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Texas, United States

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Carrollton, Texas

Designed and Implemented IT requirements to assimilate a remote (Washington State) corporation in to ITC corporate infrastructure (including user services, company infrastructure, facilities, BCC / DR, phone system)Created IT standards and practices and documented accordingly (Naming Convention, Replication Controls, Network Services, Data Center Infrastructure)Secondary administrator for Cisco ASA 5505 and 5515 Firewalls, creating and managing IPSec tunnels, Datacenter external and DMZ firewall policesMigration of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 external IIS and database servers to Server 2012r2Day to day operational support and maintenance of ~20 Xen 5.5 – 6.2 host with tiered Netapp and EMC FC SAN storage. Supported day to day operations of 150 production / test servers and ~115 end users systems across 2 offices and 3 datacenters.Lead on design, deployment and maintenance of security software, corporate antivirus / antimalware, and forensic logging Served as 3rd tier point of escalation for desktop and end users client services

Frisco, Texas

Member of Senior Management group reporting directly to CEO / CTO on all business operations as well as production IT related needs. Developed local IT staff, and introduced triage process and workflow managementDeployed new Active Directory environment and standardized user management and access control processesCreated security processes for site, systems, and data access to corporate resourcesVirtualized site datacenter and software development operations across vSphere cluster of 4 hosts, with 10gb SANServed as primary SME and engineer for IT related request for production including large government deployments Managed site relocation for IT resources and end user moves for migration to newly constructed facilityPlanned and managed vendor efforts for site build out of 200,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility and office spaces Unified specification for Server / End User hardware and software to bring end users resources that met the needs of their roles and ensured license and refresh cycle compliance Responsible for production IT functions including design and management of software deployment process for product and product internal network architecture Recrafted site network architecture to better support the scope of the business using HP Procurve modular aggregation switches Sustained and supported day to day operations for 175 employees and 500+ nodesMoved business from small business managed firewalls to Dell Sonicwall NSA 4600 systems Maintained IPSec VPN connections necessary for core business operations with partners and service providers

Irving, Texas, United States

Function as a member of the Leadership team for local operations in Irving, Texas reporting to and advising site General Manager on all technology related issues and projects.Supervise IT technicians that assists user support of onsite IT business operations.Ensure compliance with KB IT Security Guidelines and support KB Audit Practices and act as site Local Security Officer. Design, Deploy, Secure, Maintain and Support VMware vCenter and ESXi production and test environments consisting of 14 ESXi hosts running, 175 Guests, 30 Mission Critical CI Systems, 20 Application Servers and 125 Virtual Desktops and Development Systems.Design, Deploy, Secure, Maintain and Support Netapp Clustered Data Ontap Systems with ~90TB of iSCSI and NFS storage as well as an additional ~60 TB of local storage for our datacenter operations.Act as SME for IT related requests from Customers on subjects such as Servers, Storage, Infrastructure Security and Connectivity.Design, Deploy, Maintain and Support backup system and Emergency Handbook and Disaster Recovery and Business Continuance Program.Provide IT support for all profit making and general business operations including Back Office and Analysis systems, Customer Premise Connectivity, Software Development, Internal Operations, and staffing.Analyze, design and support IT for all projects throughout lifecycle (Inception to Sustaining).Support 30+ VPN connections as Tier 1 / 2 support both customers facing and internal.Support 200+ local IT customers (most of which are the highest tier of power users within KB).Design, Deploy, Maintain, and Support ~650 Desktop, Laptop, Workstation, Appliance, Virtual Machine systems.Maintain and Support Avaya G450 PBX system at Tier 1-2 for 200 Stations.Design, Deploy, Maintain and Support local application servers (Atlassian Suite, Al Fresco, CVS/SVN, Rational, MS SQL, File Services).Budget, Create, and Maintain purchase requisitions, asset requests, fixed asset inventories.

Assisted in startup of LXI Enterprise Storage: Designed and implemented facilities build out for new headquarters supporting 40+ employeesDesigned and implemented network infrastructure to support: 2 central offices and 4 satellite offices as well as 15-30 remote users Deployed and maintained Sonicwall persistent VPN infrastructure and application level security Served as Security Officer for all sitesPlanned and managed upgrade of main offices to Avaya IP Office phone systems Served as a principal technical advisor throughout M&A and capital raising activities Assisted CTO with project costing and management for R&D and software support groups Directly supervised Systems Operator responsible for first and second tier technical support Budgeted and managed all R&D partnerships and company-wide IT procurement Consistently reduced IT costs though vendor negotiations and tighter expenditure controls Managed CRM and ERP implementation project Deployed IBM fibre channel tape SAN across 20+ systems and 3 enterprise tape libraries Lead technical analysis for LXI/Falconstor compatibility testing and partnership management Worked directly with sales team on proposal submissions for large enterprise customers and complex environments Presented and trained large enterprise customers and resellers on software and solutions Supported international large enterprise customers implementations, traveling several times to the Middle East to serve as liaison and onsite project manager

Performed server, desktop and software administration for both Operations and Research and Development groups. Acted as primary point of contact for technical user issues Upgraded existing Business Administration infrastructure to Windows Server 2000/2003 AD Domain, and existing desktops to Windows XP refreshing hardware as budget allowed Designed and implemented security policies and controls for system and network access Managed 30-40 Windows/Unix/Linux/System I Servers for R&D group from procurement to daily operation Created NFS unified file systems for Unix developers and deployed CVS and Subversion for source control Created backup and recovery policies and plan for mission critical systems Created RAS VPN to replace prior SSH remote access methods Maintained Avaya Merlin Magix key system Maintained a variety of tape library hardware from IBM, Storagetek and several other vendors Wrote documentation for various user and managerial procedures Designed and built server systems from base components as QA and R&D test systems