Tom Barnouw

Tom Barnouw has extensive experience in digital workflow systems and infrastructure management, currently serving as Director of Digital Workflow Systems and previously as Manager of Apple Infrastructure at WWE since March 2012. In these roles, Tom manages a team supporting server infrastructure and desktop operations for over 300 clients, overseeing projects related to infrastructure, asset-management, and disaster recovery for 1 PB of data comprising over 8 million assets. Prior to this, Tom worked at World Wrestling Entertainment from March 2006 to March 2012 as a Senior System Engineer, successfully migrating 500 TB of data to new Quantum SAN infrastructure with zero downtime for users and implementing a data-life cycle strategy for company assets. Earlier, Tom held the position of System Engineer, developing an Apple Xsan environment and applying various management software solutions. Tom is an alumnus of the University of Arizona, having studied from 1990 to 1994.