Paul Farrell
IT Infrastructure Manager
Black Hills Corporation

Paul Farrell has over 20 years experience in technology implementation, support and management. He started his career with Monarch Marking Systems in 1987, working as a Field Support Technician in the barcoding and inventory management industry. Paul made a career change to Information Technology in 1995. His first IT position was working as a Systems Engineer for a Systems Integrator located in Omaha, Nebraska. In that capacity, he specialized in Novell networks and document management solutions for a number of law firms in the Omaha area. In 1999, Paul began working for Utilicorp United, which later became Aquila and is now Black Hills Corporation. There he has held a number of IT positions, from Deskside Support to his current role as IT Infrastructure Manager. In this role, he leads a team of Systems Engineers responsible for all aspects of server and storage infrastructure, including design, implementation, management and disaster recovery.

Paul is a certified 6 Sigma Green Belt. He earned this certification at Aquila by leading a number of projects related to server consolidation, storage optimization and virtualization.

Paul has an Associate of Applied Science degree from DeVry University in Phoenix, AZ and a Bachelor of Science degree in Management-Computer Information Systems from Park University in Parkville, MO.