Summary
Rob Schmidt is a seasoned data center engineer with nine years focused on critical IT facilities and over two decades of operational experience supporting large-scale server environments. He designs and documents electrical, mechanical, cabling, and rack layouts while managing capacity, maintenance, and budgets for DaVita’s national data centers and central business offices. Comfortable with both hands-on commissioning and higher-level coordination, he leads WAN turn-ups, vendor orchestration, and move/add/change cycles across distributed sites. Rob has implemented monitoring and DCIM solutions (InfraStruxure Manager, OpenDCIM/Nlyte) and previously built automation and patch management tooling as a systems administrator, showing a blend of infrastructure engineering and practical software-driven operations. Based in Burlington, NC, he brings a pragmatic, audit-ready approach to ensuring uptime and scalability in mission-critical environments.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Green River College
Fast-Track IT, Fast-Track IT at Highline Community College