Brett Humphreys

Infrastructure Architect, Assurant Solutions

Blog http://bretthumphreys.wordpress.com/

Biography:

I started out in IT in 1996 working on a helpdesk and then moved up to Network Engineer.  I joined my current employer (Assurant Solutions) as a Senior Network Analyst in 2000.  After a few years I was promoted to IT Operations Manager, then after a couple of years of trying out management decided it was not for me as gradually less of my time was being spent on the fun hands-on and design side of IT and more time spent in meetings and email, so I decided it was time for a change then moved to a new role of Infrastructure Architect where I am able to Design, Implement and provide support to a wide range of Infrastructure across the organisation.

Top 3 Challenges:

1.  Over crowded data centres

2.  Effective / meaningful enterprise monitoring, including;  intrusion detection, alerting and server reporting

3.  Timely deployment  of OS Security patches for production servers, whilst complying with Sarbanes Oxley user testing requirements.

If you were a superhero who would you be?

Batman.  He has a lot of cool gadgets always handy on his utility belt.