Bill Ashley Email & Phone Number

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Contract – Technical Engineering Group(TEG), Medina, OH 05/2019 to PresentSystems AdministratorWindows Server, Active Directory, File Server, SQL Server, VMware, and Hyper-V Subject Matter Expert(SME) for TEG. Responsible for supporting, troubleshooting and monitoring TEG’s clients, including a City Police Department, Municipal Court, Schools and Rec Center. Also supporting an Engineering Client and Accounting Firm.

North Canton, Ohio, United States

Contract – Timken Co, North Canton, OHResponsible for troubleshooting all issues related to Server Engineering. This includes Windows Servers 2003/2008/2012/2016/2019, VMWare, Hyper-V, Exchange 2016, File Share Quotas, Disk allocation, AD and DNS. Troubleshoot Avamar backup issues. Member of a team architecting storage solution, and Data Center Relocation, including Disaster Recovery as a Service.

Contract - MetroHealth, Cleveland, OH 06/2019 to PresentResponsible for engineering and building the infrastructure for the Clinical Applications. This includes diagramming and documenting the application flow. Also, building servers from start to finish, adding the OS, adding the Clinical Applications. Troubleshoot & resolve issues with servers supporting Clinical Applications, including Citrix.

Fairlawn, Ohio

Responsible for maintaining, monitoring, troubleshooting, installing and upgrading 2000+ Windows Servers in 2 major datacenters. Level 2 & 3 support for Directory Services, File Shares, O365 & Exchange 2010/2013. Manage and Administer Varonis DataPriviledge & DatAdvantage. Manage and Administer Radiant Logic Virtual Directory Services and Cloud Federation Service.

Barberton, Oh

Responsible for maintaining, monitoring, troubleshooting and updating server hardware and software as required. Coordinate with networking team for connectivity request and troubleshooting. Member of planning teams for new and existing systems. Evaluate new and existing technologies for implementation or upgrade. Coordinate hardware purchases with vendors.• Implemented and maintained CA UIM Monitoring for 2000+ servers across the globe to centralize and simplify all aspects of server monitoring and troubleshooting.• Completed multiple server migration for multiple acquisitions over the years allowing for quicker integration and avoiding financial penalties.• Architected and implemented IBM Bigfix, a replacement for SMS, centralizing patch management and inventory management for all computers. • Created robust Xendesktop/Xenapp end-to-end infrastructure to support a business split, payroll processing, and secure remote access for applications.• Migrated all Exchange on-premises and EAS Archives to O365, improving availability and saving licensing and hardware costs.• Evaluated and implemented replacement backup solution to support SOX compliance.• Reviewed annually physical servers to evaluate replacement requirements, order replacements, and coordinate installation of replacements, maintaining a healthy server environment, and protecting from unexpected failure of old servers.• Implemented VMware environment, evaluated servers for virtualization, coordinated server virtualization. This saved on recurring replacement server hardware, and licensing fees and lessened server hardware requirements.• Managed and implemented remote office server replacement from quotes to orders to builds to shipping to installation. This prevents old hardware failure, and improves performance and reliability.

Responsible for building, implementing and migrating from Banyon Vines to Novell Netware.

Responsible for designing, implementing and installing: Metro-Area Network, Novell Netware, Groupwise, and mail movement to MSmail and the Internet

Information Technology

Computer/Information Technology Administration And Management