SUMMARY

• With over 20+ years of consulting experience, I have designed and built Microsoft product solutions for clients that address critical business needs with proactive and cost - effective deployments across numerous platforms and corporate environments.
• As a thought leader, I have inspired and led both clients and vendors to turn complicated infrastructure architecture concepts, problems, and other ideas into tangible roadmaps and solutions with the understanding of service levels, operational recovery, performance and availability, archiving, disaster recovery, and information security.
• My architecture and implementations produce working environments that are productive, useful, and functional across all types of team members.
• I’m a true Infrastructure Architect and leverage this passion, my product knowledge, and a wealth of past experiences, and the knowledge of other thought leaders in this space to create a streamlined product and company migrations that consistently exceed the expectations of the clients.
• My client list includes multiple Fortune 500 companies across Consumer-Packaged Goods, Financial Services, Transportation, Oil and Gas, Healthcare, Government and High Technology industries.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Technologies: Windows Server (NT 4.0/2000/2003/2008/2008 R2/2012/ 2012 R2/2016), Windows Clients (2000/ XP/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8.1/Windows 10), Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services, Microsoft IIS (3-8.0), Microsoft Hyper-V, Microsoft Virtual Sever (2005), System Center Virtual Machine Manager (2008/2008 R2/2012 R2), Microsoft Office (95/2000/2003/2007/2010/ 2013/2016/365 ), Microsoft Project, Microsoft Visio (2003/2007/2010 , 2013/2016/365 ), System Management Server 2003 SP3, System Center Configuration Manager (2007/SP1/SP2/R2/R3, 2012 SP1/R2, Current Branch 1511, 1602,1806), Microsoft Radius/Network Policy Server, Microsoft Distributed File Services, Windows Software Update Services (1/2/3/4), Microsoft Windows Deployment Services (2003/2008/2012 R2/2016), Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (2007/2010/2012/2013/8450 ), Microsoft BitLocker(1/2/2.5 sp1), Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit, Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (App-V/MED-V/AGPM/AIS/DaRT/DEM), Microsoft Terminal Services (2000/2003/2008/2012 ), Remote Desktop Services, Direct Access, vPro (Intel), Server Hardware (Dell/Compaq/Lenovo), Hardware and Microsoft Clustering, Microsoft DNS, Microsoft DHCP, Microsoft WINS, Microsoft Active Directory Federated Services, Microsoft PowerShell (2/3/4), Office 365, Azure IaaS.

Functional Expertise: Infrastructure Architect, Consultant, Project Manager, Business Analyst.

Industry Expertise: Chemicals, Pharmaceutical, Consumer Products, Transportation, Financial, Manufacturing, Retail, Restaurant, Public Sector, Health Care, Oil & Gas, Industrial, Defense industries, Food Processing and Aerospace.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Information Technology Director

Responsibilities:

• Manage and monitor five Microsoft 2003 servers, one Ubuntu Linux server, Exchange 2003 email system and users in two locations. This includes DNS, DHCP, Active Directory and VPN access with Cisco Pix 501 with T1 Internet Lines.
• Create, manage and update all mySQL reports for management
• Document hardware and software serial numbers along with forecasting annual budgets and projects
• Some of the projects I’ve completed successful are; implementing a new GB network, New security camera system, redesign of internal hardware (servers) for better use and disaster recovery with the existing hardware.

Sr. Systems Administrator / E-mail Systems Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Managed over 120 servers including 4 Microsoft clusters ranging from NT 4.0 to Microsoft 2003, 13 Novell servers from Netware 3.12 to 5.1, 3 Citrix Metaframe clustered servers and over 3500 end users spread out via 3 countries. The email systems I managed ranged from Microsoft Exchange 2003, Netmail 3.1 and GroupWise 6 with a BES (Blackberry server) connected to the Exchange 2003 server all behind an ISA 2004 server.
• Project Management: skills are demonstrated in a few of the major projects I completed; consolidation of multiple Novell to Microsoft servers, Consolidation and upgrade of Windows BDC’s and PDC’s, Consolidation of SQL 6.5 to 2000 servers, and Created and implemented a structured project plan for multiple I.T. departments to follow during fork lift upgrade of the new Internet and Intranet farms. Finally one of the largest impacts I had with Greyhound Lines from an executive and highly visible format, is the IBM Kiosk Project - (brought in as lead after project stalled for several months. After lead, I was able to learn and redesign MQ Series to benefit the company as a whole along with IBM’s Kiosk Manager Software.)

Architect Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Built 3 servers using NT 4.0 and IIS 4.0, and UNIX
• Built, designed, and maintained FWG network and workstations
• Homesite 4.5 to construct multiple websites & Flash 4 to build animation for website.
• Implemented Broadvision and MOI on FWG Servers for Wal-Mart client.
• Implemented a shopping cart for one website using Hassan shopping cart.
• Assisted in the building of a corporate Website for PECO Industries written in VB, running on Novel Netware Servers and utilizing a MySQL Database