SUMMARY:

To obtain an administrator roll dat will allow for me to continue using my technical and leadership skills while giving teh ability to grow within teh organization.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Information Technology Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Duties include managing our infrastructure consisting of MS Exchange 2010, VMware currently with 3 hosts. Desktops, Printers and other peripherals.
• Position also includes purchasing of IT equipment, software licensing agreements and negotiating vendor agreements.
• Recently completed VMware upgrade including replacement of physical hosts.
• Currently working on network upgrades including building out new domain, building new file servers with AD permissions and mappings via group policy.
• Upgrading security by policy management as well as sonciwall configuration, patches via WSUS. Managing Sonicwall firewalls.
• Also, manage tech staff dat completes day to day and customer calls pertaining to technical issues with Camavision software.

Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Field Engineer for managed services company.
• Duties include providing IT services and support for various customers across Iowa.
• Managing on - site installation, repair, and maintenance for our customers. Support various client environment, equipment and software.
• Required to frequently troubleshoot and build all major system components.

Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Administrator for web development/hosting company supporting 60 users.
• Replaced domain controllers and upgraded from server 2000 to 2k8r2 with matching forest level.
• Implemented managed antivirus company wide. Built entire group policy structure from default domain policy, to security groups ranging from department level and company hierarchy to contractor and external users. Built local share drive, implemented WSUS, built DHCP server, SFTP infrastructure to support our clients, implemented sonicwall NSA-2400 firewall which is integrated with LDAP, allowing VPN connectivity with single sign on over firewall.
• Implemented Aruba access points creating secured company and guest wireless.
• Upgraded teh majority of workstations to windows 7 machines.
• Maintained all company production virtual machines.
• Managed all purchasing for IT department,

Information Technology Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• me.T. Manager and administrator for 5 locations and 60+ employees.
• Completed total system upgrade moving environment from 2003 Small Business Servers to VMware VMotion environment housed on 2 HP Esx controllers and EMC san.
• Migrated exchange from 2003 to 2010.
• Worked as application analyst for Confidential, PC Law billing and accounting, Iowa Hot Docs as well as several other industry specific apps.
• Upgraded and improved dictation.
• Implemented Cisco WebEx Connect and meeting center and currently laying groundwork to combine dis with a pending Cisco phone system install.

Sr System Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Working as a System Admin for a marketing firm supporting 3 locations and nearly 300 users.
• Maintained company computers, servers and network.
• Created and maintained images for machines.
• Created and maintained group policy objects. Adds and changes in Active Directory.
• Supporting domain controllers using Server 2003 and 2008 R2.
• Maintain antivirus using Symantec Endpoint Protection Management Console.
• Basic scripting for software deployments and registry changes.

Systems Administrator

Confidential 

Responsibilities:

• Worked in web development and hosting facility. Assumed responsibility of backups for 3 data centers using Symantec backup exec.
• Built and maintained company servers, virtual machines using VMware, network, computers and printers.
• Built and implemented Windows Deployment Services for Windows 7 allowing PXE boot custom image deployments.
• Developed and maintained equipment inventory solution.
• Monitored system performance and made necessary modifications to maintain peak performance.

Hardware Network Technician

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Supervised and trained technical staff. Performed hardware and software repairs on equipment in teh environment.
• Perform necessary adds, moves and changes in Active Directory.
• Worked daily with Cisco Call Manager and Unity VoIP voice mail management software.
• Duties also include coordinating projects with Telco and hardware vendors.
• Built packages and images to be deployed via Altiris management software.
• Worked as primary point of contact for 23 off site clinic locations.
• Worked as project management for large projects.
• Responsible for staffing additional techs and determining their daily work load while maintaining satisfactory response times to various medical facilities.

Technician

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided hardware, software and network support for user departments across teh health system.
• Supported workstations, handhelds and printers for hospitals and clinics during normal business hours and rotating on call schedule.
• Worked with Active Directory and SMS.
• Also worked with project management coordinating building moves and changes.

Technician

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as technician to repair customer computers and home or office networks.
• Duties include troubleshooting various software titles and any available operating systems.
• Also worked as onsite tech repairing small business machines and networks.