roles, including IT Ops Storage Architect and OHIO US-1 Data Center Storage Tech Site Lead. In these positions, they supported the migration of over 347 highly interfaced applications and hundreds of servers and SANs.

In 2014, Brad joined Poise Inc as a Netapp Architect Consultant Engineer before moving on to David-Kenneth Group in 2015 as a Senior Storage Architect. At David-Kenneth Group, they focused on data center transformation projects, helping companies migrate from older storage solutions to new IT solutions.

From 2019 to 2020, Brad worked as a Freelance Storage and Analytical Architect, providing consulting services to companies in need of support for cloud, VM, and server solutions, as well as IT storage platforms and infrastructure.

Most recently, Brad worked at CGI as a Senior Consultant, specializing in cloud solutions for storage and virtualization. Brad then became a Director of Operations, with a focus on DevOps management at TradeCentric, starting in November 2022.

Throughout their career, Brad has demonstrated expertise in storage architecture, data center transformation, migration projects, and IT operations.

Brad Dyke attended Huntington East High School from 1984 to 1987, where they studied Business Administration and Management, General. Following that, they pursued their education at Cumberland College from 1987 to 1991, focusing on obtaining a Business Administration degree related to their IT Architect Lead role. In terms of additional certifications, Brad obtained a Cloud Design Workshop Architect certification from NetApp in July 2020. Brad also has certifications in Big Data Competency Maintenance and Cloud Competency Maintenance from 2016.