PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential
Senior Solutions Architect Lead
Responsibilities:
- Architect and forecast the needs of the infrastructure team
- Collaborate with our executive management team to prioritize projects and meet deadlines
- Mentor server team members in their professional growth
- Implement new systems and schedule system upgrades and maintenance
- Ensure system stability and up times meet our SLA’s
- Assist with escalated troubleshooting for critical issues
- Build and maintain virtual servers
- Agile scale out into our HA Data Centers
- Assist in hardware procurement and pricing negotiations
Confidential
Server Team Manager \ Senior Systems Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Manage and lead our server team to support 50 branches in 4 states
- Implement new systems and schedule system upgrades and maintenance
- Create project time and cost estimates for senior leadership
- Ensure system stability and up times meet our SLA’s
- Mentor server team members in their professional growth
- Build and maintain virtual servers
- Agile scale out to bring on new acquisitions into our centralized data center
Confidential
Technical Engineering Lead
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for Citrix environments at Ascension hospitals across the US in 24 states.
- Directly work with local administrators and engineers on design work, upgrades, and escalated troubleshooting for critical issues.
- Design and troubleshoot Citrix platforms to 53 Ministries across the US
- Implemented PVS standards across Ascension and converted physical servers to PVS
- Help consolidate datacenters to remote hosted datacenters
- Coordinate projects with key stakeholders to ensure successful project deployments
- Train team members on new Citrix and virtualization environments
Systems Engineer
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for 265 Citrix and supporting servers
- Supported approximately 2200 concurrent Citrix users
- Responsible for planning and execution of annual server obsolesce
- Created standards on server and storage platforms
- Administered XenServer and VMware Virtual Servers
- Made recommendations of hardware requirements for new projects and upgrades
- Created cost estimates for capital projects
- Explored and made recommendations on new technologies that will improve our reliability and uptime
- Assisted in auditing enterprise licensing to ensure compliance
- Maintained and tested system backups
- Built a Windows deployment server for quick and consistent server deployments
- Helped maintain and create active directory Groups, OUs, and GPOs
- Assisted fellow team members with issues and projects
- Implemented Citrix Virtual Desktops for ePharmacy to reduce operational costs associated with the project
