SUMMARY

• Skilled and capable IT/Business professional, with a significant number of years of experience.
• Managing as well as implementing, solutions in enterprise technology infrastructures.
• Always doing so with continuous focus upon delivering and supporting cost saving solutions that provide the most suitable coverage to achieve and support identified desired outcomes while maintaining both tactical and strategic objective consideration.
• I have continuously and cooperatively lead, planed and designed and managed the most appropriate solutions necessary derived from all available gathered, appropriate, and relevant information.
• My diverse professional, personal, and education experiences have prepared me well for your IT - Technology Lead | Microsoft Technologies | Microsoft SharePoint Admin position.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Server Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Azure and Office 365 administration.
• Started and led project implementation of the 1300 user directory home drive user on premise file share migration to Office 365 OneDrive.
• Upgraded Veeam, backup solution to its most currently offered version, 10.
• As an LCE infrastructure support personnel member I cooperatively participated and significantly impacted the daily infrastructure solution planning, implementation, and support of technology across the Ilitch Holdings, parent company’s entities, subsidiaries.
• Continuously maintained and practiced change agent mentality and practices to insure and influence, best practice implementation actions and functions occur regularly as a technical support team member.
• Solarwinds, infrastructure solution SME, lead / implemented and manage the mult-site Orion platform consolidation resulting in saving $60k annually.
• Project manager, implementer, and SME of a complete vRop (vRealize Operations), proof of concept. Which displayed full functionality of the offering, only required a purchase decision.
• VMware virtualization SME, multi-entity site consolidations
• Multi Active Directory domain consolidation
• Responded and resolve L3 ServiceNow tickets
• IBM Storwize, V7000, V9000, storage solution administration.

Environment: Various retail, entertainment and logistic companies.

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed the small to mid-sized business infrastructures within the managed service providers organization.
• Provided strategic roadmap recommendations to business owners and leadership to achieve the most appropriate infrastructure designs to maximize efficiencies.
• Managed small team of support personnel direct reports
• Provided proactive and outage preventative options to various assigned law, accounting, and medical firms as well as a few manufacturing accounts.
• Escalation resolution point of contact for team members.
• Vmware virtualization management
• Azure, Office 365 administration
• Security and networking infrastructure management.

Environment: Manufacturing

Confidential, Dearborn, MI

Responsibilities:

• Lead and cooperatively supported multiple upgrade project initiatives as team member and project manager monitoring project plans, noting milestones and assisted with keeping them on track.
• Provided ongoing support of Ford's Global Data Center Consolidation Project which consisted of virtualization of physical servers at remote locations and relocating them into one of the three Dearborn data centers.
• Utilized ITIL change management and workflow methodology to apply required changes.
• Provided innovative input through collaboration to present the most appropriate solutions needed.

Environment: Auto manufacturing.

Confidential, Plymouth, MI

Responsibilities:

• Administered Barracuda firewall.
• Negotiated savings of over $80K for the Exchange, VMWare, SAP and NetApp upgrade projects to adhere to budget allocation.
• Collaborated with senior leadership provided recommendations for the most appropriate strategic best practice implementations of the upgraded SAP and mail solution implementations.
• Implemented VMware Consolidated Backup which provided restoration capability for VMware guest operating systems.
• Designed Exchange email messaging transition infrastructure on more efficient compute NetApp 3140 SAN platform
• Responsible for the Symantec Enterprise Vault email archiving solution.
• Administered WANSync XoSoft replication to protect messaging system disaster recovery capability.

Environment: Manufacturing

Confidential, Waterford, MI

Responsibilities:

• Provided project lead and management skills to ensure all Township implementations initiatives assigned were completed as desired.
• Network Administrator for Municipal Township providing IT solutions across multiple departments.
• Researched, recommended configuration and purchase decisions to meet budget constraints for assigned projects.
• Brainstormed with management and team members innovative ways to maximize purchase options.
• Responsible for over $90K in savings on the VMWare, HP Blade and EVA SAN solution purchase through negotiations to adhere to budget allocation and constraints.
• Supervised vendor implementations, managed logistics for the complete SAN based multi host VMware ESX virtualization project.
• Security and network administrator for organizations infrastructure.
• Provide escalated network support for the Townships multi-site, multi-subnet, Town Hall, Police, Fire, Court, Parks and Recreation departments.
• Insured availability of mission critical applications to support departmental daily business needs.

Environment: Local government.

Confidential, Troy, MI

Responsibilities:

• Worked with CFO to manage modified budget amendments so that alternative low cost connectivity methods for remaining business units.
• Coordinated and implemented the transition of headquarters' IT administrative control from Oxford's North American presence to its European entity prior to the Troy offices' permanent closure.
• Lead infrastructure Admin.
• Security administrator for Check Point firewall infrastructure.
• Responsible for troubleshooting corporate LAN Cisco switches,
• Managed circuit turn downs for all sold and auctioned North American business units.
• Coordinating the WAN troubleshooting of the AT&T managed Frame network.
• Resolved escalated level 2-3 Network issues.
• Managed organizations entire Cisco switch infrastructure.
• Maintained Exchange email infrastructure,

Environment: Manufacturing

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Responsibilities:

• Developed a strategic converged voice/data network upgrade implementation proposal and structured RFQ's for potential vendor submissions.
• Evaluated quotes met with various vendors and made technical recommendations regarding vendor and technology selections.
• Several hundred users supported
• Supervised vendor implementations; managed logistics scheduling for the complete converged voice/data network infrastructure implementation for a new manufacturing plant.
• Managed Cisco converged telephony / data network.
• Developed corporate disaster recovery plan.